Fest 2019 Issue 5

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Anger on Ice

A masterful set with much to say about body image and gender roles

Jen Brister speaks to us about power, privilege and soft play

Theatre 27 Sex Education Harry Clayton-Wright’s debut theatre show is the education we all need

Dance, Physical Theatre & Circus 35 The Beautiful Game We chat to Missy Mazzoli and Tom Morris about turning a Lars von Trier film into an opera

Dance show about football is a joyous nostalgia trip with a buzzing soundtrack

Cabaret and Variety

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Exploring the highs and lows of football fandom through dance, The Beautiful Game is a joyous nostalgia trip. Even if you aren’t a footie fan, you’ll get a kick out of its buzzing ‘90s soundtrack.

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Storytelling, spoken word and movement come together in the terrific Pink Lemonade, an experimental solo performance by Mika Johnson about queer identity, racial fetishism and dating.

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Laura Lexx’s ability to handle difficult, depressing subject matter with a deft touch is unmatched. Tackling the stuff we’re all worried about—robots, the climate crisis—with a cheeky grin, her new set is a knock-out.

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Is Aaron Crow a genius or a mad man? Watching his new show FearLess, as one dangerous stunt is piled relentlessly on top of another, it’s safe to say the answer is both.

Katie Hawthorne talks to Jen Brister about power, privilege and soft play

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en Brister’s had a few complaints. “Someone emailed me to say, ‘You hate straight people and you hate men’. Someone else called me homophobic. Homophobic!” She raises an eyebrow and laughs incredulously. “What was the other one?

Oh yeah, that I shouldn’t be using my comedy hour as therapy. Wow. I mean, of course it’s therapy. Are you mad?”

After 18 years as a standup, Brister’s an expert at courting criticism. Her previous shows have discussed famously hilarious things like IVF and period poverty, but her new hour Under Privilege has proven challenging in a way that’s all new to her. “It’s the most stressful show I’ve ever written,” she says, wide-eyed. “I started writing it just to see if I could.

I mean, privilege… How can I make something so divisive and dry and insidious actually funny?”

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Nobody likes talking about privilege, least of all their own, but after a handful of painful previews Brister realised the only way to tackle the topic was to make it personal. So she takes her own family—her girlfriend and their young twins—as a case study in how various privileges, visible or not, can structure the way people move through society.

“That way nobody else can say I’m lecturing them,” she explains.

Under Privilege covers the base horrors of a soft play park as naturally as it embroils its audience in a diatribe about Dubai. Her sparky, wry charisma drives an eclectic hour, which is kept light by her willingness to commit to daft impressions – from lightsabres to trumpets or gross journalist Toby Young bleating on about Europe. Brister gleefully dubs her sons “two little Joffreys”, re-enacting their lordly breakdowns over broken biscuits with total melodrama. And as much as you suspect it feels cathartic to have a room full of people laughing at her children’s ridiculous demands, this focus on her family helps her to build an essential self-awareness into the show.

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“The best time for me to tell my children off is when I’m not angry at them”

Her favourite part is a kind of “self-audit”, in which she turns the camera on herself, “because I can play with it,” she beams. And after interrogating her own position—and the heinous fact that she’s already sorted her kids out with a pension plan— Brister can have a pop at everyone else in the room, because she’s earned it.

She places both hands firmly on the table.

“What I’m really trying to say in the show is, look – to a lesser or greater degree we’re all part of the problem. Yeah at the top we’ve got fucking Trump and Boris Johnson but trickle it down… We have to acknowledge that we don’t live in a meritocracy, continues

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although that’s what capitalism tells us. It tells us if you work hard you’ll achieve, but we know that’s a lie. The people that have the most power and create the most problems are white men and I have two little boys in my house. I want them to be allies.”

Brister’s anger is generous. It invites her audiences in, to share it with her, so that they don’t feel like punching bags for her frustrations. Most importantly, her anger is a performance – or, it’s supposed to be. “It’s anger on ice,” she explains. “It’s like how the best time for me to tell my children off is when I’m not angry at them. When I’m properly, properly angry I can’t make it funny. You have to find that balance. You need to create something that feels visceral without making the audience feel unsafe. What I’m saying to them is, ‘I’m with you on this’.”

But it’s not always easy to take the heat out of it. Half-way through the show, the night before we meet, her emotions caught up with her. Brister furiously wiped away unexpected tears and swore the audience to secrecy. “I’m so embarrassed,” she tells me, head in hands. I ask if it was unusual. “Er, have I cried on stage? Before? Never.” She shrugs in jokey disbelief and then wells up again. “Oh my God.” “It’s just so obnoxious. I woke up at 2am today with the shame of it all. I am a big crier, but I don’t do it onstage. Because I’m a comedian.” She puts

real, steely force on that last word, and not so much for my benefit.

“I suppose the first two weeks [of the Fringe] have been complete adrenaline. Now that I know the show…” she trails off. You can feel it more?

“Yeah. I know it’s an awful thing to say as a performer but I’d really rather not feel it.

“I have a lot of fear. And it’s not for me – I’m scared for my children. If you’re anybody who cares about the state of the world then you’ll carry a lot of anxiety. And doing something creative can be a great release, but I would really rather that release came in therapy.”

She laughs suddenly and loudly, like a thunder clap. Turns out that one whinger might have had a point. “I mean, comedy is limiting in a lot of ways and Hannah Gadsby’s show [Nanette] emphasised those limitations, but at the end of the day I’m just trying to make people laugh.”

Jen Brister takes her job seriously. She’s here to entertain you. And, as she says, leaning back in her chair into a rare Edinburgh sunbeam, “If there’s one bit in the show when you don’t laugh, then I suppose that’s my privilege.” She grins. “Fuck you!”

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Making Waves

Jamie Dunn chats to Missy Mazzoli and Tom Morris about turning an early Lars von Trier film into an opera

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o Scottish Opera, where American composer Missy Mazzoli is overseeing rehearsals for Breaking the Waves, her operatic take on Lars von Trier’s 1996 film of the same name, before its European premiere at the International Festival.

“I don’t think I’ll be seeing that one,” says the receptionist, a self-confessed opera-nut, when I mention the title. “Too bleak.” Bugs Bunny’s fourthwall-breaking final line from Chuck Jones’ What’s Opera, Doc? springs to mind – “Well what did you expect in an opera... a happy ending?” But of course,

I know exactly what she means. Even Wagner would find Breaking the Waves outré.

The film follows Emily Watson’s Bess, a naïve new bride from an ascetic Scottish village dominated

by Calvinist doctrine, who believes she communes directly with God. When she prays for her rakish oil rig-worker husband Jan to return to her, he does so on a stretcher after an accident on the rigs. Bess finds herself making a perverse pact with her infirm husband, who persuades her to sleep with random men and report back on her encounters. Bess is convinced these promiscuous acts will somehow revive his health.

Mazzoli first saw von Trier’s emotionally bruising film around a decade ago. “I felt the way a lot of people do when they see it: I was overwhelmed and I was shocked. It stayed with me for a really long time, but not necessarily in a good way. I didn’t think, ‘Oh I have to make this into an opera’.” She was talked into the project by Royce Vavrek, the Brooklynbased librettist with whom Mazzoli regularly collaborates. “Royce has loved the film since he was 14,” she reveals. “Which is weird, right?”

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Breaking the Waves was written in 2016 for Opera Philadelphia, but solidified in Mazzoli’s mind during a trip to Skye in 2014. “Skye’s landscape, which has these extremes that you never see in America, is definitely in the music,” she explains. “There are these lush meadows that are filled with jutting rocks that seem to come out of nowhere and fields full of sheep that end in a plunge off a cliff into the ocean.

And all around these violent waves are crashing into this pristine, idyllic place. That was very shocking and inspiring to me, the violence and the lushness all at once.”

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“ I was overwhelmed and I was shocked. It stayed with me for a really long time, but not necessarily in a good way”

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took some convincing, mostly because of her appreciation for Breaking the Waves as cinema.

“I thought, ‘What are we doing turning it into an opera?’ ‘What can we bring to it?’” She soon realised the answer was plenty. “We ended up making something that is very different. I was able to bring a lot to the story that’s not in the film at all.”

Such as? “Well there’s no score in the film,” she offers, “nothing telling you how to feel except for what you’re seeing. So there’s a lot of space for me to add another layer. I had to come up with my own version of what is going on in Bess’s mind and how does it relate to my own experience as a young woman growing up.”

Bristol Old Vic’s Artistic Director Tom Morris, who’s directing this new version of the opera, joins our chat and suggests the main difference between the film and the opera is Mazzoli’s attitude to Bess’s fate. “Mercy sits in a very strange place in [von Trier’s] brain, you sense,” says Morris, “and the film articulates that. But my view is that mercy sits in a very different place in Missy’s brain. So the attraction of this project, for me, is the way in which Missy has taken that central character and written her this musical imagination.”

As Mazzoli mentioned, there’s no score in Von Trier’s film, but there is music. Its seven chapters are delineated by extended shots of ethereal landscapes, over which period pop songs blast out. Can we expect some ‘70s pop in her operatic production?

Mazzoli smiles. “Put it this way,” she says, “there’s an electric guitar in the pit.” “‘Cause you’re a ‘70s rock fan, aren’t you?” Morris teases.

“Yes, massive,” she laughs. “Elton John, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury – they are my spirit guides.”

Isn’t that a bit unusual for an opera composer?

“Is it?” counters Mazzoli. “To me, it makes total sense. I mean, those men are operatic!”

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he brilliant Brokentalkers go gunning for that in this slippery and self-aware interrogation of criminal justice. As well as a striking exposé of Ireland’s antiquated penal system, homing in on the inhumane (and illegal) practice of “slopping out” still not phased out, The Examination puts our prejudices and presumptions to the test. It demands an act of self-examination.

After a plea from a prisoner to be seen “not as animals in cages but as human beings,” the lights come up on a burly figure in a gorilla costume. Wille White, an actor with experience of penal institutions, is grilled by Brokentalker’s Gary Keegan about his time inside. With a silk hankie peeking out of his suit, Keegan lectures us on the Victorian “theory of the born criminal”, that credited criminality to genetics. His views seem underscored by his own experience of violent assault. It’s an uncomfortable dynamic: an interrogation of its own.

But neither actor’s all they seem to be. When White talks us through his unseen tattoos—a gremlin, a Smurf, George Benard Shaw—it’s not clear whether we ought to trust him. Keegan’s outward civility mightn’t mask the viciousness of the views he espouses, but it does soften their edges enough that we listen in. Again and again, The Examination pulls the rug out from under you.

Its point is that people can change—for good and for bad—and art can play a part in that process.

It can also, just as easily, prevent meaningful change, entrenching prejudices rather than breaking them down. The distinction is whether we’ll see (and judge) others as they are, not as they once were.

Slopping out might seem worse than solitary confinement. It’s not. Across America, some 80,000 inmates are held in single cells with minimal

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Art gives us access we wouldn’t otherwise have. When an Irish prisoner recalls his first experience of prison in The Examination (four stars), his entire expectations were based on TV. He waited to be shaved, hosed down and strip-searched.

Art affects the world that we see.

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human contact for more than 22 hours a day. New York’s Dutch Kills Theatre show it up as a slow form of torture in Solitary (three stars).

Unfolding the constrained brain-drain of confinement through mime, Duane Cooper rolls off his bed, curls through his ablutions and tries to kill time. Press ups and jumping jacks. A bit of his book.

Masturbation. Mostly, he waits for the next meal to clang through his cell’s metal hatch. Rinse hands and repeat. No wonder he tries to get a rise out of the roster of guards.

It’s a grinding watch, or it would be were Blake Habermann’s direction able to resist the itch towards incident. How to keep interminable boredom interesting? The more things and events Cooper finds to mime, the less truthful Solitary starts to seem.

It’s stronger when it takes flight. Using ropes to demarcate the cell, Habermann lets us into the prisoner’s head: the walls splice open, the room starts to spin, entangling Cooper in a cat’s cradle.

Flashbacks and hallucinations swim through his cell. With Cooper’s focused intent at its centre, Solitary shows that isolation and imprisonment leave binds that will never be fully undone.

People need people, simple as that. Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas have spent the last few years fighting onstage, first in their debut show Eurohouse, then in Palmyra. The End (four stars) calls it quits. It’s a hymn to friendship – their friendship, male friendship.

It starts by sprinting ahead. A clumsy slideshow plays in silence, projecting the planet’s distant future. In a thousand years time, it says, buildings and bridges will fall. In eight thousand, human civilisation with be gone. In 20, the earth will tilt on its axis. It will fall out of orbit and, over millennia, will slowly be consumed by the sun.

The End dances in the face of that galactic death.

It lives for the day and, in a downbeat, downright apocalyptic Fringe, it offers something like hope – a reason to live. All Lesca and Voutsas—Bert and Nasi—do is dance together. Neither’s a natural, not even close, but still they dash around like gawky gazelle, leap like river salmon and attempt lifts like they were Bolshoi leads. It’s clumsy, cack-handed and utterly endearing. Nothing more (nothing less) than two people at play.

And these two turn play into an art-form.

They spin games out of nothing – rolling around, spinning circles, balancing on chairs. One alights on a possibility. The other joins in. Two little boys. Here and now.

Until, that is, they’re not. The End knows nothing lasts. People change; things fall apart. As it prises open that present moment—so fragile, so precious—and begins to admit the future once more, The End imagines that friendship falling apart, tilting on its axis as two people slip out of each other’s orbit. It’s an exhortation to take pleasure in people and to live for the day, and it’s as melancholic a thing as you’ll see all festival. Fin.

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Jessica Fostekew: Hench HHHH VENUE: TIME:

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Feel that buzz. Jessica Fostekew bounds into this packed room in an impressively low-key fashion, despite the palpable excitement throbbing from the throng. Given the fitness theme of the show, she could have blown off a bit of pre-gig tension by doing a few

squat thrusts, or a quick circuit of Monkey Barrel 4. But no: Fostekew is preternaturally relaxed, hits the ground running with a spot of feminist flirting, then barrels straight into her topic, and the pain of a very modern pick-up line.

“Thank you for my compliment!” her wounded soul bellows.

Actually postnatally relaxed is more like it, as the Motherland star has been through much bigger stresses than a hotly-tipped Fringe show. Motherhood, in short, and all the gender issues that entails, when your little boy starts aggressively following traditional stereotypes, despite your best efforts. First, though, Fostekew takes us through the birth, a

routine so excruciatingly funny she manages to get great chunks of the audience doubled-over in pain too. It’s a marvel of timing and tone, keeping the narration as calm as can be to really maximise the moments of great shrieking fury.

It also features the best ‘shut up!’ since Rik from The Young Ones.

This really is a masterful set from Fostekew, with much to say about body image, gender roles and the undeservedly tough status of the testicle – although there’s a definite cooling in the room when she disses diets, at length. Perhaps demonising that whole concept is a step too far. Otherwise, it’s flawless. Absolutely flawless. ✏︎ Si Hawkins

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One could experience a performance of Trufficle Musk and conclude that Paul Currie is a master at getting audiences on side, but his relationship with today’s crowd evidently goes back beyond this particular show.

Even before he has said or done anything, the sell out room has willingly offered itself to him.

They will gladly do whatever the performer asks, whether this involves clapping and singing along to the snippets of music that soundtrack his clowning, or being blindly escorted by him onto the stage. There’s a great atmosphere in the venue, unlike anything to be found at other comedy shows,

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Why change a winning formula?

Alice Snedden was in this same bunker at the same time last year, with her debut, and sold it out.

Halfway into this run she gently mixes things up, by trying out an exciting new way to bring herself on stage – but that’s about it, on a gimmick tip.

and it makes for an intoxicating experience. It must, however, be admitted that at this stage, the audience is as much responsible for this mood as the performer.

What Currie does prove himself a master of is undercutting the celebratory nonsense with a palpable sense of pain and darkness. Abuse and trauma are strongly hinted at throughout the

piece, the otherwise joyful tone rendering these naked, emotionally raw asides all the more poignant.

If you want to take Trufficle Musk as pure whimsy, then it holds up as supremely inventive prop comedy. However, there’s much to recommend in the show beyond this, and you don’t have to strain too hard to find its bold and true subtext. ✏︎ Lewis Porteous

The following hour is just rip-roaring standup, from an act who seems almost too close to the finished article, already.

They’ve definitely been operating some sort of leftfield-entertainer training school over in her native New Zealand, like those sinister old Soviet Olympic camps. Ever wondered what happened to the Lord of the Rings locations? There’s your answer.

Actually Snedden is a bit off-message in that respect as Harry Potter is more her steam, and umpteen references to that franchise hurtle past along the way – the old stuff plus the new play. She’s up to speed. Not that the wizardly-agnostic need worry,

as she tackles a whole range of subjects that may not sound instantly relatable to everyone, from mooncups to her other life as a lawyer: the delivery is key.

Those lawyer brags are part of Absolute Monster’s major theme—that Snedden’s life is probably better than ours—but she’s actively pushing our buttons here, skilfully sewing that awesome-Alice seed before it takes a sizeable twist later. In truth the big comedown isn’t quite as well-crafted as the build-up, so the show fizzles slightly towards the end. Perhaps that’s intentional, though: always leave them wanting more. Same time next year? ✏︎ Si Hawkins

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Borne of Chaos is a bold, dramatic depiction of the genuine terror of mental health issues and the subsequent clarity that develops when these problems—temporarily or permanently—go away.

Eric Lampaert approaches the topic with admirable frankness. He

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Surfing a handy wave of recent TV exposure, Lou Sanders lands back in Edinburgh as something of a Fringe stateswoman, with a solid batch of shows under her belt. She’s perhaps not a matriarch, though. Are step-matriarchs a thing?

That show title is chiefly due to Sanders’ love—particularly on social media—of sexy dad jokes – or rather, sexy jokes about your unsexy dad, and a couple of juicy examples set this show’s bar early doors. Anyone who discovered this reformed absurdist via a TV show such as Taskmaster might be taken aback by the sheer scale of her oversharing. She’s almost like those ‘80s primetime comics,

feels like safe territory and we’re happy to get back to it.

Although indulgent at times (with some of his dance routines, it isn’t clear if he’s taking the piss or not), Borne of Chaos has huge theatrical value.

The show isn’t designed to be a smooth ride. It’s an artistic depiction of depression, anxiety and psychosis, and we shouldn’t find that comfortable. Ultimately, Borne of Chaos is about growth, developing understanding and forgiveness. It’s about owning your past experiences, trauma and mistakes, and seeing how you have grown from them. ✏︎ Becca Moody

who’d then do a bit of blue in the clubs, but a patriarchy-poking 2019 version.

Then again, any fans of the recent live shows might worry whether Sanders has anything left to give. Let those fears be allayed: she remains absolutely awash with jaw-dropping anecdotes, even after a chap-free year due to the advice of her WhatsApp-based spiritual healer. There are teenage antics, massages-with-benefits, and when all else fails, wildly inappropriate dreams.

These are no idle or compulsive boasts, though. There’s a sharp undercurrent of social comment to Sanders’ shows nowadays, while joking candidly about rarely-discussed body stuff can make a useful difference: as she recently discovered, going public about your private parts is a big deal when there are young women considering potentially harmful procedures due to porn-fed paranoia. Comedy reaches places that other outlets rarely reach, and Sanders is a fearless pioneer. All power to her elbow. ✏︎ Si Hawkins

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candidly lays out the significant events from his childhood and adolescence that he believes contributed to his own mental health issues, and in doing so he opens himself up for dissection.

Aspects of the show are highly disturbing, with Lampaert able to contort his body and voice in the most sinister of ways. The comic’s horrifying physical manifestation of depression itself is something that will remain in the subconscious for a while.

But he flits between sinister theatrics and knob-gags frequently, and while the transition sometimes feels slightly strained, the smut

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Laura Lexx should be in a bigger room than this. She’s been around for a while – she was part of The Pleasance’s productive AAA Late line-up back in 2013 – but, after a successful festival last year with an hour of sweetly sad standup about her inability to conceive, she’s consistently selling-out Gilded Balloon Teviot’s tiny Turret space with her new show Knee Jerk, and seems to be belatedly earning the accolades she deserves.

Her strength is her ability to discuss difficult, depressing subjects with a rare lightness of touch. She practically bounces

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The single-minded Sean Morley is having a bit of moment when it comes to comedy. He’s had good moments—much acclaim for last year’s show, I Apologise for My

Recent Behaviour— but this one is more existential, an entertainmentbased ennui about the whole talking-at-people business. And so Morley has chosen to express this emotion not by taking a sabbatical and writing a self-lacerating blog post, but by crafting a typically memorable show about, well, bones.

A skeleton does indeed make some important appearances here, notably in the epic opening piece that involves an ancient king, a worthy champion, a packet of Rennies and—he insists—just “a nod to comedy”. Nope: it is rattle-the-ribcage hilarious, making genuinely impressive and easyto-overlook use of some lengthy pre-taped audio that could easily be a right old mess if this wasn’t such a tightly run ship of thoughtful weirdness.

There is method—and message—to this apparent madness. The show’s mid-section involves a lengthy debate about the adult-and-baby dynamic, which leads to much jocular audience participation, while loosely concealing a heftier metaphor.

Today, it flies; other days, who knows?

Then we’re onto comedy, and whether it should exist the way it does. The whole mic/stage power trip does cause some acts some angst, and before the mind-bending finale here Morley suggests a less problematic alternative, involving performers basically shouting up from a well. Presumably the bucket speech would then involve people filling it then lowering it. It’s a wild guess, but you would probably receive less. ✏︎ Si Hawkins

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around the stage with nervous energy, her face constantly lit up with a cheeky grin. She freely admits that she can only just keep a lid on her mental health issues.

“But it’s a shit lid, like a coaster over a pint glass,” she laughs.

In Knee Jerk, she takes on the stuff we’re all worried about: politics (she wittily skirts the B-word, replacing it with “Leeds United” instead), climate change, and robots taking all of our jobs.

She tackles each with a refreshing lack of invective, though it’s not difficult to work out where her sympathies lie. “It’s 1939 and the Germans are coming over the hill,” she regularly repeats. “And we’re sat here playing tiddlywinks.”

She’s got the bite to back up her bark, though. Her closing bit, about transphobia in sport, is an increasingly irate, and utterly inspired analysis of netball. It’s classic Lexx: heavy stuff, dealt with lightly. ✏︎ Fergus Morgan

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Two years in and Demi Lardner already seems a significant fixture in the Fringe firmament, much to her apparent surprise.

Where other comics court the critics and awards, with powerful shows about their messed-up lives and our messed-up world, Lardner is drawing mutant horses, spewing gunk and having a right good dance. Her shows are like a twisted update on those cool ‘90s comedy shows like In Living Colour, where they’d cut to a bunch of random street-dancers between sketches: Lardner’s on a budget so does it herself.

The award-laden Australian is even less beholden to narrative than last year, where dark themes

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Ably assisted by comedy historian Robert Ross, Tony Slattery is on the comeback trail and the Fringe is all the better for it. Revered for having one of the sharpest minds in the industry, his

lurked under the lunacy – lots of stepdad digs. There’s still a hint of that here, notably some bizarre old home-movie footage, but generally it’s just a riot of ideas thrown together. She even forgets to do one bit, and decides to ditch it with no obvious repercussions.

This may be haphazard but there’s something splendidly distinctive about Lardner’s big beat-fuelled and often gleefully gross gags. She gives due recognition to the sound guy—whose timing needs to be

top-notch too, as many of these punchlines involve audio tricks— although what’s also refreshing is her lack of faux-politeness about the Fringe, and even her venue neighbours.

