Fest 2017 Issue 4

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Monica Dolan A VETERAN PERFORMER ON HER FIRST FRINGE

Selina Thompson & Desiree Burch Ingrid Oliver Sooz Kempner Fern Brady Seanmhair Fauna Tomás Ford Ruby Redfort Plus

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Contents

Comedy 20 Fern Brady

From Film to Fringe

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British actor Monica Dolan on her debut as both playwright and Fringe performer.

On caustic comic form, once again.

Theatre 27 Flesh and Bone A poetic, lyrical ode to life on a London council estate.

Dance, Physical Theatre & Circus In Conversation:

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Desiree Burch and Selina Thompson Thompson and Burch discuss issues that are important and challenging for all of us.

Mating rituals that raise even bigger eyebrows with topsyturvy acrobatics.

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Perfect Day Fest joins forces with pals at Made in Adelaide to bring you a perfectly Australian-themed day. Bonza.

Brew Lab

Tomás Ford

6-8 South College Street 11:00am

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Aussie one-man party machine Tomás Ford has proven he’s game for a good time with his Crap Music Rave Party (catch that at 12:00am in the same venue, if you’ve got any sense). But his cabaret show, Craptacular, is also an excellent source of good-hearted, ridiculous fun.

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Whether it’s for a quick pastry or one of their regularly-changing brunch dishes (avo on toast and such), Brew Lab will set you up nicely. Let’s face it, though: you’re here mostly there for the java, so go get your buzz on ready for the day with their single-origin filter, espresso and cold brew coffee.

Gilded Balloon Teviot

Fauna Assembly Roxy

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Australian multi-disciplinary acrobatics and contemporary circus company Fauna present this physical theatre piece of the same name, in which they explore courtship rituals of both humans and animals – all set to a live soundtrack by award-winning acoustic and percussive guitarist Geordie Little.

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Peter and Bambi Heaven

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Assembly George Square Gardens 10:35pm

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With all this top notch Antipodean entertainment you’ll no doubt need refreshments that fit the bill. Head to the Made in Adelaide hub at Summerhall for South Australian wines, craft beers, espresso martinis and more, and grabbing some street food from the courtyard while you’re there.

Steen Raskopoulos Underbelly, Cowgate

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Sydney-born Steen Raskopoulos has been busy winning Fringe audiences into submission – with some of most gorgeous blue eyes in comedy, yes, but also with the superb comic acting and kind cajoling in latest show The Coolest Kid in Competitive Chess. Go get won over.

Definitely not bedtime yet! It’s instead time for some late night, sequined disco moves and risqué magic tricks, courtesy of “Australia’s most delusional dancing love wizards” Peter and Bambi Heaven. They’re back, spraying love and magic on everything they touch, so we suggest you dive right in to that spangly crossfire.

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Monica Dolan:

The actress on coming to the festival with one-woman show The B*easts – her already award-winning debut one-woman show

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From Film to Fringe As the narrator in The B*easts

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he urge to write was “like someone pulling my hair”, says Monica Dolan. It has proved a productive tug: a familiar face of British TV and film, the actors’ first play, The B*easts, is now debuting at the Fringe. A one-woman show, she’s also performing it – the first time she’s acted here too. No pressure then.

“It’s very frightening, writing!” she says, although she’d wanted to do it for a very long time. “It’s like someone nagging you all the time. I thought, this is getting silly, I’ve got lots of ideas, I’ve got to write some of these.”

There’s a big epic play stuck in a drawer somewhere, but this one-woman show format is a little more Edinburgh-friendly. Still, going solo brings its own challenges. She’s worried about “keeping the energy level of the whole piece up”.

But Dolan is a veteran performer – on stage, she’s been a regular with the RSC including playing opposite Ian McKellen in King Lear. On screen, she won a Bafta for her portrayal of Rosemary West in Appropriate Adult, and has recently been seen in W1A, Witness for the Prosecution, Pride, and The Falling.

“I keep thinking, I did Jane Eyre with Shared Experience, and that was two and three quarter hours with loads of running! Surely it can’t be more demanding than that? But I suppose it’s just me…”

There is, I suggest, a pleasing directness in just

one performer talking to an audience. “That’s what I’m really looking forward to,” she agrees. “I’ve always been very taken with that directness. I definitely wanted it to be a storytelling piece.”

“ When I tell people I’m going to do Edinburgh, this look comes over their face. It’s like they know something that I don’t know and I can only discover it when I get there” What exactly the story is, I’m not at liberty to say – there’s a reveal halfway I’ve promised not to give away. Dolan plays a psychiatrist, recounting a case involving a young girl. It allows her to circle around some big, chewy topics: the sexualisation of children, the impact of sexting and internet porn, as well as the more old-fashioned pressures from the media on young women to look a certain way.

“I think it’s very difficult for young women now,”

says Dolan, as we discuss the impact of social media and selfie culture. “My friend Emma Fielding posted a picture [on Facebook] of us in the Evening Standard when we were in our twenties, and she said ‘Do you remember – we didn’t care what we looked like?’ And look at everyone now. You’re measuring yourself all the time.”

The initial spur for the show was seeing a strange statue when she was on a spa break. Looming over the pool was the bust of a girl, tiny except for an enormous chest. It got her thinking about the strange expectations we have of female bodies.

Walking around town, I can’t help thinking of all the mannequins around us with tiny figures—jutting hip bones, child-sized waists—yet vast boobs. That statue might have been an extreme example, but we’re surrounded by deeply improbable images of youthful yet sexualised femininity all the time. “Yes that’s true,” Dolan says. “It’s an odd combination – it’s a total freak of nature actually.”

It was the impact of such expectations on young girls she was particularly worried about. Dolan’s been talking to teachers about how they’re having to educate pupils in the dangers of sharing indecent images, as well as chatting to a psychotherapist friend about the number of young people they’re starting to see with issues around internet porn.

“He said we’ve got a really, really big problem and people aren’t realising the scale of it, in terms of

young people’s sexual health and the images they’re [seeing], quite violently sexual images,” she recalls.

“They’re discovering that part of themselves outside of the context of any intimacy.”

Still, every generation has their own moral panic around sex and sexualisation, especially in relation to modern technology – don’t they? Dolan doesn’t want to sensationalise the issue. She specifically made her narrator a ‘neutral’ character, “so she can lay out the whole story and it’s basically for the audience to decide… I wouldn’t want anyone to panic, but it’s an interesting thing to talk about.”

Dolan has been visiting the Fringe since she was young—“I used to go with my brother and his friends, we’d go camping and get the bus in”—but this is the first time she’s performed. It’s long been an ambition: “It’s an incredible atmosphere in Edinburgh, it’s not like anything else, there’s just so much performance energy. I love it. But I’ve never done the full month. When I tell people I’m going to do Edinburgh, this look comes over their face…” She laughs, before adding: “It’s like they know something that I don’t know and I can only discover it when I get there.” Don’t worry Monica, you will. / Holly Williams VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:

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In Conversation:

Left: Selina Thompson. Right: Desiree Burch

Desiree Burch: What should I know about your show? on Tar Baby very healing in a way that I hadn’t anticipated when I started out doing the show.

Selina Thompson: Last year I travelled to Antwerp in Belgium where I got on a cargo ship which took me ST: salt. for me, even though it was painful and it to Ghana. Then I flew to Kingston in Jamaica, then was difficult, it came from a really deep place inside headed across to Wilmington in North Carolina and myself. There was a real need to grieve, to be like, ‘I’m boarded a second freighter across the Atlantic to Ant- not carrying this on my own any more’. werp. I was retracing one of the routes of the transatlantic slave triangle and the show is the story of that DB: And when is there time to mourn this thing? journey. I describe it as a show that is looking at the afterlife of slavery and colonialism but also it’s like ST: The last time I was up here for three weeks was this deeply personal coming of age, me dealing with a 2014 and there was the headfuck for me of looking lot of grief and anger, and trying to place Europe back at my phone and seeing Ferguson and then I would into the transatlantic slave triangle. look around and, you know what the Fringe is like, it’s this massive bubble. And I felt like I was stood in DB: Because they love trying to take themselves out the middle of these rooms screaming and that no one of that shit. could hear me. And I was like, fuck it, you’re going to hear me. What can I do that is big enough? How I can ST: They really do. And I was really angry about that. take up the space that I feel these issues need to take Tell me about your show and how you got to it – beup? And how can I stop you guys from going, ‘It’s over cause I think the one before was Tar Baby? there, it’s anywhere but here’?

DB: That was two years ago and that was very much in line with what you’re doing with salt. It was about slavery and racism in America. And capitalism ultimately. A lot of that show was about the anger and the shame that was implicit in things and my tracing things back to capitalism and depersonalising that shame. I was curious about what compelled you to take this particular journey – what sort of life events or what the idea was. Only because I found working

DB: We need to do these shows in rep together.

Everything you’re saying – it’s so nice to hear that resonated with another human being. Even though you do the show and you get the validation of audience members speaking to you about those things, to hear another black woman in a different part of the world being like, ‘I feel like I’m screaming and nobody can hear me’, that’s even a phrase that I’ve uttered in that show. It feels like being heard

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British theatremaker Selina Thompson and American comic and theatremaker Desiree Burch both address racism and their experiences as women of colour in their work.

We brought them together to talk about salt., Thompson’s account of her journey retracing the Transatlantic slave trade; Unf*ckable, Burch’s standup show about, among other things, her past as a professional dominatrix, and the thorny issue of race at the Fringe.

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Desiree Burch and Selina Thompson

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ST: A lot of salt. is to do with notions of home and diaspora. This idea of tracing back ancestry—looking back to where you belong and where it places you in the world—is really loaded for me in lots of different ways. But I think it’s like that for everybody. Once anybody sits down and starts pulling that thread, it’s fucked up. And I think it’s a specific brand of fucked up if you’re descended from people who were enslaved and people who lived in colonised countries and on occupied land. But I think as climate change exacerbates and moving around the world becomes simultaneously easier and harder, I think we’re going to see more and more of that notion of home fragmenting and breaking and making less and less sense.

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... on humour ST: I’m going to keep it really real: I’m looking for work from women of colour: that’s what I’m here to see and I’m especially looking for standup because my show is quite heavy and I really need to laugh.

DB: Going through that every single day is a larger task than anybody realises.

ST: I wanted to ask you about standup as a form and why standup is the medium for this show?

DB: Humour is a way that people will accept the unacceptable; even in Tar Baby there was a lot of humour. That’s why humour is such a huge thing in marginalised communities, because at a certain DB: I’ve always been curious how black British people point things get so dark that you just laugh at the feel about their lineage. That thing of, ‘My parents absurdity of it. There’s guilt and other feelings that are from Nigeria, first generation, I know about my they would never otherwise approach without being family, I go there and visit’. That doesn’t exist for guided or coaxed, and this is a way to get them there most black Americans for sure, because, obviously... quickly. So that’s why I tend to like it as a form, Personally my family don’t like to talk about stuff. outside of the fact that humour’s always been a The records dissipate so you just feel like this sort of coping mechanism for me, so it’s something that I’ve sui generis being that’s got some roots but not really. become pretty good at.

Going back into that does have a profound effect on your sense of place or self. Context is important to understanding a word or a human, so not having that does facilitate a lot of anger, shame.

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ST: I wanted to ask about Edinburgh as a woman of colour – about how you find criticism here.

DB: For this show, because I talk about having worked as a professional dominatrix, not that that’s necessarily the full thrust of it, but it’s sort DB: Obviously it’s a very white environment. The of about having come from a born again Christian people who are bringing stuff and the people critiquing background, deciding to leap into sex work at some it. There’s some good critique that happens here, in point for my own reasons, and also, just as a form of terms of intelligent people who are interested in what’s figuring out who the hell you are. Sexuality is a huge being made and are trying to pay special focus to things part of one’s identity and I’ve always felt, especialoutside what they would normally pay attention to. ly being a black woman who’s big, it’s easy to just And there’s: ‘How very dare you allow some 18-yearturn me into a mailbox or a lamppost, it’s easy to be old student to come in here and be like, “I don’t like that desexualised, it’s easy to be maternalised. show” after somebody spent thousands of pounds creating it, workshopping it, bringing it to this space and ST: Phewwwwwww, you are preaching to the conpromoting it?’ I get that there are 4,000 shows on so it’s verted! Absolutely. Where’s my desire? going to be difficult to review them all but better one review from someone who’s good than four of them DB: Exactly. Where’s my vulnerability? Where’s my from where some child who doesn’t actually know how ability to be fallible and not constantly strong and to look at something and see if it achieved what it set bulletproof and not needing anything from anyone out to achieve. because I’ll survive, like Mother Africa?

ST: What I found really interesting doing a show about race, which is being reviewed almost exclusively by white reviewers, is that there are times where I’m like, ‘I feel like you’re not really sure how to engage with the ideas of this work’. Fair enough, because if this isn’t - Selina Thompson your lived experience and you’re not doing some degree in race, then it makes sense to me that maybe me standing up and talking about Afropessimism is mildly ST: Absolutely. It’s also about value. When I first alienating to you. Wouldn’t it be interesting, especially started out a lot of my work was about beauty in a place like Edinburgh, where we can experiment, if politics. I remember sitting down and thinking, why the context of what it was to be a reviewer was broadam I so obsessed with beauty politics, because the ened out? What would it be like if I had other people of fact of the matter is, as a woman, being beautiful colour come and review the show? is what makes you valuable, being valued is what I guess it’s a question of what you want criticism makes you worthy of love. We’re human beings and to be because so much of theatre critique up here is of course we want to be loved because we want that in service of capitalism. Not that it’s a bad thing, but connection. especially with solo shows that aim to ignite conversation or change the terms of a conversation, I’m always DB: And also just societal power. There’s power in interested to think about the role that reviewers could that, that some people have and other people don’t. play in that.

If it was some kind of meritocracy like we like to pretend it is, it wouldn’t matter. But we all know DB: You’re right about that, it is in service of capitalthat’s garbage. / Jo Caird ism and the only positive benefit of that is then, if everyone’s like, ‘go see this, this is important’, then you can take that show somewhere else, where it can be engaged with.

“I was like, fuck it, you’re going to hear me”

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Ingrid Oliver: Speech!

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“It’s okay to be middle of the road, this country produced Coldplay, we’re good at it!” pleads Ingrid Oliver. I shan’t spoil the shrewdly funny ways she arrives at this conclusion, because it’s a journey worth taking yourself. With Speech!, she’s produced that rare thing: a political show with a balanced, insightful

message, expressed in an original and entertaining way.

These are simple adjectives for a complex, tightly-constructed show.

Artfully woven between initially unrelated character monologues is a delicate reflection on the dangers of fundamentalism, at both ends of the spectrum. The roster includes a scathing pastiche of right-wing radio hosts (read: Katie Hopkins and Julia Hartley-Brewer), an EU breakup skit that’s amongst the wittiest Brexit satire at the festival, and an ultra-hypocritical virtue signaller.

The personas, so briefly present on stage but indelible on your psyche, are portrayed with equal parts cynicism and sympathy. She’s not

villifying the archetypal culprits, be they offensive dogmatists or over-zealous censors of ideas. Nor is she condoning their intolerance.

Her aim is to shine a light on the extremist tendencies that turn good-hearted people away from one another, and ultimately pull us apart.

She’s assuaging the chaos and offering a notion of stability in increasingly unstable times. Or, at the very least, she’s making us all laugh.

Perhaps the scope of her targets is too vast to encompass and explore in just an hour, but there’s no doubting that she makes her mark in the time she has. Speech should be free, but Speech! is well worth the entry price. / Matthew Sharpe

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At the top of Lefty Tighty Righty Loosey Taylor introduces himself by declaring that he’s been described by broadsheets as “provocative”, but what they actually mean is “offensive but privately educated”. It’s true he’s a gleeful trouble maker, but in amongst the mischief-making there’s a lot of common sense in his material.

Fin Taylor:

The show’s leaping-off point is the week from hell he had back in March, both personally and politically. After a nightmare flight from Australia, his relationship broke down, terrorism broke out, he pissed blood and was rude to his former mum-in-law. It’s a structure that allows him to keep a tight rein on a variety of topics, all filtered through his questioning stance. He claims to have left “The Left” behind at the beginning of the year. That’s not to say he’s started marching about wearing a pillowcase at a jaunty angle on his head, but more that he’s had enough of elements of the Left’s posturing, claiming that most viewpoints are motivated by white guilt rather than genuine compassion.

He points out hypocricy, such as how some liberals praise multi-culturalism while clinging desperately to their white, middle class enclaves and fetishising their artisan shops. Of course there are outright tongue-incheek, shit-stirring comments, tempered by an ironic high five with a hapless member of the front row.

High fives aside, it helps that Taylor’s skill at penmanship is indubitable, there some brilliant routines in here such as the “pincer movement” of a medical examination. Overall it’s a call to form your opinions with research and logic rather than blindly picking a side and following it regardless. A very funny call that is.

There’s plenty in Matt Tedford’s latest ‘Margaret Thatcher’ Fringe offering to send the old bat swivelling in her plot: Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows (4 stars) is high camp, there’s socialist theory and people having fun. This year she’s here with her game show, having decided that in her undead state she’d make a good Saturday night TV host. Be warned: if you sit down the front, you’ll probably be plucked to represent either the Strivers or the Skivers teams as we all play for our benefits. Let’s hope there aren’t any

Assembly George Square Gardens, 9:00pm – 10:10pm, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £13 – £14

Lefty Tighty Righty Loosey «««« Just the Tonic at The Tron, 10:20pm – 11:20pm, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50

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Andy Zaltzman: Satirist For Hire «««« The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 3:00pm – 4:00pm, 15–27 Aug, £12

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Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows

Tory ministers in. It might give them ideas.

Tedford has produced a great Thatcher parody. The voice, poise and handbag are spot on. Unsurprisingly Tedford’s monster has become a cult hit now and this is his fourth year at the Fringe performing as the divisive old crone. She’s ably supported by her dancers Strong (Paul Heath) and Stable (Ed Yelland), in shorts tighter than the Tory welfare budget, who contribute much to the show.

As well as the song and dance numbers there are supporting roles for them to fulfil as Margaret is visited by political leaders and figures, and showbiz ghosts.

What consequently emerges from the glitter is a contrasting sharp political satire, with appearances from Nigel Farage, Nicola Sturgeon and Owen Jones, and we all worship at the feet of Jeremy Corbyn. Left and Right, Brexit and Scottish independence are all covered and dissected – and thankfully all put right. If only it were that simple.