Evidently there’s been an issue with her banging tunes interfering with the show next door, but it comes back the other way too. “Hearing his applause is so fucked up,” she says, during an otherwise quiet bit, “but I’m taking it.” She doesn’t need it. ✏︎ Si Hawkins

talents have been held hostage to well documented personal troubles and substance abuse.

40 years on from his Edinburgh debut, however, he proves that his wits are largely intact. His brilliance simply takes longer to come into focus.

At times he appears to lose the thread of his thoughts, lapsing into incoherent speech and tapping his knee frantically as if trying to fix a broken TV set, but he always recovers. It’s thrilling watching Slattery’s spirit overcome his body.

The format of Slattery Will Get You Nowhere is alarmingly cosy.

Ross—who repeatedly insists

that his friend is a “legend” with a “unique mind”—is here to prompt a series of unprepared anecdotes which we’re expected to savour for a full hour. But once we get beyond a predictable opening that sees the fallen star make light of his current need for professional rescue and justify the career moves that cost him fame and money, we really do start to see an interesting, honest and funny performance.

The old charm is present, but joined by a compelling intensity and darkness. At its best, this show is like looking into the abyss only for the abyss to laugh back. ✏︎ Lewis Porteous

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It’s been 10 years since comedy music duo Frisky & Mannish burst onto the Fringe, and seven since their last new show. This year’s festival sees Laura Corcoran and Matthew Floyd Jones—certifiable Fringe royalty—return with PopLab, another hour of silliness with songs. It’s a show of two halves – the first is great, the second is not.

The pair are now scientists in a laboratory, where they perform experiments with test tubes full of musicians and genres – a framework that allows them to creatively cross-pollinate tunes.

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Modulating his voice, Marlon Davis commands both upbeat club-style material, amplified and ebullient, and sections oozing with emotional depth. All soft tones, you can almost hear our chairs

Bob Dylan and Adele become Bob Adelan. Cher and Aerosmith become Cherosmith. “And I don’t want the world to see me,” sing the Pussy Cat Goo Goo Dolls. “Don’t Cha?” The showstopper comes early.

Frisky & Mannish have detected an outbreak of Tropical House Virus, and they lay the blame squarely at Ed Sheeran’s door. It’s incurable, unfortunately, and they hilariously test song after song against the trite xylophone riff from ‘Shape Of You’ to prove it. Even the entirety of Les Mis is infected.

If the first half is borderline brilliant, though, the second is distinctly stale. An attempt to rework Rick Astley into different musical styles suggested by the audience fails to work three times out of three – 'Never Gonna Give You Up' can’t be crammed into Motown, apparently. The duo are as deft as ever, but when they start rolling out old material (the 'Stalker Medley' of love songs is almost as old as they are), you can tell they’ve run out of ideas. ✏︎ Fergus Morgan

creak as we lean in to listen.

Wisely, he begins with the upbeat: a bit of chat with the crowd, jokes addressing his slightly squeaky voice – his young son has a deeper voice than him already even though his voice hasn’t broken yet. It’s all carefully constructed good-natured banter, emblematic of an act comfortable with the comedy circuit.

But we learn that things started to unravel for Davis in his personal life when his girlfriend announced she doesn’t feel the same way about him anymore.

Then he hit a tree with his car and ended up in a coma for a month.

It’s a measured performance that is beautifully penned. Even a routine as regular as stealing towels from hotels is invested with so much embroidered language it raises it above the norm.

That said, the chronology of the piece does feel slightly confused as he shifts about in his tale, the effect somewhat disjointed. Was the break-up before the accident?

Is the majestic Lucy his ex? But overall it doesn’t distract from the impact of the material. It’s a gripping tale with one of the most satisfying bits of wordplay in any title on the Fringe. ✏︎ Marissa Burgess

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Georgie Morrell is blind in one eye, and for one year had no sight in either eye, and is startled to discover she has become an accidental icon of the disabled world. She bemoans how supposedly well-meaning media speak to her as if she represents all people with disabilities, and require her and others to be either

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They say that history appears twice, first as tragedy and then as farce. When George Egg first broke onto the scene, he forced us to think outside the box – to look beyond the constraints of modern corporate-controlled life and seize control. Poaching fish in a hotel kettle wasn’t just a way of making a tasty meal, it was an act of liberation conducted in a soulless hotel room – a way of seeking lemonade when modern life seemed tireless in its lemon supply.

What, then, to make of tonight’s menu of chicken cooked in an oven

done up to look like an engine, or aubergine cooked on a kitchen grill with a laptop sticker stuck on? Sure, it’s not fair to criticise a comic for developing their act into something different, but what even is this? As a cookery demonstration it’s fiddly but fairly beige; as an inspiration to do things differently it’s a gaudy spectacle. Egg can still deliver flashes of inspiration (black lime powder, anyone?), he can sure fillet a fish, and he can’t help but be likeable. But as he trundles out pedestrian banter on modern coffees, or Waitrose, it’s not inspiration that’s the predominant mode. Two Tim Key-like poems provide nice tonal variation, but don’t sizzle. Ironically, the biggest laugh comes when he mentions the dishes from his previous shows.

If there’s an image that sums up Movable Feast best, it’s that of Egg using a cement mixer to toss salad – over-engineered, wasteful, unnecessary. ✏︎ Evan Beswick

men.

But this bitchiness doesn’t fully convince. Her barbs are not vicious enough, and she comes across as someone trying to be nasty rather than it being ingrained in her core. Similarly, a sequence where she reimagines her life as a Hollywood movie— replete with the inspirational narrative demanded by the genre—is not forensic enough in its detail to sparkle comedically.

So while she makes a persuasive and necessary case for transcending the representational status foisted upon her, the show doesn’t culminate as a display of an alternative comic voice. ✏︎ Brett Mills

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an inspiration or superhuman.

The aim here, then, is to offer an alternative, individual voice.

While much of her set is structured around her appearance on the Victoria Derbyshire show, it also speaks to her desire to not be required to speak on behalf of what she calls “blindees”.

Indeed, she’s keen to indicate that she’s a pretty unpleasant person, addicted to gossip and obsessed with royal feuds and Chris Hemsworth. An anecdote concerning a puppy certainly seeks to comically disgruntle in its grossness. She also hates feminists, seemingly because they supposedly insist she shouldn’t take compliments from

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Even if you share Sooz Kempner’s passion for Sega video games of the ‘90s, it’s questionable if you’ll find too much to entertain you in this hard-striving but ill-conceived show. From the premise that her many hours spent playing games as a teenager stunted her social development, but fuelled her “Mega Drive” ambition, the comic and singer suggests that her life is one of giddy highs immediately followed by crushing lows.

A viral sensation earlier this year after posting the bizarre tale of her former job as a Christina Aguilera impersonator, she was nevertheless quickly brought back to earth with a bump, just as she was in the moment

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David Correos should not be trusted with knives. After downing half a pint of red wine at the top of the show, little goes to plan.

Logic is thrown aside with an unused chicken prop, as Correos sellotapes a bread knife to his face

of her greatest professional triumph: making her West End debut at the English National Opera. Affording commentary on these personal peaks and troughs, she interacts with two video manifestations of her competing inner self, Good Sooz and Bad Sooz, the former a Scientology-enabled wellspring of encouragement, the latter an undermining bitch queen. And inbetween all this self-analysis, she interjects her critiques of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and other Sega games, their regressive, underlying politics as great a source of humour as their outdated graphics and lack of relative technical sophistication.

Additionally, there’s another tangent about the hymns that Kempner sang at school which testify to her impressive pipes.

But the most amusing aspect remains her mockery of highly dubious games like Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker. Bolted onto such assured cynicism, the self-immolation feels indulgent and rather skated through. ✏︎ Jay Richardson

and stumbles around the stage yelling through the pain. This is not unlike watching a breakdown.

Better Than I Was The Last Time falls severely in the shadow of his previous show, The Correos Effect, in which the New Zealand comedian ramped up the energy from one to 10 over the course of the hour, resulting in a bike-pumpbutt-plug trick that left audience members gagging, not always from laughter. “Is this better than my last show?” he asks an audience member who came last year. “No,” they say frankly, and it’s worse that you can tell they’re not even angry, just disappointed.

Correos does this show under the guise of finding his “comedic

voice” but it’s clear he’s far from locating it. Somewhere amid the desperation are a few decent sets about going to the Philippines for his circumcision and his more recent failed audition for a TV show in New Zealand. But he runs out of material half an hour in, checks his phone for the countdown five times and by the end literally begs us to go.

“Please leave,” he pleads, as he buys the last few seeminglyendless minutes of his set by dancing in his pants, a stray testicle poking out. “Please.” It’s almost so bad it’s funny. Instead, we scramble out of the theatre a bit worried about what we’re leaving behind. ✏︎ Kate Wyver

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LGBT+: inclusive sex education is suicide prevention. That’s the message of artist and provocateur Harry Clayton-Wright’s Sex Education, his debut solo theatre show at Summerhall. And it’s a message that is powerful and playful. Over an eye-popping hour of lecture, video and recorded interview, Clayton-Wright

delves deep into his sex life—its pleasures and its pains—and points out the paucity of proper sex education in society.

It starts with a fairly x-rated montage of gay sex scenes featuring Clayton-Wright, then falls into a pattern. He chats for a bit, shows us some of the ‘80s gay porn that his errant dad gave him when he was 14, then continues to prepare cucumber sandwiches while an interview between him and his mother—not present, understandably—is piped over the sound system.

There are light moments—the story of how Clayton-Wright got hold of the bright, white wedding

dress he wears for the first half of the show is priceless—and there are darker ones, too; memories that make Clayton-Wright question how well his parents prepared him for the life he now leads.

He’s a funny, frank performer, with a bone-dry wit and a carefree smile he cleverly uses to suggest inner torment. And, as he proudly asserts in a read-aloud letter to his mother, he doesn’t even need to put anything up his bum. Onstage, that is. Don’t be put off by the content warnings or the questionable cucumber sandwiches: this is a titillating show with a truthful, tender heart. ✏︎ Fergus Morgan

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Growing up, Mika Johnson didn’t like wearing dresses or playing with girls’ toys. They note that we are constantly performing, like actors in a play.

Combining spoken word, storytelling, dance and plenty of humour, they invite us into a dating life which centres around the concoction of a lemon cocktail. Johnson begins at a microphone, two tube strips which

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Writer and performer Alex Gwyther delivers a heart-pumping, physically intense monologue, battling with trauma to mould his character into the stereotype of the “real man”. Moving to a different town following a sexual assault in a local park, Jamie—now reborn as Jack—ditches his best friend Sam, who’s mostly concerned about how Brexit is going to affect the price of Freddos, and befriends Max and a group of beer guzzling, cocaine sniffing lads. His role model is Rambo. He wants to become the ultimate warrior. He thinks that being part of a pack will mean he’s safe forever. He finds out that he couldn’t be further from the truth.

The stage is bare save a small black bench and can of Stella Artois. Lighting is warm and bright

emit pink light either side of them to create a frame. Two pink boxes on the stage, one big and one small.

One is lifted early on to reveal about a dozen lemons which are rubbed against their body as they dance.

Johnson teases with the audience, their cheeky grin charms and humours, as their body moves playfully into various shapes and poses. The performance is underscored with hip-hop, R&B and bashment, the latter being a modern uptempo relation to dancehall and ragga and a particular favourite of a girl Johnson meets at work.

Johnson finds themselves the object of fetishisation from a woman who appropriates black culture from her hairstyle to the

as Jamie relives his friendship with Sam, but a single side light casts dark shadows against his face as he fights through the presence of his own insecurities. The sound design rumbles in the clubs and bars, twigs snapping in the park, with a horrifying screeching that undertones the slurping of beer.

Tension builds with the music. A plot twist drops and the air becomes motionless, dry.

Gwyther performs hard labour.

He is totally engrossing, effortlessly transforming into the different characters: nervous hands as he tries to impress the lads, chest stretched out as he embodies and becomes the product of toxic masculinity. Sweat drips speedily from his face and his hair becomes a soaking mop. His body stiffens at the climax. The story alternates between the past and the present with Jamie firmly trapped in the middle. Gwyther’s storytelling is magnificent in its execution and engages with a topic matter that is crucially pertinent to a silence that still begs to be broken. ✏︎ Joseph Winer

objects in her bedroom. Description and feeling sit hand in hand in a poetical text which plays plenty with rhythm and rhyme.

In a scene which provokes a considerable level of audience response, Johnson lies on the floor and inserts their head into one of the pink boxes, the sound of an orgasming partner playing through the speakers while Johnson moves their head and arms in and around the box. The narrative of the story is a little thin overall, but Johnson excels in the physical comedy and spoken word. They have a distinct and excitable performance style and form a lovable rapport with their audience while exploring queer identity. ✏︎ Joseph Winer

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Gig theatre is becoming a crowded field at the Fringe, making it hard to stand out. Oscar Sadler’s new addition to this genre, with original music by Mollie Tucker, is slight but promising, showcasing the energy and potential of young company Pound of Flesh.

Taking place over just one

day, Fires Our Shoes Have Made follows 13-year-old Jay and his little sister Saskia—Sassy to him—on their quest for escape.

Six months ago, Jay and Sassy’s mum died and they moved in with their estranged father. Now Jay wants the two of them to make a break for it, striking out on their own.

There’s a mythic dimension to the show, as legend becomes entwined with reality. The knife with which Jay arms himself for the journey is Excalibur—Scally for short—and those who stand in his and Sassy’s way are goblins and trolls. For the two siblings, fantasy is an escape from grief

and a suit of armour in which to face the world. But as the play goes on, reality hits them hard.

The storytelling combines spoken word, sound, music and song, all performed under mesmerising coloured lights. The show looks and sounds beautiful, but its plot needs some serious work. Sense is often sacrificed to lyricism; the story gets lost in a dense web of startling images and inventive rhymes. The conclusion, meanwhile, feels rushed and underdeveloped. There’s lots to like here—not least the lively performances—but it could do with some honing.

the central character, Blackfoot woman Tara, balanced on a knifeedge between tenderness and fury.

She remembers her childhood – a dysfunctional one, with a mother who barely registered the abuse of her daughters by her new partner. Yet also a fond one when she recalls that sister, or the rare bonding she felt with her father when he took her hunting, a precursor to her joining the Army and being sent to the Middle East.

Tara’s revenge for the murder of her sister is bloody and winceinducing, and envelops the play in

sheer anger. The piece is delivered in hard-edged but often amusingly contemporary Canadian, and through words, performance and Andy Moro’s direction, Tara comes vividly to life before us; yet the basis of the monologue is that it’s being delivered as a piece of video testimony after something almost unspeakable has happened, and the choice to live-stream Blood’s face onto two screens behind her distracts from her performance, despite the mood created by occasional video effects. ✏︎ David Pollock

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The Canadian national discussion around the recently-published National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls has unearthed deep feelings of anger and shame about the disproportionate lack of safety experienced by the group the report concerns. This one-woman show, performed by actor Cherish Violet Blood, fictionalises the story of just one girl who lost her life through what is perceived to be a toxic brew of male violence, colonial violence and institutionally racist disregard.

Blood’s performance of Tara Beagan’s play creates a powerful glimpse into life amid Canada’s underprivileged, working-class indigenous communities, with

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It’s not so hard to see why Fishbowl won the Molière Award for best comedy play in its native France. A riot of slapstick, visual jokes and silent farce, this is a delight for connoisseurs of physical comedy – les Francais among the most committed. That it combines technical whizz bangs with three exceptional clownish performances is all in its favour.

And yet, there’s something missing here.

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In adapting Scottish makar Jackie Kay’s 2011 autobiography Red Dust Road, co-producers the National Theatre of Scotland and Home in Manchester are bringing to the stage an essential story for our times. This isn’t just the deeply personal tale of Kay’s birth to a Mormon mother from rural northern Scotland and a visiting student from Nigeria, and her subsequent adoption by a working class white couple from Glasgow, but also a more wide-ranging story of growing up mixed-race in a Britain which was overwhelmingly white, and in places fearful of and angered by difference – and which, in many ways, remains so.

Partly, it’s the venue. Sure, it’s usually a bit unfair to pick on the venue at a festival where any cupboard is costly, but for one of Pleasance’s tentpole shows in the Grand, this is no two-bit affair. It seems clear that the set has been only minimally adapted to a big, wide performance space. With this complex set, sightlines are awful.

Anything played to the back of the three apartment blocks we are presented with is lost to the sides.

For a production where technical excellence is everything, this is fatal.

In part, it’s also perhaps a victim of its own success. We see three (sometimes) single people living, loving and bumping alongside each other in the close confines of a Paris tenement. We’re introduced

to each, via some brilliant visual jokes. But their strength—that they are used but once—is also their weakness as the team must keep things inventive. One senses that they start to test the repertoire, like gymnasts working through the range of disciplines. It’s very impressive—high points from the judges—but it feels laboured.

Their best gags come at you quickly from odd angles, whereas longer sequences, for instance with a peeping-Tom payoff, can be seen creeping up from miles away.

A postscript that is messy in the best possible way ends Fishbowl on a high, but the scene adds nothing to the narrative and one feels it’s added in to make up for the fact that it’s not all plain sailing getting there. ✏︎ Evan Beswick

The characters around Kay are memorable: we come to know her adoptive parents John and Helen (a wonderful, easily humorous double act between Lewis Howden as her Communist Party activist father and Elaine C Smith as her endlessly wise mother), her religious birth mother Elizabeth (Irene Allan), and her intriguing father Jonathan (Stefan Adegbola), a respected religious figure in his homeland, whose evasion of publicly accepting his daughter is intended to preserve his reputation.

In the fine-focus details of Kay’s story, as adapted by Tanika Gupta, her life story is absorbing and emotionally powerful. Sasha Frost binds the play well as a hopeful, inquisitive Kay, piecing the fragments of her identity together.

On the subjects of building your own self as an adopted child, and on acceptance of one’s own racial identity (and, to a lesser extent, sexual identity), director Dawn

Walton brings together a work which is resonant and truthful.

Yet somehow this flagship Edinburgh International Festival production feels physically small-scale, with the wider stage under-utilised. It feels like an excursion, rather than a journey, into the reality it seeks to reflect. ✏︎ David Pollock

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Nick Field can talk to unicorns.

In this surreal celebration that devolves into dystopian satire, he even summons a few.

With unicorn dildos, handfuls of confetti and a candyfloss maker, Field traces the history of our obsession with unicorns, examining why they are so ubiquitous today. He is a glitzy, welcoming host, but the piece hasn’t yet found its feet. At this stage it’s definitely more of a gathering than a party.

Field lays out a strong thesis

tying unicorns to power, tracing their history and popularity in queer culture, and exploring how they have been overlypopularised by big brands keen to commercialise nostalgia. He leads a tongue-in-cheek lecture that starts to sour, as ideas of purity begin to reign and pleasure turns to paranoia.

The show is most alive when interactive and joyful. There is power in celebration, in the party we were promised. Through it

all, he makes a brilliant mess on stage – glitter, unicorn cum, hundreds and thousands. But the darker parts aren’t yet as full of energy or impact. There’s a lot of empty space around the slapdash skits, and little to hold them together.

Field’s lines are wobbly, the structure feels frail and the show as a whole hasn’t yet found its form. It’s not unlike watching a glitch in a unicorn gif. But the core idea is strong. ✏︎ Kate Wyver

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hale, whale, whale. What have we here? That’s right: no less than three Moby Dicks—or should that be Mobies Dick?—inspired by the bicentenery of Herman Melville’s birth. If the Fringe programme is always something of a leviathan, that makes it extra leviathanny this year, and reason enough to lower boats and head to all three interpretations of Melville’s vast text.

It’s a text as vast as the sea, with complex currents, dangerous undertows and whirlpools aplenty. It’s also a very literary novel, which does beg the question as to why bother putting it on stage? Grist to the Mill Productions’ version (2 stars) at Assembly does rather pull this question into focus.

It’s clear what the intention is here: a one-man performance in character in Ishmael, there’s a striving for a tour-de-force, the scale of the text compressed into magnificent performance. It doesn’t really come off, despite an extraordinary line-learning effort from Ross Ericson (who adapts and performs). If nothing else, it makes a good case for Melville’s at times pedantic, almost scientific prose remaining a novel of the page not the stage. He trips over his words and, on occasion, loses his place. It’s a fault of the text more than the performer.

But the performer has faults, too. There’s the accent, which begins as a generic East Coast American, but quickly falters. More fundamentally, though, in compressing Melville’s frequently unstable narrative perspective into much clearer reported speech, we lose some of the the enigmatic joy of the text. In particular, by transforming Moby Dick into a wordy first-person adventure story, Ishmael becomes a po-faced reliable storyteller. We’re left only with the jokes he tells, not Melville’s jokes or insight at his expense. He plays the relationship with Queequeg totally straight – almost exasperated by his affections. Of all the joys of Ishmael and Queequeg’s relationship, surely the biggest is that Ishmael fails to understand what his own words tell about feelings that he doesn’t understand: “Thus, then, in our hearts’ honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg – a cosy, loving pair.”

By contrast, what a surprising, precious little lump of ambergris Leviathan Theatre’s production is (4 stars).

This 10 strong cast of young men perform not just with energy, but with restraint and nuance. Leviathan’s publicity material is deliberately vague on whether they are a school group, though they somewhat give the game away when they thank their teacher at the end of the performance for her direction and adaptation of the text. And thank her they should: this is a clear and thoughtful setting of the

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vast novel. A choice has been made to focus on the dramatic hunt for the whale, but retaining an ethereal dreamlike detachment to the whole affair. That’s well done, and clever decisions like moving the five “gams” or ship-to-ship encounters together help keep the tension, each rendezvous feeling like a step closer to damnation.

But there’s just enough of the book’s sprawling asides to keep this from becoming mere story. What’s more, it’s handled with confidence, and just the sort of irreverence Melville would, one suspects, have approved of. Here’s an example: the boys speak the chapter numbers in unison, and several of Melville’s (sometimes hilarious) philosophical pontifications are grouped together under a heading of “existential musing”. That’s funny.

The lads are taut as a harpooner's rope in this very physical, but very sparse performance. They pick up on cues instantly; they move as a single body. A table turned upside down takes us below decks; on its edge it becomes the pulpit from which Father Mapple delivers his manic sermon. There’s some propensity towards hamminess in the portraits of some of the crew, but that’s entirely forgivable as an effort to bring out the different registers of Melville’s text.

Fundamentally, here’s a production that takes pleasure in the amibuity of Melville’s weird novel.

And then there’s Casey Jay Andrews’ version, The Wild Unfeeling World (three stars), which takes pleasure in not

really being about Moby Dick at all. Loosely tied to the text, Andrews instead introduces us to Dylan, her broken down white Renault Clio, Moby, which ran over a now threelegged, now vengeful cat, Ahab. Dylan, in the middle of a set of personal crises, treks across London as Ahab stalks her.

We crash into the whale-in-the-Thames episode. We cover concepts such as desire lines and object permanence. No one dies.

The story is told with energy and poetry by Andrews in a tiny (and, to be fair, grossly uncomfortable) living room-type set. Using plastic animals, a torch and self-controlled sound and lighting cues, she creates a mini epic out of small fry.

There’s a slight tendency towards the falling cadences and out-of-place spondees of performance poetry which feels distracting, and a couple of tech niggles. But it doesn’t hole the boat.

And yet, in all its sprawling chaos, it is in some ways it’s closer to the spirit of Moby Dick than straight adaptation can ever be. For what is Ahab’s quest other than a personal crisis anchored to the structure of an epic? And in wearing Melville’s clothes, out of chaos Andrews raises her colours clearly – we all fail big sometimes. But in our own epics, someone can come out alive to tell the tale. There’s also a timely shout out to the Samaritans and CALM. At this stressful festival it’s worth remembering: it’s always better to talk to someone than to try and slaughter a whale.