Here for the final two weeks of the Fringe with the second run (the previous one was in 2015) of his Satirist For Hire (4 stars) show is perennial political piss-taker

Andy Zaltzman. As the show thrives on the audience suggesting topics for him to satirise—though you probably worked that one out from the title—anything could happen. This first show of the run kicks off in that unexpected vein when, amusingly, the mic’s not in the mic stand. It’s a lovely bumbling moment to begin with, getting Zaltzman his first big laugh and sets the tone well.

Though there will inevitably be riffs that don’t quite work, in Zaltzman’s skilled hands the vast majority do as he weaves gags from random suggestions. On this occasion topics under discussion are Jeremy Hunt’s bathroom, Diane Abbott’s maths and Welsh nationalism. It allows you to get a great sense of the process, too.

There’s a lot of good natured chumminess in the room as most here are already aware of Zaltzman’s work from his projects with John Oliver (now of Trump baiting fame on HBO’s Last Week Tonight) on Political Animal, as well as The Bugle podcast and numerous solo Fringe shows. What he’ll be talking about at the following gigs is unknown, as that’s all down to you.

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Multi-character shows can be an unsatisfying experience, like sitting through an hour-long check-outmy-range audition when you aren’t actually making a film. And that sometimes goes for the performers too. Sooz Kempner has taken a good, hard look at her performance style after previously doing character shows, and now gone for something much more personal. The result is a quirky treat.

It doesn’t look too promising when you see the fraying sheet she’s using for a screen, in truth, but this non-slick approach proves highly appropriate. Sooz on Film is her own story, told via the movies that changed her life, and it’s been

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Part of me hopes Sophie Willan never does standup again, if only because what’s presented here is an honest account of her life that I’d hate to think she’d ever feel the need to embellish to please the insatiable desires of audiences and critics. Most of me, though, thinks she can crack on. More, please.

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triple role as a “northern, female, working class” person. She takes pleasure in prodding at the pickles the mainly southern, male, middle class industry players (and audiences) get themselves into over this: “I daren’t tell ‘em that everybody in Bradford is eating humous.”

Then, ever so casually, she drops a bit of a bombshell about her life to date (more of a bombshell than last year’s show in which she talked about her heroin addict mother).

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an eventful ride along the fringes of fame. The family cat, Boris, became a movie star when she was a kid—Boris crops up in her brother Luke’s Fringe show too—and there’s a hilarious screen-based sequence late on revealing her dog-related near-appearances in a more recent motion picture.

In between, we get a refreshingly honest trawl through a jobbing actor/performer’s life: working as a pop tribute act and a live Disney character, while also taking various admin jobs. One of those turned horribly sinister early on, however.

Films were a vital escape.

One of the show’s main struts is a Goodfellas-style script Kempner wrote as a teenager, and the initial plan was clearly to base a whole cringe-heavy show on it. But those splendid quotes are now just part of that fraying sheet’s rich tapestry of clips, songs, and indeed a few characters, thrown in cleverly as pre-recorded secret weapons. The result is an absolute joy. / Si Hawkins

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picks apart so eloquently.

There’s a lot to talk about in terms of Willan’s performance.

She’s a great line-writer (“if it wasn’t for penicillin we’d still be in the EU”) and draws a nice distinction between those offhand jokes she weaves into her narrative, and those she consciously knocks out as zingers. There’s the odd time that feels as if she’s delivering lines – they stick out like sore thumbs. But if there’s a measure of Willan’s skill, though, it’s this: every confessional show leavens the emotional end bit with a joke.

Willan doesn’t. She upsets our expectations, takes us out of our comfort zone, and then just leaves it hanging. / Evan Beswick

Fern Brady: Suffer, Fools!

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Fern Brady explains that given the timeslot of her show—midday; traditional haunt of senior citizens— and the types of audiences she’s drawing in, she tried to back out of performing Suffer, Fools! for the rest of the festival. It’s just as well,

for our sake, that she stuck in there.

The Scottish comic is on caustic form, once again laying everything bare and inviting us to have a peek at the inner recesses of her bleak mind. She’s candidly dark as ever, sharing her internal turmoil at such unfulfilled fantasies as...being able to squeeze her boyfriend’s eyeballs out.

Bored by the tedium of routine minutiae, she’s always on the hunt for a spark of adrenaline to spice things up. This is good news for her act, as we’re treated to more of the sultry sardonicism and hugely entertaining outburts that have made her a rising star on the circuit. Her

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told very well. Particularly effective is her feminist inner voice, which works as a device to explore her own contraditions while giving rein to her flair for bombastic character acting. She also has an adept turn of phrase. Her uncle Bob, for instance, sites his Daily Mail-inspired reasoning around a “trifecta of hate”. You don’t get many “trifectas” to the pound at the Pleasance.

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performer, but there are times when the mask slips and we catch a bit of the real Suzi. It breaks the magic a little – we see chinks in the armour of the performance. I guess there’s two ways of dealing with this. One is to power through.

The other, I suppose, is to bring the less frenetic Suzi from behind the curtain into the light. I don’t know which is better, but I’m fairly certain Ruffell could pull off either one. / Evan Beswick

time as a writer at Fest even gets a shout-out, in an anecdote about being kicked out of the launch party.

Her command of the comic form is subtle but undeniable; she’s poised and precise, but it’s disguised beneath a surface of coarse grumbling and adolescent soul-searching. It’s a tale of her fight (often quite literally) against ex-boyfriends, the class system, and internal machinations.

Seeing the comedic cogs of her mind turning is a privilege, and if she’s suffering then at least she’s allowed us a front row seat to the laughs among the melancholy.

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Suzi Ruffell, self-described legend.

Hyperbole, you might think, and it’s certainly hyperbole she’s aiming for. But, actually, there’s more than a little truth in it. This is a pacy and energetic set from a comic with all the chops and plenty to say.

Particularly, Ruffell wants to talk about what it’s like being a working class gay woman. This places her somewhere in limbo.

She’s the “mouthy cow” in her family because she has views on feminism. But how likely is she to get big in a country where “the only lesbians on TV are the posh ones” (not as outlandish a claim as it sounds)? It is, in essence, a double whammy fish-out-of-water tale,

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Richard Herring is a hero to many, and yet his latest hour is clouded by an unfortunate air of desperation. It’s as though the man craves our approval more than he might care to admit and isn’t confident in his ability to keep us on side without an enormous, unnecessary showbiz backdrop adorning

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The narrative conceit of Look What You Made Me Do amounts to Gavin, a 46-year-old man played by Demi Lardner, trapped in his basement and on the phone to an insurance telemarketer called Sandra. It becomes apparent that this is more of a contextual backdrop than a plot to follow, though, with the incidental gags and skits taking centre stage.

Lardner doesn’t invest much time into the character, and neither should you; it’s an entertaining, throwaway romp built for speed, not comfort.

As Gavin (a hat, two sets of clothes and a pre-pubescent telephone voice suffice for the illusion),

the stage, or a prop on hand from which to wring a few cheap laughs.

The absolute low point of Oh Frig, I’m 50! is when the veteran reads out a critical email from a past audience member. In mining the correspondence for errors in syntax and logic, Herring plays his established role of comedy pedant, though on this occasion he’s asserting dominance over a critic and declaring himself winner of their disagreement. The message is clear: denounce Herring and he will publicly shame you to the delight of a loyal audience. For a man who professes to be content in middle age, this segment of the show

Lardner skewers the sort of boorish, self-obsessed walking mid-life crisis you would expect to stay on the line to an insurance flogger. That’s not all he has for company though, as we’re treated to his inner monologue of inane, but understandably lonely, thoughts. The laughs arise from Lardner’s clever and extensive use of lighting and audio cues, allowing us to flit between Gavin’s nightmares, his diary entries, and his warped perspective of his temporary underground prison.

It’s enjoyably offbeat, and Lardner’s dedication to absurd transience results in a sprightly pace.

Accordingly, though, the show runs a little short (just over 40 minutes), presumably owing to the restricted and confined scenario she creates for the character.

Comedically it often feels like treading water. We’re content to float around in her weird world of puns, but it’s never headed in any particular direction. The good news is that you don’t need to dive below the surface to enjoy it.

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reeks of insecurity.

Beneath the gimmicks and ill-advised set pieces, however, Herring is still Herring, one of the sharpest and most prolific talents on the circuit today. The account of his body’s natural deterioration is disarmingly honest, crass observations substantiated by beautifully crafted phrases. A discussion of children’s TV programming, meanwhile, demonstrates his knack for finding the absurd in the most banal of subjects. Thirty years into his standup career, Herring can be a towering presence, but only, it seems, intermittently.

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There are flashbulb moments during shows that smack you as being quintessential, could-only-happenhere Edinburgh Fringe, and Sandra Hale tap-dancing in a cave while being watched by two dogs is definitely one of those. The 65-year-old debutant was “dumped” last year, she tells us, which presumably was the impetus for putting this event together. It’s certainly unique.

Hale bills her lunchtime workout as a sort of self-help session, although it’s herself she’s chiefly helping: this is essentially a live version of the sort of motivational speech you give yourself in the mirror the first time you drag yourself to a party after being given

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Beginning his set by welcoming himself to the stage despite already standing on it, Leo Kearse’s control of the room seems to evaporate before he’s even had the chance to impose his bold titular claim on the punters. I Can Make You Tory is his hour-long exercise in

the heave-ho, and we’re here as supportive friends, shouting back positive affirmation whenever she asks for it. Well, she might keep us trapped in here otherwise.

In fairness, she’s a genial host, happy to wander off script and engage with happy heckles – or confused canines, if a couple happen to turn up. And she has the Fringe standup structure sorted: a couple of set-pieces, the 40-minute serious bit, the before-the-finale bucket speech.

But you can’t help feeling that Self-Helpless is in the wrong section, as this curious vanity project shouldn’t really be fighting it out with the other Cowgate comics.

If she flagged up the break-up earlier—it’s in the late serious bit at the moment—this could be quite an interesting theatrical monologue, about a woman on the verge of a bounce-back breakthrough. Perhaps next year, with the bold standup experience as a cathartic finale: everybody loves a shaggy-dog story. / Si Hawkins

political solicitation, although his methods seem to undermine his surprisingly half-hearted intent.

Kearse deals in broad strokes because they suit his blunt agenda, by which I mean greed, not conservatism. He’s a big-C Conservative without any of the values or principles one might attach to the ideology. There’s an underlying irony in his indictment of liberal “snowflake” culture (which he argues is just looking for things to be offended about), when he appears outraged by the most minor of leftwing hypocrisies.

He’s forging a similar path to equivalent right-wing comics such as Geoff Norcott, but without most of his measured conviction and

poise. Despite a few solid zingers against Corbyn, The Guardian and about 300 of the 328 official genders (he’s brought along the actual list), he never really grips his audience with the captive persuasion implied by his title.

He needn’t be nervous, for after all he’s in a safe space (not that he’d appreciate that term), but there’s a jittery disposition to him that suggests he’s wary of how his mostly tame material will fare with a liberal Fringe crowd. Had he taken his eponymous assertion by the mantle and made the jokes, rather than the contrived complaints, the fulcrum of his argument, perhaps the result would’ve been more convincing. / Matthew Sharpe

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There’s a glorious, rolling swagger to Flesh & Bone. Unpolished Theatre’s lyrical ode to the community of a London council estate is blunt, filthy and ingenious.

Mouthy Terence (Elliot Warren) and his closeted gay brother Reiss (Michael Jinks) live with Terence’s no-nonsense girlfriend, Kelly (Olivia Brady). They’re crammed into her grandad’s (Nick T Frost)

place, with his bad puns and sad memories. Next door, behind the drug-dealing, hard-man act, Jamal (Alessandra Babalola) worries about his virginity.

Writer and director Warren pieces their lives together for us through stage-packed or individual monologues. These are spittle-flecked gobbets of blank verse that shove Shakespeare in between sinewy streams of modern patter. It works beautifully, turning the air blue with its sweary rhythm and pitch. The poetry of it hits like two fingers flicked with a smile.

Warren skilfully uses the confessional nature of the monologue form to peel away his characters’ layers, digging beneath the

stereotypes his production initially dares us into believing. In particular, Babalola shines as Jamal, simultaneously funny and sad as he drops the gruffness to confide that he’s a nice guy. He stokes up a fiery fierceness at the sneers of a posh-suited society beyond the estate.

That political edge throbs away beneath cartoon-sized jokes as the cast throw themselves full tilt at the show. Slimy bureaucratic buzzwords for forced relocation like “decant” pop up. While Flesh and Bone’s celebration of family isn’t an exercise in gritty subtlety, it isn’t rose-tinted. Protest is part of the exhilarating dynamo powering this show. / Tom Wicker

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Sometimes a story needs more than a show. It’s not always enough to sit back in the dark. Some stories need living to make themselves fully felt.

Ontroerend Goed are masters of this. In the decade since the Belgians first came to the Fringe, their interactive shows have seduced us, betrayed us and—more misguidedly—abused us. They know just how to trick an audience – but the best tricks are often those that hide in plain sight. £¥€$ (LIES) is full of them. The title tells you as much.

LIES reveals the global financial system for the casino it is. It takes Wall Street and turns it into Las Vegas – a city as rife with cardsharks as crapshoots.

The difference is that here, the odds are stacked in your favour. Until, of course, they’re not.

We sit, eight per game, at six elegant pine casino tables, each its own individual stock market. Your croupier deals out the chips, one million apiece. You place your stakes, roll your dice and hope for returns.

Gradually—skilfully—LIES ups the ante. New ways of making money come into play: bonds, short trading, mergers and more. Alarm bells start to ring, but you’ve hit a hot streak. Your credit rating’s gone up; your stash of chips too.

You already know exactly how LIES ends. You knew it from the start. You’ve already lived it. All of us have.

The only conceivable conclusion is a catatonic crash.

It can’t end any other way – and yet, in the moment, flush as fuck, you forget. Up 60, 70, 80 million, you lose sight of all that – all those bankers with boxes, all those stockbrockers screaming across the trading floor, all those runs on Northern Rock. You feel invincible. You can’t help but win. You’re Rothschild. You’re Midas. You’re the Wolf of fucking Wall Street.

That’s the brilliance of the game’s construction showing through. It’s all smoke and mirrors; lies built on lies. More and more chips flow into the game.

Loans become meaningless; bonds, make-believe. All money is magic, and the croupier’s actions resemble nothing so much as close-up card tricks. They offer you options you only half grasp, but options you can’t afford not to take. Keeping up with your rivals becomes all-important; all-consuming. The pace quickens, your guard slackens, control slips away, and your choices come back with consequences you never saw coming. Boom.

Foreign Radical, on the other hand, never lets you forget yourself. In 2014, under President Obama,

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America extended its surveillance laws. It dropped the need for concrete proof of extremism. Suspicion and association were enough to land you on a watchlist that grew by 500,000. It paved the way for President Trump’s travel ban.

Tim Carlson’s Theatre Conspiracy make a game show of surveillance. A toothsome (and teethgrinding) host puts us through a quiz, scrutinising the likelihood we’ll end up on that list. Do you encrypt messages? Attend political parties? Speak Farsi? Our answers determine what we get to see, but there’s scant rhyme or reason underlying that process. It’s all much of a muchness.

Scenes from border control cut through it. An Arabic man stands, naked and akimbo, over an interview table. We rifle through his suitcase in search of suspicious material as if it were a Generation Game challenge. Based on what we find, should we submit him to surveillance? That’s when Foreign Radical’s shortcomings become clear. Like-minded liberals line up to say no. There’s no debate to be had, and no tripping us up. We’re left to signal our virtues and polish our halos. It’s too public for anything else.

From the Ground Up uses that to its advantage.

Theatre’s equivalent of an online personality test, it pushes us, in public, to own up to ourselves. The

conceit is that the Almeida Young Company, all aged between 16 and 25, are conducting research into types of adult. Our ethics. Our politics. Our beliefs about the world. We’re their sample group. Their human lab rats.

With one hand stamped “YES”, the other marked “NO”, we face a barrage of personal questions, some easy, some hard, some nigh-on impossible. Are you the sort to seek status at work? Do you believe in such a thing as society? If push came to shove, would you cling to power? Are you sexually adventurous?

Are hijabs regressive? Most of our choices are made in full public view – one step left for yes, one right for no. We’re on show here, no mistake. The kids have clipboards and they’re taking notes.

It’s a reminder that our choices set an example. The performers are all still working out where they stand on these things, who they want to be. The questions are probing, and there’s no fudging allowed. It forces us to find out where we stand and, based on our answers, each picks their teams. It’s a bit like submitting yourself to the Sorting Hat. True, the game doesn’t go as far as it might. Our choices don’t have consequences, nor do our tribes mean that much. It’s all a bit arbitrary and unscientific, with shades of surveillance left under-explored. But who really cares? It still reveals us to ourselves.

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Jenny quietly talks of caring for her husband Tommy after bowel cancer has turned him into a fragile, birdlike man. She lovingly prepares his vegan meals whilst mocking their ridiculousness, and sponge baths his paper-thin skin. As he sits in their garden and she works in the house, she remembers their decades together. But this isn’t a gentle, reflective play about a mundane relationship. It’s a cable downed in a hurricane, thrashing and sparking in the wet and windy street.

Jenny and Tommy’s love begins on Edinburgh’s cobbled streets when they were ten years old. The immediacy of the connection between the

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Choreographer and dancer Pauline Mayers’ performance starts with an invitation: that we join her on the stage and move round it with her.

It’s an invitation that breaks down the invisible hierarchies between performer and audience and makes us equal in the space, breathing together, taking in each others’ presence.

prep school girl and the boy that gave up on education to work down on the Leith docks is dangerous, volatile and unbreakable. They fall in love before they know what love is, and their ignorance has huge consequences they can’t even begin to understand.

Hywel John’s non-linear script of rapid fire scenes juxtaposes the present and the past with three actors all playing Jenny. They also take on the other characters that appear: Tommy, his mum, Jenny’s parents, and her beloved Seanmhair, Scots Gaelic for “grandmother”. Jo Freer, Sian Howard, and Molly Vevers all possess a laser-like immediacy that drives the story forward with relentless passion and need.

Though more definitive resolutions to some of the subplots are needed and the all-white cast is unnecessary, there’s little else to fault here. Seanmhair is an exciting, volatile new play deserving of wider audiences. / Laura Kressly

But Mayers breaks down this equality, too. The idea that patterns through it is one of how black people’ bodies are seen differently. Dance is a genre that invites an audience to unapologetically scrutinise someone’s outlines and colours, to take aesthetic pleasure in their body. In Mayers’ case, choreographers she worked with felt able to define her by her skin colour, and to make her bear all the preconceptions that came with that.

Mayers draws connections between this looking and the way that slaves in America were objectified and used. And, using recorded clips of radio debates, she ties it into the preconceptions that still cast white

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young people as high-spirited and black young people as dangerous, unknowable.

Working with director Chris Goode, Mayers creates a space that feels utterly gentle and open, one where she can put history into dialogue with her own past. There’s a lightness to her performance that almost gets overwhelmed by the post-show talk, which offers audience members a chance to speak, too, but with its carefully guided questions starts to feel a bit like a lesson in ‘reading’ the show.

With a performance this moving, sometimes you just want to sit with the delicate, devastating mood it creates. / Alice Saville

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Heron, Magpie and Feral Pigeon have never done this “presentation-talk-lecture” on how to conquer your fear in front of an audience before. Unsurprising, therefore, that the siblings are a tad nervous as they share techniques they’ve learned from Jeff, an American selfhelp guru who’s been communicating with them through an old boombox since their parents abandoned them 19 years previously. They don’t let that stop them though, enthusiastically demonstrating Fuller’s

“body-based process”, showing us the Boy Scout-style badges they’ve awarded each other for coping home alone, and settling down for story time in Calm Down Corner.

If it all sounds bonkers, that’s because it is. Writer/director Anna Harpin and performers Susie Riddell, Adam Fuller and Emma Keaveney-Roys conjure up a compelling dramatic universe that tempts us in—audience participation involves a Mini Cheddars and mojito party— while prompting us to puzzle over what dark deeds might have led the siblings to construct this elaborate

fantasy world.

This tension is never satisfyingly resolved, leaving the show feeling more like a series of (very funny) interconnecting sketches rather than a drama with a proper narrative arc. On the one hand, this is a shame, because the few moments of pathos are beautifully framed. On the other however, What if the Plane Falls Out of the Sky? isn’t any less enjoyable to watch and be part of for this absence, thanks to Harpin’s quick, smart script and nuanced comic performances by the whole cast. / Jo Caird

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Daniella’s newly single mum has moved the two of them from London to the suburban north. A GCSE student and out lesbian, she’s used to the excitement and acceptance of city life. With her friends far away and bullying on her doorstep, she turns to the internet and social media to escape. Video games,

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Kafka and Son is that type of solo biographical stage drama that proliferates at the Fringe: conscientious, clearly well-researched… and (whisper it) a bit dull.

Co-created and acted by Alon Nashman, Canadian theatre company Theaturtle’s show dramatises a letter written by famed surrealist German writer, Franz Kafka, then 36, to his father. In it, Kafka rails against the tyrannical parent who terrified him as a child and still looms fearfully over his life and work. This letter is his self-examination.

You can’t deny Nashman’s commitment as he stalks Pleasance’s Bunker 1 studio space, his face agonised and hands fully wrung as Kafka Jr. or, playing his bellicose

father, a snorting picture of fury.

He’s not phoning it in.

This production would benefit from the dark, playful ambiguity that is Kafka’s hallmark. But Nashman’s co-creator and director Mark Cassidy’s staging—all exposed bed springs, wire cages and black feathers—teeters unselfconsciously on the edge of self-parody.

The show’s brief flashes of humour are bogged down by its weighty sincerity.

And, by God, the list of Kafka’s grievances with dear dad is exhaustive here. From Judaism, to sex, to marriage, it’s endless.

The fraught relationship between fathers and sons is a key thread running through Kafka’s work, from The Trial to The Metamorphosis. But rather than illuminating this, Kafka and Son smothers it in plodding biography.

While this is a fitfully interesting production, it ultimately reduces Kafka to an ominously-lit Wikipedia entry. We’re left, sadly, with a portrait of the artist as a bit of whinger.

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characters too young, but Simone James skillfully avoids this trap.

James convincingly captures the middle teen years where Daniella’s not really a child anymore, but isn’t an adult, either. She’s facing the pressures of GCSEs and is increasingly independent, but serious incidents show she’s out of her depth in the adult world.

The story has too many subplots and major events to be believable in such a short period of time, even though they’re tenable in and of themselves. But James is a compelling performer and Bayley’s character is a tribute to young people and the struggles they face growing up online. / Laura Kressly

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YouTube, snapchat and multiple Facebook profiles are an opportunity for Daniella to explore who she wants to be.

An exploration of internet dependency and personal identity, Clare Bayley’s monologue shows how blanket labelling of the internet as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ is reductive and inaccurate. Daniella is humiliated online, but finds a community of people who accept her. It permits her, in times of need, to reach out to friends who would otherwise be uncontactable. It also allows her to meet strangers in the Scottish Highlands.

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It’s not that this isn’t a well-meaning or intermittently fun production.

A “political party disguised as a party party disguised as a show”, it’s in essence a lecture on the importance of bees, wrapped up in a self-consciously ropey lecture, with some party elements thrown in for energy. But the only level on which this is really successful is on the importance of bees. Which is fine in itself. But, really, none of the families coming to this show are likely to have any doubts around the bee question. And if they do happen to buzz in by accident, this just isn’t going to be the call to action it hopes to be.

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The only redeeming feature of this play is the strength of Lucy Roslyn’s legs. Keeping the pose of chimpanzee Goody for an hour, Roslyn bounces and clambers around the stage, doing all she can to make the audience laugh as they consider escaping their own cage of the theatre.

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contributes the equivalent of £510 million to the UK economy? Either this is aimed at kids, in which case arguments about the economy really aren’t the way to make an impression, however much the energetic trio of Josie Dale-Jones, Joe Boylan and Greta Mitchell try to wrap it up in silly faux-seriousness. Or it’s aimed at adults, in which case the silly faux-seriousness really bugs.

There are some nice moments, especially a running visual gag

about saving the world. The opening sequence introducing the characters and the “party” sets an intriguing spikey tone. But this doesn’t really go anywhere as the substance of the lecture starts to occupy the hive. It would be asking a lot to maintain the party atmosphere through this. It all builds to a sung peroration: “Pollination for the nation. Save the bees; save the world”. Which, really, lacks sting.

Jesse Rutherford struggles more with his role of Goody’s abusive owner Frances. With slack body language and a lack of variation in his voice, his impressions are tricky to tell apart, and neither humour nor dominance flows easily from him. Frances’s authority is never realised, creating a power dynamic that has no space to play in. He is an insecure owner who turns to violence every time he can’t control Goody, but the relationship between them is not strong enough to make us care.

Where the play really suffers is the logic of its language. At first Goody communicates through sign

language. Sporadically, she speaks aloud, either to Frances or to announce subtext, clumsily thrown into the script like dung at an annoying zookeeper. Frances sometimes hears and sometimes doesn’t. It sometimes matters and sometimes doesn’t. The script falters and drags. The logical thread is dropped so many times I think it must have got tangled in Goody’s cage, and no one bothers to unpick it.

As Frances and Goody half-heartedly search for comfort in the damaged love of the other, this play is essentially a weakly-told story of a lonely man gaslighting a chimpanzee. / Kate Wyver

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The piece is just one of a clutch of dance shows this festival exploring different modes of human behaviour – and what strange creatures we are. Three men, having suited and booted themselves for work in an elaborate choreography, embark on a dance of desk routines, scrunching paper and clowning around with disappearing stairs and lifts. There’s a lot of fun in the early parts of the show, showing the capacity of an idle mind to call on innovation, invention and imagination.

But soon things wander into more surreal territory, and we’re off to sea on an ocean of paper balls, travelling with our renegade wanderer, who has broken free from his colleagues to a blizzardy island where he builds a snowman for company. What starts off with the charm of Mr Bean ends up in a more fey vein. But it’s the commitment to clear physical storytelling in this young trio that stands out.

In Shoko Seki: Deadline, the reminders of human customs begin even before the show does. We are asked to take our shoes off and store them under our chairs – the reason becomes apparent later. Downstage is a table at which Seki sits, in a medical white coat and face mask, clawing and sweeping at an imaginary piano.

Every so often the music stops for a tired breath and she slumps over the table then drags herself upright.

Centre stage she performs a brief yearning, clutching dance before it’s back to the grind. It’s not hard to catch the drift of Seki’s piece, an exploration of the Japanese phenomenon of death through overwork. The uniform and mask are both gradually stripped away and we see her pushed around by invisible forces.

But then all of a sudden it’s break time, she tells us via a series of placards. We’re invited into a cross-legged circle and are given instruments. We begin to play, swapping the instruments between us, and she dances, responding playfully, curiously. The contrast, when the work kicks back in, feels brutal.

It’s not only humans that are under the microscope in company Fauna’s production of the same name. The group has chosen to explore courtship rituals through circus, and there’s a distinctly avian flavour to their movement. Curious ankle angles and knee twists when one performer is upside down make her feet look like

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If you’ve ever worked in an admin role you’ll understand the tedium of stapling, stacking and enveloping piles of paper. But it’s doubtful anyone has attempted to tackle their office boredom in quite the same way as the characters in Form.

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inquisitive beaks. Frog postures and clinging balances create exotic shapes, while performers try to impress or sabotage each other.

What is exhilarating about Fauna is that the company uses circus skills as choreography, not mixing the two, not planting balances between passages of dance but creating dance from balances – in a similar way to Australian company Circa. When one performer swivels in a one-handed handstand or another clears a jagged valley of balance posts in a single leap the instinct is to clap, but it feels wrong here. Not that we should ever want to take the skill of acrobats for granted, but this choreographic approach uses the topsy-turvy, out-of-the-ordinary language of circus and makes it work for the piece’s themes rather than to show off. It’s the perfect code for analysing the strange behaviour of both humans and animals; clever and at the same time a pure joy to watch.

Peacocks Lobsters & Us also sets its sights on picking apart human courtship, but company Steelworks has stayed firmly in the box of stereotypes and makes no attempt to challenge tired, crass gender clichés. The

woman needs to protect her eggs, we are told, while the man needs to spread his seed. So far so cod-biology.

But then we get to the more poisonous notions. A game show scorecard bleeps or buzzes when each participant loses or gains a point. Minus one to the woman for having a Durham education – too much education is not attractive in a woman. Plus one to the man for having been to Oxford – in men it is. Minus one to her for being a lawyer – women shouldn’t earn too much.

Minus one to him for being a journalist – you get the gist. The tone is playful—it’s clearly not an instruction manual—but is not satirical enough to undermine the toxic idiocies writer Rebecca Steel is peddling. The woman is insecure about the size of her bottom while the man watches too much football.

There is a warm and more balanced ending, but the saving grace of this production is really the two performers – Robert Sharpe and Ruth Hales set about their roles with gusto. Hales, in particular, is a great physical comedian, elastic-mouthed, expressive, exuberant. Still, their co-credit for devising the piece means they don’t get off entirely scot-free.

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Though this piece is listed as circus, the acrobatics of All Genius All Idiot are woven into a more sprawling neon-stained patchwork of music, visual imagery and low-fi experiments.

Ben Smith perches on top of a Chinese pole playing a mandolin, dressed in a fur coat, fishnets and antlers. He rides Santiago Ruiz like a horse, until the latter escapes into a stylish routine on the pole.Tom Brand has a wild-child breathlessness while performing aerial rope, but he also drowns his face in a bowl of water, which he fountains over the front two rows of the crowd when his chest is jumped on to revive him.

tions made between the rigours of rehearsal and drill training, with a clear understanding that the outcomes being prepared for carry vast differences in weight.

Director and choreographer Kay, and all the five uniform-clad dancers, have spent time training with the army, and the show is hosted during the festival in the Edinburgh Army Reserve Centre, ushered by serving members of the force. Recurring mini-conflicts across rank and friendship build through the four movements of the piece and, though it may seem there are only limited conclusions to the story, there is still some surprise and impact within the show’s structure.

Waiting becomes basic training,

It’s not the surrealism that makes the marmite element of this show (though if the performers were to smear one another in marmite it wouldn’t be a surprise). Exploring the line between genius and idiot company Svalbard invokes a combination of avant-garde emblems, slow physical non-sequiturs, and scrapyard stage props that give the piece a performance art feel, and you get the impression that they would like you to think of it in that way – except when one of the cast complains because the audience aren’t clapping enough at the circus stunts. If you haven’t seen anything like it before it could fill you with wonder, but if you have, it might grate after a while.

There are other missteps. White singer Smith sings in Caribbean and African American accents – a vocal form of blackface. For all the gender subversion and anarchy, there’s a glint of privilege to this show too. / Lucy Ribchester

becomes waiting, becomes wild partying. Preparation becomes bonds forming, becomes waiting in a chopper, becomes casualty, care, recuperation. Respectful attention is paid to the female experience in a male dominated environment, and the overt portrayal of power and precarity here informs our grasp of the entire frontline experience.

Projections are used effectively, as is Annie Mahtani’s understated soundscape that emphasises the tense monotony of the production.

Strapping Duncan Anderson’s legs to recreate an amputee’s physical options is a brave choice and, though this is not a show to be enjoyed per se, it feels important to witness. / Katharine Kavanagh

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Choosing a suitable show name that exactly describes what’s in the tin is a skill Tomás Ford has mastered. His show is cringeworthily crap and surprisingly spectacular in equal measures. The energetic Australian performer reimagines some of the world’s greatest pop hits and talks us through them, assisted by hypnotising video projections and loud and colourful costumes.

There’s no real line to this hour of thumping tunes, nor a deeper message. Although he shouts more than he sings, his song interpretations give new meaning to well-known material by artists as Dannii Minogue, Elton John and

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We all need to push the boundaries and break the rules sometimes, says Australian cabaret star Pamela Shaw. But she fails to listen to her own advice and keeps her cabaret remarkably safe. Accompanied on the piano by the brilliant Ian Herman (or Nathan Martin from the second half or the Fringe) she

Hanson. Ford proves himself a true genius when he makes a song like the Village People’s ‘YMCA’ sound fresh and compelling – despite the well-known arm movements spelling out the letters.

Ford forces audience participation and gets even the grumpiest of punters to clap and dance along. He disarms them with sharp humour, bravado (“You’re not too cool for this, now clap!”), and a

gaze that demolishes any defence weary audience members might have put up.

The show turns into a full-blown immersive experience and Ford leaves the audience stunned and most of all, in awe of what just happened. It was craptacular. The full meaning of that word can only be comprehended after experiencing this whirlwind of a performance.

sings stories and tells little tales, but never reaches a climax.

There’s no doubt Shaw knows how to interpret a song. She might not be the best singer—admittedly, her voice suffers slightly from having a Fringe cold—but as an actress she manages to pull every heartstring in the songs where she can excel as she reflects on life’s events.

Unfortunately those moments are sparse in this cabaret. There are some awkward old-fashioned dance moves during songs and pointless ramblings in between – though she’s aware of the latter. “I don’t know why I had to tell that”,

she remarks at some point.

The title of the show is borrowed from Tim Minchin’s song from the musical Matilda. The protagonist of Roald Dahl’s story is her role model, she explains, as she realised she had to be a bit naughty in life and break free. How she did that is unclear. And why she sings ‘Naughty’, pretending to be a young, silly girl is an even bigger mystery. The painfully childish interpretation is a missed chance for Shaw to show what an enormous talent she possesses. She doesn’t have to hide behind a naughty little girl to be the naughty powerhouse she is.

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Aussie company BonTom have taken up residence in a tiny bathroom and made its walls ring with some of opera’s best-loved tunes.

An all-female cast of three wittily repurpose romantic classics to a modern setting, using them as the soundtrack to queer online dating flirtations or bathroom makeover sessions.

Up close, the music has a new magic. Jessica Westcott’s beautiful voice soars as she delivers a performance of ‘Habanera’ that’s so fiery you can almost see the mirrors steaming up. Sally Alrich-Smythe and Britt Lewis’s lighter voices would be lost in a concert hall, but they bring a freshness to their performances as they dance, cry and gossip their way through a collection of romantic arias.

The 12-strong audience are packed in tightly, cast as voyeurs spying on these three swooning, sorrowing young women. Director Clemence Williams uses the space inventively: the trio sing an arrangement of Delibes’ famous

‘Flower Duet’ from inside the cubicles, scrawl lipstick on the mirrors, or festoon the bathroom’s ceiling with wreaths of bog roll.

The first 20 minutes are brilliantly watchable. What’s missing after that is a consistently clear, believable narrative arc. Alrich-Smythe transforms from suicidal domestic violence victim to empowered woman, a trajectory that feels a little tasteless in the context of the evening’s frothy tone.

Still, this performance is pretty special for the way it condenses the huge emotional power of opera into a teeny-tiny space. I leave with my ears ringing, and my heart full.

ingly baffling, not least because we have no idea which bit of the text the movement relates to. One moment he has his arse out and is screwing the backdrop. The next he dons a dress and high heels. Nope, me neither.

And, pray tell, “who is the third who walks always beside you?”

Our man is joined by an assistant who contributes the odd line (“HURRY UP PLEASE IT’S TIME”) but mostly drinks tequila from the bottle. On one hand, this is a distraction. On the other...

There’s a number of genuine points to make about why the whole endevour is so bizarre as a means of communicating The Waste Land.

Try, for instance, getting sense of the strict blank verse of “The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne...” as compared to the over-stuffed “Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon”...over a thudding beat.

No dice. But, to do so would suggest that elucidation of the text is a priority here. It is not.

Perhaps because of all this, it’s wierdly compelling. And Borlaug is undoubtedly charismatic. I watch, slack jawed, having never seen anything quite the like. This is a triumph of esotericism; a monumental failure of communication.

Turns out that August, in fact, is the cruellest month. / Evan Beswick

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Instantly this becomes a problem.

I catch snippets, but I’m sure some half-remembered phrases spring out of the sonic mud as if unconsciously responding to the scene at hand: “What are you thinking of?

What thinking? What?”; “What is that noise?”

Alongside the recitation we are treated to some very committed acting. It is, beautifully, intrugu-

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Alice McGuire, aged 10, enjoys seeing a character she already knows from the books brought to life

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Ruby Redfort What happens in the show?