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Lucy McCormick: Post-Popular HH VENUE: TIME:

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How’s this for a horrible history or two? Having given the New Testament a kick up the backside three years ago in Triple Threat, exposing every corner and crevice of the body of Christ, Lucy McCormick has turned her trashy aesthetic on the world’s greatest women. Herself very much included.

Within minutes, her lips are locked around a backing dancer’s forbidden fruit – long before she’s stripped off to play Eve. Queen Boudicca comes daubed in blueberry war paint, clambering into a chariot, arse in half her audiences’ face. Anne Boleyn near drowns as ketchup pours out of her axe-wound. Each gets their own dance break and appropriate pop anthem combo.

This time, however, there’s nothing too much at stake: no blasphemy in the clash of subject and style; no rebellion in reclaiming this material for modern tastes. In fact, her outré approach only overwhelms her subject – something McCormick’s all too

aware of. Her egotistical diva comes to the fore at the expense of her feminism and the show slowly breaks down.

McCormick remains a killer performer with real ramshackle, unpredictable charisma, but she’s caught between shock and a hard place here. Having made her name pushing the envelope, she’s no longer sure what message she wants to send. Post-Popular unravels into a show about creative paralysis, an artist wrestling with her own legend. Still too slack to get away with such self-indulgence, it’s a structural twist short of any kind of solution. Without that, Post-Popular looks a little past caring. ✏︎ Matt Trueman

to distract themselves. It’s a pattern that repeats itself almost to absurdity and frustration – a thoughtful take on fascism, but a shallow take on teenage girls.

Dance sequences between scenes don’t add anything that can’t be gleaned from the dialogue, but the constant costume changes, each offering a flash of the swastikas sewn into their vests, feel more purposeful.

The comedy is biting, although a line about “making Germany great

again” is much too predictable.

Walking a line between building sympathy for the girls and exposing their hatefulness, the script sometimes treads too heavily on either side: “Jews, we don’t like Jews, right?” asks one, as if it was ever in question.

At moments the show becomes truly fascinating and grotesque.

Afterwards, however, it’s difficult to feel for the girls when they fall, once again, under the attention of the SS. ✏︎ Frankie Goodway

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Mean Girls meets the Third Reich in this dark comedy about the young women selected to check Hitler’s food for poison during the Second World War. The girls are quickly at each others’ throats.

But just as soon as they start in on each other, they stop, smile, and take a selfie. iPhones, blasts of modern music and the American twangs of the cast help to make the play’s point about how easy complicity can be.

The anachronism is intriguing, but the repetitive looping structure keeps it from building to any greater significance. Snatched up by the SS, the girls raise questions about Nazism and the grim, frightening work they never signed up for, but quickly fall back into hero worship of the Führer

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With a set that features a framed picture of Gary Lineker, trophies, medals and fireplace given a new life as goalposts, Next Door Dance’s The Beautiful Game is obviously a show aimed at football lovers. But it’s one that’ll likely strike a chord with anyone who was obsessive about anything in their youth. Quite literally it takes a trip down “Memory Lane” and

delves into a world of freshly cut grass, half-time oranges and new boots. It is a joyous nostalgia trip that the quartet take us on.

The company’s first show in Edinburgh is a success.

No boundaries are pushed particularly hard with their routines, there is a lot of heart and love for the subject and it’s this passion that makes such an impression on today’s crowd.

Famous goals are recreated: Rooney’s overhead kick in the Manchester derby; Beckham’s ballsy lob over Neil Sullivan; and Paul Gascoigne’s most audacious effort. The rituals and superstitions of fans are embraced. There are personal touches too, which in the

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aftermath of the Women’s World Cup feels especially significant.

The all female cast share their memories of football, whether founding a women’s team, or sharing a bonding experience with family members. The sport is still dominated by men, but it won’t always be that way.

There are some lovely touches throughout; a soundtrack of Oasis and D:Ream that takes us right back to the mid ‘90s when football “came home”, testimonies from fans of perennial strugglers like Mansfield Town, Swansea City and Nottingham Forest and—best of all—a very funny bit about the complexity of the offside rule. They shoot, and at the first attempt, they score. ✏ Craig Angus

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The tensions and intimacy of a creative relationship receive a refreshingly smart, emotionally warm once-over in this circustheatre two-hander by Nikki Rummer and JD Brousse. The opening scenes play with the truth.

Without wanting to be coy about it, we think we’re privy to one slant on them that actually turns out to be something else. The pair deliver their big reveal with such low-key believability—simply by talking to us in the audience—that it feels natural and makes sense.

Among the show’s mentors and collaborators is Ben Duke, an award-winning British choreographer-director whose

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Walk down the Cowgate this evening, past St Patrick’s church and you may glimpse a spectacle: a 40 foot-high set evoking the Cathedral of Notre Dame; big, beautiful (real!) horses hanging out amid the trees; a goat, gambolling backstage. Pass during

the performance and you will see no elecric lights, only fire. You may hear the clanging of bells, the clatter of a horse-drawn carriage, or the mournful sound of a full pipe organ mounted high on one of the spires. It’s even more spectacular from inside.

Having been transported, set, man and beast, all the way from France, this is evidently a mammoth lo-fi undertaking.

Running at two and a half hours, outdoors, it’s also decidedly unFringey – and that’s even more so in terms of dramaturgy. Expansive, digressive and often opaque, this retelling of Victor Hugo’s novel sits firmly outside of modern theatrical trends. But it stays true to the novel, making the cathedral and its gargoyles a central character

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excellent what-if-they-didn’t-die take on Romeo and Juiet—called Juilet & Romeo—can be seen at Dance Base during the last week of the Fringe. It’d be interesting to know just how much influence he had on Rummer and Brousse’s self-examinatory work. But maybe it really doesnt matter so much.

What counts is how engaging the two performers are. They handle spoken text with aplomb. Well, it is their own story they’re telling us.

Still, they’re sensitive and funny when it comes to words.

The valuable extra layer of articulacy in Knot is Rummer and Brousse’s high level of skill as circus artists. They’re remarkably good together onstage, with partnering that is risky but also clean and strong. (A favourite moment: a corkscrew backflip that ends with her seated on his chest.) Ultimately what they’ve accomplished here is a very entertaining consideration of how to value both oneself and each other. ✏ Donald Hutera

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and imbuing it with the capacity to determine emotions and fates, offering both sanctuary to the needy and allowing archdeacon Frollo to practice alchemy and all manner of abuse behind closed doors, away from regulating transparency.

Sure, it drags in places. The horses aren’t always required, though they do add spectacle.

But there’s some nice dramatic touches – Esmerelda, for instance, is the only character who speaks no English. Played by a British Iranian actor her comparative voicelessness is tragic and telling.

But the fire—a terrifying amount of it at times—makes for something entirely unique, reaching back in time and bringing forth this odd, medieval spectacle. ✏︎ Evan Beswick

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Is Aaron Crow FearLess, or just insane? After watching the show, it’s safe to say that he is both.

But more than FearLess, Crow is a master of non-verbal suspense.

He remains mute throughout the entirety of the show and in doing so eliminates any barrier of communication with his

audience. Such a performer does not need words when their actions shout so loudly.

With each feat comes an everincreasing level of intrigue – what is risk to Crow is reward to those watching. A Russian roulette of daggers, threading several ingested needles, shards of broken glass, all seem child’s play to this master of madness. And despite the stage being awash with peril, every audience member that he invites up to assist him seems simultaneously nervous and comforted. Crow’s gaze is both arresting and endearing, a mischievous glint that suggests mayhem but delivers magic.

And then things get more serious. Ninja-like reflexes save Crow from a potential amputation.

A staff beating out his pulse seems to slow and even stop. In those split seconds, a realisation sets in: if any of this goes wrong, Crow’s life is in serious danger.

Every aspect of FearLess heightens its mystery, from the uneasy silences to the stereotypical music and Edgar Allan Poe-inspired projection imagery. But this show that is more than merely dramatic – it has dramaturgy. Crow is both a madman and a genius, but most of all he is a consummate performer. ✏ Daniel Perks

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It’s Magical Bones’s first hour at the Fringe, combining breakdancing with close up tricks and an escape act. For Bones, black magic doesn’t refer to misappropriated vodou or Satanic rites, but black excellence.

He draws out this theme with his own tricks, which build to some astonishing climaxes, and through stories about his role models: Ellen Armstrong, a psychic and first black woman magician to tour America, and Henry “Box” Brown, who escaped slavery by posting himself inside a box.

Introducing himself to his audience, Bones traces his career from his start as a street performer, and all the hallmarks of street magic are there. Card tricks make up the majority of the act, with a Rubiks cube thrown in for good measure.

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A musical journey through the extraordinary career of the late great Edith Piaf, Exposing Edith is a multi-award winning cabaret show by Michaela Burger. A beautiful tribute to the legend, Exposing Edith chronicles Piaf’s wild life both on and off stage. It's

Unfortunately, the visibility for some tricks is poor, and an engaging table trick set to music is let down by the grainy television that doesn't let anyone not in the front row see it.

Bones has an underplayed charm, chirpsing a woman he calls up on stage and teasing his audience and his assistant every now and again. It keeps the atmosphere easy-going, but also a little casual,

with audience members lapsing into chatter. There’s also a noticeable drop in engagement whenever he leaves the stage – a short PowerPoint on Brown doesn’t do much to cover his absence as he prepares for a showstopping final trick. It’s here, as Bones asks a white audience member to shackle him, that some tension finally builds.

held together by a terrific central performance by Burger who has the skill to not only portray Piaf, but her inner circle of confidants.

It’s no easy thing to sing as the legendary French artist, yet Burger has the vocals to do so. It is safe to say that this is a special show for Burger who was affectionally nicknamed the little sparrow of Australia, after her idol Piaf, the original little sparrow. Piaf was a larger-than-life figure who has, till this day, devoted fans around the world.

To tell Piaf’s story, Burger isn’t afraid to use the most rich and uplifting parts as well as the most

devastating moments of Piaf’s life.

It is a heartwarming performance that offers a unique take on Piaf’s famous songs and life story. These stories that have become legendary among fans. Newcomers will be won over by Burger’s talent as well as Piaf lasting legacy as a true original.

Not to be forgotten is Greg Wain, the underscoring guitar player who helps reimagine songs like ‘La Vie en Rose’ into acoustic ballads.

Where Exposing Edith succeeds is in capturing the spirit of the French superstar. Audiences will learn to appreciate Piaf and learn to love Burger. ✏ James McColl

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Josephine Baker lived an incredible life. In one hour, performer Tymisha Harris brings Josephine to life, sharing her story, her music and fabulous costumes in this blend of musical theatre, cabaret, burlesque and storytelling.

Harris’s performance is stunning.

She plays off the audience, those in the front row becoming ex-husbands and both male and female lovers,

and uses the rapturous applause of a 2019 audience to contrast the stony silence of American audiences throughout Baker’s life.

It is clear that Harris has spent time studying Baker’s performances. She captures her animated expression as she sings, and adds a deeper tone and richness to her voice as the older Baker, while still making the show her own.

This production is high glamour on the surface, but beneath it runs a fear and oppression subtlety played

by Harris. In the play’s beginning, she jumps from all-out performance in front of the microphone to a

downtrodden woman, admonished for being somewhere she shouldn’t.

Running to a better future is a constant theme. By the end, it seems that Baker found something of this future, though she had to fight every step of the way to shatter stereotypes. “I play the savage on stage so I try to be high class in everything else," Harris observes.

In a lump-in-throat moment, she talks of her fear of becoming another Saartjie Baartman, her remains put on display. Josephine Baker’s story should be told, and this is an exceptional telling. ✏ Emma Ainley-Walker

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Could Pianodrome be the friendliest venue in town? Situated in a functional market building on an unassuming side street heading towards Leith, it’s certainly off the beaten track. The name of this unique den of music derives from the central, in-the-round performance area dominated by a tall 100-seater constructed out of upcycled pianos. It’s a real beauty

too, enhanced by an entrancing, multi-surface light installation (by Dutch-born artist Mettje Hunneman) that figures in the gigs happening here.

The house band is S!nk, a small ensemble led by Pianodrome founder Tim Vincent Smith – also a violinist, vocalist and songwriter.

He’s aided and abetted by fellow musos Matthew Wright (a horn man), Daniel Dumnov (on keys), percussionist Tim Lane and Dave Tunstall (bass). Freely guided by Nikki Hill, these guys—some of them barefoot or in socks—move around as they play, but how could you not? The handsome, cosy venue is conducive to their kind of relaxed banter and easygoing, embodied playfulness.

Musically, S!nk is likewise unpretentiosuly adventurous.

Whether jazzy, funky or freefloatingly experimental, none of the 10 or so selections they play for the first hour or so of any given evening outstays its welcome. Many are slow-build, layered compositions that reach a level of intensity— predicated on the meshed, sometimes cyclical rhythms of their instrumentation—before subsiding. A highlight is ‘Velo’, dedicated to Smith’s partner and commemorating a bicycle trip in the Pyrenees. Smith actually riding one round the room is an integral part of its atmospheric soundscape. There’s also ‘Theo’, a lilting tribute to his son with a sweetly yearning, lullaby feel. Like Pianodrome itself, S!nk’s music makes me happy. Note that each bill is shared with different guest artists. ✏ Donald Hutera

Grant’s swivel-eyed cross-dressing turn as the Mansplainer to the dick jokes – of which there are just enough to satisfy. Vulvarine swoops in to save women from manspreaders, lame parties and bad sex. While the misogyny of the mansplainer sounds like 4chan come to life, the show never lets it get too heavy.

It’s incredibly silly, but brilliantly slick as well. The set looks deceptively simple and the lighting and sound is as good as you’re likely to see in any temporary space. The cast are upsettingly talented. Bar Munro, all take multiple roles. The scene where

Bryony discovers her powers shows how much thought has gone into the production. There’s no subtlety in how they manage it, but boy is it funny. The balance and pacing are just right, with hints of sweetness in Bryony’s pursuit of the pleasingly useless Orson providing some contrast for the cruder moneyshots.

The songs are well-varied with a couple of true showstoppers. Grant wrote the book, which may explain why two of the absolute belters— including a stonking villain song— are in her capable hands. But there are enough fab solos and one-liners to go around in this exceptional ensemble piece. ✏ Frankie Goodway

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When a maniacal misogynist’s plot to turn women into mindless breeders backfires, Bryony Buckle (Allie Munro), a meek tax accountant with IBS and anxiety, becomes Vulvarine, saviour of womankind and High Wycombe. Fat Rascal Theatre have brought back their original musical alongside Unfortunate this year, but Vulvarine doesn’t suffer for being their second offering each evening. If anything, the cast seem limbered up, throwing themselves into the opening number with a gusto that never wanes.

The show is shot through with feelgood feminism, from Robyn

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If you go to Wannabe with an open mind, warmed up vocal chords and a belly full of drink, you’re sure to have a night to remember, with even the most reluctant audience member giving into the cheesiness and dancing in the aisles. Imagine it’s just big budget karaoke.

Dopplegangers (well, if you squint a bit) of the world’s bestselling girl band strut on stage, with a set of lit-up letters spelling out S-P-I-C-E in case we forget who this is a tribute to. They’ve put Baby in the corner for tonight’s performance, as

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Lucy Claire pulls out of the dance routines due to injury. Propped on a stool to the side, she grins through the pain as the drunk-dadat-the-party voiceover tells us she “zig-a-zig-ah-ed” a bit too much in rehearsal. So begins the ultimate call-and-response song, met with a giant cheer, and we’re off.

The cast pull out an endless barrage of bangers, almost tricking us into dancing with how hideously catchy each song is. When Geri leaves, they bring on two dancers and “spice boys” to distract us from

how bad the Girls’ solo careers were. Soon we’re back to the good old hits and by this point not even the performers can top the energy of the hen do behind us.

The choreography may not extend much further than pushing a lot of invisible air around, the acoustics may make the singers sound a bit distant, and the whole show might feel faker than Posh’s well-wishing before the band’s most recent tour, but Wannabe is so much fun, a lot can be forgiven. ✏ Kate Wyver

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KID CRITICS

Lisa Elvin

Comète Ex-drummer Lisa Elvin, age 10, rocks out at Comète

What happens in the show?

It's a band of four people, two girls and two boys and they play some French, German and English language songs.

Describe the show in five words.

Fun for all and any.

Who was your favourite character and why?

I liked Katrina who played the drums because I used to play the snare drum.

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Were there any characters you didn't like?

No, I liked all of them.

What did you like most about the show?

That one of my favourite songs was in it.

Gorillaz 'I'm Happy'.

What did your grown up think of the show?

My mum thought it was good. She said she knew all the songs.

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

Yes but not at 10:30 in the morning. I definitely got woken up.

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What didn't you like about the show?

That you had to get up and dance.

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

I thought it was nice because the songs were well known so a lot of people could singalong.

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One Duck Down Lauren Hunter, 13, feels that this climate change play isn't aimed at either younger or older kids What happens in the show?

A 17-year-old newspaper boy has a onesided love. She sends him out to find 7,000 rubber ducks that are lost in the ocean.

What didn't you like about the show?

It's supposed to be a show about climate change for children but it felt like the message would have gone over their heads.

Describe the show in five words Musical, environmental, oceanic, voyage, clunky.

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

The songs acted as a break from the story.

Who was your favourite character and why?

I didn't really have a favourite character.

What did your grown-up think of the show?

My dad loved the whale having an eye test.

Were there any characters that you didn't like?

I didn't dislike the bearded lady but she was introduced so late it felt forced.

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

It doesn't work for any age range so no.

What did you like most about the show?

In some of the songs the characters were dressed in recycled trash. It would have been nicer to see more of this throughout as plastic waste and climate change are supposed to be one of its main themes.

VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:

Pleasance Courtyard 10:30am – 11:30am, 7–26 Aug, not 20 £8 – £10

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00:00 Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 21–24 Aug, £7

Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 24–25 Aug, £10

Project X – Alternative Comedy Collective Monkey Barrel Comedy, 25–26 Aug, £5

The Wonder Jam Heroes @ Black Medicine, 21–26 Aug, £5

Will Seaward’s Spooky Midnight Ghost Stories VI

Comedy

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11

Best of the Fest... Later Assembly Rooms, 24–26 Aug, £14–£16

Comedy Village Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–26 Aug, FREE

00:10 An Evening With Lee Trundle Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–26 Aug, £5

00:15 Demi Lardner and Tom Walker: We Musn’t

The Rat Pack Comedy – Anything Goes!

00:45

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–26 Aug, FREE

Gaming Under the Influence

David O’Doherty: Ultrasound

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, FREE

Assembly George Square, 24–25 Aug, £16

00:30 The Darkness Distillery Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 20–26 Aug, FREE

Amusical Club Night

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–26 Aug, FREE

Ghost Orgy Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–26 Aug, FREE

01:00

The Improverts

Eilidh Hodgson and Katherine Plumb: Do Wap Art Flop

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–25 Aug, £7

Bedlam Theatre, 20–26 Aug, £8

Scot Roast – Afterburn

Tree Fiddy Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–26 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE

The Piece: Now More (Artistically) Accessible – WiP

Global Comedy Club

Alex Williamson: Sin on My Face

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, FREE

Jonathan Hipkiss – At Least We’re Out the House

A&E

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–26 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–26 Aug, FREE

Nathan Hurd: Colour Blind

Pleasance Dome, 24–25 Aug, £10

Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 20–27 Aug, £5

Late Show Great Show / Free Festival

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 24–25 Aug, £13

50

00:05

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–26 Aug, FREE

Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £5

ACID!

Late’n’Live Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–22 Aug, £12.50

01:30 Philipp and Phriends: A Late-Night Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–26 Aug, FREE

09:00 BBC at George Heriot’s School BBC, 20–23 Aug, FREE

09:30 A Political Breakfast PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 20–24 Aug, FREE

BBC: The Afternoon Show BBC, 20–21 Aug, FREE

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

10:10 Selling Like Hot Takes Paradise in Augustines, 20–24 Aug, £9

10:20 Trans*Atlantic Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Freshly Squeezed Comedy Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

10:40

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

10:00

Currie and Brice: Kraudwerk

Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 20–26 Aug, £5

Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 22 Aug, £5

Snack Chat

10:50

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Tales of Whatever

Late’n’Live Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug, £14–£16

A Comedy Brunch 3

Lee Kyle – ConQuest Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

51 Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 24 Aug, £10.50

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–25 Aug, FREE

11:35

The Full Irish

Long Man Doing Short Jokes, Short Man Doing Long Jokes

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 20–25 Aug, FREE

The Iceberg Effect Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 22–23 Aug, FREE

11:15 A Failuretale Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Attention, Seeker Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Meddlin’ Kids Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £8–£9

Timandra Harkness: Take a Risk Assembly Roxy, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

Comedy Auction

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

3’s Comedy – Adam Knox, Luka Muller and Peter Jones Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

11:40 Harry Baker: I Am 10,000 Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–24 Aug, £10–£11

Neighbourhood Watch Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £8

Jamie Oliphant: The Oliphant in the Room Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–25 Aug, £5

12:00 Shaken Not Stirred: The Improvised James Bond Film Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £8

Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £11.50

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 24 Aug, £15

Gethin Alderman is: Sublime

Paul Currie: Release the Baboons (All Ages)

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5

Heroes @ Boteco, 23–25 Aug, £5

Mimi Hayes: I’ll Be OK

Stand-Up Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–26 Aug, FREE

Amy Annette: What Women Want

50% Canadian, 100 % Crazy, Let’s Laugh

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 20–26 Aug, £5

Robert Ross: Forgotten Heroes of Comedy

11:25

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10

Reality Sucks! HHH Paradise in Augustines, 20–24 Aug, £5

11:30 The Edinburgh Revue Stand-Up Show Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–26 Aug, FREE

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

Westdal and Hayward Need Work PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £10

Unladylike

Kayla MacQuarrie: Traumatised Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Bollywood and Birmingham to Berlin and Brexit Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Eliott Simpson: (A)sexy and I Know It Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

11:50 Amazing Adventure of Her Majesty at 90+ Sweet Grassmarket, 21–25 Aug, £7

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

11:55

The Laurel and Hardy Cabaret

Bony Tony’s Silly Show

Sweet Grassmarket, 22–25 Aug, £10

Daphna Baram: Cracking Up Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

David Callaghan: Dance Like No One’s David Callaghan Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Alex Farrow: Philosophy A-Level Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

❤ Tony Law: Identifies HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £10

Just These Please: Suitable

12:05

Clash of the Tight Tens

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Cave Women: Work in Progress

HH

Josh Widdicombe: Work in Progress

Michael Legge: The Idiot

11:20

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Who’s the Daddy Pig?

Morgan Rees and Riordan DJ: Coming to Terms

Rib Ticklers’ Pick of the Fringe

Robin Boot’s Rockomedy: Punderstruck

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

Mumblebrag

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Robbie McShane Has Loads of Pals (and a Girlfriend Too)

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, £10

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Gráinne Maguire – What Has the News Ever Done for Me?

Pleasance Courtyard, 24–25 Aug, £9

11:45

Twat Out of Hell: Deluxe

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5–£7

The Best Show We’ve Ever Done at the Edinburgh Fringe

Frankenstein Pub, 25 Aug, £7 Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 21–25 Aug, FREE

The Delightful Sausage: Ginster’s Paradise

HHH

The Stand Comedy Club, 20–26 Aug, £12

Sugar Rush: The Best of the Fringe Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25 Aug, £5

The Golden Path Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Sarah Southern: Tentatively Tory PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Funny Feckers Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Let’s Get Tough Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Samantha Hannah: How to Find Happiness (in a Year) Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Luke Rollason’s Infinite Content HHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5

This Is Your Trial (FF)

Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 20–25 Aug, £5–£6

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

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Alex Love: How to Win a Pub Quiz – British Edition The Stand Comedy Club 2, 20–25 Aug, £10

❤ Eleanor Morton: Post-Morton HHHH The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £10

12:10 News@1066 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £7

Matt Hobs BSc (Bristolian of Science) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Don’t Bother Underbelly, Bristo Square, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £9–£10

Rachel Creeger – Hinayni!