13-year-old Ruby Redfort is well known for being great at solving riddles and breaking codes. She is recruited by a secret agency called Spectrum after her parents get mixed up in a plot to steal a supernatural statue. The story follow’s Ruby’s attempts to discover the criminals’ plans and save the statue.

Describe the show in five words Mysterious, clever, gripping, action-packed, witty.

Who was your favourite character and why?

Clancy Crew, Ruby’s best friend. Although he does help Ruby he’s really there as the comic relief, and he lightens the mood when the plot gets a bit tense. Also, having him is handy as it means that Ruby sometimes has to summarise what’s happening to Clancy, and that’s useful for the audience, especially if a younger one had to run out to the loo!

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Were there any characters you didn’t like?

I didn’t really dislike anyone, but if I had to pick I’d say that the main baddie, The Count, was my least favourite. I know that the actor was intentionally hamming it up to be funny, but I found his accent a little bit annoying.

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What didn’t you like about the show?

I would’ve liked Ruby’s dog to be in more scenes, only because it was a cool little puppet and I think I’d like one for myself.

What did you like most about the show?

I liked how the actors used the luminous poles. They used them as lifts, corridors, frames and screens. It created movement, different scenes and made it feel almost like another world at times. Also, the fact there was extensive use of different coloured lights for the scenes involving Spectrum was a clever touch.

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

There were little bits of background music to link from one scene to another. My dad said they choose some good tunes, but I didn’t really notice as I was thinking about how the plot was progressing.

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

Yes, we actually participated in The Authors Live (a series of live online broadcasts by top children’s authors) at school, where Lauren Child read a chapter of the latest Ruby Redfort book, and talked about the character and what inspired her to write the various stories.

Quite a few people in my class enjoyed that and I think they’d really enjoy seeing the characters come to life.

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Ella Enchanted This empowering retelling of the Cinderella story left Ruby Foster, aged eight, wishing for a little more ‘show’ and a little less ‘tell’ What happens in the show?

Ella is born. She’s given a gift by a fairy and the gift is that she must obey everyone. Fifteen years later she and her mum get a cold and there’s this magical soup that makes it better but the mum doesn’t drink it and dies (sorry kids!). Fed up with doing what everyone tells her, Ella goes to find the fairy to give back her “gift”…

Describe the show in five words Like a decent school play.

Who was your favourite character and why?

I liked the fairy that gave Ella her powers because she was very clumsy and very silly. The bit where she came barging in and belly-flopped on the ground was one of my favourite bits in the whole show. She had a wonderful outrageous voice (in a good way).

Were there any characters you didn’t like?

I’m not saying I didn’t like them but I didn’t get the point in the knights coming in.They weren’t in it for long and it would have been more romantic with just the prince.There seemed to be a few extra roles that maybe didn’t need to be included and this made the show feel kind of squeezed. A bit like a sandwich with too many fillings.

What did you like most about the show?

I liked the energetic performances from some of the actors. There were a few funny parts and I was impressed by the actor who played Ella. She remembered all her lines and she had a lot to say. A lot to say.

What didn’t you like about the show?

I didn’t like it because they seemed to spend more time saying the story than actually acting it out. I would also have liked to see more props or more imaginative use of the props they had. What’s the point of having glass slippers in the story but using gold slippers on the stage?

The lighting only changed the slightest bit and there was hardly any sound effects. Overall they didn’t really have much magic for a magical world.

What did you think of the music?

There was one song in it and it was really important to the story but the actual song wasn’t very good and the actors didn’t make enough of it. It was quite bland.

What did your grown-up think of the show?

“We’ve been lucky enough to see quite a few imaginative and engaging kids’ shows in the last few years and this was quite underwhelming by comparison. “Show don’t tell” is a pretty good rule but it was ignored here to the extent that I wondered if it would make for a better radio play. Buried in there somewhere was a decent story about young women making choices but dense script and flat staging made it hard to engage with. I was not enchanted.

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

No, because I think I would forget about it quite quickly.

VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:

Pleasance Courtyard 11:15am – 12:30pm, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 14, 21 £7.50 – £9.50

The Star Seekers HHHH VENUE: TIME:

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Pleasance Dome 10:40am – 11:40am, 10–27 Aug, not 15 £7 – £9

All aboard, space cadets: The Star Seekers recruits a brand new team of intergalactic explorers every day in family theatre presented with boundless enthusiasm by its performers. And with such an excitable cast the energy is infectious.

Nicola Hotter’s set design is delightfully innovative with a low-budget feel to put parents in the mind of B-movies. No prop has been left untouched by the sci-fi aesthetic – even the keyboard is transformed into a switchboard.

The large set’s ability to rotate allows for some genuinely surprising scene changes. It matches the exploratory theme of the show brilliantly: the audience discover new corners of the great yonder at the same rate as the Seekers.

Alph, Betty and Gammo—the

Mavis Sparkle HHHH VENUE: TIME:

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Pleasance Courtyard 11:00am – 11:50am, 2–20 Aug £9 – £9.50

Mavis doesn’t just sparkle, she dazzles. M6 Theatre Company’s latest kids’ show is an enchantingly inventive, magic box of a production about dreaming big, whoever you are.

Mavis (Eve Robertson) is a cleaner. She loves her job but her contract is almost up. She’s looking for her next challenge. But what—and where—will it be? Gilly Baskeyfield

titular Seekers—share a dynamic without any hostility which is refreshing. Instead, the conflict comes from retrieving a series of orbs to power an infinite energy device. Each performer has their own sequence for finding an orb, making for a somewhat formulaic feel, but this aids in easily establishing the characters.

There’s plenty of audience inter-

action which, here, carries a nice sincerity. Name tags mean that the Star Seekers address children by their first name: even something as simple as this gives a personal touch to the audience’s experience.

Plenty of mime and dancing means energetic younger members are kept from fidgeting – there’s a method to all the madness, and it’s a whole lot of fun. / Louise Jones

and Dot Wood’s script is a lovely, nimble exploration of big themes for young children. It covers moving on and letting go, as Mavis tells us about her childhood growing up as a magician’s daughter. Robertson is a delightful, colourful companion, funny and effortlessly engaging as she dusts children in the audience or fondly recalls (and re-enacts) her dad’s magic shows through a mix of miniature props and shadow puppetry.

The star attraction of Baskeyfield’s production is Mavis’s cleaning trolley. It’s a beautifully constructed box of delights and hidden spaces, which Mavis constantly

opens up to reveal something new and exciting. Baskeyfield’s wellpaced direction ensures the show never loses the attention of even the youngest child, as cups sprout flowers and brooms become flagpoles.

Forget the noise and the glare of the latest, lazily CBBC-inspired production. Lovingly crafted and realised, this is the real deal.

Mavis’s trolley is a wonderful manifestation of the show’s abiding message: that even the most seemingly ordinary lives can be full of adventure and magic (and, if you’re lucky, a Spike the Hedgehog). I was as rapt as the three-year-old next to me. / Tom Wicker

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Gilded Balloon Teviot 11:50am – 12:30pm, 2–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23 £7.50

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Oskar is an energetic puppy living in the Swiss Alps. It’s winter. Thick snow has encased the cabin he shares with his master, an old lady and a menagerie of farm animals.

Cabin fever is setting in. This being a kids’ show, the plot doesn’t give in to any dark, carnivorous pangs that the set-up suggests. Rather than get hungry, everyone just gets sleepy. Everyone, that is, except Oskar. He just wants someone to play with and can’t wait for the spring thaw. So, he sneaks out one day to find a playmate, and his adventure begins.

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Oskar’s Amazing Adventure

Anglo-Swiss theatre company Fideri Fidera’s show is big on energy and charm. Solo performer Natasha Granger is plugged into the same megawattage generator that powers CBeebies presenters.

Eyes wide, she acts out the tale with a variety of stuffed animals and puppets, crooks her body while inhabiting the old lady searching for Oskar, and beams while leading the kids in songs about digging and catching snow on your nose.

There is more here for the kids than the adults, which, if you had

to choose between the two, is the right emphasis. Despite its inventive staging and winning performances, its appeal is firmly pre-school. On this evidence, the book that the show is based on is one that kids would return to time and again at bedtime, while parents would quietly try and hide it under more colourful, witty fare.

Amazing adventure? Not quite.

Although, to be fair, Oskar’s Pleasantly Distracting Adventure wouldn’t look as good on a poster.

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PRIOR TO LONDON RUN

“An intoxicating blast of fun” The Daily Telegraph

“A must-see younger

brother to The Book of Mormon” The Daily Express

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Rahul Kohli’s Late Night Comedy Compilation Show: Kohl and the Gang Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 5–28 Aug, not 15, £free Arna Spek: Museum Piece Just the Tonic at The Caves, 4–27 Aug, not 15, £3—£5 Spank!

Underbelly, Cowgate, 5–28 Aug, £13.50—£15.50 Will Seaward’s Spooky Midnight Ghost Stories IV Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3–29 Aug, not 10, 15, 22, £6—£10 The Love of Stationery

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Just the Tonic at The Caves, 4–28 Aug, not 15, £3—£5

McCann and Omobitan Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 4–21 Aug, not 15, £5 Best of the Fest Assembly Hall, Various dates from 5 Aug to 28 Aug, £12—£15 Rob Kemp: The Elvis Dead Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 4–28 Aug, not 16, 17, 23, 24, £5

00:10 America vs Sweden Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 4–28 Aug, £free William Rees: The Splash Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 5 Aug–1 Sep, £free

00:15 Inheritance Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £free Spank!tacular Pleasance Courtyard, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, 27 Aug, £15.50

00:20 Haver Just the Tonic at The Caves, 4–28 Aug, not 15, 24, £5

00:25 How Not to Pull: Confessions of a Trainee Pickup Artist – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4–28 Aug, not 22, £free

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Bare Jokes Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 4–27 Aug, £free

01:15 BlundaBuskers Fringe After-Party & Piano Bar Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 2–28 Aug, £free Sameer Katz: Can Fish Drown?

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 4–28 Aug, £free

BlundaBuskers Fringe After-Party & Piano Bar Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 2–28 Aug, £free Pure Dying Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 4–28 Aug, £free Sensitive Bricks and the Cement of Time Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 4–28 Aug, not 17, £free The Improverts Bedlam Theatre, 4–30 Aug, £7—£8 Boycotted: Comedy from Israel Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 18–28 Aug, not 19, 26, £free

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BBC at George Heriot’s School BBC, 4–25 Aug, £free

Nazi Jihadi Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4–27 Aug, £free Kit Sullivan in Digital Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 4–28 Aug, not 17, £free

01:00 Manic Pixie Dream Girls Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 14–28 Aug, not 26, £free Late’n’Live Gilded Balloon Teviot, 5–29 Aug, £10—£16

Trevor Feelgood: Sold Out (But Tickets Still Available) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 5–28 Aug, not 15, £free

01:30 Comedy Lock-In Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 4 Aug–1 Sep, not 16 Aug, £free

02:00 BlundaBuskers Fringe After-Party & Piano Bar Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 2–28 Aug, £free

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10:00 Taking the Biscuit Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4–27 Aug, £free Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 18–24 Aug, £free BBC: The Janice Forsyth Show BBC, 7–24 Aug, not 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, £free

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Lemon Creek Baptist Church Handgun Training Course Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free

Edy Hurst: Theme Show Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–27 Aug, £5 Too Soon: Jokes from the Future Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 3–19 Aug, not 14, £free

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The Obscurist Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–18 Aug, £6.50 Super Cally Fragile Lipstick Just the Tonic at The Caves, 22–25 Aug, £5

10:45 A Comedy Brunch Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Present and Correct Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

11:00 Franks and Skinner Present: MindfulMess Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–19 Aug, not 14, £4—£6 Digital Fart from the Neo-Archaic Futureland (Russia) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free John Porter – Five Years’ Time Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 14–19 Aug, £free About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, Various dates from 5 Aug to 26 Aug, £99 The Full Irish Whistlebinkies, 5–27 Aug, £free Stateless Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £free

Cheetah Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, £free

11:10 Mary Flanigan Is a Pisces, Obviously Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–27 Aug, £free

11:15 Pam Ford: Pants and Pantsability Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free

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

11:30 A Monk’s Tale: Relics, Revolt and Reformation Gilded Balloon Teviot, 5–23 Aug, £8—£9 Hivemind Presents: Playlight Robbery Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 5–27 Aug, £free

11:40 Orwell that Ends Well Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 13, 14, £free—£5 Alice Devlin: Extra-Curricular Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £3—£5

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

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

11:55 Shaken Not Stirred: The Improvised James Bond Film Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £4—£7.50

12:00 Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6—£10 Too Old to Be a Power Ranger Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 3–27 Aug, £free Funny Women Fest Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6—£9 Conor O’Toole and Ruth Hunter Are Fine With This Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free Green Bananas Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Karoshi Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£7 Anders Lee Here Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 3–27 Aug, not 15, 16, 17, 19, £free Struan Logan: Mingalabar Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free

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Carabet Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Siân Docksey’s Totally Casual and Freewheeling Mystic Comedy: Lemon Torpedo Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free David Ephgrave: Now Who’s a Comedian?

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £3—£5 Joby Mageean and Edy Hurst: Dead Nice Boys Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 21–25 Aug, £free Nathan Willcock: State of the Nathan Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 7–27 Aug, £free UCL Graters: Smashing Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10 Alex Love: How to Win a Pub Quiz The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 4–27 Aug, not 14, 22, £9 Tony Law: Absurdity for the Common People

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Scott Barnett: Quantumly Entangled With a Blobfish Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5 Aaaaaaaaaaargh! It’s the One-Liner Show – Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Afternoon Delight Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £3—£5 Generation Hummus Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 13–19 Aug, £free David O’Doherty: Big Time Assembly George Square Theatre, 24 Aug, 28 Aug, £16

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Breaking Black by Njambi McGrath HHH Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–26 Aug, £free Daisy Earl / Kirsty Mann Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 15–27 Aug, £6—£8 Be Prepared! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £10 Fern Brady: Suffer, Fools! HHHH The Stand Comedy Club 2, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, 15, £9—£10 Wretched Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £7

Eleanor Morton: Angry Young Woman The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, 21, £7—£8 Joe Wells: I Hope I Die Before I Start Voting Conservative Sneaky Pete’s, 5–27 Aug, £free

12:10 Tom Crosbie: You Can’t Polish a Nerd Voodoo Rooms, 5–27 Aug, £free The Red Emerald: A Farce for the Colourblind theSpace on Niddry St, 14–19 Aug, £7—£10

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

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–27 Aug, £free Men With Coconuts La Belle Angèle, 5–27 Aug, £free Amy Annette: What Women Want Underbelly Med Quad, 16–20 Aug, £6

12:20 Wake Up and Deirdrealize Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Dan Attfield: Google Drive Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10 A Digital Legacy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £7

12:30 Alistair Green: The Nan Tapes Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe Pleasance Courtyard, 5–27 Aug, not 17, 24, £11—£12 The Lunchtime Special Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £3—£6 Gráinne Maguire: What Has the News Ever Done for Me? Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Lucy Pearman: Maid of Cabbage HHHH

Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 15, £5

Spirit of the Dane Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, £8

12:45 Lauren Bok: Is That a Burrito in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy You Have a Burrito Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £5—£10 Albrecht Dürer: Renaissance Dude C venues – C cubed, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £7.50—£9.50 Tom Toal in Better Than Before Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free Mutiny! An Improvised Pirate Adventure Paradise in The Vault, 14–19 Aug, £5 The Edinburgh Revue’s 2017 Stand-Up Show Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 4–28 Aug, not 14, £free Mr Danger’s Really Safe Show Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 31 Jul–27 Aug, not 14 Aug, £free Idi-chums – A Stand-Up Comedy Showcase Paradise in The Vault, 21–27 Aug, £free

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

13:00 Wow! Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, £6.50—£10

Briony Redman: Theory of Positivity Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6—£9 Cold Hard Cache Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free—£5 Richard Todd: Monsters Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Good Girl Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £4—£8 Normal Boy Presents: Normal Boy Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £5 Adam Larter: L’Art Nouveau HHH Heroes @ The Hive, 4–26 Aug, not 12, £5 Rahul Kohli: Newcastle Brown Tales Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £free Ivan Brackenbury’s 10 Year Anniversary Party with Tom Binns, Ian D Montfort and Friends Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, £8—£12.50 Unfinished Business Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 4–24 Aug, not 14, £5—£7 Off the Top: Neuroscience With Attitude Ciao Roma, 5–27 Aug, not 14, £free

13:05 Cow Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free

13:10 Andy Onions – PowerPointless Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £free Rik Carranza Presents: Star Trek vs Star Wars Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £5 Amused Moose Comedy Award: Grand Final theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 20 Aug, £12.50

13:15 Aaaaaaaaaahhh. It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes – Free Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 3–27 Aug, £free How to Suffer Better Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £free

Girl in da Corner – Free Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 3–27 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free Paul ‘Silky’ White’s Food Fight!

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£8 Harriet Braine: Total Eclipse of the Art Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £free Candy Gigi Presents: Becky Rimmer’s Bat Mitzvah!

Heroes @ The Hive, 4–27 Aug, not 13, 14, 22, £5 Lost Voice Guy: Inspiration Porn The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 7, 14, 21, £8—£9 Zinus Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 16–27 Aug, £free Robin Boot’s Rockomedy: Puns of AnyKey Sneaky Pete’s, 5–26 Aug, not 21, £free A Comedy Tapas Opium, 5–26 Aug, £free Arielle Dundas: Vulva Cupcake Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Angel Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 4–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Cambridge Impronauts: Improv Actually Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10 Being Hueman Being Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £6—£9 Gareth Mutch: Mutch Ado About Nothing The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 7 Aug, 21 Aug, £9

The Science of Cringe Underbelly, George Square, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10.50 Sandra Hale: Self Helpless!

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Old Jewish Jokes Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Seymour Mace’s Magical Shitcakes from Heaven The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£12 The Oxford Imps: Improvised Comedy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10 The Stuntman Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–27 Aug, £free Guns ‘n’ Rosé With Peter E Davidson / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, £free

The Durham Revue: Laugh Actually Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£10.50 Muriel: Bad Master Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10 Michael Legge: Jerk The Stand Comedy Club 2, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£9 Daniel Cook: For Money Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Lou Conran: I Love Lou C Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show Pleasance Courtyard, 3–27 Aug, £6—£12

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

13:25 Super Cally Fragile Lipstick Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 5–20 Aug, not 14, £5 The Game of His Life Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 21–27 Aug, £5 Wisebowm: The Struggle Is Real Opium, 5–27 Aug, not 20, £free The Daddy and Beeje Chat Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £7

13:30 Bad Habits Just the Tonic at The Caves, 15–26 Aug, £3.50—£8 The House Sweet Grassmarket, 4–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £7.50 Katharine Ferns is in Stitches Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Coates and Cooper Present: Kidnap Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 13–27 Aug, £free Austentatious Underbelly, George Square, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £9—£14.50 Maddy Anholt – Herselves

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Fred MacAulay in Conversation Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 14–27 Aug, not 17, 18, 19, £13—£14 Kevin McAleer: Saying Yes to Yes New Town Theatre, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £9—£10 Trolley Girls Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 17–27 Aug, £free Gareth Waugh: Honestly?

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£9 Afternoon Tea With Ray Fordyce and Other Thoroughly Pleasant People Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free Only Fools and Three Courses Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 7–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £42.50

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

13:40 Mike Newall: Desert Boot-Leg Island Discs Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6 It’s No Job For A Nice Jewish Girl Black Market, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £free Ari Eldjárn: Pardon My Icelandic Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 14, 15, 23, £5

Matt Hutchinson: Mixtape Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £4—£5 Panilla Ice Ice Baby Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£10

13:45 Blank Canvas Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £free Henry Cafe: It’s Gameshow Time!

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

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

13:55 Bristol Revunions: Walnut theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free—£5

14:00 Aside Effect Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, £free Joe Hart: Alpha, Beta, Gamer Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, £5—£10 The Duke Pleasance Courtyard, 5–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £5 Margarita Dreams HH Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, £6.50—£10.50 Daniel Downie: 2 O’Clock Gun Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 3–27 Aug, not 5, 6, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, £free Afternoon T With Georgia Tasda Paradise Palms, 3–25 Aug, not 4, 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, £free Yianni Agisilaou: Pockets of Equality Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Douglas Walker Has a Nice Sit Down Follow @DouglasSits on Twitter, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Sofie Hagen: Dead Baby Frog HHHH Bedlam Theatre, 2–28 Aug, £10 This Arthur’s Seat Belongs to Lionel Richie On Top of Arthurs Seat, 19 Aug, £free Aideen McQueen – No Satisfaction Heroes @ Dragonfly, 3–26 Aug, £5

Aaaaaaaaargh! It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes – Free Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 3–27 Aug, £free Simon Day – In Character Pleasance Dome, 16–20 Aug, £13.50 Ahir Shah: Control

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Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free

BBC: Round Britain Quiz BBC, 21 Aug, £free Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen – The Final Tribute Pleasance Courtyard, 18–20 Aug, £12.50 The Patrick Monahan Game Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–19 Aug, £10

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

14:10 Ships Southsider, 5–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free I Can Cure Ciao Roma, 4–28 Aug, £free

14:15 Always Be Rolling – Free Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 3–27 Aug, not 16, 23, £free Shehan Wanigasekera: Wa Niga Wit Attitude Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £free Bare Jokes Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, £free Tom Bell’s Citizen Test Heroes @ The Hive, 13–27 Aug, not 15, 19, 23, 24, 26, £5

Adrienne Truscott’s a One-Trick Pony (Or Andy Kaufmann is a Feminist Performance Artist and I’m a Comedian) Heroes @ The Hive, 19 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £5

14:20 John-Luke Roberts: Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair! (All in Caps) Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £5 Andy Stedman – Parental Guidance Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Kieran Boyd: Sitzpinkler Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Adrian Minkowicz: Best Newcomer Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, not 14, £free Flo & Joan: The Kindness of Stranglers HHH Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5 Pamela DeMenthe Presents: Sticky Digits Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£8 The Harry and Chris Show 2 HHHH

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5

14:25 Charmian Hughes Soixante Mirth The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, £7—£8

14:30 Aaaaaaand Now It’s Time for Roger Swift’s Puneumatic Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free

#Jollyboat: Pirates of the Karaoke Liquid Room Annexe, 5–27 Aug, £free Metamorphosis Opium, 5–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free James Bennison: How to be a Winner Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Tiernan Douieb: Miserably Happy Waverley Bar, 5–27 Aug, not 15, 19, £free Jon Pearson: Feet First Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 3–27 Aug, £free Peter Dobbing: Electric Plum Sneaky Pete’s, 5–26 Aug, £free Phill Jupitus: Achtung!/ Acting!

The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£9 Sparkly Unicorn Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 12–19 Aug, £free Frank Foucault: Shoes (WIP) Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 20–27 Aug, £free WMD Makes Everything Better Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 4–19 Aug, £free Worst Show on the Fringe – Free Subway (previously Movement), 5–27 Aug, £free LGBTQZX Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 20–27 Aug, £free Ali Brice’s Never-Ending Pencil Heroes @ The Hive, 4–26 Aug, not 9, 22, £5 John Hegley: Peace, Love and Potatoes Assembly Checkpoint, 13–21 Aug, £11—£13

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Juliet Meyers: This Flipping Rescue Dog Has Ruined My Life Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Pottervision Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Georges the Spider Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 4–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Mickey Sharma – Sharmanator Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free

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

The Stand Comedy Club 2, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, £8—£9 Salt Water: A Comedy Show Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10.50

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Dad’s Army Radio Hour Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £7—£13.50 The Canon: A Literary Sketch Show Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£11 Sam Goodburn: Dumbstruck Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£12.50 Pippa Evans: Joy Provision!

Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, £7.50—£13 Eric’s Tales of the Sea – A Submariner’s Yarn Just the Tonic at The Caves, 4–26 Aug, not 14, £7—£10.50

Sam and Ben: Shnozzleballers!

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £free Hurt and Anderson: Come What May Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £4—£5

14:45 Marcus Ryan – Love Me Tinder – Free Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free The Amazing Guy Show!

La Belle Angèle, 5–27 Aug, £free Old Men at the Gates of Dawn Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 4–28 Aug, not 14, £free Robyn’s Bad Decision Time Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Trumpageddon Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £6—£12.50 Rightly or Wrongly, for Better or Worse, the Fact Is This Is Tom Little Black Market, 5–26 Aug, £free A Singh in the North!

Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 3–27 Aug, £free Gareth Richards: Idiot Wind Whistlebinkies, 5–27 Aug, not 17, £free Chris Martin: The One and Only Chris Martin Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 3–27 Aug, not 19, £free Eshaan Akbar: Not for Prophet HHHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £5—£10

The Rock ‘n’ Roll Relationship Show (Unplugged) – Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 12–20 Aug, £free Cheekykita: Somewhere in the Ether Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Afternoon Family Underground Ghost Tour City of Edinburgh Tours, 1–31 Aug, £9 Home Truths Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £4—£5 The Naz Show HHH Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–25 Aug, not 14, £5 Studio 9 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Funny Cluckers – Afternoon Show – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free Jez Watts: Sex, Lies & Videogames Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, Various dates from 3 Aug to 25 Aug, £free

14:50 Tom Goodliffe’s Coffee Run Underbelly Med Quad, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£11 Mitch Benn: I’m Still Here The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £9—£10 Pat Cahill: The Fisherman HHHH

Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £5

Australia: A Whinging Pom’s Guide The Liquid Room, 5–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free The Ashes: Comedy Showdown The Liquid Room, 6 Aug, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, 27 Aug, £free

14:55 Christopher Bliss: Writing Wrongs Voodoo Rooms, 5–27 Aug, not 14, £free Jody Kamali: Hotel Yes Please Sweet Grassmarket, 4–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £6 Des Kapital’s Never Mind the Cossacks Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £8

15:00 Susie Steed: Money Walks – The Unofficial Story of Capitalism Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £3—£5 Paul Revill: Revillations – Free HHH Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation Just the Tonic at The Caves, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Stephen Carlin: The Rise of the Autistic Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3–26 Aug, not 15, £free David Edwards – How to Get a Second Date Pleasance Courtyard, 2–23 Aug, £6—£9 Bumper Blyton Improvised Adventure Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Would You Want Your Daughter to Marry a Weegie?

Outhouse, 5 Aug, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug, £7 Tudur Owen: Normal Wear and Tear Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 10–27 Aug, not 14, £5

Tom & Ollie in Wasps Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £free AAA Batteries (Not Included) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5 Inspiration Opium, 5–26 Aug, £free Adventures of the Improvised Sherlock Holmes Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Thom Tuck: An August Institution Heroes @ Dragonfly, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £5 Georgie Morrell: The Morrell High Ground HHH Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10 Notflix Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10 The Rise and Fall of Marcus Monroe Assembly George Square Gardens, 3–27 Aug, £9—£15 Trygve vs a Baby

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Assembly Roxy, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£12.50

Trevor Lock’s Community Circle Bannermans, 5–27 Aug, £free The Noise Next Door’s Really, Really Good Afternoon Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 8, 16, £5—£10.50 Mark Simmons: One-Linerer Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, £free Andy Zaltzman: Satirist for Hire (World of 2017 Special Edition) The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 15–27 Aug, £12

Classic Joke Club – Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free

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

15:10 Eleanor Tiernan – People Pleaser HHH Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, not 14, £free Anna Morris: Bitchelors Voodoo Rooms, 5–27 Aug, not 16, £free Rose Red: A Grimm Panto theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug, £6.50

15:15 There’s Always One Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 23, £free Romantic Encounters in a Darkened Room Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 21, £6—£9.50 Thünderbards: 4nd

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Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, £8—£12

Inheritance C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£8.50 Robert White: InstruMENTAL Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£10 A Struggle: Work in Progress / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free Rory O’Keeffe: Rorytelling Southsider, 5–26 Aug, £free

15:20 Nick Hall: Spencer Ciao Roma, 5–26 Aug, £free

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15:30 Tessa Coates: Primates

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–26 Aug, £6—£9

Show Up Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £free Will Seaward Goes to El Dorado Heroes @ The Hive, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £5 Hello Humans Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 1–27 Aug, £free Great British Mysteries?

Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Markus Birdman’s Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea HHH Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free 1 Woman, a High-Flyer and a Flat Bottom: Samantha Baines HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£10 Chris Coltrane: Make Love and Smash Fascism Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, £free Avocado!

Sweet Holyrood, 2–27 Aug, not 12, 13, 24, 25, £9.50 Nina Conti: In Therapy Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug, £13 BBC: Round Britain Quiz BBC, 21 Aug, £free lastminute.com Edinburgh Comedy Awards Show Venue150 at EICC, 27 Aug, £14

15:35 Sunil Patel: Titan Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free The Sean Kelly Chat Show Underbelly Med Quad, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £7—£12 Nick Revell vs Lily, Evil Cat Queen of Earth Planet and The Laughing Fridge The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£9

15:40 Unreal Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free—£5

Tom Ward: Love Machine HHHH

Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£7

Bilal Zafar: Biscuit Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Nobody Puts Bibby in the Corner Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£10 Kev’s Komedy Kitchen – The Second Cumin Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£8 Simon Morley: Naked Ambition Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 4–27 Aug, £8

15:45 The Oxford Revue: Witch Hunt Subway (previously Movement), 12–26 Aug, not 21, £free Scott Gibson: Like Father Like Son HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10 David Sheeran: I Am Donut Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 3–27 Aug, not 5, 18, £free The Oxford Revue: Free Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 3–19 Aug, £free Marny Godden is One Tooth Heroes @ The Hive, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £5 LoveHard: Murdered by Murder Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 3–27 Aug, £free Martin Huburn: Tiptonite Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 12–27 Aug, £free Aaaaaaaargh! It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 3–27 Aug, £free Chris Betts vs The Audience Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 12, 14, £5 Stuart Goldsmith: Like I Mean It Liquid Room Annexe, 5–27 Aug, £free Michael Legge & Caroline Mabey are Two Stupids Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–27 Aug, £free Northern Power Blouse Opium, 5–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £free Not Quite Mass Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 3–27 Aug, £free Erich McElroy Tops Trump

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Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free

Steve Gribbin: Shunted Again The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £9 One Romanian Answering Questions Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 3–27 Aug, £free Afternoon Shaggers (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Bright Lights, Big City Impro Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 20–27 Aug, £free—£10 Dharmander Singh from Bollywood and Birmingham to Berlin and Brexit Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 3–19 Aug, £free

15:50 Keir McAllister: Hey, You’re Only Cosmic Dust!

The Stand Comedy Club 2, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£9 The Secret Life of Your Mobile Phone theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £8

15:55 Rob Auton: The Hair Show HHHH

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5

Tom Neenan: Attenborough Underbelly Med Quad, 2–27 Aug, £6.50—£11

16:00 The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2017: Dream Sequence Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8—£13 Clicking Comedians Stills: Centre for Photography, 4–28 Aug, not 14, £free Beak Speaks Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £6.50—£10.50 Michael Brunström: Parsley Heroes @ Dragonfly, 16–27 Aug, £5 The Ayahuasca Diaries Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free All Together Irish Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 3–27 Aug, £free Ray Bradshaw: Deaf Comedy Fam Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 What Bowie Did Next Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £4.50—£7.50

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 4–27 Aug, £free Edd Hedges: Wonderland Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£9.50 Sean Hughes’s Blank Book Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–24 Aug, not 18, 19, 20, £12.50 Me and Robin Hood Pleasance Dome, 2–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £5 Tony Cowards: Punderdog Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£7 Teasing the Funny Bone: A Seminar (For Professionals, Amateurs and Anyone In-Between) Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £free We’re Sorry – Canada’s 150th Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Carmen Lynch: Lynched Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Any Suggestions, Doctor?

An Improvised Adventure in Space and Time HH Sweet Grassmarket, 4–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10 Tim Vine: Sunset Milk Idiot Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 9, 16, £12—£18 Burning Love to the Ground. (And, Lasagne) Nightcap, 3–27 Aug, £free Jessica Fostekew: The Silence of the Nans Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £6 Battle of the Superheroes: The Great Superhero Debate (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 5–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Jimmy McGhie’s Tribal Gathering Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Daniel Nils Roberts: The Causeway Underbelly, George Square, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10 Stephen K Amos Talk Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £7—£14 Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4 Aug, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug, £free

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

Adam Vincent: How Not to Kill Yourself When Living in the Suburbs Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Danny Ward – Extra Dates Added Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, £free Old Jewish Jokes Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21 Aug, £free

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

Alex Kealy: The Art of the Keal HHH Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 The Oxford Revue Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, 15, £7—£10 Laughing Stock Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 15, £6.50—£11 Nomad-a What Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Big Howard Little Howard: Man and Boy HHH Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, not 10, 11, £free

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Puppet Fiction Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Suzanne Lea Shepherd: Scrappy Cuddler Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Abi Roberts: Fat Girl Dancing (Work in Progress) Voodoo Rooms, 5–27 Aug, not 14, £free Natalie Palamides: LAID Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£12 George Egg: DIY Chef Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Matt Hutson & Rob Copland: Pack It in You Two Opium, 5–26 Aug, not 15, £free Tash Goldstone and Sam Lake: Queens 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 5–26 Aug, not 15, £free Crossbones Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £8 Awkward Confessions of a Homeless Sex God Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, £free Olaf Falafel Presents: The Marmosets of My Mind

Goose: Amphetawaltz Assembly George Square Gardens, 3–27 Aug, £8—£12.50 Juliette Burton: Butterfly Effect Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£9.50 Tom Skelton: Blind Man’s Bluff HHH Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10 Giants: For an Hour

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Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£11

The Rat Pack Presents...

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free Galpals: Because at the End of the Day, That’s What We’d Like to be Known as Southsider, 5–26 Aug, not 16, £free Kids With Beards: Fandango!

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 15–26 Aug, £free Sagar Mega Drive Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Outdoor Heated Swimming Pool Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, not 14, £free

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

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Phill Jupitus Up the Stand The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£12 Russell Hicks: The Brain is in the Heart Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–28 Aug, £free Ingrid Oliver: Speech!

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£9

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

16:40 Stiff & Kitsch: By All Accounts Two Normal Girls* C venues – C royale, 13–28 Aug, £7.50—£9.50 Dominic Holland Eclipsed – Free HHH The Voodoo Rooms, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 9, £free

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Rotating Bill Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free John Pendal: How to Escape from Stuff The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, £7—£8 Erin McGathy: MurderTown (One-Woman Murder Mystery) Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Ben Fogg: How I Won Best Newcomer 2017 HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £5—£12 Pete Johansson: Pete Jo-Handsome Comes Alive!

Heroes @ The Hive, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £5 Twayna Mayne: Black Girl Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£12 Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£10 Luke Kempner: Take a Long Hard Luke at Yourself Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£12 Next Best Thing: How to Be Good at Everything Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£9.50 Dino Wiand – Yorkshire Ripper / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23 Aug, £free Richard Brown: Hold Tightly to the Walls Globe Bar, 5–27 Aug, not 14, £free

Colin Hoult / Anna Mann in How We Stop the Fascists Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£11 Hari Sriskantha: Clown Atlas Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Board Game Smackdown – Free Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 3–27 Aug, not 16, 23, £free

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

16:55 Thrones! The Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 2–28 Aug, £10—£15 Paul Sinha: Shout Out to My Ex The Stand Comedy Club, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, £5—£12 Jem Brookes: Pull Yourself Together Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free

17:00 Stephanie Laing: Mad About the Boy Nightcap, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Charlotte Gittins: Mirror Image Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Inglourious Basstard Frankenstein Pub, 14–27 Aug, not 21, £free Julio Torres: My Favourite Shapes HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10.50 Comedy With a Colourblind Dyslexic Geordie Who Also Has Other Aliments Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 3–27 Aug, £free Matt Winning: Filibuster Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £3—£5 Jenny Collier: Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Jen Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Marcus Ryan – ¿Hablas Inglés? – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free The Long, Miserable Journey to Happiness Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

Andrew O’Neill’s Black Magick Fun Hour – Free

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Liquid Room Annexe, 5–27 Aug, not 21, £free

#Jollyboat: Why Do Nerds Suddenly Appear?

Subway (previously Movement), 5–27 Aug, £free Laughter is the Best Placebo Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £5 Self Sabotage Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 14–27 Aug, £free Forks, Sharks and Leafy Greens Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 21–27 Aug, £free John Kearns: Don’t Worry They’re Here Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 4–27 Aug, not 16, £7 Lucy Hopkins: Powerful Women Are About Heroes @ The Hive, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, £5 Joe Jacobs: Ripe Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £5 Gary Tro: SupercalifragilisticexpiGARYTROcious Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Balamory Doubtfire Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 3–27 Aug, £free Steve Bugeja: Summer Camp HHH Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£8 Imaginary Radio Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 14, 21, £10 Ben Target’s Orangeade

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Heroes @ Dragonfly, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5

Alexander Fox: Ringo Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£9.50 The Establishment: Eton Mess Assembly George Square Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 6, 14, £6—£10.50 A Pessimist’s Guide to Being Happy Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 3–27 Aug, not 21, £free Mojo and Lew Fitz: Let You In Kilderkin, 5–26 Aug, not 14, £free Rory O’Hanlon: Getting Serious Opium, 5–26 Aug, £free The Sheffield Revue Presents: Comedy in a Basement Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 12–18 Aug, £free

Viv Groskop: Anchorwoman The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £8—£9 Declan Amphlett: Verbal Remedies Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 17–27 Aug, £free Murder, She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£12.50 What’s in the Happy Shed?

Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 5–26 Aug, not 9, £5 Unprecedented and Unpresidential: How Hillary Clinton Lost the Election – Free Festival Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 19–20 Aug, £free

17:05 Jojo Sutherland and Susan Morrison: Fanny’s Ahoy!

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

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

17:15 Ian Smith: Snowflake Underbelly Med Quad, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£12 Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 4–27 Aug, £free Full International Brexit Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free A Sad Joke About Life Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 11, 17, £free Dylan Gott: Cool Guy, Lots of Friends Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free Avril’s Character Assassination: Everyday Problems Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 17–27 Aug, £free Will Mars: This Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Micky Bartlett: Typical Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6—£11

Stephen Bailey: Can’t Think Straight HHH Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Morgan & West: Return of the Time-Travelling Magicians Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 23, £6.50—£12 Chris Kent: Moving on Assembly George Square Studios, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £5—£9.50 Bec Hill: Out of Order

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

Alex Smith – Real Man Whistlebinkies, 5–26 Aug, £free Hardeep Singh Kohli: Alternative, Fact

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Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£13

The Kagools: Tutti Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £7 A Voyage of the Easy Sisters C venues – C royale, 14–28 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

17:20 Liam Withnail: The Immigration Game Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £5 Will Duggan: Perspicuator

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

Christian Reilly: LOLternative Rock Liquid Room Annexe, 5–27 Aug, £free Alice Marshall: Blood Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £4—£5 The Starship Osiris Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–26 Aug, £6.50—£11.50 Viggo Venn – The Life of Pepito Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10 Nick Helm: Masterworks in Progress ‘17 Pleasance Courtyard, 14–27 Aug, £10 Aaaaaaargh! Macbeth…

Without the Shakespeare Bollocks The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£10 Sweet Things Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £3—£5 Audible Presents Pleasance Dome, Various dates from 4 Aug to 27 Aug, £free

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

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

Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £3—£6.50

17:30 Hannah Gadsby – Nanette

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

Paul Savage is Set to Self Destruct 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 5–27 Aug, not 15, £free Tamar Broadbent: Get Ugly HHHH

Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10.50

Paul McCaffrey: Suburban Legend Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–26 Aug, £free Nik Coppin: Globetrotter (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Anything Can Be a Podcast Returns Again for the Third Time! With John Hastings Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Nick Coyle: Queen of Wolves Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£10 Kae Kurd: Kurd Your Enthusiasm Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£12 Gusset Grippers Woodland Creatures, Various dates from 3 Aug to 27 Aug, £6 The Older Brothers’ Almanac C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, not 15, 22, £9.50—£11.50 Harriet Dyer – Dyergnosis Murder Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, £free Lucy Porter: Choose Your Battles HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, 23, £7—£15 Harun Musho’d: Harun With a View Opium, 5–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free

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August 14 – 19 / 21 – 26 Celtic Comedy Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3–27 Aug, £free Sleeping Trees at the Movies Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £7—£13 Tobias Persson: Sweden Sour New Town Theatre, 4–27 Aug, not 15, £10 Tiff Stevenson: Bombshell Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, £6—£12 Australia: Still F*cked Black Market, 5–18 Aug, £free

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

17:45 Sally-Anne Hayward: Um...

I Was Talking About You Not to You Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free LadyFace Assembly Hall, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£11 Lauren Pattison: Lady Muck Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Kat Bond: Loo Roll Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6—£10 Ellie Taylor: This Guy Pleasance Courtyard, 3–27 Aug, not 5, 16, £6—£12

Another Political Comedy Show Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 4–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £5 Ahir Shah: Control

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Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, £free

You’re Never Too Old... Are You? – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 23–27 Aug, £free Dan & Jamie Work On Progress Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £free Christian Schulte-Loh: Rise of the 50 Foot German Comedian Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 4–27 Aug, not 16, 23, £free Tom Houghton: Class Half Empty Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10 Barry Loves You (Work in Progress) Sweet Grassmarket, 4–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £5 The Ghosts of Moistly Hollow Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 15–22 Aug, £free

17:50 The Red Emerald: A Farce for the Colourblind theSpace on Niddry St, 21–26 Aug, £10 Athena Kugblenu: KMT

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Underbelly Med Quad, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£11

Mick Neven: Killing It Ciao Roma, 5–26 Aug, not 14, £free

17:55 Louise Reay: Hard Mode

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

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

18:00 Rhys James: Wiseboy

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, £6—£11.50

Joey Page: Pretty Boy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–28 Aug, £free Alasdair Beckett-King: The Alasdair Beckett-King Mysteries Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£9.50 Audrey’s Absolute Fest of All Assembly Rooms, 4–26 Aug, not 14, £12.50 Abandoman’s Rob Broderick – The Musical in My Mind Assembly George Square Gardens, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£12.50 Michael Stranney: Welcome to Ballybeg Pleasance Courtyard, 2–25 Aug, £6—£10 Brennan Reece: Everlong

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, £6—£10

Iguana Mum Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Gareth Morinan: Brexitocracy (Explained With Graphs) Banshee Labyrinth, 5–26 Aug, £free

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Adam Hess: Cactus Heroes @ The Hive, 4–27 Aug, £6 Evelyn Mok: Hymen Manoeuvre HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£9 Would You Want Your Daughter to Marry a Weegie?

Outhouse, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, £7 Conor Drum: All My Friends Are Dead Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 3–27 Aug, £free Zsa Zsa and Me Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£12 Scarlet Sohandsome: Recreational Drag Use Nightcap, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Only Fools and Three Courses Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 4–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £47.50 Kriss Foster: The Mug Tree Globe Bar, 5–27 Aug, £free Mark Thomas: A Show That Gambles on the Future Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, 19, £12—£15 The Best of Irish Comedy The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 4–27 Aug, £12 Cat FM Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £4—£5 Tom Lucy: Needs to Stop Showing Off in Front of His Friends Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Comedy in the Dark Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£12 Justin Moorhouse: People and Feelings Gilded Balloon Teviot, 18–20 Aug, £15

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £10—£17 What’s in the Happy Shed?

Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 5–26 Aug, not 9, £5 Pick of the Fringe The Sheraton Grand Hotel , 24 Aug, £150

The Edinburgh Revue: Jamboreavement Kilderkin, 5–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Quiz in My Pants Subway (previously Movement), 5–27 Aug, £free John Robertson: Dominant

18:05

Kev’s Komedy Klub Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Carey Marx: The Afterwife Liquid Room Annexe, 5–27 Aug, not 16, £free Marjolein Robertson: Relations Black Market, 5–26 Aug, not 15, £free Bronston Jones: God Bless ‘Merica (3) – Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Al Murray: The Pub Landlord’s Saloon Assembly George Square Gardens, 17–27 Aug, £19.50 Is Edward Aczel Infinite?

Heroes @ The Hive, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £7 Alexander Bennett’s Terrifying Smile Opium, 5–26 Aug, not 15, £free Battered Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 3–27 Aug, £free Shaggers (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Bob Slayer: Whatever Next?

Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £5

Ongals: Babbling Comedy Assembly Roxy, 2–28 Aug, £10—£15 Shellshock! Improv Live! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £6.50

18:10 Alcohol is Good for You Too Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Sam & Tom: Unrectifiable Heroes @ Dragonfly, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5

18:15 Scott ‘The Redman’ Redmond: Departures Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 3–27 Aug, £free As If I Hadn’t Slept Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 3–27 Aug, £free Big Cat Small Flap Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 14–27 Aug, £free The Rise of a Comedy Dictator Waverley Bar, 5–27 Aug, £free Tony Burgess – Crimbo

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

Sajeela Kershi: Fights Like a Girl!

Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

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The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£9

Jordan Brookes: Body of Work HHHH

Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

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James & Jamesy: 2 for Tea Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£11 Gordon Southern: That’s a Fun Fact!

Frankenstein Pub, 4–28 Aug, not 16, £free Beach Hunks: Hog Wild Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 3–27 Aug, not 20, £free Darius Davies: Road to Wrestlemania Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £free

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Annie McGrath: Ambivert Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Spencer Jones: The Audition Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 4–27 Aug, not 15, £7 Joanne McNally: Bite Me Assembly Roxy, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £5—£9.50 Jimeoin: Ridiculous Venue150 at EICC, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 22, £8.50—£18.50 Glenn Moore: The Very Best of Belinda Carlisle Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Tom Mayhew: Fragile Fragments Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Flour theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug, £7 Scientology: The Musical Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 15–27 Aug, £10 Topical Storm 2017 The Stand Comedy Club 2, 15–27 Aug, £10 AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, £6.50—£11

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Katy Brand: I Could’ve Been an Astronaut

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £7—£13.50

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

18:30 Andrew Doyle: Thought Crimes HHH The Stand Comedy Club, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£12 Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4–27 Aug, £free John Scott Delusions Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 4–27 Aug, not 21, £free Gráinne Maguire: Gráinne with a Fada Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £5—£9.50 Carol Cates: Lady Carol The Voodoo Rooms, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £10 Rosie Wilby: The Conscious Uncoupling Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Britney in: John Bedlam Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 13, 20, £9—£10 JoJo Smith: I Was the Ninth Dexys Midnight Runner (Ten True Tales) Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–26 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free

Gary Little: Club Classics Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 3–28 Aug, £free Mike Bubbins: Retrosexual Male Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, £6—£11 Michael Redmond: I Wrote a Joke in 1987 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 NewsRevue 2017 Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £10—£17.50 Escape for Dummies Greenside @ Royal Terrace, Various dates from 5 Aug to 25 Aug, £8 Chris Henry: Ignorance Is Chris Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £free Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic Scottish National Gallery, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £free Dino Wiand – Yorkshire Ripper / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 22 Aug, £free

18:35 Leeds Tealights: Fix Us Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £7—£9 Absolute Improv! theSpace on Niddry St, 4–26 Aug, not 6, £6—£10 Aditi Mittal: Global Village Idiot HHH Underbelly Med Quad, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£11 Michelle McManus’s Reality: The Musical The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 5, 14, £10—£12

18:40 Abi Roberts: Anglichanka Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10.50

Johnny White Really-Really: Pigeons

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Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6

Larry Dean: Fandan

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Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £5

I See You – Live Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£8 Geoff Norcott: Right Leaning but Well Meaning Underbelly, George Square, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 16, £6.50—£11.50 Focus On: Lola and Jo Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5 John Robins: The Darkness of Robins Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£14 Zach Zucker – Human Person Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10 Shappi Khorsandi: Mistress and Misfit

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Assembly George Square Studios, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£14

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

18:45 Sean McLoughlin: You Can’t Ignore Me Forever Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3–26 Aug, £free The Committee: Improvised Comedy Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, not 21, £free Kwame Asante: Open Arms HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£10

Ashley Storrie: Morning Glory Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, £free Siân and Zoë’s Sugar Coma Fever Nightmare Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £2.50—£5 Becky Brunning: Beaming Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free Kai Humphries: Punch-Drunk Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6—£12.50 We Are Not Afraid Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £free Al Porter in Campus Maximus Underbelly Med Quad, 12–27 Aug, £12—£14 IlluminArchie: Archie Maddocks Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Andrew Ryan: Did You Get Here Alright? HHH Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, £5—£11 Brendon Burns and Craig Quartermaine in Race Off

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Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 17, £7—£13

18:50 Catriona Knox: Adorable Deplorable Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£11 Aaron Twitchen: Curtain Twitchen C venues – C south, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £7.50—£9.50 Sooz on Film

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

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

19:00 Sarah Kendall: One-Seventeen Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, £7—£12.50 Phil Wang: Kinabalu

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£12

Lloyd Griffith in:Undated Pleasance Dome, 2–27 Aug, £6—£10.50 Becky Lucas: Little Bitch Assembly George Square Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £7—£12 Nicola Cross – Tracey Tracey Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Sara Schaefer: Little White Box Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£12.50 What’s in the Happy Shed?

Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 5–26 Aug, not 9, £5 Martin Mor: All the Best Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free Stuart Laws Stops

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£9.50

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

19:05 Rahul Kohli: A Not So Chubby, Brown The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, £7—£8 Date Night With Bristol Improv theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 21–26 Aug, £5

19:10 Paul Foot: ‘Tis a Pity She’s a Piglet Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7.50—£12.50 Shellshock! Improv Live! theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 14–19 Aug, £6.50 John Lynn: Woke Up Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10

19:15 Nina Conti: In Your Face Pleasance at EICC, 17–24 Aug, £17.50 AAA Stand-Up Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£11 Sisters: White Noise Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, £6—£9.50 Angela Barnes: Fortitude Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Jon Pointing: Act Natural Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, £6—£11 Josh Pugh: A Boy Named Pugh Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£10 Bobby Mair: Loudly Insecure Heroes @ The Hive, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Ed Gamble: Mammoth

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, £8—£12

Laugh Train Home Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 3–27 Aug, £free This Is Your Trial Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6.50—£14 London Hughes: Superstar C venues – C royale, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £12.50—£14.50 Ivor Dembina Show Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Mindy Raf: Keeping My Kidneys Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£12 ForniKATEress Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, not 15, £free

19:20 Big Value Comedy Show – Early Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£10 Twonkey’s Christmas in the Jungle HHH Heroes @ Dragonfly, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £5

Piff the Magic Dragon: The Road to Piffland New Town Theatre, 22–27 Aug, £16 Limmy: That’s Your Lot – The Book Tour New Town Theatre, 18–20 Aug, £15

19:25 Adele Cliff: Cliff Notes Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £free Slug Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free Jonny & the Baptists: The Best of 2012-2017 Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 13 Aug to 19 Aug, £10—£14

19:30 Sarah Bennetto: All My Life’s Mistakes, Catalogued (Volume One) Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £free Carl Donnelly: The Nutter on the Bus

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Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, £7

Milton Jones is Out There Assembly Hall, 3–20 Aug, not 14, £10—£18 07800 834030: Thank You for Waiting Sneaky Pete’s, 5–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free A1: The Long Road to Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 3–27 Aug, £free It’s Better to Lie Than to Tell the Truth and End Up Alone in a Ditch Crying Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Nick Doody: Interesting Times Liquid Room Annexe, 5–25 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Vladimir McTavish: Scotland the State of the Nation The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£9 Richard Herring: Oh Frig, I’m 50! HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–26 Aug, £10—£14 David O’Doherty: Big Time Assembly Hall, 25–27 Aug, £16 Tommy Tiernan: Under the Influence Gilded Balloon Teviot, 4–27 Aug, not 13, 14, 24, £10—£17 Henning Wehn: Westphalia is Not an Option The Queen’s Hall, 3–20 Aug, not 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, £free

Playing Politics – The Last Hurrah The Queen’s Hall, 25 Aug, £free I Can Make You Tory HH Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £free Samantha Pressdee: Back 2 Basics Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 3–27 Aug, £free 101 Comedy Club – Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 3–27 Aug, £free Seriously Funny Quaker Meeting House, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £5 Dirty Rotten Irish Scoundrel Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free The Reel Comedy Club Assembly Rooms, 4–26 Aug, not 14, £12.50 Ethnic Cleansing Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Shazia Mirza: With Love from St Tropez Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6—£12 More Classic Stanley Frankenstein Pub, 4–27 Aug, £free Blurred Lines Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Aaah Sure, It’s the Irish Comedian of the Year!

Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 3–27 Aug, £free Ed Byrne: Spoiler Alert

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

Joz Norris: The Incredible Joz Norris Locks Himself Inside His Own Show, Then Escapes, Against All the Odds!!

Heroes @ The Hive, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £5 Ayesha Hazarika: State of the Nation Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 14–20 Aug, £10—£12 Comedians Against Humanity: Hosted by Yianni Agisilaou – Free Subway (previously Movement), 5–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Comedy Gala 2017: In Aid of Waverley Care Edinburgh Playhouse , 18 Aug, £25 Paul Zerdin: All Mouth Assembly Hall, 22–24 Aug, £16.50

So You Think You’re Funny? Grand Final Gilded Balloon Teviot, 24 Aug, £15

19:35 Helen Duff: When the Going Gets Duff Assembly Roxy, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£12 Gavin Webster: It’s About Time We Had More Women in There HHH The Stand Comedy Club 2, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, £8—£9

19:40 Jack Barry: High Treason Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Phil Ellis Has Been on Ice Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Caroline Mabey: Quetzals

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

Organ Freeman Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Craig Hill: Someone’s Gonna Get Kilt!

Venue150 at EICC, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 22, £8.50—£18.50 Glenn Wool: Viva Forever Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7.50 Iain Stirling: U OK Hun? X

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, £8—£12

Alun Cochrane: Alunish Cochranish The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £12 Abigoliah Schamaun: Namaste, Bitches

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Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£10

19:45 God Hates Me: I’m Trans Brewhemia, 4–28 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8—£11 Matt Price: The Weed Fairy Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free Urzila Carlson – First Edition Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £7—£11.50 Jonny Pelham: Just Shout Louder HHHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, £6—£11

Aaaaaaargh! It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show – Flamin’ Hot – Free Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 3–27 Aug, £free

Nathan Cassidy: The Man in the Arena Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Evan Desmarais: I Like Me Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, £free Andrew Silverwood is a ‘Self-Absorbed Tw*t’ Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 3–27 Aug, £free Chris Forbes: Unquiet Mind Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£10 Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 4–27 Aug, £free

19:50 Hilda & The Spectrum Voodoo Rooms, 5–28 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Spontaneous Sherlock Liquid Room Annexe, 5–27 Aug, £free Jo Caulfield: Older. Wiser.

Smarter. Meaner.