Underbelly, Bristo Square, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £9–£10

Tom GK’s Hearing Loss: The Musical

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

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

12:20 Impulse Control HHH PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Peeved with Peter E Davidson Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 20–25 Aug, FREE

David McIver: Teleport PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Zane Helberg – Live from Rehab Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Rod Shepherd: Slacktivist – Free Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Final Cut Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

Jumping Off the Bandwagon Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Bargain Hunt and Gather PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 21–24 Aug, FREE

Richard Pulsford: Roll Up for the Smirking Break Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–25 Aug, £5

Henry Wilkinson: See Me at Lunch!

Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 20–25 Aug, £8

Jennifer Tyler: Ready or Not Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9–£12

12:35

12:40

In Bread with Joseph Emslie (Work in Progress)

Boycotted: Comedy from Israel H

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Paul Foxcroft: Debut

HHH

Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 20–25 Aug, FREE

And They Played Shang-A-Lang Hill Street Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £12

12:30

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

12:25

12:15

Black Sheep

Grave St Claire: Hard Bop

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaah, It’s the One-Liner Show

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £3

Fiona Ridgewell: Even Dizney Needs a Day Off!

Laughing Horse Free and Family Friendly Pick of the Fringe

HHH

Krystal Evans: Fishnets

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20–26 Aug, FREE

Stuart Laws Is All In

Frankenstein Pub, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £7

Elliot Steel: Merked

Amelia Bayler Presents: Emotional Bangers

Cambridge Impronauts: Improv Actually Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Well, That Was Weird...

Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Listings

Vampire Hospital Waiting Room

Jack and Barney Are in the Background

Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £7.50

Nathan Roberts: Glowed Up HHH Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

The House of Influenza: A Spooky Tale of Frighteningness Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5

Big Wendy Sweet Novotel, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £7

12:45 A List of 100 Things That Unreasonably Annoy Me PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Look Up Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 21–25 Aug, £5

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Listings

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Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Richard Stott: Right Hand Man

13:00

Ross Smith: Crying/ Shame

Angry Boater

Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–25 Aug, £5

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Darcie Silver – I Know You Are

Tom Short’s Wheel of Misfortune

Planet Bar, 20–22 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Accident Avoidance Training for Cutlery Users Quaker Meeting House, 20–24 Aug, £8

Charlie Vero-Martin: Scrapbook Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6

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

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £7–£9

12:50 DCGK’s Chicken Box Pencil Case Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Free Money from the Government: A Play About a Squid Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £8

Edy Hurst: Hurst Schmurst Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Decree Absolute Vodka Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

12:55 Feed Wolf Ice Cream: A Comedy Show About Death Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

MC Hammersmith’s Magical Freestyle Factory!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Trevor Lock’s Community Circle HH

Austentatious Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £15–£17

Sooz Kempner – Mega Drive HH

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Girl Code Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Ashes: A Comedy Showdown PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Australia: A Whinging Pom’s Guide

13:05

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE

Daniel Audritt: Better Man

Tom Kitching: Welcome to My Barn!

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5–£6

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

A Little R and R

The Man

Jokes with Mark Simmons Podcast: Live

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–24 Aug, £9

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

An Audience with... That Never Was, but Is ‘An Audience with... Jimmy Whobblers’ (with Jimmy Whobblers)

Andrew White: Retirement Tour

Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 20–26 Aug, £5

Abbie Murphy: Eat Sleep Shit Shag HHH

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6

Sketch Thieves Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Ben Gosling: Jobs (with Special Guests) Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–25 Aug, FREE

So Close Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Generation Whyyy?

Imagination Workshop, 22 Aug, £8

Journeys of the Mind and the Megabus

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

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

13:10

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

Rice and Chips Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Peter Brush: Present.

Tense.

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Amy Matthews: The Life Aquatic with Amy Matthews Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £3

13:15 Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aah, It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes

Andy Smart: 40 Years at the Edinburgh Fringe Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

Anesti Danelis: Six Frets Under Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 20–25 Aug, FREE

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £10

Friend

Obsolete Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Paul F Taylor: Odd Paul The Stand Comedy Club 2, 20–25 Aug, £10

Raphael Wakefield: Wengerball Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Shivani Thussu: Prefer Not to Say HH

Pleasance at EICC, 25 Aug, £13

How To Not Die Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £6

Laugh Train Home Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Charmian Hughes: What-not

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £6

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Brett Johnson: Poly-Theist

Ryan Dalton: When Nature Calls

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 21–25 Aug, £5

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

MARVELus: Improv the MARVEL-verse

Seymour Mace is My Name Climb Up My Nose and Sit in My Brain

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Jamie Fraser and Maybe Someone Else, I Don’t Know

HHH

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £12

Zahra Barri’s Special (Work in Progress)

13:25

Lord of the Game of the Ring of Thrones

Blazers Presents Comedy

The Dark Side of Research

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £8

Paradise in Augustines, 20–24 Aug, £10

Broken Toys

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Girl Stuff

13:20

Comedy Gobbledygook Showcase / Free Festival

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 24–25 Aug, £15

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£12.50

Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Angel Comedy Showcase

Ross Leslie: Pretty Shy for a White Guy

Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Old Jewish Jokes

Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 20 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–24 Aug, FREE

13:30

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 20–24 Aug, FREE

The Dead Ducks: York du Soleil

Edward Aczel - Artificial Intellect HH Heroes @ Boteco, 20–25 Aug, £7

Tom Toal in Mediocre Boy Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 20–25 Aug, £5

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

❤ Jessica Fostekew: Hench HHHH

Mix and Match Wine Package

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5

PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Will Penswick: Nørdic(k) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £6.50

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Nick Elleray: Big Nick Energy

Raul Kohli: All My Heroes Are Dead, in Jail or Touched Up Your Nan Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–25 Aug, £5

Aaron Simmonds: Disabled Coconut

HHH

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

Impromptu Shakespeare Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Tarot Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24 Aug, £10

A Many Splendored Thing Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 22–23 Aug, FREE

The Third Annual Black Comedy Showcase PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe Pleasance Courtyard, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £12.50

Aidan Greene: Eternal Sunshine of the Stammering Man PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE

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

Katie Mulgrew: Confirmation (WIP)

The Stand Comedy Club, 20–25 Aug, £12

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–25 Aug, £5

Kiri Pritchard-Mclean: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 21–22 Aug, £5

13:45 Kevin James Doyle: Loud Blond Bald Kid Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Board Game Smackdown Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Mista Lorraine Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Conor Drum: Solo Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Interviewing Electric Frog Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE

That Black Mirror Episode With the Two Lesbians Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Apocalypse Comedy Club featuring Mick Neven PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21 Aug, FREE

Not My Audience!

Ahir Shah: Dots

Will Rowland: Cocoon PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Richard Herring: RHLSTP The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £16

13:35 I Can Cure... (With Subtext) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Shut It Down Carol

Comedy

It Takes Three to Tango

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6 Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £7–£8

Got a Text: A Musical Parody Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

13:50 Saskia Preston: Ninety-Five Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

13:55 Stuart McPherson: Mr. November

Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5

13:40

Andy Storey: Still (Awkward) Life

Alcohol-Free Craic

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Jamali Maddix: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 24 Aug, £8

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Mark Watson: I Appreciate You Coming to This and Let’s Hope for the Best (Work in Progress)

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

14:00 Georgie Morrell: Eyecon Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

Maddie Campion: Truly Maddie Deeply Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

Daniel Downie: Hour of Scotland

Steff Todd: Reality Check Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

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

Laufey Haralds: Nordic Noir HH

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £8–£9

Aidan ‘Taco’ Jones – Lightfoot James Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–31 Aug, not 26, £12.50

Ed MacArthur: Humoresque

14:05 Mickey Sharma – Pervert!

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Funny Women Awards 2019 – Semi-Final Assembly George Square Studios, 24 Aug, £12

14:10 Action Figure Archive With Steve McLean PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 21–24 Aug, FREE

Andy Field’s Funeral Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Internationally Unknown Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

14:15 Classic Joke Club Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Two Mums – One Cup Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 20–22 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Once an Emo, Always an Emo

Good Morning Nation

Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 23–25 Aug, FREE

Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 20–25 Aug, £12–£13.50

Stiff & Kitsch: Bricking It Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£11

Ishi Khan: I’mMigrant!

Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrgh, It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Am I Blue

Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Leslie Ewing-Burgesse Exists!

14:20 ❤ Eleanor Tiernan: Enjoying the Spotlight Responsibly HHHH

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Evil Queen Rules!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Darius Davies: Persian of Interest Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–25 Aug, £5

14:25 Nina Gilligan – Broad Shoulders Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Alan Shed’s Music, Comedy and Everything Else Interactive Quiz Show Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £7

Robin Grainger: Dog Complex HHH

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £10

BadFamiliar by Matt Davis Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20–25 Aug, £5

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free

Stephen Buchanan: Baby Dove

It’s All Going To Be OK – Free Festival

Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24 Aug, £10

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Lorna Shaw: Shaw and Order

Colin Chadwick: Quick Thinker PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Axolotl: A Poetry Reading

Erich McElroy: Radical Centrist

Mary Houlihan: Me and Jack HHH

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Pindos Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5

Ben Target: Six Endings in Search of a Beginning Heroes @ The Hive, 20–23 Aug, £5

Sarah Johnson’s Guide to (Im)Practical Parenting Heroes @ Dragonfly, 20–25 Aug, £5

I Want an Irish Passport The Stand Comedy Club 2, 20–25 Aug, £10

A Booklover’s Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 20–25 Aug, FREE

14:40 Pete Nash: Where’s My Money?

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Audible Live Pleasance Courtyard, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Madame Señorita: Espousa Heroes @ Boteco, 20–25 Aug, £5

Markus Birdman – Last White Christmas

Laura McMahon and Will Hall: In Hindsight

Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Jane Hill: Addicted to Fun

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Gráinne Maguire: Guys...

It’s Problematic HHH

Plans

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6

CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation

PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 20–24 Aug, FREE

14:30

Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 20–26 Aug, £5 PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £9

Improv On Demand

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 21–24 Aug, FREE

101 Comedy Club – Free

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Daniel Nicholas: Lessons in Nostalgia

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

My Uncomfortable Wardrobe

Vampire Hospital Waiting Room

Summerhall, 20–22 Aug, £10

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Agatha Is Missing!

Cyclopath

14:35 Travis Jay: Funny, Petty, Cool Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Rob Kemp – Moonraker 2: Moonrakerer Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5

All That 50s, 60s and 70s Stuff Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, FREE

14:45 Socially Awkward Penguin Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Cool Jokes/Hot Takes Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–24 Aug, FREE

The Oxford Imps Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £7

Gareth Waugh: Just Me...?!

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12.50

Funny Cluckers: Best of the Fest – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Confessions of a Taxi Driver Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Gareth Richards: 40 Years in the Wilderness PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Listings

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15:00

Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 20–25 Aug, £5

Stand-Up Philosophy – Free

❤ Isma Almas: About

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

a Buoy – Adventures in Adoption HHHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures

Still Got It!

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 24–25 Aug, £15

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–26 Aug, FREE

Mistaken Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Stuart Goldsmith: Primer (WIP) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5

I’m Here, All Weak

Tom Crosbie: Nerd World Problems

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Christopher Bliss: The Man Who Turns Wives Into Widows

14:50 ❤ Rob Auton: The Time Show HHHH

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

Lucy Frederick: Famtastic Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

Richard Wright Is Just Happy to be Involved PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Olaf Falafel Presents Knitting With Maracas Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 20–25 Aug, FREE

100% Cotton Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £10

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–24 Aug, £7

Slattery Will Get You Nowhere HHHH

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £12

My Finest Hour

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Bloom Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Will Mars: Phoenix Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise!

Eric’s Tales of the Sea – A Submariner’s Yarn

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 24 Aug, £8

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Freya and Will in Discussion with ABBA Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6

HHH

Jack Harris and Rajiv Karia: The Squeeze

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Sense of Tumour

Shit Socialist

Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Barely There Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Emer Maguire: Hilarious Humans Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £5

2001: A Sketch Odyssey

The Noise Next Door’s Really Really Good Afternoon Show Through Time!

Spencer Jones: The Things We Leave Behind

Elliot Wengler – Solo: An Elliot Wengler Story

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £7

Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug, £13

15:05

AAA Batteries (Not Included)

Ollie Horn: Pig in Japan

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 21–25 Aug, £5

Lusty Mannequins: Uncommonwealth

Izzy Mant: Polite Club

HH

❤ Tony Slattery:

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £6.50

Random Bag Check PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 20–25 Aug, FREE

15:10 Flora Anderson: Romantic Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

15:15 ❤ Lou Sanders: Say Hello to Your New Step-Mummy

HHHH

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £8

Trevor Lewis Presents: A Stand-Up for the Mystery Hour Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–26 Aug, £5

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Grace Campbell: Why I’m Never Going Into Politics H

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Stand Up with Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated) Pleasance Courtyard, 24 Aug, £12

Will Duggan: Class Two Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8–£10

Lucky Maclean: Festival in the Bin – Walking Tour/Show Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 20–24 Aug, £5

Pat Cahill: Uncle Len Needs a New Part for His Hoover Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £6

15:20 Glitter Business Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 21–25 Aug, £5

Simon Munnery: Alan Parker Urban Warrior Farewell Tour HHH The Stand Comedy Club, 20–26 Aug, £12

Sarah Lee: Half a Man Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

❤ Jonny Pelham: Off Limits HHHH

Cowboys, Country Music and Queers

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5–£7.50

Imagination Workshop, 20–24 Aug, £7.50

The Official Edinburgh Fringe Christmas Show

Children of the Quorn™

Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 20–26 Aug, £5

Peter Fleming: Have You Seen?

Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 20–25 Aug, £5

Immoral Maze Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Heroes @ Dragonfly, 20–25 Aug, £5

The Newcastle Revue: Tyne and Tyne Again

Pottervision

Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 20–25 Aug, FREE

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10

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

❤ Sean Morley: Soon I Will Be Dead and My Bones Will Be Free to Wreak Havoc Upon the Earth Once More

HHHH

Best in Class Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Michael Fabbri: Rebooted Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist

Heroes @ The Hive, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £5

theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–31 Aug, not 26, £12.50

15:30

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Sh*t Hipsters

George Fouracres: Gentlemon HHH

Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20–26 Aug, FREE

BBC: Loose Ends

Shawn Jay’s Fun Guide to Nihilism

Gary Tro: The Greatest Superhero Movie Never Made

Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Motherhood: A Comedy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Ahab; or What If Moby Dick Were Stand-Up Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Paul Savage: Shame Spiral PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Richard Brown: Horror Show (Work in Progress) Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 20–24 Aug, £5

BBC, 20 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6

Could It Be Magic?

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £8.50

15:35 Northern Power Blouse – Touching Cloth PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE

Vince Atta: Massive Attack Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £6

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Kieran Boyd – Crashing the Party HHH

The Full Irish PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 22 Aug, FREE

2 Truths, 1 Lie Sweet Novotel, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £5

Nick Revell: Eurasia’s Most Eligible Psychopaths and Their Lovely Homes The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £10

Danny Ward: Danny’s Got Talent PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE

15:40 Adele Cliff: Undershare Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–25 Aug, £5

Louise Atkinson: Sounds Good, Looks a Mess Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Tony Law and Phil Nichol: Virtue Chamber Echo Bravo Heroes @ The Hive, 21–24 Aug, £5

Sundeep Bhardwaj: Father Figure PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–25 Aug, FREE

15:45 Too Ugly for Love Island Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £5

Comedy

Not Quite Mass

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12.50

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!

Dr Lara Love: Love Leans In

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Caroline Mabey – Hair of the Dog HH

The Artist Currently Known as Chris Chopping

Sad Tony the Rapper’s Sad Tonathon the Rapperthon

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Planet Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12

Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe

Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 20–25 Aug, £5

James Hancox: 1000 Great Lives

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

15:55

Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12.50

So What?

Aboriginal Comedy Allstars

It Just So Happened – An Alternative History Show

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20 Aug, £5

Adrian Minkowicz: Brown Privilege

Patrick Spicer: Now I’ve Seen Anything

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Musical Comedy Guide Showcase Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £6

Science Idiot PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE

❤ Myra DuBois: Dead Funny HHHH

Eshaan Akbar: Infidel-ity

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10–£11

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Luca Cupani: Lives I Never Lived HHH

HHH

99 (First World) Problems feat Andy Quirk and Anna J Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Mitch Benn: Ten Songs to Save the World Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

15:50 Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards Gala

Nicky Wilkinson: Game On

Dog Tales

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £7

Tania Edwards: Don’t Mention It

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Chris Betts vs the Audience

Pleasance Courtyard, 25 Aug, £14

Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Hari Kanth: This Train Terminates Here

Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Bart Freebairn: Maximum Delicious

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Murder She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 20–23 Aug, FREE

Marjolein Robertson: Da Shetland Spree HHH The Stand Comedy Club 2, 20–25 Aug, £9

Mountebank Comedy Walk of Edinburgh Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–24 Aug, £10

Samantha Pressdee: Covered

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £10

16:00

Darcie Silver – I Know You Are

We’re Sorry (Canadian Comedy Showcase)

Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 20–22 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Crybabies: Danger Brigade

Daniel Muggleton: Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy (But I Reckon it’s Easier for Straight, White Men?)

Heroes @ Boteco, 20–25 Aug, £5

Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Showcase

Esther Manito: Crusade

HHH

The Latebloomers: Scotland!

Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10–£12

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

FreeStyle Comedy: Improvised Stand-Up Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 21–25 Aug, £5

Mandy Muden: Is Not the Invisible Woman Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Joe Bor: The Story of Walter and Herbert

❤ Glenn Moore: Love Don’t Live Here Glenny Moore HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11

Daisy Earl: Fairy Elephant HHH

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Arabella Weir: Does My Mum Loom Big in This?

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £13–£15

All Together Irish Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Working Class Zero Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

16:05 Tom Little – Chronically Underachieving Loser and Wasteman PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Njambi McGrath: Accidental Coconut Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 20–23 Aug, FREE

Underbelly, George Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

Robin Morgan: What a Man, What a Man, What a Man, What a Mighty Good Man (Say It Again Now)

Caspian and Ciaran: The Milkmen

Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

16:10

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Josh Berry: Who Does He Think He Is?

HHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–24 Aug, £14

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21 Aug, £8

Joe Jacobs: Grimefulness

Pleasance Courtyard, 24 Aug, £14

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £7.50–£8.50

Daniel Nils Roberts: The History of the World in 1 Hour

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Maureen Younger: Out of Sync

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Des Kapital: I’m Loving Engels Instead

Harriet Dyer and Scott Gibson: That’s Not a Lizard, That’s My Grandmother Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Larry Dean: Bampot

The Durham Revue: Unnatural Disaster

Sketch You Up!

Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25 Aug, £8

Adrian Tauss and Sasha Ellen: Get a Room Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

THE SCOTSMAN

UNTIL 25TH AUG

CHORTLE

THE LIST

Wil Greenway: The Ocean After All

Matt Stellingwerf: Sisyphus

Rich Wilson: Death Becomes Him

Joz Norris Is Dead. Long Live Mr Fruit Salad.

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

Heroes @ The Hive, 20–25 Aug, £5

Twonkey’s Ten Year Twitch

16:20

Sid Singh: American Refugee

Definitely Not Romeo and Juliet

Jenny Collier: The Jen Commandments

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £8

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Oleg Denisov: Russian Troll

16:50

Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Generation Whyyy?

Ali Brice: Bin Wondering

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

16:15 Ferris Bueller’s Way Of...

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

❤ Eric Lampaert: Borne of Chaos

HHHH

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guide to Culture Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Cancelled: A Comedy by Darius Emadi PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pilgrim, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Ruby Carr’s Birthday Party (WIP) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

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

HHH

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6

Phil Cornwell: Alackadaddy HHH

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12

Jojo Sutherland: Riches to Rags HH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Talk a Big Game Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE

2019 Greek Comedian of the Year: George Zacharopoulos

Comedy

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £9

The Crown Dual Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £12.50–£13.50

Roisin Crowley Linton: Teenage Kicks Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

16:25 11+ theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8–£9

Matt Winning: It’s the End of the World as We Know It Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

16:30 Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

HHH

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £8

Radio Active: The 40th Anniversary Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £14–£15

George Egg: Movable Feast HH

Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

Steve Rannazzisi – Please Forget Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, FREE

AJ Holmes: Yeah, but Not Right Now

Martin Pilgrim: I Write Jokes Not Tragedies Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5

Felix and The Scootermen: Self-Help Yourself Famous

Mark Simmons – One-Linerererer

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12

16:45 Hero Worship Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Dave Bibby: Crazy Cat Lad-y PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE

❤ John Kearns: Double Take and Fade Away

HHHH

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–24 Aug, £9

Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20–26 Aug, £5

Chris Kehoe: The Second Coming of Chris

Club Sets

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Thomas Green: Tweak

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Depthless Observations PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE

Rosco McClelland – Magic Belly

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5

Cam Spence: The Sunshine Clinic

16:40

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11

Susan Murray: How Not To Die In A Plane Crash PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Giants Are Fjörd Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Miller and Salmon: Genesis

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6

❤ Olga Koch: If/Then HHHH

Rory O Hanlon – Confidence

Assembly Checkpoint, 20–26 Aug, £12–£14

16:35

I Fahrt Berlin: The Journey Continues

Imagination Workshop, 20–22 Aug, £8

Archie Maddocks: Big Dick Energy

The Great Outdoors

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£12

West End Producer – Free Willy

Isa Bonachera: The Great Emptiness

Gusset Grippers

James McNicholas: The Boxer HHH

Lucy Pearman: Baggage

Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 20–26 Aug, £5

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £12

Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

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Anna Drezen: Okay Get Home Safe!! HHH

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

Cerys Nelmes’ 80s Gameshow Mash-Up

Lola and Jo: Escape

Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5

The Three Deaths of Ebony Black

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £7

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Vauxhall Comedy Presents Tom Elwes and Ali Woods

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 24–25 Aug, £15

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21 Aug, FREE

Raul Kohli: The Greatest Hits

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Heidi Regan: Heidi Kills Time HHH

Aaaaaaaaand Now! Roger Swift’s Machine Pun Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 20–25 Aug, FREE

A**Hole New World Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 20–26 Aug, £5

Louise Young and Anja Atkinson: Big Div Energy

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Naz Osmanoglu – Scandinaveland

HHH

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

16:55 Nick Everritt: The Deconstruction Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Jane Hill: All I Want Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

❤ Garrett Millerick: Smile HHHH

Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–25 Aug, £7

#Jollyboat: Bards Against Humanity (The Best of Jollyboat) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Skydive to Stand-Up

Martin Angolo – Q: Is It Comedy? A: Well It’s Martin Angolo!

Nobody Likes You When You’re 33

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Sweet Novotel, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £7

Lucy Beaumont: Space Mam HHH

Maisie Adam: Hang Fire HH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Ryan Lane Will Be There Now in a Minute

The Mars & Lee Show

Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts Musical Parody

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £6.50

Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Irish Comedy Invasion

Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 20–25 Aug, £5

Laugh 4 Change Comedy Fundraiser PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 21–24 Aug, FREE

Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–31 Aug, not 26, £12.50

Foxdog Studios: Tomorrow’s Office

HHH

Heroes @ The Hive, 20–25 Aug, £5

Dan Cardwell: Recall Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Simon Brodkin: 100% Simon Brodkin Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug, £12

Lucy Farrett: Lois Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Pussies

Apocalypse Comedy Club featuring Mick Neven

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £11.50

Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Haha Cool

Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Age Fright: 35 and Counting

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £12

Google Me

Joe McArdle is: Theo McCabe

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £8

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 20–25 Aug, £5

17:00

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5

Heroes @ Dragonfly, 20–25 Aug, £5

Bristol Revunions: Party

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £13–£15

Geeks, Stand Up! Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Lenny Sherman: Have Fun Frankenstein Pub, 20–26 Aug, FREE

17:05 Despite Everything, Price Still Includes Biscuits theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

Jenny Bede: The Musical

HHH

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Ben Van der Velde – Fablemaker Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Anna Nicholson: Get Happy Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £7

The Yank is a Manc! My Ancestors & Me theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

59 I’m Coming

Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £5

Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25 Aug, £8

Bumper Blyton

Glenn Grimwood: Unf*ckable

Daniel Lobell: Tipping the Scales

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

17:10

Which Princess Are You?

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10–£11

Stella Graham: Sneaky Little Bitch PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Jacob Hawley: Faliraki Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £6

Men With Coconuts Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Made in Spain 2

Dominic Frisby: Libertarian Love Songs

17:20

Sweet Grassmarket, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £5

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Neil O’Rourke: Thump

Juliette Burton: Defined

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Jimmy McGhie

Mark and Haydn: Llaugh

Cally Beaton: Invisible Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11

Chris Betts: Dumb but Fair Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 20–25 Aug, £5

17:15

Are Not in the Least Afraid of Ruins; We Carry a New World in Our Hearts HHHH

HHH

Francesco De Carlo: Winning Hearts and Minds

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–24 Aug, £5–£6

Privates: A Sperm Odyssey Heroes @ Boteco, 20–25 Aug, £5

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2019: Look Alive!

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–24 Aug, £12–£14

Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £11–£13

Angus Dunican: Nice Bit of Kit

Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard’s Tale

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £8

Alison Spittle: Mother of God

Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Josh Glanc: Glance You for Having Me HHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

Laughing Horse Free Best in Comedy Chat Show

Goose: Ctrl+T

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5–£7

Hyper-Nice theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

17:25

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Sam Morrison: Hello, Daddy!

Sukh Ojla: For Sukh’s Sake HHH

Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 20–25 Aug, £5

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–25 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Reverend Richard Coles: #SimpleCountryParson Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £13–£15

Jew-O-Rama PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Maria Shehata: Hero Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6

Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Jim Campbell: Beef

❤ Laura Lexx: Knee Jerk HHHH

Jody Kamali Is Mike Daly – Darts and All

17:40

Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Hardeep Singh Kohli: It’s Hard to Be Deep

Assembly Roxy, 20–23 Aug, £11

❤ Andrew O’Neill – We

The Explainers

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12.50

Funny Women on the Fringe

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £6.50

Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

Ian Smith: Half-Life

17:35

James Barr: Thirst Trap

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaah, It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Assembly George Square Studios, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£12

Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 20–24 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Absolute Zero: Jez Watts

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

Comedy Freak Show Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

17:30 ❤ Aditi Mittal: Mother of Invention HHHH Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12

Alcohol is Good for You – Sam Kissajukian Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Linda: Easy Killing Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Desperately Seeking Motivation: Challenged Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Witch Hunt HHH

Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£11

Joel Dommett: Work in Progress Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

❤ Troy Hawke: Tiles

Bec Hill: I’ll Be Bec Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

Nick Helm: Phoenix from the Flames Pleasance Dome, 20–24 Aug, £12.50–£14

17:45 Sarah Keyworth: Pacific

HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11

Spencer Jones: The Things We Leave Behind

HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £11–£13

Jack Gleadow: Mr Saturday Night HH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

I’m Afraid of Americans

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

The Rat Pack Comedy – Anything Goes!

Anuvab Pal: Democracy and Disco Dancing

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £11–£13

Micky P Kerr: Kerr in the Community

Ashley Storrie: Hysterical

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12

Sam See: Coming Out Loud

Michael Odewale: #BLACKBEARSMATTER

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £7.50–£10

Anna and Helen: Stuck in a Rat HHH

HHH

Planet Verth Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Viking Millennials Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Stand Up with Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated) HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11

Aaron Twitchen: Can’t Stop a Rainbow...

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–24 Aug, FREE

17:50

Love/Hate Actually

A Time Slot with Ger Staunton PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE

David Tsonos: Around the World With Flat Stanley PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 20–24 Aug, FREE

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

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11.50

Dave Fensome: ADHDave Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Caitlin Cook: Death Wish Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5

Robyn Perkins: Mating Selection Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

Luke McQueen: Bad

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 21–25 Aug, £5

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

17:55

The Great British Bake Offenders

Harriet Braine: Les Admirables HHH

Alex Cofield: Supernova

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

C venues – C viva, 20–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Ray Bradshaw: Deafinitely Baby

of the Unexpected!

HHHH

A Sense of Tumour Makes Everything Alt-Right

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5

Mike Newall: Re:Newall Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £6

10 Things I Hate About Taming of the Shrew PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Jamie Dalgleish: Humans Are Evil The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £9

18:00 Michael Brunström: World of Sports Heroes @ Dragonfly, 20–25 Aug, £5

Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £15

Notflix: Originals Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

James Bran: Hack Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £8

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Simply Filthy

The Stand Comedy Club 2, 20–24 Aug, £10

Imagination Workshop, 20–26 Aug, £10

Terry Alderton: Bingo Bango Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £8

You May Also Like Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £6

James Meehan – Never Better Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Tom Parry: Parryoke!

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£12.50

Phil Ellis: Au Revoir Heroes @ The Hive, 20–25 Aug, £5

Hesitation Remarks PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £8

Flo & Joan: Before the Screaming Starts Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–25 Aug, £12–£13

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

The Next Next Big Thing Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 20–25 Aug, £5

Catherine Bohart: Lemon Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11.50

David Tieck: What Would Bill Murray Do? Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5

❤ Fern Brady: Power and Chaos HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £7–£10

Nick Offerman: All Rise Assembly Hall, 24 Aug, £24

Will Adamsdale: Facetime HH

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12

Jack Carroll and Friends Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5

Alexander Fox: Snare Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10

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

Helen Bauer: Little Miss Baby Angel Face Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

The Rabbi Preaches – David Kilimnick the Honest Rabbi Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £13–£17

Fred MacAulay in Conversation Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20 Aug, £12

Faking It Summerhall, 23 Aug, £6

Tom Taylor: Is the Indie Feel-Good Hit of the Summer Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

Larry Dean: Fandan Assembly Hall, 22 Aug, £14

Ray Fordyce’s Six O’Clock Supper With Salt’n’Sauce Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrgh, It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Larry Dean: Bampot

Comedy

Assembly Hall, 25 Aug, £14

Monster Gay PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Katie Pritchard: Storm Stud PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 20–24 Aug, FREE

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18:05 The Sacrifice PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 20–24 Aug, FREE

The Great Health Con theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 21–25 Aug, £12

For He’s a Jolly Goodfellow PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 20–24 Aug, FREE

18:10 Michelle McManus: Pop Goes the Idol The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–25 Aug, £12

Stevie Gray: Arctic Monkeys’ Midlife Crisis Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

NewsRevue Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £15.50–£17.50

Bad Clowns: Cult Classic Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Kelsey De Almeida: I’m Very Different People (WIP) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Comedy in the Dark Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £12

18:15 Steve Hili: The Sexy Environmentalist Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Scott Gibson: White Noise Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Stephanie Laing: Quitter Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Shaggers Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE

George Rigden: Spooning with Uri Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5–£6

Annie McGrath: Shepherd PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 20–24 Aug, FREE

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James Cook: The Show That Literally Nobody Tried to Ban Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Dave Chawner: Mental Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Tom Glover – A Glover Not a Fighter

Luisa Omielan: Work in Progress

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £10

Jake Baker: No Success Like Failure PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe

Kate Lucas: Is Selling Herself Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–25 Aug, £5

Our Mums Wouldn’t Watch This Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £5

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly

I Predict a Wyatt!

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE

Trans Vision Scamp Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Mark Cram: Centaur PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 20–24 Aug, FREE

The Kagools: Cirque du Kagool Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

18:20 Absolute Improv! theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £10

The Fanny’s

Richard Fry: O Starry Night Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Eric Lampaert: Yum Yum

Gabby Best: 10,432 Sheep PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE

The Best of Irish Comedy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £13

Joanne McNally: The Prosecco Express

❤ Róisín and Chiara: Get Nupty HHHH

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Kieran Hodgson: Lance

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Improvengers: Pretendgame Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 20–25 Aug, £8

Darren Walsh: Punimal Farm Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

30 Minute Musicals Roulette Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12

Aussiental

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Henry Ginsberg: Romantic Comedian

Mocking a Murderer

Josh Pugh: Maybe the Real Comedy Awards are the Friends We Made Along the Way

Never Again

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £11.50–£14

Fred Cooke: Fred Space

18:25

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Tom Rosenthal: Manhood

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Bad Aunts

The Stand Comedy Club 2, 20–25 Aug, £9

Heroes @ The Hive, 21–25 Aug, £8

18:30

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6 Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Rhys James: Snitch Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£13

Kieran Hodgson: ‘75 Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, £14–£15

Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50 Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug, £15

Daliso Chaponda: Blah Blah Blacklist HHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £12–£14

Kieran Hodgson: French Exchange Pleasance Courtyard, 22 Aug, £14

Calum Ross Presents Ross: After the Screaming Stops Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Jessie Cave: Sunrise Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £14–£16

Gary Little – Kidding Myself On Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–26 Aug, £5

Imaan Hadchiti: Being Frank Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £5

Harry Carr: Neighbourhood Watch

theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–31 Aug, not 26, £12.50–£15

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 20–23 Aug, FREE

Ken Cheng: To All the Racists I’ve Blocked Before HHH

Kieran Hodgson: Maestro Pleasance Courtyard, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, £14–£15

Bedlam Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10

18:35

Jay Lafferty: Jammy

Harun Musho’d: Dark Side of Harun

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 21–24 Aug, FREE

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❤ Stevie Martin: Hot Content HHHH

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Sam Haygarth: Climate Crisis

Improvised Director’s Cut PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Phoebe Robinson: Sorry, Harriet Tubman HHH

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £14–£16

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Lisa Richards presents Irish Comedians

18:40

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Bananas Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5

Suzi Ruffell: Dance Like Everyone’s Watching Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24 Aug, £11

Jarred Christmas: A Funny Hour Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Nigel Ng: Culture Shocked HHH

Marc Jennings: Getting Going

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £7.50–£10

The Stand Comedy Club, 25 Aug, £10

EdinBra Fringe Comedy

Alex Kealy: Rationale Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Liam Withnail: Homecoming Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5

Gill Sims: Why Mummy Doesn’t Give A ****!

Pleasance Courtyard, 22 Aug, £15

Shattered Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25 Aug, £8.50

Fast Fringe Pleasance Dome, 20–24 Aug, £8–£11.50

Harry and Chris: This One’s for the Aliens Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–24 Aug, £10–£12

Carl Hutchinson: I Know I Shouldn’t Behave Like This...

The Stand Comedy Club, 20–24 Aug, £12

Neal Portenza is Joshua Ladgrove in: Edinburgh’s Only Bilge Pump Sales Seminar

Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Basil Brush: Unleashed Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £12–£13

Archie Henderson: Jazz Emu Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6

Catching Up Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Eh? Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

The Joy of Jokes Laughing Horse @ The Place, 21–25 Aug, FREE

The Good, the Bad and the Irish Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Aunty HH

Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

MARVELus: All the Marvel Movies… Kind of. 2019 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Heroes @ Boteco, 20–25 Aug, £7

Nathan Cassidy: Observational (Work In Progress)

Siblings: The Siblinginging

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

Daniel Muggleton: Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy (But I Reckon it’s Easier for Straight, White Men?)

English Speaking Comedy Borsch Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20–26 Aug, FREE

18:45 The Ticked Boxes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Joey Page – Afterlife (An Idiot Considers a Series of Distractions Before Death) Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 20–25 Aug, £7

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 26 Aug, FREE

18:50

Fraser Gibson: Self-ish

Raymond Mearns – Confessions of a Control Freak!

Straight Outta Estonia

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–26 Aug, FREE

Three Menopausal Maids theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Live at the Fringe

Stephen Carlin: Pickwickian

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10

Business Casual

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Matt Price: Broken Hooters and Geezers with Shooters HHH

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £17.50–£18.50

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £7

60 Minutes to Save the World – Vladimir McTavish

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

Marlon Davis: Emotional Black Male HHH

Josh Baulf: Boy Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £5

19:00

Any Suggestions, Doctor? The Improvised Doctor Who Parody

Yuriko Kotani: Somosomo Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£11

Loyiso Gola: Pop Culture Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£12

❤ Sophie Duker: Venus HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £7–£9

Rotten Randolph Cliff, 28 Aug, FREE

Eleanor Conway: You May Recognise Me From Tinder HH Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £10–£13

Sofie Hagen: The Bumswing HHH

Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £10–£14

❤ Kai Samra: Underclass HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise!

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 21 Aug, £8

Vikki Stone: Song Bird Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£12.50

Rosie Jones: Backward

Filippo Spreafico: Sentimental Value

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £7.50–£10

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

HHH

Adam Flood and Blake AJ: Joke Boys PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 21–24 Aug, FREE

Piff the Magic Dragon: The Lucky Dragon Tour Pleasance at EICC, 21–25 Aug, £16

Konstantin Kisin: Orwell That Ends Well HH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Jonny & the Baptists Love Edinburgh and Hate Bastards Assembly Roxy, 20–25 Aug, £12

Jess Robinson: The Jess Robinson Experience Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £13–£15

BBC: The Arts Hour on Tour BBC, 21 Aug, FREE

The Haunted History Bus

Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£11

Alexander Bennett: They Call Me Daddy Punchlines

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 22–24 Aug, £8

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Alasdair Beckett-King: The Interdimensional ABK

Chris Parker: Camp Binch

Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise!

Waverley Bridge (Bus Stop WA), 21–31 Aug, not 27, £12

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Aindrias de Staic; Shtax the LedgeHammer Heroes @ Black Medicine, 20–25 Aug, £5

Ivo Graham: The Game of Life Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8.50–£12

Frisky & Mannish’s PopLab HHH

Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–25 Aug, £14–£16

Henning Wehn: Get on With It The Queen’s Hall, 22–25 Aug, £16.50

Sumit Anand: Nothing About Godzilla HHH

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

Sarah Kendall: Paper Planes HHH

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14

19:05 ❤ James Nokise: God Damn Fancy Man

HHHH

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £10

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

19:10 Sasha Ellen: Pickle Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

Paul Foot: Baby Strikes Back!

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

About Time / Bully Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Brain Rinse theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £9–£10

Matt Hoss: Here Comes Your Man Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5

Where Are You Really From?

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–25 Aug, FREE

19:15 Adam Hess: My Grandad Has a Fringe Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Kelly Convey: Telephone Voice HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £7.50–£10

Arson in the Queen’s Swans PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE

Queen Mary Comedy Society and Friends Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Sad Acts Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Pierre Novellie: You’re Expected to Care HH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£12

Family Secrets PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Ew Girl, You Nasty Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Susan Riddell: Duvet Day Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5

Martin Mor – Instigator Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

19:20 Bring Back the 80s Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Craig Hill: Bottoms Up! Pleasance at EICC, 20–25 Aug, £12.50–£18.50

Adam Larter: Good Morning Croissant Heroes @ The Hive, 20–25 Aug, £5

Jake Farrell: Limits Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5

Drag Queen Stole My Dress PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Asexual Healing: Prophets of Time

Rob Copland: Strange Jam

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Johannes Dullin Plays the Devil

Christianity and Me Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–24 Aug, £5

Dan Soder: Son Of A Gary Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12

Martin Bearne and Joe McTernan: Milk and Two Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 20–26 Aug, £5

AAA Stand-Up

Heroes @ Dragonfly, 21–25 Aug, £5

Geoff Norcott: Work in Progress Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

19:25 Stand-Up Nomad: Backpacking Comedy Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9–£12

19:30

Martha McBrier: Happiness Bully

An Atlantic Disaster – Titanic

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

The LOL Word Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £7

Listings

Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12.50

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £15

fest-mag.com

Tom Lenk Is Trash

On It Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–26 Aug, FREE

So You Think You’re Funny? Grand Final Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22 Aug, £15.50

Jokers in the Pack Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–25 Aug, FREE

I, Tom Mayhew Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Jack Rooke: Love Letters Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–24 Aug, £12–£14

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

The Secret Policeman’s Tour

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £10

David O’Doherty: Ultrasound

Kate Smurthwaite: Bitch

Assembly George Square, 20–26 Aug, £15–£16

Best Boy in Ireland PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 21–24 Aug, FREE

Zoë Coombs Marr: Bossy Bottom

Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 20–25 Aug, FREE

The Community Centre!

John Robins: Hot Shame Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £14–£15

Big Value Comedy Show – Early Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5–£10

Steve Bugeja: Single Mum

The Stand Comedy Club 2, 20–25 Aug, £10

Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Harry Stachini – Tigers Don’t Cry

Lewis Schaffer is Mr Diabetes – Free

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Flo & Joan: Before the Screaming Starts

19:40

Adam Rowe: Pinnacle Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Eric Andre: The Legalize Everything Tour Gilded Balloon Teviot, 25 Aug, £20

Tommy Tiernan: Paddy Crazy Horse

Carl Donnelly: Shall We All Just Kill Ourselves?

Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 20–24 Aug, £7

Joby Mageean – Shanty Prince Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–25 Aug, £5

Paul McCaffrey: Lemon Underbelly, Cowgate, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10–£11

Sam Taunton: It’s Nice, It’s Modern Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £17.50

Zeroko’s Teatime

Ari Eldjárn: Eagle Fire Iron

❤ Desiree Burch:

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £8

101 Comedy Club – Free

Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–24 Aug, £10

Desiree’s Coming Early!

HHHHH

Heroes @ The Hive, 21–25 Aug, £10

Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 20–25 Aug, FREE

A Pessimist’s Guide to Being Happy

Alex Black’s Record Collection

Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20–25 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6

Sam Russell: Privileged to be Here

Goddess Sweet Novotel, 21–25 Aug, £7.50

Comedy Boxing – Best of the Best Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Andrew Roper – Break Point Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

❤ Jen Brister – Under Privilege HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £7–£8

❤ Laura Lexx: Knee Jerk HHHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23 Aug, £10

John Pendal: Monster Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£11

Langston Kerman: The Loose Cannon Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Sean Patton: Contradickhead HH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £11–£13

Jocks, Geordies and Aussies PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Acting Natural

Simon Brodkin: 100% Simon Brodkin

Scummy Mummies Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14

Beakington Town Hall Murders HHHH

Still Life by Noël Coward theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8

19:55 Dave Green: Guest Bed Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Stuart Mitchell – Is It Just Me? (Work in Progress) Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Emmy Blotnick: Party Nights Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

20:00 Traitor Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Australian Beauty PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Thunderc*nt Heroes @ Boteco, 21–25 Aug, £5

The Dots Imagination Workshop, 22–25 Aug, £8.50

Alex Williamson: Sin on My Face Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 20–25 Aug, £10–£13

Pete Firman & The Amazing TBC Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £12–£15.50

Patrick Monahan: Started from the Bottom, Now l’m Here

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £13–£14

Brown Panther – Ruven Govender

Mark Nelson: Brexit Wounds

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Alistair Williams: How to Lose Weight and Be Less Racist Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £10

Passport and Prozac

19:50

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £11–£14

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Assembly Roxy, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11 Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

19:45 Matt Jones: Pandora’s Box – Free

Lolly Jones: I Believe in Merkels

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £8

❤ Adam Riches: The

19:35 Gavin Webster: Buddhism and Other Such Rubbish

Liam Malone: No Limbits

Underbelly, George Square, 20–25 Aug, £13.50–£15

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Neil Delamere: End of Watch

Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20–25 Aug, £12.50–£13.50

Andrew Maxwell: All Talk

The Leeds Tealights: It’s Not That Serious

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Lost Voice Guy: I’m Only in It for the Parking

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 22–24 Aug, £8

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £6–£8

Assembly George Square Gardens, 25 Aug, £12

Jo Caulfield: Voodoo Doll

Edinburgh Playhouse , 24 Aug, £25

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

Pleasance at EICC, 20 Aug, £25

Comedy

Arnab Chanda: Boy From Earth

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Steve Bennett – Everything is F*cked

Comedy Gala 2019: In Aid of Waverley Care

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Amy Howerska: Serious Face

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14.50

Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £15–£16

Pleasance Dome, 23 Aug, £12

Ben Pope: Dancing Bear

HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £7–£10

50% Canadian, 100 % Crazy, Let’s Laugh Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 20–26 Aug, £5

Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 30 Aug, 31 Aug, £15

The St Andrews Revue Presents: Hot Yoghurt Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £8–£9

Irony?

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £6

The Salon Sweet Grassmarket, 21 Aug, £9

❤ Susie McCabe: Domestic Disaster

❤ Diane Chorley: Modern Love HHHH

HHHH

Tamsyn Kelly: Petroc

20:05

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14 Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Javier Jarquin is Boring AF Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Catherine Cohen: The Twist...? She’s Gorgeous Pleasance Dome, 24 Aug, £13

Girlfriend from Hell – The Bitch is Back Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

Godley on the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

❤ Garry Starr Conquers Troy HHHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

#Jollyboat: Pun Lovin’ Criminals PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £12–£13

Aaron McCann: Happy Enough?

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6

Stewart Francis: Into the Punset Assembly Rooms, 20–25 Aug, £14–£15

BBC: The Now Show

Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11

Nath Valvo: I’m Happy for You HHH Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11

Naomi Karavani: Dominant HHH

Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 20–25 Aug, £7

Jamali Maddix: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £8

20:10 Tom Houghton: That’s What I Go to School For Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £9–£12

Daniel Connell: Piece of Piss Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12

Tom Cashman – XYZ Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11.50

Keith Carter: Dog Man Stars Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

20:15 Harriet Dyer: The Dinosaur Show Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Steffan Alun and Support: You Can’t Escape Free Stand-Up

BBC, 22 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Manhunt 2: Big Mood

Andy Barr: The Ruby

Bedlam Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10

Lolbot Wars Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Eurosceptic Song Contest Lebowskis Bar, 22–26 Aug, FREE

Heroes @ Black Medicine, 20–25 Aug, £5

Brodi Snook: Handful Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Jake Lambert: Never Mak the Same Mistak Twice Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £7.50–£10

Listings

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The Thinking Drinkers: Heroes of Hooch

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £13.50–£16.50

The Pursuit of Happiness

Matt Parker: Humble Pi

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£12.50

Huge Davies: The Carpark Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8.50–£10

❤ London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11

Simon Evans: Dressing for Dinner

The Best of Scottish Comedy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15

❤ Josie Long: Tender HHHH The Stand Comedy Club, 20–25 Aug, £12

Bitch and Nerd Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £13–£14

20:25

Chris Washington: Raconteur

Jeremy Nicholas: What Are You Talking About?

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£12

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £10–£12

Eddy Brimson: Life Coaching for Arseholes

Bristol Improv Presents: Dynamite!