The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 4–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10 Vikki Stone – Concerto for Comedian and Orchestra Pleasance Courtyard, 27 Aug, £16.50

19:55 Anne Edmonds: No Offence, None Taken

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Underbelly Med Quad, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£12

Bristol Revunions: Glass Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5—£7

20:00 Tom Walker: Bee Boo Underbelly, George Square, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£11 Neal Portenza Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, £6.50—£11 Accidents Happen to Sasha Ellen Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Charlie Baker: The Hit Polisher Assembly George Square Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£11 Joseph Morpurgo: Hammerhead Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £7—£12 Jon Long – Winded Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free

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Police Cops in Space Pleasance Dome, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 23, £8—£12 Tinder Rehab Sweet Grassmarket, 7–20 Aug, £7 Jess Robinson: Unravelled Underbelly, George Square, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £9—£14.50 Adam Rowe: Unbearable Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Dave Johns: I, Fillum Star Pleasance Dome, 3–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £9.50—£13.50 Stand-Up Nomad: Backpacking Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free C’est La Vegan Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, £free David Correos and Matt Stellingwerf: Chaos and Order Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£9 Raymond Mearns is Present and Incorrect Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £free Milo McCabe: The Talented Mr Hawke Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Equality Street Nightcap, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Jan Ravens: Difficult Woman Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£14 Mediocre as F*ck Sweet Grassmarket, 21–27 Aug, £8.50 I Am What I Eat Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, £10 Michele Durante Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £20 Make Tea, Not War Quaker Meeting House, 27–28 Aug, £7 BBC: The Now Show BBC, 23 Aug, £free

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CSI Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–20 Aug, £free Patrick Monahan: Rewind Selector 90s Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£14 Donald Alexander and Stuart McPherson Nightcap, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Steen Raskopoulos – The Coolest Kid in Competitive Chess

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Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£12.50

Sophie Willan: Branded Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£12 Nazeem Hussain – Hussain In The Membrane Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £7.50—£12.50 John Robertson: The Dark Room Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, £6.50—£11 Lily Lovett Lovett Lovett, I’m Lovin’ It Like That Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Planet Caramel: Hot, Sexy, Kind and Desperate Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, not 16, £free Mark Nelson: Irreverence Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £6—£12.50 Tom Allen: Absolutely Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£11 Popular Comedian Rob Mulholland HH Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 What’s in the Happy Shed?

Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 5–26 Aug, not 9, £5 Micky P Kerr is Lay-Z Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5 Mae Martin: Dope Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free The Papa CJ Happiness Project Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–27 Aug, £free The Cat Man Curse Bedlam Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £8 Big Fat Gay CC Blooms, 5–27 Aug, £free Comic Relief Live Assembly Hall, 21 Aug, £16.50

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

An Imp-Revised History of the World Black Market, 5–26 Aug, £free Fred MacAulay: IndyFred2 The Stand Comedy Club, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, 18, 19, £10—£15 Alistair Williams: Food Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5 Ava Rage Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Alternative 2 theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £5 Martin Mor: Adventure Comedian The Stand Comedy Club, 18 Aug, £12

20:10 Laura Davis – Cake in the Rain Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10.50 Tom Binns is Ian D Montfort: Ian Talk Three Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, £10—£12.50 Martini Dry Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £8 Butt Kapinski Pleasance Dome, 2–27 Aug, not 9, 14, 21, £6—£10 Jenny Bede: Eggtime Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£13.50 Whose Line is It Anyway?

– Live at the Fringe Assembly Rooms, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£17.50 Holt and Talbot Can’t Stand the Sight of Each Other Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7 Graham Dickson is The Narcissist HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£11

20:15 Mark Forward Wins All the Awards Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£11.50 Nai Bowen is Brave!

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, £free Joke Thieves Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Appropriate Adult

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10

For Godley’s Sake!

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free Sean Patton: Number One Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 David McIver: Stop It, David, We Are Having Too Much Fun Southsider, 5–26 Aug, not 15, £free Who, Me Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, £6—£12 James Nokise: Britain, Let’s Talk About the Golliwogs The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£8 The St Andrews Revue presents: The Big Time Assembly Hall, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£8 Elliot Steel: Near Life Experience Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Ivo Graham: Educated Guess Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£11

20:20 Maria Shehata: Wisdomless HHHH Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Marcel Lucont’s Whine List Pleasance Dome, 15–27 Aug, £10—£14 Hivemind Presents: An Offer You Can’t Refuse Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 15–27 Aug, £7 Rachel Parris: Keynote Pleasance Dome, 3–28 Aug, not 16, £6—£11.50 Damien Power – Utopia: Now in 3D! Assembly George Square Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£12 Nick Cody: On Fire Underbelly Med Quad, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£14.50 The Matriarchy Experience Ciao Roma, 5–26 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Simon Evans: Genius Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£14

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

20:30 Tom Ballard: Problematic Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, £6—£13 Tez Ilyas: Teztify HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£12 Andrew Roper’s Superhero Secret Origins: The Movies Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 4–27 Aug, £free Luca Cupani: It’s Me! Heroes @ Dragonfly, 3–27 Aug, not 17, £5 Garrett Millerick: The Devil’s Advocate Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Jay Lafferty: Besom Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Phil Jerrod: Submerged Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Lewis Schaffer: Unopened Letters from My Mother Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free The Midnight Beast: All Killer Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£12 Ed Night: Anthem for Doomed Youth HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£9.50 Georgie Morrell: A Poke in the Eye Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 4–28 Aug, not 16, £free Adam Kay – Fingering A Minor on the Piano Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–28 Aug, not 16, 23, £13—£14 Annie Sertich: How to Not Kill Yourself for 30 Days... and the Next 330

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

Paul Currie: Cats in My Mouth Heroes @ The Hive, 4–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £5 Matt Forde: A Show Hastily Rewritten in Light of Recent Events – Again!

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, £8—£14

Sally-Anne Hayward: Um...

I Was Talking About You Not to You Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £free Bald Man Sings Rihanna Globe Bar, 5–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Improv Cage Match Black Market, 15–26 Aug, £free

Playing Politics – A Fringe Taster Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC, 18 Aug, £12.50

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

Escaping Trump’s America Frankenstein Pub, 4–28 Aug, £free LJ DA FUNK in... Last Brexit to ‘ooklyn Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Squeeze Harder, Zanni!

C venues – C primo, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8.50—£10.50 Clusterf**k Subway (previously Movement), 5–27 Aug, £free An Aussie Abroad Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 3–27 Aug, £free Nasty Women on the Fringe – Sajeela Kershi and Friends Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Auntie Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 8–20 Aug, £free

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Laugh Train Home Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free George McGoldrick: The Good Herb Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 3–27 Aug, £free

Iain Connell: Some Buzz (Work in Progress) The Stand Comedy Club 2, 15–27 Aug, £9

20:35 Eric, Kat and Joe: Gig Together, Die Alone Black Market, 5–26 Aug, £free The Thinking Drinkers: History of Alcohol Underbelly Med Quad, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £7—£14

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Mat Ewins Presents Adventureman 7: The Return of Adventureman

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Heroes @ The Hive, 3–27 Aug, £5

Irish Comedy @ Finnegan’s Wake Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 3–27 Aug, £free The Rule of Threes Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free Tales from a Tampon Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 21–27 Aug, £free Bernie Keith: Life Without Sat Nav HH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£12 David Quirk: Cowboy Mouth Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 3–27 Aug, not 9, £5 Dope Friction – Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 3–27 Aug, £free Foil, Arms and Hog: Oink Underbelly, George Square, 2–28 Aug, £7—£15 Can’t Dance, Won’t Dance Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 3–27 Aug, not 20, £free Ben Van der Velde – Sidekick Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free

21:00 James Loveridge: Suspiciously Happy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Emotional Terrorism Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5—£10 Femmetamorphosis Paradise in The Vault, 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8.50 Free Footlights Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free—£5 Phil Nichol: Your Wrong Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, £7 Nath Valvo – Not In This House Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £7.50—£12 More Equal Than Others Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 3–27 Aug, £free Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma...

Comedian! theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £5 Daniel Sloss: NOW Venue150 at EICC, 3–27 Aug, not 11, 12, 14, 18, 19, 22, 25, 26, £8.50—£18.50 Denim: World Tour

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

Carl Hutchinson Live!

The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 4–26 Aug, not 14, £10 Tom Stade: I Swear Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 24, £8—£16 Neil Delamere: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Pensioner Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£13.50 Loyiso Gola: Unlearning

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Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£11

Harmon Leon Infiltrates Trump America Banshee Labyrinth, 5–26 Aug, £free Jason Byrne: The Man with Three Brains Assembly Hall, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10—£19.50 #AA Abnormal Asian Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Comedy World War 5 Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 4–27 Aug, £free Danny McLoughlin: 01/02 Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Lolbot Wars Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 3–27 Aug, £free James Acaster: The Trelogy Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£14 Scotland’s Pick of the Fringe Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, £5—£10 Rik Carranza: I’m a Fan Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £free Daniel Sloss: NOW Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 11 Aug to 26 Aug, £17.50—£18.50

Harriet Kemsley: Bad at Doing Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Gillian Cosgriff: To the Moon and Back Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £6—£11 Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows Assembly George Square Gardens, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£14 Andrew Maxwell: Showtime HHH Assembly George Square Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£15 Dane Baptiste: G.O.D. (Gold. Oil. Drugs.)

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £7—£14

Jimeoin: Even More Ridiculous!

Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 11 Aug to 26 Aug, £15.50 Gone Clear Nightcap, 15–27 Aug, £free Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4–27 Aug, £free

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

21:10 Bob Doolally’s Load of Old Balls The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–22 Aug, £12 The Best of Scottish Comedy The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £12 Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 4–26 Aug, not 14, 15, 21, 22, £12

21:15 Alastair Clark: Herding Cats Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, not 15, £free Best of Chortle Student Comedy Award Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Dan Antopolski: Return of the Dan Antopolski

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Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, £6—£12

Two Plus Ones: Huge Night In Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £2—£6 Alex Williamson: Make the World a Banter Place Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6—£12.50 James Adomian: Lacking in Character HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, £6—£12.50 Kate Butch in Kate If You Wanna Go Butcher Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 4–27 Aug, not 9, 15, 23, £free Semi-Pro 4 Life Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–19 Aug, £free Rhys Nicholson: I’m Fine Underbelly Med Quad, 3–27 Aug, £7.50—£12

John Hastings: Audacity

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10.50

The MMORPG Show – No Rolls Bard Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free The Really Great Compilation Show Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–27 Aug, £free Shit I’m in Love With You Again theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £8

21:20 Demi Lardner: Look What You Made Me Do HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£11 Francesco De Carlo: Comfort Zone HHH Underbelly, George Square, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£11 Dirty White Boys: Stupid Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Eleanor Colville: Bigamous Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£7 Damien Slash: Demographic Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5 Frankie Boyle: Prometheus Volume I Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 5 Aug to 24 Aug, £17.50 Lee Nelson: Serious Joker Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 15, 16, £14—£17.50 Gary Delaney: There’s Something About Gary Pleasance Courtyard, 18–26 Aug, £12—£14

Phil Kay: Euphoric Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 10–27 Aug, £7

21:25 Alpha Child Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Boris & Sergey’s One Man Extravaganza HHH Assembly George Square Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £7—£12.50 Sam Garlepp: Well, There You Go Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £2—£10 Lee Kyle: Somewhat Adorable Man Baby The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £8

21:30 Josh Glanc: Manfül

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Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £5—£11

99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free The Comedy Reserve Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£9.50 Jayde Adams is Jayded

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£12

Darren Harriott: Defiant Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£10 Jerry Sadowitz: Comedian, Magician, Psychopath!

Assembly Rooms, 14–20 Aug, £16.50 Matt Richardson: Slash Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, £8—£12

Aaaaaaargh! How Can I Drive to a Gig With a Jakey on My Bonnet?

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £3—£5 Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, £10—£15 Best of... So You Think You’re Funny?

Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 18–27 Aug, £10 Elf Lyons: Swan Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£10 Phoebe Walsh: I’ll Have What She’s Having

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£11

Left Wing Conspiracy Theorist (With Dyspraxia) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Zach & Viggo HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£11 Princes of Main: New Year’s Eve HHH Bedlam Theatre, 2–27 Aug, £9—£10 Red Bastard: Lie With Me Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£11

21:35 Sarah Keyworth: Why Not? (WIP) Ciao Roma, 5–27 Aug, not 13, £free Mark Steel: Every Little Thing’s Gonna Be Alright Assembly Hall, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£14

21:40 Tape Face Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £10—£17

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Eamonn Fleming in association with LittleMighty presents

CONFABULATION! A comedy about memory and making stuff up Written and Performed by

Eamonn Fleming Directed by Nick Lane

Pleasance Courtyard 2 - 28 Aug (not Weds) 13:40 (14:40) Sam Simmons A-K

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Assembly George Square Studios, 11–27 Aug, £14—£16

Goodbear Pleasance Dome, 2–27 Aug, £6—£11 Barry Crimmins: Atlas’s Knees The Stand Comedy Club, 15–27 Aug, £12 Adele Is Younger Than Us Pleasance Dome, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10.50 American Immigrant: Zoltan Kaszas Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£8 Big Value Comedy Show – Late Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£10 50% Canadian, 100% Crazy, Let’s Laugh Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Yuriko Kotani: Green in English, Blue in Japanese Heroes @ Dragonfly, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Simon Evans: Genius Assembly George Square Studios, 18 Aug, £14

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Hell to Play: The End Times New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 15, £9—£10 The Inane Chicanery of a Certain Adam GC Riches Pleasance Dome, 2–27 Aug, £7—£14 Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: The Boyd With the Thorn in His Side Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£9

Zahra Barri: Talk Like an Egyptian Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 3–28 Aug, £free Glossolalia: Ranney is Speaking in Tongues C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8.50—£10.50 Pierre Novellie Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, £6—£10 Chris Betts: Bewilderbeest Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£12 The Carl Donnelly and Chris Martin Podcast Live!

Heroes @ The Hive, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 12, 18, 19, £5 Amy Howerska Goddess... *Unless Tired or Hungry.

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, £free Rose Matafeo: Sassy Best Friend

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £6—£9

Chris Turner: What a Time to Be Alive Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, £6—£10 Suzi Ruffell: Keeping It Classy HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 The Andy Field Experience HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£10

21:50 Reformed Whores: Grand Ole C*ntry Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, £7 Abigail’s Party – Comedy Cabaret Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10

21:55 Alex White: What in Tarnation?!

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–27 Aug, £free

22:00 Mark Dean Quinn: My Heart on a Plate Heroes @ The Hive, 3–27 Aug, not 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26, £5 Cosmic Comedy Berlin / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 3–19 Aug, £free All Hail the Rat King!

Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 15–19 Aug, £6 Comedians Film Club Assembly Rooms, 4–26 Aug, not 14, £12.50 Alice Fraser: Empire

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Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£11

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

Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 3–20 Aug, not 13, £free Head Sets Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Omar & Lee’s Countercultural Comedic Cavalcade Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 20–27 Aug, £free Rob Oldham: Brink Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £free Doug Anthony All Stars: Near Death Experience

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, £10—£15

Desiree Burch: Unf*ckable HHHH

Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 3–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £5

Shit-Faced Showtime: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, £6.50—£12.50 Belonging Sweet Holyrood, 4–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £7 We Are Still All C*nts Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free The First Gag is the Cheapest Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 21–27 Aug, £free Bob Blackman’s Tray?

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £free

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

22:10 Otto & Astrid: Eurosmash!

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

22:15

Danny O’Brien: RaconTour

Scott Agnew: Spunk on Our Lady’s Face Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£10 Dana Alexander: The Milk Is Not Free, But Sometimes It Is on Sale The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£9 Boys & Girls Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free D’Arcehole Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 6–31 Aug, not 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26, £free Rhiannon Vivian’s Office Meltdown Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 15–27 Aug, £free Smug Roberts: Just Me

Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10.50

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

The Stevenson Experience: Identical as Anything Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£11.50 The Shambles theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £7 Khaled Khalafalla: Loose Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6—£10 Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet Underbelly, George Square, 2–28 Aug, £7—£15 Comedy Boxing: The Rematch Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

22:20 Fin Taylor: Lefty Tighty Righty Loosey Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50

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Michael Clarke: A Felt in Progress Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Bill Beteet: If You Feel Like Killing Yourself, Call Me Just the Tonic at The Caves, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £5 Gein’s Family Giftshop: Volume 3 HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10.50

Brendon Burns and Colt Cabana Do Comedy and Commentary to Bad Wrestling Matches Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 4–27 Aug, £8—£10 Brendon Lemon, Prophet of Doom Just the Tonic at The Caves, Various dates from 3 Aug to 27 Aug, £5

22:30 Myra DuBois: DuBois Entendre HHH Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–26 Aug, not 25, £free Hyprov: Improv Under Hypnosis Assembly George Square Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£15 Hambone : enobmaH C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £7.50—£9.50 Single Comedians Trying to Impress You! Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, £free Fright Bus Service Necrobus, 2–27 Aug, £7—£9 Set List: Stand-Up Without a Net Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£14.50

22:35 David Trent: Here’s Your Future Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5 Eleanor Conway’s Walk of Shame The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £9—£10

22:40 The Bear Pack Underbelly, Cowgate, 15–27 Aug, not 21, £10—£11 Terry Alderton: All Crazy Now HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£11 The Walk of Shame Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Douglas Walker: Zuschauer Underbelly, George Square, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10 Data Night Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–27 Aug, £5 Patrick Turpin: Itty Bitty Little Titty Piece HH Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10

Thoughts That Count Canons’ Gait, 5–18 Aug, £free Luke McQueen: The Boy With Tape on His Face Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £5 Andy Barr: Tropic of Admin Heroes @ Dragonfly, 4–27 Aug, not 16, £5 Found Footage Festival

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

Laugh, Why Don’t You? A Sketch Show by Fish Pie! Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £6

22:45 Bendiana Jones and the Temple of Huge Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Shaggers (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free Pity Laughs: A Tale of Two Gays Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £3.50—£7 AAA Stand-Up Late at Gilded Balloon Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6—£11 AA-AA The Adventures of Rich and Morty (The ‘A’s Are Silent) Southsider, 5–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Joe Sutherland: Model / Actress Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £6—£9 The Craig Ferguson Show Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 7–18 Aug, weekdays only, £16 Mark Watson’s Festival of Bad Ideas Pleasance Courtyard, 15–27 Aug, £5 Pontoon Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 21–27 Aug, £free The Not So Late Show With Ross and Josh Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £5—£12.50 Daniel Muggleton – Let’s Never Hang Out Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, £free Pussy Play Masterclass Gilded Balloon Teviot, 4–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£15 The Death Hilarious: The Scum Always Rises Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£11

Rosco McClelland: How I Got Over Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£9 Molotov Cocktail Party Bar Bados Complex, 6–26 Aug, £free

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

22:55 Odette!

Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Spectaculus Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 14–27 Aug, not 23, £free

23:00 Imaginary Porno Charades Sweet Grassmarket, Various dates from 4 Aug to 20 Aug, £7 Juan Vesuvius: I am Your Deejay Assembly George Square Theatre, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£12 Murder, She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery Pleasance Courtyard, 6 Aug, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, 27 Aug, £12.50 AAA Stand-Up Late Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£11 2 Girls 1 Cup of Comedy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Asian Comedy Fusion Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 12–27 Aug, £free Phil Dunning: The House of Pigs Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£9 Henry Ginsberg: Molesting the Corpse of Traditional Masculinity Since 1987 Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 3–27 Aug, £free Comedians Bullseye Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–27 Aug, not 24, £10 Late Night Gimp Fight

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Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 3 Aug to 26 Aug, £7—£13

Tim Key: Work in Progress Pleasance Dome, 14–27 Aug, £10—£12 The Free Association: Jacuzzi Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, £6.50—£10.50 Infant Hercules HH Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £5 Rob Cawsey: Just Cruising

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Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £free

Richard Gadd: Monkey See Monkey Do Summerhall, 18–27 Aug, £15 Folie à Deux Pleasance Dome, 21–25 Aug, £9—£11 Tom Allen: Absolutely Pleasance Dome, 25–26 Aug, £11 Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! It’s the Last Ever Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show – and It’s Free!