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 21–25 Aug, £5

PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Marc Jennings: Getting Going

20:30 ❤ Sara

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £10

Darren Harriott: Good Heart Yute Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10.50

20:20 ❤ Max & Ivan: Commitment HHHH

Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £10–£13

Rob Auton: The Time Show Assembly Roxy, 24 Aug, £12

Viggo the Viking HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Bald Man Sings Rihanna PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Barron: Enemies Closer

HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

Connie Wookey: Denied Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Gareth Mutch: The Old Man in the Carvery Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

Lewis Costello x Hayden Dean Allmark

❤ Suzi Ruffell:

Joke Thieves

Sam Lake and Chloe Petts: Household Essentials

Dance Like Everyone’s Watching HHHH

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8.50–£11

Snjolaug Ludviksdottir: Let It Snow

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £7

Concerning Bennet

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6

Rhys Nicholson – Nice People Nice Things Nice Situations

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Tony Cantwell: Live Feed

Seann Walsh: After This One I’m Going Home

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £13–£14

Matt Forde: Brexit, Pursued by a Bear

Sleeping Trees: Silly Funny Boys HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £14

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14

Tiziano La Bella: Yes We Can’t

20:35

Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Megazoid Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 20–26 Aug, £5

Stephen Buchanan: Baby Dove Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8.50–£10

Canadian Club Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Radu Isac: Good Excuses for Sociopaths

Pope’s Addiction Clinic Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20 Aug, £5

Candy Gigi Presents – Friday Night Sinner!

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 21–25 Aug, £7

Ian Lane – Paperweight Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Simon Caine: Every Room Becomes a Panic Room When You Overthink Enough

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Double Denim: Adventure Show HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Bollywood and Birmingham to Berlin and Brexit HHH

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Alex Hylton: Get Rich or Die Cryin’ Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5

Ed and Joz’s Deleted Scenes Heroes @ Dragonfly, 20–25 Aug, £5

Love is a Work in Progress with Tara Rankine

Sweet Grassmarket, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £5

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £7–£9

The Haunted History Bus

20:40

Waverley Bridge (Bus Stop WA), 21–31 Aug, not 27, £12

20:45

Andrew Sim: Am I Queer Enough?

Alice Fraser: Mythos

Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £6

Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma Comedian!

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Wheely Wheely Wheely Wheely Wheely

Rhod Gilbert: The Book of John

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance at EICC, 21–25 Aug, £22.50

Sunil Patel: White Knight Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Cool Story Bro Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Jimeoin: Ramble On! Pleasance at EICC, 20–25 Aug, £12.50–£18.50

The Establishment: Le Bureau de Strange Heroes @ The Hive, 20–25 Aug, £5

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12

Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Pete Heat: Massive Wizard Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Actually, Totes Amaze PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Ashley Haden: F*ck You, and F*ck Your Beliefs Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Daniel Cook and Rose Johnson: Two Gorgeous Stand-Ups PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Improv Cage Match PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Headless Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £5

Eric Davidson: Across the Loony Verse theSpaceTriplex, 20–24 Aug, £10

Dino Wiand – Half Trans PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Jasper Cromwell Jones’ Alternative Book Festival Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE

All-Star Comedy Cabaret

20:50

Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection

Danny Posthill Is That Bloke Who Does Voices

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Frankenstein Pub, 20–25 Aug, £10

Tony Cowards: Stepdad Jokes

Johnny Irish

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £8

Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Jacques Barrett in Boom-Jacqua-Laka!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Steve N Allen: Better Than The Stand Comedy Club 2, 20–25 Aug, £9

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Half the Man – Michael Livesley

Naomi McDonald: Copycat Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

20:55 Tony Basnett: 28 Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Guy Montgomery: I Was Part of the Problem Before We Were Talking About It HHH

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11

Jack Barry: Alien PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE

21:00 Jason Byrne: Wrecked but Ready Assembly Hall, 20–25 Aug, £17–£19.50

❤ Tom Ballard: Enough HHHH

Lucie Pohl: Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Real HH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Louisa Fitzhardinge: Comma Sutra Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Cerys Bradley and Rachel Wheeley: The Unfortunate Bisexual PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Foil Arms and Hog – Swines Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £14.50–£17.50

Sex Shells Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Japanese Sweet Wasabi: No Mask Required!

Police Cops – Badass Be Thy Name

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Werewolf: Live

❤ Demi Lardner: Ditch Witch 800 HHHH

Assembly George Square Studios, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £12–£13

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Legs

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5–£8

Nick Doody: I Will Milk You

Spring Day: When Push Comes to Shove – Free

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21–24 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

21:10 Titania McGrath: Mxnifesto Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£14

21:25

Micky Overman Presents: Presenting Miss Micky Overman

Joe Rooney: Shut Your Cakehole

Imagination Workshop, 20–25 Aug, £5

Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress

❤ Chris Mcglade: Forgiveness HHHH

21:30

Aidan ‘Taco’ Jones – 52 Days

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 20–25 Aug, £5

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Justin Matson: Try Harder

Bob Doolally Live and Half-Cut

Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Emancipation

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20 Aug, £10

21:20

Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Dreamboat

21:15

Len Blanco: Firing Blancs

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–21 Aug, £12.50

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Dilruk Jayasinha: Cheat Day(s)

There Will Be Cake

Scotland’s Pick of the Fringe Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–25 Aug, £5–£10

Blindingly Obvious C venues – C cubed, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Assembly Rooms, 20–25 Aug, £17–£18.50

Omid Singh: Beginning To End

❤ Paul Currie: Trufficle Musk HHHH

Sweet Novotel, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £7

Phil Nichol: Too Much Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £7

Dead Than a Coward

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Needle Dicks

Nick Horseman: The Rhyme Scheme Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Micky Bartlett: Love It!

Leo Kearse: Transgressive HHH

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £8–£9

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–25 Aug, £20

A Long Time Coming

BattleActs!

Can I Have Eight Tickets Please? HHHH

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–25 Aug, £5

❤ Laura Davis: Better

❤ Mat Ewins: Actually

Good Evening Edinburgh

Matt Richardson: Imposter

Moon: We Cannot Get Out

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Luisa Omielan: Politics for Bitches (Extended Cut)

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6.50

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

HHHH

Heroes @ The Hive, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £5

Rob Oldham: Worm’s Resolve Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

21:05 Goodbye Mr President PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £12–£13

Wait... Let’s Have Fun! Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £7

50% Canadian, 100% Crazy, Let’s Laugh Again Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 20–26 Aug, £5

All Together Irish

HHH

Two Hearts: The Comeback Tour Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

‘Aaaaaave You Been Involved in a Comedy Show That Wasn’t Your Fault Again?

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–24 Aug, £5

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 22–25 Aug, £5

Improvabunga!

Brown Guys, Grey Skies

theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £7

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–21 Aug, £11.50

Alun Cochrane: Brave New Alun

A Mad Ron Rhodes Show

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£14

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Jonny Pelham: Off Limits

Craig Campbell’s Joyful Pain

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–22 Aug, £7.50

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10

❤ Jack Tucker:

Craig and Darren Give Away Free Nachos

Comedy Stand-Up Hour

HHHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

The Living Room Assembly Rooms, 21–24 Aug, £10–£12

Comedy in the Dark

Taco Mazama, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Abandoman AKA Rob Broderick – Road to Coachella Underbelly, George Square, 20–25 Aug, £14.50–£15.50

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–24 Aug, £12

Best of Scottish Comedian of the Year

Eli Matthewson – An Inconvenient Poof

Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 20–24 Aug, £12–£15

Underbelly, George Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

Alice-India: Sorry I’m So Great or Whatever (WiP)

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £10

Jena Friedman: Miscarriage of Justice

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

I’ll Be Broken Home for Christmas with Jeffrey Baldinger

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £12–£13

Simon Brodkin: 100% Simon Brodkin

The Adventures of the Bearded Lady Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6

Tiff Stevenson: Mother

HHH

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

HHH

Bedlam Theatre, 20 Aug, £10

The Comedy Reserve Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £7.50–£10

❤ Jordan Brookes: I’ve Got Nothing HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11

Aidan Greene: Did I Stutter?

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Clive Anderson: Me, Macbeth and I

Schalk Bezuidenhout: South African White Boy

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–25 Aug, £17.50

Andrew Frank: Cognitive Goof

Secret Dinosaur Cult Live

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £14–£16

Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 20–25 Aug, £8

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–24 Aug, £12

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14

Ladylikes: Top Secret House Party! HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £7.50–£10

Angus Brown: Everest

Spontaneous Potter

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £10

Jerry Sadowitz: Comedian, Magician, Psychopath 2019

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £15

Ed Byrne: If I’m Honest

Kevin the Vampyr and Friends Presents The Vim and Vigour Variety Hour

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–24 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £16–£17

Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20–22 Aug, £14

Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–25 Aug, £11–£12

Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures

Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Kevin Quantum: And for My Next Trick 2

John Robertson: The Dark Room

Tom Stade: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

Zoe Lyons: Entry Level Human

Comedy

Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £16–£18

Ania Magliano and Matt Hutchinson: Mixtape

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £7–£10

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–25 Aug, £10

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Nish Kumar: It’s in Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–24 Aug, £12

HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: Roll Up! Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–25 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

Rose Matafeo: Horndog Pleasance Courtyard, 20–24 Aug, £14–£15

John Hastings: 10 John Hastings I Hate About You Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5

Jayde Adams: The Ballad of Kylie Jenner’s Old Face Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £12.50–£13.50

Jon Long: Planet-Killing Machine HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Tom Walker: Very Very Assembly Roxy, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11

Better Than Dying Alone Sweet Grassmarket, 20–24 Aug, £7

Vote Dr Phil? theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–24 Aug, £12

Johnny White Really-Really: Unending Torment!

Heroes @ Black Medicine, 20–25 Aug, £5

The Death Hilarious: Razer Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

21:35 Falling with Style Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Big Value Comedy Show – Late

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £5–£10

2019 Greek Comedian of the Year: George Zacharopoulos PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 20–25 Aug, FREE

21:40 ❤ Courtney Pauroso: Gutterplum HHHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12

Daniel and Ralph Won’t Talk About Brexit Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20–26 Aug, FREE

The Brand-New, Full-Throated Adventures of Reginald D Hunter Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £15.50–£17.50

Goodbear: Dougal Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£13

21:45 Nick Helm’s I Think, You Stink!

Assembly Roxy, 20–24 Aug, £12–£14

Sad Acts Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 23–24 Aug, FREE

Ed Night: Jokes of Love and Hate Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£12

Ben Clover – Smell The Magic, Daddy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Jordan Wistuba and Liam Farrelly: The Student and the Shoplifter

Ray Badran: Everybody Loves Ray, Man Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £7–£9

21:50 The Stevenson Experience: Takes One to Know One Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

Totally Plucked Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

Dan AG: Sloth Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5

Evan Desmarais: Pizza and Ice Cream Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

21:55 Radical Honesty Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Ben Verth: Sh*tegeist Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5

Frank Foucault: Desk Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £8

22:00 Comedy Striptease Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 21–25 Aug, FREE

This Is Your Trial Frankenstein Pub, 20–26 Aug, £7

Simone Belshaw: Goblin and Fiends

The Octopus’ Armpit and Other Songs I Stole from Parallel Universes Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8

The Nasty Show Australia Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Madame Komondor Will See You Now Sweet Grassmarket, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £7

The Haunted History Bus Waverley Bridge (Bus Stop WA), 21–31 Aug, not 27, £12

I’m OKayfabe

Howl Comedy Club Free Showcase PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE

Grant Busé: Touché Busé Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Funny for a Girl The Stand Comedy Club, 20–25 Aug, £12

Marcel Lucont: No. Dix Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £11–£14

Shit-Faced Showtime: Alice Through the Cocktail Glass Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £11.50–£13.50

Jimeoin: Ramble On...

Some More!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£12

Pleasance at EICC, 23–24 Aug, £17.50–£18.50

Bumble Me Tinders – Dating Horror Stories

Potential: A Canadian Comedy Showcase

Comedy Shorts

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

Absolute Monster

HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

22:05 The Shambles

Heroes @ Dragonfly, 20–25 Aug, £5

theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £6.50

Amused Moose Comedy Award: Grand Final

Cülture Elité

Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–22 Aug, £14

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Heavenly Comedy Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–23 Aug, FREE

Scot Roast Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–26 Aug, £5

The Stand Comedy Club 2, 20–25 Aug, £10

22:10 Free Footlights Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

General Loledge: The Best Pub Quiz on the Fringe

Hell To Play: Dante Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me

Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–25 Aug, £6

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 20–25 Aug, FREE

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, 20–25 Aug, £5

Mr Thing Pleasance Dome, 21–25 Aug, £10

22:25 The Stand’s Pick of the Fringe The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £10

Omar Ibrahim: Awokening Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

A Gay and a NonGay Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Hunt & Murphy: Beg Borrow and Bitch Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6

The Best of Northern The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–22 Aug, £10

Bad Boys Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

JJ Whitehead: Five Times I Lied to Myself Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£12

Hate ‘n’ Live Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Circus Sonas Presents: DTCB The Prison Years Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

❤ Alfie Brown: Imagination HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £7–£10

Aaaaaaaaand Now! The Ed Factor: An Edinburgh Gong Show

David Correos: Better Than I Was the Last Time H

22:30

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£14

Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Roast Battle Edinburgh

Comedy Night at the Museum

An Audience with Yasmine Day

❤ Dreamgun: Film Reads HHHH

❤ Ciarán Dowd: Padre Rodolfo HHHH

❤ Alice Snedden:

Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guide to...

Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Holly Morgan: Is a Witch.

Get Her!

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 25 Aug, £14

Stephen Carlin: Post Rational Carlin

AC/DC: Australian Comedians / Dope Comedy

Bristol Revunions: Roadtrip

Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 20–25 Aug, £5

Jayne Edwards Is Top Bodybuilder Brian

22:15

Chubby White’s Variety Night

Heroes @ The Hive, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £5

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £5

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–25 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Mark Dean Quinn Knits: A Comedy Show

Matt Forde: Brexit, Pursued by a Bear

Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Joe Sutherland: Sour

Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

I Went to Barcelona and All I Got Was This Lousy Comedy Show

Anything F*cking Goes...

Underbelly, Cowgate, 24–25 Aug, £11

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £8

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6

Best of Musical Comedy Awards

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Russian Roulette Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Spa Day

Andrew Doyle: Exodus

Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 24 Aug, £12.50

Pleasance Courtyard, 21–25 Aug, £9–£9.50

Imaginary Porno Charades

Whose Mind is it Anyway?

Sweet Grassmarket, 20–24 Aug, £8

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £11–£12

Daz Black Live

The Oxford Revue: Switcheroo

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22 Aug, £15

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Georgia Tasda’s School Of Magic

Andrew Silverwood: Call Me Janice

PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

MOTHER Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Princess Party Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Fright Bus Service

The Antique Jokes Show

Necrobus, 20–25 Aug, £13

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6.50

Jerry Sadowitz: Comedian, Magician, Psychopath 2019

22:20 Stay Loyal to the Royals theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £10

Séayoncé Déjà Voodoo Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Danny O’Brien: Reformer Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £17.50

Never Heard of It Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Jimmy Slim and Lewis Blomfield: Scratch and Sniff Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 20–25 Aug, £5

❤ Jessica Fostekew: Hench HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 21 Aug, £8

Assembly Rooms, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

The Best of Red Raw The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 23–24 Aug, £5

Thrones! The Musical Parody Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £15–£16

Laser Kiwi Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–25 Aug, £13–£15

22:35 Lulu Popplewell: The Humble Bumhole Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Medium Rare Improv theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £6

Coconut The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £12

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Rachel Fairburn: The People’s Princess

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Liza Treyger: In the Weeds Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

22:40 After Hours Mirth Meltdown Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Sleeping Trees: Christmas Special... in August Assembly George Square Studios, 24 Aug, £15

Pamela’s Palace Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

The Lost Musical Works of Willy Shakes Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £11–£12.50

2 Girls, 1 Cup... of Comedy Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Ange Lavoipierre: Final Form Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

Found Footage Festival: Volume 9 Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–24 Aug, £10–£11

Two Little Dickheads: Kapow!

Divet Show: The Greatest Divas

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £12.50–£15

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £12–£13

❤ Catherine Cohen: The Twist...? She’s Gorgeous HHHH

Matt Forde: Brexit, Pursued by a Bear

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £12–£13

Francis Boulle and Friends

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £12

Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £9–£12

Joe McTernan: What’s Up with My Head?

Murder She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–26 Aug, £5

AAA Stand-Up Late at Gilded Balloon Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

Snog Marry Avoid Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–25 Aug, FREE

22:50

Serena Flynn: Baubo Goddess of Filth Heroes @ Black Medicine, 20–25 Aug, £5

Shaggers Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Jamie Loftus: Boss, Whom is Girl Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Aaron Chen: Piss Off (Just Kidding) HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Fright Bus Service Necrobus, 23–24 Aug, £13

Mark Watson: I Appreciate You Coming to This and Let’s Hope for the Best (Work in Progress) The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £12

Revenge of the New World Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Grant Gallacher: Making Europe Grant’s Again Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 21–26 Aug, £5

Luka Muller’s Gong Show

The Noise Next Door’s Comedy Lock-In Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14

Misspelled Youth

Biscuit Barrel: Double Stuffed theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8

Questing Time

22:45

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 25–26 Aug, £12.50

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Kevin McGahern: Taking Off

Becky Fury’s One Hour to Save the World (in 55 Minutes)

Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24 Aug, £14

Josie Long: Tender

Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

Comedy

Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Macbeth

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5

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Zach Zimmerman: Clean Comedy HHH

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

Peter Buckley Hill and Some Comedians XX PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE

Hot Gays: Martin Dixon and Gareth Edward PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Gerry Carroll – Crock or Gold Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

1 Chick, 2 Dicks: 3 Americans Get Too Personal Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, FREE

22:55 Niteskreen Sweet Grassmarket, 21–25 Aug, £7

23:00 Tim Key Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8.50–£11.50

AAA Stand-Up Late Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9–£12

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang Pleasance Courtyard, 24–25 Aug, £13

Julia Rorke: Jeneane’s Kinky Room of Astrology and Ciggies HH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–24 Aug, £10–£11

Inside the Comedian Pleasance Dome, 20–23 Aug, £9

Colt Cabana and John Hastings Do Comedy and Commentary to Bad Wrestling Matches Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £7

Spontaneous Sherlock Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 25–26 Aug, £11

❤ Diane Chorley: Down the Flick HHHH Assembly George Square Studios, 23–25 Aug, £15

Snort HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

23:10 The Big Show: Fringe Showcase!

23:15

23:30 Amusical Pleasance Courtyard, 21–22 Aug, £15

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5

A Night of Wikipedilove

Rhys Nicholson – Nice People Nice Things Nice Situations

Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–24 Aug, £12.50

WiFi Wars’ Video Game Takeover!

Late Night Comedy Death Camp

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £10–£14

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

BBC: British-Born Chinese HH

Stout, Pale and Bitter

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Claptrap

FOC It Up: The Femmes of Colour Comedy Club

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10

NewsRevue

Escaping Trump’s America Frankenstein Pub, 20–26 Aug, FREE

Gabe Mollica: The Whole Thing Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5

Cosmic Comedy Berlin Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Fern Brady: Power and Chaos Pleasance Courtyard, 22–23 Aug, £10

Southampton Stand-Up Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–25 Aug, FREE

The Paddock Pleasance Dome, 23–24 Aug, £10

Mark Watson: The Infinite Show Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24 Aug, £16

23:20 ❤ Leo Mohr: When I Was Zorro HHHH

Heroes @ Dragonfly, 20–25 Aug, £5

Valentine Boys: Because the Rent is Due

Underbelly, George Square, 21–22 Aug, £15.50

Edinburgh Comedy Allstars Underbelly, George Square, 22–24 Aug, £12.50–£15

John-Luke Roberts: Terrible Wonderful Adaptations Assembly George Square Studios, 23–24 Aug, £12

Gavin Webster’s Comedy Results Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–25 Aug, £5

Santiago Sucks a Beautiful Woman’s Cock (and Other #1 Hits) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Political Animal

Jay Handley – White Jesus 2: Resurrection PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE

The Stand Late Club The Stand Comedy Club, 23–24 Aug, £15

Can You Throw This in the Bin for Me? Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–22 Aug, FREE

Jay Light: Fake It Til You Make It Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Sameer Katz: Amphibious Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

23:55 Zach & Viggo: Thunderflop Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–24 Aug, £10

Stamptown Comedy Night Underbelly, Cowgate, 22–23 Aug, £10

Fright Bus Service Necrobus, 23–24 Aug, £13

Spank!

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £15.50–£16.50

The Spencer Jones 50 Minute Disco Experiment Monkey Barrel Comedy, 21–25 Aug, £5

Best of the Fest Assembly Hall, 22–25 Aug, £14–£16

110% John Kearns and Pat Cahill Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–21 Aug, £5

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 22–25 Aug, £5

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–24 Aug, FREE

23:35 The Russian Comedy Experience Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £6

HHH

Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5

Andrew Sim’s Midnight Showcase

23:40

23:25

Lydia Hirst: I’ll Be Your Dog

Comedy Queers

Conversation Garden on Love Island (A Decide Your Own Misadventure)

Dylan Dodds and Friends (Friends Not Included)

23:45

The Stand Comedy Club, 20–22 Aug, £12

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £6

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–21 Aug, £9

Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Donald Alexander: The Great

Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5

Anxiety Club

3 Rule-Abiding Rebels

Sam Nicoresti: UFO Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 20–25 Aug, £5

Basil Brush: Unleashed Underbelly, Bristo Square, 24–25 Aug, £13

Adam Rowe: Pinnacle Just the Tonic at The Tron, 23–24 Aug, £5

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! It’s the Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show – And It’s Free!

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–24 Aug, FREE

Listings

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Buzz

Cherie – My Struggle

Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £12

Shakespeare for Breakfast

Imagination Workshop, 20–25 Aug, £10

Arthur HHH

Traverse Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £12

C venues – C viva, 20–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Your Home, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £100

09:50

10:10

Chatroom

Where to Belong

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £7

Hustlers

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £9

The Importance of Being Earnest

theSpaceTriplex, 20–24 Aug, £7.50

theSpace @ Venue45, 20–22 Aug, £8

Rattigan’s Nijinsky

Skylight

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £7.50–£10

theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £8

09:55

10:15

Gilgamesh – He Who Saw Everything

❤ Bryony Kimmings:

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

HHHH

10:00

I’m a Phoenix, Bitch

Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24 Aug, £17

Man Number Five

❤ Trying It On HHHH

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £8

Dark Play or Stories for Boys

Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12.50

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £22

Happy Hour HH

theSpace on the Mile, 20–21 Aug, £6

The Place You Once Forgot

❤ Frankenstein: How

Sweet Novotel, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

to Make a Monster

HHHHH

Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £22

❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £22

❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22

Umbrella Man Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £10–£12

How Not to Drown

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £22

10:20 The Yellow Wallpaper theSpaceTriplex, 20–23 Aug, £7

10:25 Status Assembly George Square, 20–24 Aug, £12–£13

10:30 Choose Life, Choose Leith: Trainspotting on Location Custom House, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £10

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £13.50–£14

The Place You Once Forgot Sweet Novotel, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

The Lament of Dorothy Wordsworth Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £7

Heroin(e) for Breakfast Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

10:40 The Wasp

11:00 The Believers Are but Brothers

The Shark is Broken

White Girls

Assembly George Square Studios, 21–25 Aug, £13–£15

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £8–£9

Shadow of the Rose

Steve Richards Presents Rock’n’Roll Politics 2019

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 22–26 Aug, £11.50

Mouthpiece

11:05

Tales from the Garden

Never None (but She)

Assembly Rooms, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10.50

theSpaceTriplex, 20–24 Aug, £10

Guys, Dolls and Pies

Baby, What Blessings

10:50 Audacious Mr Astley Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£12

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £9

A Shadow of Doubt Paradise in The Vault, 20–24 Aug, £8

11:30 Burns for Brunch Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10

Harvey Greenfield Is Running Late Sweet Grassmarket, 20–24 Aug, £7

theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8

I’ll Tell You This for Nothing

The Cat’s the Thing

Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7 Traverse Theatre, 23–24 Aug, £21

Assembly Rooms, 25 Aug, £17.50

❤ Are we not drawn onward to new erA – Ontroerend Goed

HHHH

Zoo Southside, 20–25 Aug, £14

The Place You Once Forgot Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £10

❤ Until the Flood HHHH

10:55

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11

The Life of Reilly

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The Zed Word

Ladybones

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre

❤

Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

Post-Mortem HHH

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

11:25 Comrade Egg and the Chicken of Tomorrow

Assembly George Square Studios, 20 Aug, £13

Eddie Izzard: Expectations of Great Expectations (WIP)

Sweet Novotel, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 20–24 Aug, £12.50

Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21

10:45

The Place You Once Forgot

West of Frances theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £9

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £12

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £8–£9

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–24 Aug, £11–£12

Enough

A Midsummer Night’s DROLL

Great Grimm Tales

Burgerz HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £21

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £21

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 24 Aug, £15

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

Fear Here and Terror There

❤ Cardboard Citizens: Bystanders HHHH

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12

theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £6

Back of the Head with a Brick

11:10

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

She Shall Not Be Moved

Hyde and Seek

theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £10

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

11:15 The Place You Once Forgot Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £10

11:20 On the Other Hand, We’re Happy Roundabout @ Summerhall, 22 Aug, £15

Daughterhood Roundabout @ Summerhall, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £15–£17

You’re Safe ‘Til 2024 Pleasance Courtyard, 20–23 Aug, £10

Holy Sh*t theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12

How to Save a Rock Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 20–23 Aug, £8–£10

Fox HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11

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09:00 Breakfast Plays: The Future Is [...]

I Am

Ivory Wings

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £10

Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10–£11

The Place You Once Forgot

Nearly Human

Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £10

Jehovah’s First Witness

11:55

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £10

The Mariner’s Song

Dalloway Assembly Roxy, 21–26 Aug, £12–£13

A Game of Death and Chance

Being Norwegian by David Greig Venue 13, 20–24 Aug, £10

Sinatra: Raw Gilded Balloon at the Museum, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £12.50–£13.50

Myra’s Story Assembly Rooms, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £12–£14

Fires Our Shoes Have Made HHH

M.E.H

Shaving the Dead

Algorithms

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £13–£15

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£11

The Anxiety Experiment

Dickens for Dinner

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10

C venues – C viva, 20–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

❤ Bobby & Amy HHHH

Madame Ovary

The Pat Hobby Stories

Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £8–£12

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

A Game of Death and Chance

Piracy! A Comedy on the High Cs

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre

Gladstone’s Land, 24 Aug, £15

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £10

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7

Get Her Outta Here by Isabella Broccolini

12:15

Gladstone’s Land, 24 Aug, £15

12:00

The End

Adam Smith: The Invisible Hand

Taiwan Season: Fish

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £14

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

Panmure House, 24–25 Aug, £12

The Fishermen

In Conversation with...

Patrick Harvie

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–24 Aug, £12–£14

Illegal

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £12.50

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Evaluation

In Conversation with...

Elaine C Smith

Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 21–26 Aug, £5

Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–25 Aug, £12

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £12.50

A Mother

#HonestAmy

Birth

Shadows ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £10

Krapp’s Last Tape The Royal Scots Club, 20–24 Aug, £10

11:35 Love (Watching Madness) HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £7.50–£10

Red Herring ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £10

The Village Fate theSpace @ Venue45, 20–24 Aug, £7

11:40 One Starts in a Barber’s.

One Starts in a Bar. Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £9

Trump Lear Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

The Empathy Experiment PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Shrew theSpaceTriplex, 20–24 Aug, £8–£10

11:45 Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7

A Beautiful Way to Be Crazy Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Theatre

Paradise in Augustines, 20–24 Aug, £10

Bedlam Theatre, 21–25 Aug, £11

C venues – C aquila, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £11

The Place You Once Forgot

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Dr Korczak’s Example

Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14

In Conversation with...

Barbara Dickson

Ian McKellen On Stage

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £12.50

Haggis, Neeps and Burns Hill Street Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £12

Agent November Escape Game: Major X Ploe-Shun The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15

Written With Crayons PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 22–26 Aug, £9.50

In Conversation with...

Ian Rankin

Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £9–£11

Mengele Assembly George Square, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10–£12

Normaler Than Everyone Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11

Lucrece theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £10

Testament of Yootha Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

My Mother’s Shoes Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Me and My Doll

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £8

Panmure House, 22–25 Aug, £12

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £7–£9

Dangerous Adventures Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 22–25 Aug, FREE

Lobster Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

The Place You Once Forgot

Lauren Booth: Accidentally Muslim

Frog’s Legs

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Best Girl

Marrow theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10–£12

Wild Swimming HHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12

Sea Sick CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £11

My Darling Clemmie Assembly Rooms, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

12:35 Blighty, Broadway and Beyond! – The Private Lives of Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £10

Sad Eyes to Smile With Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £8

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Fix Us Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

12:25 Bull theSpace on the Mile, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50

Parasites

Wireless Operator Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11.50

Rust HHH

Assembly Roxy, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

Cicada 3301 Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

12:45

12:30

A Play, A Pie and A Pint

12:10

My Love Lies Frozen in the Ice

Medea Speaks

Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

Gladstone’s Land, 24 Aug, £15

dressed.

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £15

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £8

Nazis Need Jews PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

F. Off Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12

The Claim Roundabout @ Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £14–£15

12:55

Pearls

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £8

Assembly George Square, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10–£12

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £9

12:50 Eventide

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £7

Judas

A Game of Death and Chance

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

40 Shades of Green Tour

Cream Tea and Incest

Avalanche

SOLD

12:40

theSpace on the Mile, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9.50

theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8

Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12

Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–24 Aug, £9

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £10–£12

COMPOST

❤ A Table Tennis Play HHHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

Wingmen

Dominic Frisby Presents Adam Smith: Father of the Fringe

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

Eleanor’s Story: Home is the Stranger

12:20

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–21 Aug, £11.50

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–25 Aug, £11.50

Will, or Eight Lost Years of William Shakespeare’s Life

You’re in a Bad Way by John Osborne

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The Perfect Body

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

11:50

ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11

12:05 Sleeping Giant

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £7

Cyst-er Act

Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £10

Psycho Drama Queen

Assembly Hall, 22–25 Aug, £40

Cotton Fingers

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £12.50

Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £10

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

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Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £9–£12

The Female Role Model Project

A Talking Therapist’s Blues Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £8.50–£9.50 McSorley’s Irish Bar, 20–23 Aug, £12.50

Landscape (1989)

HHH

The Man From Verona Paradise in The Vault, 20–21 Aug, £5

LUVU2

theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £8

The Ship Sank. Where on Deck, Did My Captain Lie? ZOO Playground, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£12

13:00 The Accident Did Not Take Place HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10–£13

Madame George by Keir McAllister HHH

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £11–£12

❤ Trying It On HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £22

ZOO Playground, 21–25 Aug, £10

❤ Vigil HHHH

R’n’J: The Untold Story of Shakespeare’s Roz and Jules

Fishbowl HHH

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £8–£9

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10 Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £14–£17.50

69 A Game of Death and Chance

Daisy MacDade: Sugarbaby

The Lyceum, 20 Aug, £20

Gladstone’s Land, 24 Aug, £15

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8–£10

Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Paul Feig

Bear Pit

Romeo and Juliet by Curious Pheasant Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £12–£13

A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 24–25 Aug, £24

❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

13:05 Special Measures theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £10

Pleasance at EICC, 23 Aug, £17.50

Chain of Trivia

Unicorns, Almost

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £10

One Good Beating theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8

It’s True, It’s True, It’s True

13:10

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12

Beach Body Ready

❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22

❤ Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8–£10

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7

In Loyal Company

HHHHH

Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12.50

Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £22

After You

❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £22

Agent November Escape Game: Major X Ploe-Shun The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15

Friendsical: A Parody Musical About Friends

Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10–£11

❤ Orlando HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11

Alan Ayckbourn Double Bill theSpaceTriplex, 20–24 Aug, £12

HH

13:15

❤ Ripped HHHH

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: The Earth Untold

Assembly Rooms, 20–25 Aug, £16–£17.50 Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

MUSE: An Experiment in Storytelling and Life Drawing The Safari Lounge, 20 Aug, £10

Knock Knock Assembly Roxy, 20–26 Aug, £12–£14

Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £9

Holy Land C venues – C aquila, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

How Not to Drown

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £22

Come Out from Among Them Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25 Aug, £10

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, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 21–26 Aug, £5

Before the End HHH

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

Paradise Lodge Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

(I)sland T(rap): The Epic Remixology of the Odyssey Assembly Checkpoint, 20–26 Aug, £12–£14

Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £11.50

❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

She Sells Sea Shells Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £7

Sexy Lamp

Catching Comets

The Things I Never Told You

❤ Collapsible HHHH

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £14

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11

Walk the Oars

The Presented

Assembly Roxy, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

Phoenix Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £11–£13

Have I Told You I’m Writing a Play About My Vagina?

Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £11

Piano_Play Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

Prefer Not To Say Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

Walls and Bridges

HHH

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £10

Quintessence Sweet Novotel, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10

13:25

Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–25 Aug, £10

Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Of Mice and Men

Enough

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21

Thinking Outside the (Penalty) Box

A Very British Lesbian

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £9

❤ Burgerz HHHH Traverse Theatre, 23–24 Aug, £21

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £9

Long Live the Cat Ladies?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £9

Before the Wall Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20–26 Aug, £12–£13 Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

Not Quite

Lucille and Cecilia HH

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £8–£9

Brendan Galileo for Europe

theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £10

13:30

The Biggest Problem in the World: Our Problem With Problems (and Why Truth Matters)

Daffodils

The Fawlty Towers Dining Room at the Hilton Edinburgh Carlton Hotel, 20–26 Aug, £45–£62.50

Sweet Grassmarket, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8

Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11

The Royal Scots Club, 20–24 Aug, £7

GEORGE

Mouthpiece Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £21

Jew...ish Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Ice Ice Iceland

Yolk: A Tale of Life, Told By an Idiot

How to Save a Life

Noir Hamlet

Quaker Meeting House, 20–23 Aug, £5

Obesity Bankrupted Our NHS!

Assembly George Square, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £13–£15

Romeo & Juliet

Scotlandsfest

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £9

Pals

Assembly Rooms, 21–24 Aug, £10–£11

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Fake News Kills World!

Fawlty Towers Live Themed Dinner Show

Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £21

14:00 I’m Just Kidneying

For All I Care

Zoo Southside, 20–26 Aug, £10

❤ Until the Flood HHHH

13:45 Medea Electronica

Pleasance Courtyard, 20 Aug, £9

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £14

Festival Theatre, 24 Aug, £25

Venue 13, 20–24 Aug, £12

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £10

❤ Boar HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

MOOT MOOT HHH

Too Pretty to Punch

Fight Song

Mourning Overnight

Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8–£10.50

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12

A Man’s a Man

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

C venues – C cubed, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

I Run

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £12

13:20

Assembly George Square, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £13–£15

Letter to Boddah

13:40 The Grand Scheme of Things

Mythos: Gods

Don’t You Smile at Me!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Hughie

I, AmDram Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £7–£9

Wet C venues – C viva, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Agent November Escape Game: Major X Ploe-Shun The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15

@SimCos3000 Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £7

Einstein Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

Horror – Gothic Tales and Dark Poetry

13:50

Faulty Towers the Dining Experience Imagination Workshop, 20–26 Aug, £52

Ben Hur

Pronoun

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £8

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

The 27 Club

The Butcher, the Brewer, the Baker... and the Commentator

theSpace on the Mile, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9.50

IvankaPlay Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

13:55 Chalk (A Silent Comedy) Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £11

Sense and Sensibility theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £8

Don’t Believe Your Ears!

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £9

This Thing in Here

13:35

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

Assembly Rooms, 21–25 Aug, £12–£14

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre

ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £10

❤ Coma HHHH

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £9

Smoke

Assembly Rooms, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £13.50

Watching Glory Die

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £8

Art Heist HHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12

Listings

Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£11

Panmure House, 20–25 Aug, £12

Churn Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £10

If This Is Normal

HHH

ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £10

Arthur Conan Doyle – The Spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £8

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

Eddie Izzard: Expectations of Great Expectations (WIP) Assembly George Square Studios, 21–25 Aug, £17.50

fest-mag.com

The Rebirth of Meadow Rain

Leave a Message HH

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

B’Witches PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE

The Last Five Years PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £11

It’ll Be Alt-Right on the Night

The Screwtape Letters Palmerston Place Church, 24 Aug, £11

Taboo

Goodbye Charles – Free Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

14:30 Mémoires d’un Amnésique (The Life and Music of Erik Satie)

Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £10

St Cuthbert’s Church, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

Daughterhood

Toby Belch (Is Unwell)

The HandleBards: Much Ado About Nothing Assembly George Square Gardens, 21–25 Aug, £15

MARA

Frankie Foxstone AKA The Profit: Walking Tour

HHH

Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10

Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

The Land of My Fathers and Mothers and Some Other People

Citizens of Nowhere?

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £16

Alaska Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

Blood and Gold

35,000 C venues – C south, 20–25 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

St Patrick’s Church, 24–25 Aug, £7

15:00

Full Consent to Speak on My Behalf

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

Mythos: Heroes

Power of Music 3

Inka

St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 23 Aug, £8

Zoo Southside, 20–26 Aug, £10

Bi-Cycle

Spliced HHH

Traverse at Edinburgh Sports Club, 20–25 Aug, £21

More Myself Than I Am

Loving the Enemy

14:10

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £12

Gladstone’s Land, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

Dream of a King HH

The Happiness Project

Power of Music 2

Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 23–25 Aug, £10

St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 21 Aug, £8

Tumours

Before 30

Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10–£12

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

Van Gogh Find Yourself #vgfy PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 20–24 Aug, FREE

My Mate Dave Died C venues – C aquila, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Narukami Thunder God theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £12

Shiver theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8.50

14:15 Broken Funnies Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 21–26 Aug, £5

Chaika: First Woman in Space HHH theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £10

Bomb Happy D-Day 75 Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 20–22 Aug, £11

Charles Quarterman: An Afternoon with Charles Quarterman for One Hour Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 20–23 Aug, £5

theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8 Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

A Game of Death and Chance

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £11–£15

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

Zoo Southside, 20–25 Aug, £14

Mallets

Late Lunch with Biggins

Fake News

Black Holes

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £8

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Macbeth

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £11.50

Moon Walk

HHH

Jonny Donahoe: Forgiveness (Work-inProgress)

Assembly Roxy, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

theSpaceTriplex, 20–24 Aug, £9

Two of a Kind

Festival Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £25

Ane City

theSpace on the Mile, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50

A Voice C venues – C cubed, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Like Me Sweet Grassmarket, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8

What Girls Are Made Of Assembly Hall, 20–25 Aug, £19.50

Deer Woman HHH

CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 20–24 Aug, £11

Beat

Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

14:45 Thunderstruck Assembly Checkpoint, 20–26 Aug, £12–£14

beep boop HHH

Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–24 Aug, £10

Julius ‘Call Me Caesar’ Caesar HHH

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £13.50–£14.50

Vessel Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £15

Agent November Escape Game: Robyn Yew The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15

Anything With a Pulse ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £10

❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

Jumping the Barriers Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Jekyll and Hyde

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Ideology and Hair Gel

Zombie Zoo

Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £12

Hill Street Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £12

A Partnership HHH

The De Nova Super

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Assembly George Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

Ex-Batts and Broilers

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £7

The Wrong Ffion Jones Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

A Holy Show Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

Myra Imagination Workshop, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

15:05 The South Afreakins: The Afreakin Family theSpace on the Mile, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9

Twelfth Night theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £5

Yerloo Underground Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £10

Come Dine with Mr Shakespeare theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £8–£9

The South Afreakins theSpace on the Mile, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9

15:10 A Wake in Progress

Curveball

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10–£12

Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25 Aug, £7

Endless Second

Westminster Hour

Wrestling Mania!

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8–£10.50

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Echoes of Villers-Bretonneux

Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £10

❤ Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein HHHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £13.50–£15.50

Shattered Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11

14:25

14:50

We Want You to Watch

These Streets

theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £10

Paradise in The Vault, 20–21 Aug, £10

Give Me One Moment In Time by Doug Crossley

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Sales Pitch

Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–26 Aug, £12–£13

Happily Never After

Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£13.50

Monsoon Season

The Heresy Machine

14:40

14:05

Level Up

I Lost My Virginity to Chopin’s Nocturne in B-Flat Minor

Assembly Roxy, 20–26 Aug, £12–£14

Church Hill Theatre, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £25

When the Birds Come

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–22 Aug, £12

14:55

Spray HHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Drowning HH

Passengers

Heroes @ The Hive, 20–25 Aug, £5

❤ Roots HHHH

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

Jottings from the Queen of Sheba

14:20

The Gray Cat and the Flounder

Do Our Best HHH

Detour: A Show About Changing Your Mind

theSpaceTriplex, 20–24 Aug, £12

Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20–26 Aug, £12

The Mackerel Eaters

Gilded Balloon at the Museum, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £12–£13

Venue 13, 20–24 Aug, £12

Alan Ayckbourn’s No Knowing

Little Rabbit

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£11

The National Trust Fan Club

Pleasance Dome, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£12

Quaker Meeting House, 20–24 Aug, £9

Like Animals HHH

Bedlam Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £8

HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Just a Number

Murder on the Dancefloor

A Womb of One’s Own

Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–24 Aug, £9

Sweet Grassmarket, 22–25 Aug, £10

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12

14:35 Here Comes the Tide, There Goes the Girl

C venues – C aquila, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Roundabout @ Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £15–£17

She Can’t Half Talk

Theatre

Roundabout @ Summerhall, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £15–£17

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £9

70

On the Other Hand, We’re Happy

Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12

300 to 1 PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation

HHH

The Studio, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £20

Anguis HHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £12–£13

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £7

The Dandelion Patch theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £7

All of Me HHH

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £15

15:15 Naughty Boy Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Listings

71

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Ricky Riddlegang and the Riddle Gang Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

FATTY FAT FAT Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8–£10

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7

The Sensemaker ZOO Playground, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£12

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

The Professor Assembly Rooms, 20–25 Aug, £11–£13

Encyclopedia of Kitchen Comedy Essays by Larry Tadlock PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Hatch HHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

15:25 Tea?...(With Milk)

Cauliflower PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE

Arrivals theSpace on the Mile, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50 Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

A Game of Death and Chance

15:35

Gladstone’s Land, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

Will Gompertz: Double Art History – The Sequel

The Wind in the Willows

Leverage

A War of Two Halves

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £10

15:40 The Struggling Life of an Artist

The Burning

Tynecastle Park, 20–26 Aug, £24

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £11–£13

Supernatural: Wonder Tales from Scotland

Blodeuwedd Untold Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10

Nights at the Circus

A Complicated Man

ZOO Playground, 20–24 Aug, £10

Bedlam Theatre, 20 Aug, £10

❤ Coma HHHH

Definitely Louise

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £8–£9

Regeneration Game Workshop

The Glass Elephant

Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 21 Aug, £5

HHH 15:20

Woman! Pilot! Pirate?

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

The War of the Worlds Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £13–£15

In Her Corner theSpace on the Mile, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9.50

Leopold Vindictive theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £10

The Royal Scots Club, 20–21 Aug, £8.50

Pink House PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £12

Scotlandsfest Quaker Meeting House, 20–23 Aug, £5

Barry

C venues – C aquila, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Chic Murray: A Funny Place for a Window The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15

Bomb Happy D-Day 75 Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 23–25 Aug, £11

Fulfilment HH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

15:45 Since U Been Gone

HHH

Bedlam Theatre, 21–25 Aug, £10

Assembly Roxy, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10–£12

All Work, No Play

How to Be Brave

Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £8

Roundabout @ Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £14–£15

With Child

Mouthpiece

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11

❤ Pink Lemonade HHHH

SWIM

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £14–£16

15:30

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £15–£16.50

Assembly Roxy, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10–£12

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £10 theSpace @ Venue45, 20–24 Aug, £8

If You’re Feeling Sinister: A Play with Songs HH

Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £21

❤ Until the Flood HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £21

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £21

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Shellshock!

Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 21–26 Aug, £5

A Fear and Loathing Actor in Dublin

Agent November Escape Game: Robyn Yew The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15

❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

Citizens of Nowhere?

Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £16

(Ab)solution H

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £10

Woke

Venue 13, 20–24 Aug, £12

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £13–£14

The Man Who Planted Trees

Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True

Well That’s Oz

Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20–26 Aug, £13

❤ Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster HHHHH

Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22

Black Is the Color of My Voice Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £13–£14

❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £22

C venues – C cubed, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH

15:50

❤ The Red HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £22

The Lyceum, 24–25 Aug, £20

16:05 Scottee: Class HHH

Assembly Roxy, 21–25 Aug, £12–£14

The Ballad of Mulan Assembly Rooms, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £10–£12

Teach theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

Voice of Authority theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £10

Moby Dick Assembly Rooms, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10–£12

Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £11–£13

Give Me Your Love

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £12–£14

Claire Dowie’s When I Fall If I Fall

To Move In Time

Bible John HH

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

The Feminazis

How Not to Drown

theSpaceTriplex, 20–24 Aug, £8

Modern Maori Quartet: Two Worlds

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

15:55

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £22

Summerhall, 25 Aug, £10 Summerhall, 20–24 Aug, £10

16:10

A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego

Julius Caesar

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7

Pleasance Dome, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£12

Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–24 Aug, £10

E8 HHH

16:00

Resurrecting Bobby Awl

Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £10–£13

Adam Smith: The Invisible Hand

A Game of Death and Chance

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre

Panmure House, 20–25 Aug, £12

❤ Trying It On HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £22

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £15

Gladstone’s Land, 24 Aug, £15

Miijin Ki Summerhall, 20–24 Aug, £10

The Try-Hards Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £7

Mary’s Room theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £8

fest-mag.com

Freeing the Edinburgh Fringe: Book Reading

Confirmation

ZOO Playground, 20–25 Aug, £10

Chagos 1971

❤ Coma HHHH

ZOO Playground, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

PAMALA

French Institute, 20–24 Aug, £12

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £7

Ticker HH

Gone Full Havisham Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

The Incident Room

Such Filthy F*cks

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £12.50–£14.50

16:15 First Time Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £14.50

Enough Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £21

Mirror Canon theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £5

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

Westminster Hour Part 2 Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £10

Inflatable Space HH

Assembly Roxy, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £12–£14

The Nights by Henry Naylor HHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £13–£14

Apollo: Take 111 HH

Zoo Southside, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10

16:20 Bleeding Black HHH Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £10

16:25 Want Some More theSpace on the Mile, 20–21 Aug, £10

Lorca: A Theatre Beneath the Sand HH theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £12

Theatre

Northanger Abbey

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12 Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11

72

Honey HH

Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £9–£12

HHH

8:8 HHH

Summerhall, 24–25 Aug, £8

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 24 Aug, £15

Boswell PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 21–24 Aug, £11.50

❤ Typical HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21

Yellow ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £10

❤ Cat Hepburn: #GIRLHOOD HHHH

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £8–£9

Mighty Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11

❤ CONSPIRACY HHHH

The National and ELT Short Play Winners Hill Street Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £12

subsist Sweet Grassmarket, 21–25 Aug, £9

A Payment Unkind Sweet Grassmarket, 20–22 Aug, £10

16:35 Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7

16:40 Fags, Mags and Bags Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £13.50–£15.50

The Last of the Pelican Daughters HH

Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £7

Synesthesia the Musical

Polaris

Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 20–25 Aug, FREE

16:50 Number, Please.

Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £7

Shit HHH

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

Darren McGarvey AKA Loki: Scotland Today The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £12

16:55 Standard:Elite Bedlam Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £11

Dorian Gray theSpace on the Mile, 20–23 Aug, £5

17:00 Confetti and Chaos (Formerly The Wedding Reception) Imagination Workshop, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £45–£47.50

That Bastard Brecht

Fragility of Man

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12.50

Tartuffe Assembly Rooms, 21–25 Aug, £14–£15

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £8

Mr Nice Guy theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £6

8:8 HHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Scotlandsfest

Franz and Marie: Woyzeck Retold

Summerhall, 24–25 Aug, £8

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

My Best Dead Friend

High Trees

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12

Keith Moon: The Real Me

My Mum’s a Twat

Paradise in Augustines, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £15

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Daphne, or Hellfire

Order from Chaos

17:05

Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 21–26 Aug, £5

The Letter HHH

Freak Show

If I Die on Mars theSpace @ Venue45, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

Parakeet Roundabout @ Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £14–£15

[BLANK] by Alice Birch and NYTP theSpaceTriplex, 20–24 Aug, £8

At This Stage theSpace @ Venue45, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £8

Four Woke Baes Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Genesis: The Mary Shelley Play C venues – C cubed, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–24 Aug, £8

A Game of Death and Chance

17:20

Gladstone’s Land, 24 Aug, £15

Electrolyte

The Golden Fly

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £13–£14.50

Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–25 Aug, £10

I Can Make You Fail Slightly Less

17:35

ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £10

There Is No Problem (Here)

Hallowed Ground – Women Doctors in War

theSpace on North Bridge, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

Hello? Hello.

Arlecchino Torn in Three

The Long Road

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £10

Silence in Court

C venues – C south, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Suffering from Scottishness

Sary

Assembly Roxy, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12

Gun Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10–£11

17:15

Pianodrome at The Pitt, 20–24 Aug, £10

Apologies to the Bengali Lady

Drunk Lion HHH

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £8

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £10 Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £9–£12

Shakespeare in the Garden: The Comedy of Errors

Hill Street Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £12

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12

Lest You Forget

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £8

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 22–24 Aug, FREE

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £7.50

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15

Attila the Stockbroker

Superstar

Quaker Meeting House, 20–23 Aug, £5

Bull

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Yukon Ho! (Tall Tales from the Great White North) Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

Agent November Escape Game: Robyn Yew

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

Your Home, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £100

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7

Tally Ho, Secret Several!

Sweet Novotel, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10

Arthur HHH

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre

17:10

Contact Light

Getting to Know Katie

Scottish Poetry Library, 20–24 Aug, £8

Choose Your Own...

Improv!

The Mystery of the Bonnie Sporran and the Loch Ness Monster

Paradise in Augustines, 20 Aug, £15

Drinking and Unemployment: A New Play About Work

16:45

HHH

C venues – C viva, 20–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

❤ Coma HHHH

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 21–26 Aug, £11.50

Pathetic Fallacy

Sharon Stacy Statue

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £11.50–£13.50

The Legacy of William Ireland

Paradise in Augustines, 22 Aug, £15

Arguing On-Air

theSpace on the Mile, 22–24 Aug, £10

Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £6

Fawk

CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £11

Love and Sex and All Things In-Between

16:30

Wee Red Bar, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £12

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12

Everything I Do Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

Candy Factory

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £9 theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £10

Wrath of Achilles Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £10

Conversations With Van Gogh Zoo Southside, 20–25 Aug, £7–£10

17:30 ❤ Bryony Kimmings: I’m a Phoenix, Bitch

HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £15–£17

And Before I Forget I Love You, I Love You

Attila the Stockbroker

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 20–21 Aug, FREE

❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

theSpace on North Bridge, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £8 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £12

Isabelle C venues – C south, 20–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

17:40 Electric Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

Die! Die! Die! Old People Die! Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

17:45 Perfect Sweet Novotel, 20–24 Aug, £8

My Name Is Irrelevant Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

A Short Cut to Happiness ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £10

Can You See Where I’m Coming From?

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE

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17:50 Numbers C venues – C aquila, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Souvenirs Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £10

Hitman and Her PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 21–26 Aug, £11.50

Degrees of Guilt theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8

18:00 Agent November Escape Game: Robyn Yew The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15

theSpace on the Mile, 23–24 Aug, £5

Rock’n’Roll Girls theSpace @ Venue45, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £8

Ghostly Tales theSpace on the Mile, 20–22 Aug, £8

Auto-Nation

Love and Misinformation Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–24 Aug, £12

❤ Baby Reindeer

by Richard Gadd

HHHHH

Roundabout @ Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £14–£16

SAGA Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £7

18:10 Liminality theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £12

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

Play Before Birth Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £8

Mouthpiece

8:8 HHH

Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £21

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £8

Aidan Goatley: Happy Britain Part 1

The 900 Club

Nancy’s Philosopher

Venue150 at EICC, 23–25 Aug, £19.50

Fragility of Man Pleasance Courtyard, 26 Aug, £10

❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

Our Man – Free Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Russell T Davies Assembly Hall, 20 Aug, £17.50

Rowan Rheingans: Dispatches on the Red Dress Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–26 Aug, £12

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £10

Noise Boys Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £13–£16

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 24 Aug, £15

Sinatra: Raw Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 24 Aug, £13.50

Everything I See I Swallow Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £13

Uncensored Summerhall, 21 Aug, £6

❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH

Blockbusters

❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH

Appropriate by Sarah-Jane Scott

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Metamorphosis

Miss AmeriKa

Tynecastle Park, 20–26 Aug, £24

Trainspotting Live

The Last Supper: Gospel of a Heinous Housewife

Trainspotting Live

Enough

Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25 Aug, £10

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £22

The Good, The Bad and The Brexit

❤ Coma HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £21

Scottish Poetry Library, 20–24 Aug, £5

Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 20–21 Aug, £10

Rich B*tch – How to Make Money with the Power of Your Mind

In the Shadow of the Black Dog HH

Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25 Aug, £8.50

Paul Putner’s Embarrassment – Me and Madness (The Band)

HHH

Assembly Rooms, 20–23 Aug, £10–£11

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Quaker Meeting House, 20–24 Aug, £6

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £13

❤ Burgerz HHHH Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Swallows Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 21–26 Aug, £5

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £21

18:50 Unicorn Party HH

ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £10

The Graveyard Shift theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8

18:55 Macbeth HHH

Frankenstein Pub, 20–25 Aug, £10

A(Poke)alypse Now – Mamoirs of a Gieza; I’m Still Here

C venues – C south, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

❤ Until the Flood HHHH

PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10–£11

Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £21

18:20 Gut Buddies Sweet Novotel, 21–25 Aug, £10

Black and White Tea Room – Counsellor HH Assembly Rooms, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14

❤ Who Cares HHHH

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12

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18:35 Hitler’s Tasters HH

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £11

Heir Heads theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £9

Intolerable Side Effects

Torch Town Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £7

Losing My Mindfulness Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Bismillah! An ISIS Tragicomedy

Confessions of the Romantically Challenged

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £7

If Mouth Could Speak ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £8

19:00 ❤ Trying It On HHHH

Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12

Thief by Liam Rudden

Civilisation

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12

Pops HHH

18:40

18:25

❤ Tokyo Rose HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £22

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £9 Hill Street Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £12

Who Is Daniel King

Zoo Southside, 20–26 Aug, £10 Assembly Roxy, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12

Palmerston Place Church, 20–21 Aug, £11

HHHHH

18:30 Venue150 at EICC, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, £18–£19.50

The Screwtape Letters

Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £10

Sweet Grassmarket, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–23 Aug, £11

❤ Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster

Minor Disruptions

theSpace @ Venue45, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

18:15

A War of Two Halves

18:45

Dead Equal

Gregory’s Girl Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £13

Meatball Séance PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

Worldwidewestern French Institute, 20–25 Aug, £10

Green & Blue Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £22

Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £22

Static ZOO Playground, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

Marx in Soho PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £11.50

Jock Tamson’s Bairns Laughing Horse @ Ghillie Dhu, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Nancy’s Philosopher

8:8 HHH

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £8 Palmerston Place Church, 22–23 Aug, £10

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

HoneyBee Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Neither Here Nor There Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

Chameleon ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £9

19:20 Being Frank

Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 22 Aug, £15

theSpace on North Bridge, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9

How Not to Drown

Trans Pennine

Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22

Oh Yes Oh No HHH

HHH

theSpace on North Bridge, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9

Agent November Escape Game: Murder Mr E

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15

theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £8

Stand-Up Poet Imagination Workshop, 20–25 Aug, £11

Buzzing PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £10

Fawlty Towers Live Themed Dinner Show The Fawlty Towers Dining Room at the Hilton Edinburgh Carlton Hotel, 20–26 Aug, £45–£62.50

19:05 McNaughton theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8

Jewbana theSpace @ Venue45, 20–24 Aug, £9.50

Vinyl Encore theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £9

44 Inch Chest

Milkshake

19:25 Shadow C venues – C aquila, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Pick Up theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £6.50

19:30 From Judy to Bette: The Stars of Old Hollywood Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£11

The Afflicted HHH

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £14

❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

Mythos: Men Festival Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £25

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £8

The Long Pigs

19:10 ❤ Sex Education HHHH

Nan Shepherd: From Flaneur to Fiver

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12

Man on the Moon Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £8–£12

19:15 Caliban’s Codex Sweet Novotel, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10

Listings

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

18:05 This Play Is Not About Me

Assembly Roxy, 20–25 Aug, £14–£16

Scottish Poetry Library, 20–22 Aug, £6

The Archive of Educated Hearts Pleasance Courtyard, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £10–£12

The Brooklyn Scotsman Hill Street Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £12

1902 Wee Red Bar, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £12

fest-mag.com

❤ Daddy Drag HHHH

Faulty Towers the Dining Experience Imagination Workshop, 20–25 Aug, £52–£57.50

3,000 Trees: The Death of Mr William McRae

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE

ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £10

Takin’ It Easy, 1916 theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £7.50

20:00

20:10

The Wild Unfeeling World

Lucy McCormick: Post Popular HH

Traumboy HH

❤ Roots HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14

Summerhall, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £12

Blame It on the Algorithm!

Church Hill Theatre, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £25

Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £10

Jottings from the Queen of Sheba

Yours Sincerely HHH

Does Sex Still Sell?

St Patrick’s Church, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £7

Perfect Wedding The Royal Scots Club, 20–24 Aug, £12.50

19:35 And Then They Died Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £7

Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour Outside the Beehive Inn, 20–31 Aug, £16

In Your Wet Dreams Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £7

Stanley HH

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £7

19:45

Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10–£11

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £10

❤ Coma HHHH

The Very Well-Fed Caterpillar

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

What Are You Wearing?

Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE

The Examination Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £12.50–£13.50

HOTTER Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

2Elfth Night Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £5

There She Is HH

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £7

Traumgirl HH

Summerhall, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £12

Fake News Kills World!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £10

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £10

Sugar

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15

Zoo Southside, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12

❤ America Is Hard to See HHHHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12

19:50 Being Frank About Sinatra Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £11

The Convoluted Adventures of Batman and Robin – An Adult Panto!

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £8

The Canary and the Crow Roundabout @ Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £14–£15

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

20:15 Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15

Fempire: Cleo, Theo & Wu

by Kirsten Vangsness Assembly Rooms, 22–23 Aug, £10–£11

Trainspotting Live

Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation

Venue150 at EICC, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, £18–£19.50

The Studio, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £20

Assembly Rooms, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £10–£11

Waiting for Godot

Cactus

HHH

The Edinburgh Yes Hub, 22–26 Aug, £20

Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True The Lyceum, 22–23 Aug, £20

20:05 ❤ Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats

HHHH

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12

Doubt ZOO Playground, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

Mouthpiece

Section 28: The Legacy of a Homophobic Law

Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £21

theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8

Dance Base, 20–25 Aug, £13

Tuck Into Poetry – A Lite Bite of Cheese and Puns theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

Hindsight HHH

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £11

20:25 Nothing to Hide

Before

Fempire: Mess by Kirsten Vangsness

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

The Brunch Club HH

Pleasance Pop-Up: Levels, 21–24 Aug, £11–£12

The Domestic theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £6–£8

Pleasance Courtyard, 26 Aug, £10

❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

Only Fools the Cushty Dining Experience Imagination Workshop, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £47.50–£52

The Collection of Professor Novak PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE

I’m Woman

20:50

Summerhall, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, £12.50

The Bald Soprano

A Rock’n’Roll Suicide!

Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–24 Aug, £10

Zoo Southside, 20–26 Aug, £10

theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £12 Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £12

Summerhall, 20–24 Aug, £10

21:00 The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

How to Mend the World (With a Student Play) theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8

Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15

James Rowland’s A Hundred Different Words for Love Summerhall, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £12.50

James Rowland’s Revelations

The Passion of the Playboy Riots

Cadaver Synod

Summerhall, 22 Aug, £12.50

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £12–£12.50

Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25 Aug, £8.50

20:35

CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £11

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–23 Aug, £10

20:40 Hold On Let Go Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £10

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15

James Rowland’s Team Viking

Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25 Aug, £9

Broken English

Agent November Escape Game: Murder Mr E

Traverse Theatre, 22–23 Aug, £21

Night Walk for Edinburgh

Fragility of Man

Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14

Scottish Poetry Library, 20–23 Aug, £7

Ejaculation – Discussions About Female Sexuality HHH

Tynecastle Park, 20–26 Aug, £24

Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist

Employ Me, You Cowards!

20:55

A War of Two Halves

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £8

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

Summerhall, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £12

Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £10 Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15

The People’s Boat

Footnotes HH

The Greatest Theatrical Event... Ever!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £10

Hamish Henderson: On the Radical Road

A Thatcher’s Guide to Dogging in Bungay

Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £9

Dumbing Down Trauma?

Agent November Escape Game: Murder Mr E

SHINE HH

Said and Done

Father HH

Obesity Bankrupted Our NHS!

C venues – C at SESH Hairdressing, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15

20:30

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £10

Hair of the Wild

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £12

Night Walk for Edinburgh

Bitch, Antigone

Venue150 at EICC, 23–25 Aug, £19.50

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

The Good Scout HHH

20:45

Venue 13, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £10

Fudge

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

It’s Beautiful, Over There

Don’t Bank on the Bankers

Sweet Novotel, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £7

20:20 Listen, You Can Hear the Sound of No Hands Clapping

theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £8

Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20–26 Aug, £12

Trainspotting Live

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Butterflies

Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25 Aug, £10 Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10–£11

Theatre

19:55 Who Did I Think She Was?

Blind Date HHH

❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

James Rowland’s Songs of Friendship Summerhall, 25–26 Aug, £25

tEMPORARY sANITY PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £11.50

HHH

21:10 More Fool You: Part II Paradise in Augustines, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10

The Words Are There theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £9–£11

Hearty Summerhall, 20–24 Aug, £10

Surveillance theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £10

The American’s Dream theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £10

More Fool You: Part I Paradise in Augustines, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10.50

21:15 Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15

❤ Burgerz HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £21

❤ Until the Flood HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: The Voices We Hear Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 21–26 Aug, £5

Square Go Roundabout @ Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £15–£17

21:20 Sound Cistem ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £10

There’s Something Missing ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £10

The Populars Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12

Misfit Warrior

Before the Revolution

No Fun and Games

Don’t Be Terrible

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £10

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £5

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11

Mojo

Bit of Sunshine Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–23 Aug, £7

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £10

Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15

Sexy Lamp Pleasance Courtyard, 25 Aug, £10.50

Time Please PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 22–26 Aug, £11.50

Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 23–24 Aug, £19.50

❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

Loud Poets: Best of Fringe Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20–26 Aug, £12

Everyman theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £9

Father of Lies Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £9

Splintered Bedlam Theatre, 21–25 Aug, £10

21:35 amendments: A Play on Words theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £10

Shakespeare Up Late!

C venues – C aquila, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Solitary Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10–£11

21:40 Musik HH

Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £15–£16.50

Ginger Johnson’s Happy Place Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

21:45 Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15

Brandi Alexander HH

❤ Working On My Night Moves HHHH

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12

Don’t Frighten the Straights!

Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £9

The Nana Schewitz Pass-Me-Over Party

Night Walk for Edinburgh

Night Walk for Edinburgh

Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15

❤ Trying It On HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, £22

❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £22

❤ Frankenstein: How

Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15

23:10 Murder Ballads Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £10

Defying Logic theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

A Clockwork Orange Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–22 Aug, £8.50

22:20

23:15 Stoned, Stupid and Stuck (A Californian Fairytale)

theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £7

22:30

to Make a Monster

Monogamy PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £11.50

❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH

Night Walk for Edinburgh

Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £22

Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–23 Aug, £15

One

TGIF

Summerhall, 22–24 Aug, £9–£12

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

Mental

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 24–25 Aug, £5

Ophelia Is Also Dead

Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £22

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Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £8

The Mannequin

Adventures of Butt Boy and Tigger

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £12

Svetlana

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £9

23:20 Within Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £10

23:25 Drunken Lullabies Paradise in Augustines, 20–23 Aug, £7

Pussy in Boots: The Adult Panto theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £9

23:30

How Not to Drown

Assembly George Square Studios, 21–25 Aug, £12–£13

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Hot Flush

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £22

Gigolo: Bold, Beautiful, Bizarre

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £9–£10

Absolutely Reliable!

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

C venues – C cubed, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Agent November Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15

Pits Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron Zoo Southside, 21–25 Aug, £10

22:05

Mother and the Monster / Free Festival

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £10

Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Die or Run

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £8

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

22:00

To Fall in Love

21:50

Searchers

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Glockenspielsexpartybavariagoodbye

22:15

23:05 FemFringe

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £12

22:40 Lovecraft (Not the Sex Shop in Cardiff)

Traverse Theatre, 20–21 Aug, £21

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

23:50

Dissident Sausage

Beauty is Pain

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £7–£8

22:45 ❤ Boar HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11

22:55 The Slinks Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11

22:10

23:00

My Father the Tantric Masseur

The Ladies

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11

23:45 ❤ Burgerz HHHH

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £10

Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £8.50

23:55 ❤ Baby Reindeer

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HHHHH

Roundabout @ Summerhall, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £16

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Children’s Silent Disco (5+)

Microbodyssey (5+)

City of Edinburgh Tours, 20–26 Aug, £10

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £9.50

Looking Down on Me (8+)

10:40

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £7

The Bubble Show (0+)

Moon Dragon for 5 and Under (0+)

Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, FREE

10:50 Doodle Pop (3+)

10:20

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11

Sparkle (3+)

Rocket Girl (5+)

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10

10:30 One Duck Down (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8–£10

I Believe In Unicorns by Michael Morpurgo (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£11

Flamenco for Kids (0+)

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

11:00 Baby Loves Disco (0+)

Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10

Tappuccino (5+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £7.50–£8.50

11:05 Red Riding Hood: The Panto (3+)

Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12

Romantic Romeo (5+)

Africa Weird and Wonderful (0+)

Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 23–25 Aug, £11

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–23 Aug, FREE

Celeste’s Circus (0+)

Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo (3+)

Scottish Storytelling Centre, 23–25 Aug, £8

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £14.50–£15.50

Aardman Model Making Workshops (5+)

Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall (0+)

Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £10

Assembly George Square Gardens, 23–25 Aug, £7.50

Sail Away! (0+) Stockbridge Church, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

Moonbird (5+)

Rhyme Marmalade (5+)

Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£10

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Joyce (3+) Assembly Roxy, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12

theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £8

12:00 Science Magic: Play with Your Food (5+)

Sina – The Girl Who Cast Her Shadow (5+)

Mustard Doesn’t Go with Girls (5+)

Chores (3+)

PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 20–23 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–23 Aug, £9–£11

Moon Dragon Babies for Under 1s (0+)

The Greatest Magic Show (3+)

Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, FREE

Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10–£12

11:10

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £7.50

Comète (5+)

11:25

11:55 Danny the Champion of the World (3+)

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Little Wings (5+)

Mr. Men and Little Miss On Stage (0+)

Roundabout @ Summerhall, 24–25 Aug, £10

11:30

Children’s Underground Ghost Show (5+) City of Edinburgh Tours, 20–26 Aug, £8

Dexter and Winter’s Detective Agency (5+)

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

The Jam House, 24–25 Aug, £8

C venues – C viva, 24 Aug, £9.50 Assembly Checkpoint, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11

Sunshine (3+)

Fantastic Magic Show for Kids (3+)

Rubbish Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (3+)

11:15

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free! (3+)

11:45

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Beetlemania: Kafka for Kids (5+)

Slime (0+) Pleasance Pop-Up: Central Library, 20–24 Aug, £7–£8

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12

Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

Aardman Model Making Workshops (5+) Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £10

Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 20–24 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Bessy Bass Band’s Munchtime Music! (0+) Stockbridge Church, 24 Aug, £10

13:05 Legend of Shadows (0+) C venues – C south, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

13:15 The Happy Prince (0+)

12:30 Children’s Underground Ghost Show (5+) City of Edinburgh Tours, 20–26 Aug, £8

Shakespearience (5+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

The Maths Magic Show 2019 (8+)

11:50

PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Ogg ‘n’ Ugg ‘n’ Dogg (3+)

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £9–£10

Grumpy Pants (3+)

11:20

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

13:00

Shakespeare for Kids: Fools and Bottoms (0+)

Walter the Wanderer, Book Reading and Colour-Along (3+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Story Builders (5+)

Pleasance Dome, 24–26 Aug, £11–£12

Splash Test Dummies (5+)

12:10 Assembly George Square Studios, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12

When Trolls Try to Eat Your Goldfish (5+)

Rave & Behave (5+)

Auld Reekie Tours Police Box, 20–26 Aug, £12

Girl Scouts vs Aliens (8+)

Bubble Show: Milkshake and the Winter Bubble (0+)

C venues – C viva, 20–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Children’s Haunted Underground Experience (5+)

Lauriston Halls, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

Don’t Mess with the Dummies (3+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Your hour-by-hour guide to Theatre at The Edinburgh festivals

C venues – C aquila, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

Science Magic: Play with Your Food (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

The Amazing Bubble Man (0+) Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12

13:25 Switch Witchetty’s Almanac of Everything (5+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8–£9

The New and Improved I Hate Children Children’s Show (8+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £11–£12

13:30 The Red Balloon (5+) Sweet Grassmarket, 22–25 Aug, £8

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Children are Stinky (3+) Assembly George Square Gardens, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £8–£10

13:45 I’ll Take You to Mrs Cole! (8+)

16:30

Fantastic Flatulence and Where to Find It (5+)

Circus Sonas Family Show (0+)

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Morgan & West: Unbelievable Science (5+)

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12

15:00

14:00

Aardman Model Making Workshops (5+)

Baby Loves Disco (0+) The Jam House, 24–25 Aug, £9

Huggers (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Kids

15:15

Stockbridge Church, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

Wriggle Around the World (0+)

14:30 Children’s Haunted Underground Experience (5+) Auld Reekie Tours Police Box, 20–26 Aug, £12

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10

Me and the Mask – Commedia dell’Arte (5+) Italian Cultural Institute, 22 Aug, £8

15:05 The First King of England in a Dress (5+) theSpaceTriplex, 20–24 Aug, £11–£12

15:50 Jarred Christmas and Hobbit: The Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show (5+) Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10–£11

16:10 The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen (8+) The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £9

17:35 Comedy Club 4 Kids (5+) Assembly Roxy, 24–25 Aug, £10

Assembly George Square, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Mark Thompson’s Spectacular Science Show (3+) Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20–25 Aug, £10.50

17:00 Amazing Prize Family Bingo (5+) Lauriston Halls, 20–24 Aug, £4

17:30 The Dark Room (For Kids!) (12+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–24 Aug, £10–£11

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Edinburgh Festival #5: Michaela Burger

Exposing Edith Assembly George Square Studios 2:20pm – 3:30pm, 7–26 Aug, not 12, 19 £12 – £14

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A Migrant’s Son Imagination Workshop 5:30pm – 7:00pm, 14–26 Aug, not 19 £40 – £45

What’s going on at the Fridge?

Here is our Edinburgh Festival fridge! I am sharing an apartment with eight Kiwis [New Zealand legends], and this is our amazing collection of food! My shelf is the one that’s circled in red. It is basically vegetables, some fish and meat and duck fat. Mainly because I’m on the Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) diet and this involves eating extremely simple and nonprocessed food.

It has done wonders for my health, so sticking to it during this busy period is essential for me.