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 25–26 Aug, £free Imaginary Porno Charades Sweet Grassmarket, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £7 Goose: The Game Show Assembly George Square Studios, 24–25 Aug, £10

Jolly Goodfellow: Fooling a Part Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 4–27 Aug, £5 Splitting the Bill Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Kevin James Doyle: 30 Year Old Virgin Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Fernando – Dog Poo on a Shoe Sweet Grassmarket, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £8

23:20

23:10

Mark Watson: I’m Not Here Pleasance Courtyard, 24–26 Aug, £14.50—£16 Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £17 Paul Williams: Summertime Love theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–25 Aug, weekdays only, £5 Political Animal The Stand Comedy Club, Various dates from 15 Aug to 24 Aug, £12 Best of Scottish Comedian of the Year Underbelly Med Quad, Various dates from 3 Aug to 27 Aug, £6.50—£13.50 Shit I’m in Love With You Again theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 15–19 Aug, £8 Simon Amstell: Tour Previews (Work in Progress) Pleasance Courtyard, 17–19 Aug, £15 Amusical Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24 Aug, £10

Stoph Demetriou - The Dunning-Kruger Effect

23:25

23:05 Chicago’s Stand-Up Showcase Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £5 Grimmprov: The Improvised Fairytale theSpace on the Mile, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £7

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

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

23:15 Aatif Nawaz: The Last Laugh Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 3–27 Aug, £free Double Denim HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £5—£11 It’s a Wretched Life Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 21–27 Aug, £free

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

23:30 2 Girls 1 Capo – Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–27 Aug, £free Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–20 Aug, £free Ultimate Comedy Championship Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, not 20, £free Siblings Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 23, £6—£9

Guardians of Imperfection Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 16–27 Aug, £free Kaitlyn Rogers: Can I Get an Amen?!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £5—£10

23:40 F*ck Me Like Dry Vegetable Just the Tonic at The Caves, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Stuart Black: It’s the End of the World as We Know It Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £3—£5

23:45 Njambi McGrath and Guests Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 4–25 Aug, £free The Stand Late Club The Stand Comedy Club, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £15 Hate ‘n’ Live Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–28 Aug, not 25, £free Wank Bank Masterclass Gilded Balloon Teviot, 4–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£15 In Between Nightmares Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Edinburgh Comedy Allstars Underbelly, George Square, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £10—£15

23:50 Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 6–23 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, £7 Phil Nichol: The Asylum Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, Various dates from 3 Aug to 26 Aug, £10 Javier Costales: The Invisible Blind Man Heroes @ Dragonfly, 4–27 Aug, £5

23:55 Fright Bus Service Necrobus, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £9 Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show Just the Tonic at The Community Project, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £10

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Reginald D Hunter: Some People vs Reginald D Hunter Assembly Hall, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 15, 21, £10—£17 Rachel Jackson: Bunny Boiler Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 24, £6.50—£9.50 Night at the Museum Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£12 Puppetry of the Penis Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15–28 Aug, £15—£16 The Abersham Flat Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free LOLympics Live 2017 The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £12 Gayshit Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £7.50 Frenchy Unleashed Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£11 Mae Martin and Nick Coyle: Show Party Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 4–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Dante’s History of the Banished Paradise in The Vault, 14–27 Aug, not 20, £4—£8

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00:15 The Last Emperor of Mexico Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 4–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free

00:30 Séance Sweet Grassmarket, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £15

09:00 Breakfast Plays: B!rth Traverse Theatre, 15–27 Aug, not 21, £15.50

09:30 Exile SpaceTriplex, 14–19 Aug, £6

09:50 Avalon Paradise in The Vault, 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8 Nothing Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, 22, £7—£10 Sink theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug, £8

09:55 The Plum Tree Paradise in The Vault, 5–19 Aug, not 13, £8 Prison Psychologist Paradise in The Vault, 21–27 Aug, £5 Private Peaceful theSpace on Niddry St, 14–19 Aug, £8

Theatre

10:00

66

Shakespeare for Breakfast C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8.50—£10.50 Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, not 24, 25, £3 Adam Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 9 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £21.50 Adulting SpaceTriplex, 14–19 Aug, £7.50 The Comedy of Errors theSpace on Niddry St, 22–26 Aug, £8.50 Wild Bore HHHH Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 13 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £15—£21.50 The Whip Hand HHH Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, 27 Aug, £21.50 Shakespeare on a Shoestring: Cymbeline!

Paradise in Augustines, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, £8

Meet Me At Dawn

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Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, 10 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50

The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £15—£21.50 Rainbow Soapbox Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £9

10:05 Salome theSpace on North Bridge, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £8 DROLL theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug, £8.50

10:10 Action at a Distance Zoo Southside, 4–22 Aug, not 10, 17, £6—£10 Maria Ornata Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug, £8.50 Pronoun Paradise in Augustines, 21–26 Aug, £10

10:15 The Second Copy: 2045 Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8—£12 Give Me Your Love Summerhall, 15–27 Aug, not 21, £10—£14 Waiting for Spring Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £9.50 Young and Fresh theSpace on the Mile, 22–26 Aug, £8 Hyperion Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 14–19 Aug, £7 Girls Like That Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–19 Aug, £6.50

10:20 Next!

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 22–26 Aug, £5

10:25 Undercover Refugee theSpace on the Mile, 15–19 Aug, £8

10:30 Sink SpaceTriplex, 21–26 Aug, £8 Broken Episodes Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–19 Aug, £15 Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 15, 22, £8.50—£12.50 Home Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 21 Aug to 28 Aug, £12.50

Twenty Something Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £7 Day Dream Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Bombastic Declaration of Love – Julie Cafmeyer

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Summerhall, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8—£10

#Magical Mystery Walking Tour of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Meeting Outside Burgers and Beers Grillhouse, 14–27 Aug, £free The Sleeper theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 14–19 Aug, £6—£8 Plan B for Utopia Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £12 Joseph K C venues – C, 20–26 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

10:35 NSFW theSpace on Niddry St, 14–19 Aug, £9.50

10:40 Ingo’s War Pleasance Dome, 2–20 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Things We Find in the Dark ZOO, 4–28 Aug, not 15, £7—£12

10:45 Crimes of the Heart theSpace on North Bridge, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £6—£8 Scorch Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £14—£16 The Dame theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–26 Aug, £10

11:00 Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, not 24, 25, £3 The Testament of Mary C venues – C cubed, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £7.50—£9.50 The Empress and Me Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 21, £5—£10 How I Said ‘F**k You’ to the Company When They Tried to Make Me Redundant Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–27 Aug, £free The Shaken and the Stirred Scottish Arts Club, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, £12 No Miracles Here HH Northern Stage at Summerhall, 5–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£12 Looking for John HH Assembly Hall, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £6—£12 Indian Kaleidoscope Underbelly Med Quad, 21–28 Aug, £11—£12 Our Carnal Hearts Summerhall, 15–26 Aug, £10—£12 Jess and Joe Forever

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Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £19.50

Eve Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £19.50 Lilith: The Jungle Girl

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Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, 27 Aug, £19.50

Nassim HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 13 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £19.50

10:50

Letters to Morrissey

Just William’s Luck Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10 Donors theSpace on the Mile, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £6—£10 Birdland by Simon Stephens theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–19 Aug, £8 When the Sky Falls In theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–26 Aug, £7

Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £13—£19.50

10:55 Julius Caesar theSpace on Niddry St, 21–26 Aug, £6 Columns theSpace on the Mile, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £9

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Hats Off to Laurel and Hardy Sweet Grassmarket, 19–20 Aug, £10 Bottles C venues – C, 22–26 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

11:05 The Truman Capote Talk Show Assembly Rooms, 3–27 Aug, £6—£12 Human Animals SpaceTriplex, 14–19 Aug, £9

11:10 The Time Machine Assembly Roxy, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £8—£13 The Picture of Dorian Gray Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£9

Cult-ure theSpace on North Bridge, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £8

11:15 Let Me Look at You Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 On One Condition Zoo Southside, 20–28 Aug, £9—£14 Fahrenheit 451 Paradise in The Vault, 14–19 Aug, £10 The Black That I Am Upper Church @ Summerhall hosted by RBC, 17–27 Aug, £8 An Actor’s Tribute Central Hall, 18 Aug, £5 All the King’s Women Central Hall, 18 Aug, £5

11:20 Maria Ornata Greenside @ Infirmary Street, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £8.50

11:25 Fish Food Paradise in The Vault, 5–19 Aug, not 13, £7 Julius Caesar theSpace on Niddry St, 14–19 Aug, £8 NSFW theSpace on Niddry St, 21–26 Aug, £9.50 The Lucky Durhams: The First Day of the Somme Zoo Southside, 21–27 Aug, £9 The Soldier and Death Paradise in The Vault, 21–27 Aug, £8

11:30 Hopes, Dreams and the Bits In-Between theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £6 The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign Assembly Roxy, 3–28 Aug, not 14, 15, £8—£13 Your Love Is Fire Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8—£12 Hyperthymesia Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–19 Aug, not 13, £5—£9 Lamentations HHH Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£14 Labels Pleasance Courtyard, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, £9 Primal Instincts theSpace on the Mile, 14–18 Aug, £8 A While With Seamus Heaney The Royal Scots Club, 15–19 Aug, £10

Exile SpaceTriplex, 21–26 Aug, £6

11:35 A Matter of Race Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £8

11:40 Karoo Moose – No Fathers Assembly George Square Studios, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10—£15 Kafka and Son Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 15, 16, £6—£11 The Room at the Top of the House ZOO, 4–28 Aug, not 15, £7—£12 Girls Will Be Girls Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £10 The Sleeper theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £5—£8 And Then There Were None Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–26 Aug, £9 Somethings Old, Somethings New The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 15–22 Aug, £12

11:45 (FEAR) HH ZOO, Various dates from 21 Aug to 28 Aug, £10 Me and My Bee HH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£10 Tshepang: The Third Testament HHHH Assembly Roxy, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10—£15 Hear All About It SpaceTriplex, 21–26 Aug, £7 The Drive HH ZOO, 4–19 Aug, £6—£12

11:50 A Heart at Sea HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£9.50 Fragile Man theSpace on the Mile, 10–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £8—£10 Jogging Summerhall, 15–23 Aug, £12

11:55 The Glummer Twins theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £9 Games and After Liverpool

by James Saunders Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£10

12:00 The Nature of Forgetting HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£12.50

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Not About Heroes Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £6—£12.50 DeLorean Assembly Rooms, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£15 Last Resort HH Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8—£10 The Patchwork Odyssey Assembly Roxy, 3–28 Aug, not 9, 14, 21, £6—£10 Daniel Cainer: More Gefilte Fish and Chips Underbelly, George Square, 2–28 Aug, £6.50—£11 The Power Behind the Crone Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£12 Frost and Lorca Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–23 Aug, £12 Strangers: A Magic Play II theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug, £10 Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, not 24, 25, £3 The Tobacco Merchant’s Lawyer Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £10 The Pilgrims Follow Twitter: @ ThePilgrimsMove, 12–26 Aug, £free Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Roundabout @ Summerhall, 4–20 Aug, not 8, 15, £9—£13 In Conversation With…

David Hayman New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £10 Stranger Than Truth Paradise in Augustines, 22–25 Aug, £free Marie Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 3–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 19, 20, 21, £free

Every Brilliant Thing Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £20 Safe Place Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 13–28 Aug, £10 Werewolves Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20–27 Aug, £10 Your Ever Loving Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–20 Aug, £6.50—£11 If Only: An Audience With Rudyard Kipling Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 23–27 Aug, £8 In Conversation With…

Mark Thomas New Town Theatre, 26 Aug, £10 Part of the Picture

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Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10

Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun / The Murder of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15 The Chess Player C venues – C primo, 2–28 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Tobacco Assembly George Square Studios, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10—£15 Hear All About It theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 14–19 Aug, £7 Eurohouse Summerhall, 23–26 Aug, £10 Not I Pleasance Courtyard, 22–26 Aug, £10—£13 Girls Pleasance Courtyard, 22–27 Aug, £11—£12 Neil Hilborn – Live Poetry The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–27 Aug, £10 Luke Wright: What I Learned from Johnny Bevan Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–27 Aug, £12—£14

In Conversation With…

David Mach New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £10 Distortion Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 26–27 Aug, £6 In Conversation With…

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12:05 The Way It Is theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug, £8

12:10 Wandering Bones Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, not 16, 23, £8 Chaucer Retold theSpace on Niddry St, 21–25 Aug, £5 Brothers Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10 Cow HH Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10

12:15 Gazing at a Distant Star Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Big Bite-Size Lunch Hour: Izzy’s Manifestos Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 15, 22, £6—£12 The Dog Daze of Summer Sweet Grassmarket, 21–27 Aug, £8

12:20 Half Breed HHHH

Assembly George Square Theatre, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£12

Harry Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10.50 Threadbare theSpace on North Bridge, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £6 Wife The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 23–27 Aug, £9 The Growing Pains of the Mantle Family Living Room theSpace on North Bridge, 21–26 Aug, £7 Slooshy Wordshow Assembly Hall, 3–28 Aug, not 15, 22, £5—£10 Katie and Pip C venues – C, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

12:25 To Hell in a Handbag Assembly Rooms, 3–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £8—£11 A Different Way Home Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £12 Pip Utton’s Greatest Hits Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£11 Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew C venues – C, 13–19 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

Undercover Refugee theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £8

12:30 Not the Horse theSpace @ Venue45, 22–26 Aug, £9 A Gym Thing Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Phill Jupitus is Porky the Poet in Survivalve Bannermans, 5–27 Aug, not 14, £free Cold Fronts and Hot Flushes: The Short Stories of Kevin Spacey Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug, £10 That’s Life on Lisgar C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 This Is Soap C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8.50—£10.50 These Walls Sweet Grassmarket, 5–20 Aug, not 14, £7.50 The Delights of Dogs and the Problems of People SpaceTriplex, 14–19 Aug, £10 Up the Hill Jackie Bedlam Theatre, Various dates from 2 Aug to 28 Aug, £10 MARVELus: All the Marvel Movies in an Hour Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Big Bite-Size Lunch Hour: Best Bites Pleasance Dome, 5–28 Aug, not 15, 22, £7—£10.50 Meeting at 33 Pleasance Courtyard, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, £10

12:35 Hyperion Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 21–26 Aug, £7 Human Animals SpaceTriplex, 21–26 Aug, £9

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EH8 9TJ 12:40

The Tinder Tales Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug, £free We Need to Talk About Bobby (Off EastEnders) Zoo Southside, 14–28 Aug, £5—£9 Woyzeck Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–19 Aug, £7 Rupture Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£10 Oyster Boy Assembly George Square Theatre, 3–28 Aug, not 17, 18, £5—£10 She and Her Cat – Eddies in the Ebb and Flow Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 14–19 Aug, £10

12:45 The Believers Are But Brothers HHHH

Northern Stage at Summerhall, 5–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£12

What Goes on in Front of Closed Doors Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£10 Follow Suit Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 14, 15, 21, £6.50—£11 From Dust Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£11 Perfectly Imperfect Women Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£9.50 A Play, A Pie and A Pint Le Monde, 4–25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £12.50 The Great Big Beautiful Sky C venues – C too, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £7.50—£9.50 Anyone’s Guess How We Got Here ZOO, 13–28 Aug, £7—£12

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Doig the Musical, With No Singing, No Dancing and Very Little Music theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 6 Aug to 26 Aug, £6—£9.50 Talkabout Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £8

12:50 Service! theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £10 A Clockwork Orange theSpace on Niddry St, 21–26 Aug, £8 100 theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 5 Aug to 25 Aug, £6—£9.50

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12:55 Woman on Fire theSpace on North Bridge, 4–26 Aug, not 13, £6—£9 An Unexpected Electric Nativity C venues – C royale, 2–18 Aug, not 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, £7.50—£9.50 Two C venues – C royale, 3–19 Aug, not 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, £8.50—£10.50 Mary and Me Paradise in The Vault, 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £11 Comedy of Errors theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–26 Aug, £7 Hi. (Entering Burned Area) Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £4—£8 Loud in Babel theSpace on Niddry St, 14–19 Aug, £7

13:00 Bare Skin on Briny Waters

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£11

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Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, not 24, 25, £3 You Forgot the Mince Pleasance Courtyard, 7–28 Aug, not 21, £7.50—£10 The Revlon Girl Assembly Roxy, 3–28 Aug, £10—£13 Eggsistentialism

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Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 9, 14, 22, £6—£10

Adam Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50 The Whip Hand HHH Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 13 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £21.50 Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun / The Murder of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15 Whalebone Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £6—£9 Foreign Radical CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £8—£10 Home is Not the Place Scottish Storytelling Centre, 18–27 Aug, £10 Storyteller Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 3–28 Aug, £6—£9 Stealth Aspies: Autistic People Speak Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 11–19 Aug, £free Our Man in Havana Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£10 Gypsy Queen Assembly Rooms, 3–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£10 Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, £4—£5 Snowflake by Mark Thomson Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, 22, £6—£10.50

Guerilla Aspies - Third Autism and Aspergers Converting Year Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, Various dates from 3 Aug to 27 Aug, £free Real Magic The Studio, 26 Aug, £25 Wild Bore HHHH Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £21.50 An Evening With an Immigrant Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £19.50

13:05 Hive theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £9 Strangers: A Magic Play II theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £10 Heroes theSpace on the Mile, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £9 A Woman’s Wit, Wisdom and Pratfalls theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 16–19 Aug, £5

13:10 Autopsy. The Soul of Richard Nixon Natural Food Kafe, 5–26 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free How to Act HHHH Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £13—£15 Macbeth Kills the Duchess theSpace on Niddry St, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £7 Pixel Dust HHH Assembly Roxy, Various dates from 3 Aug to 27 Aug, £7—£11 The Naked Dietitian Quaker Meeting House, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £5 Wondr Assembly Roxy, Various dates from 4 Aug to 28 Aug, £7—£11 Merrily We Roll Along theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 21–26 Aug, £8

Catch SpaceTriplex, 22–26 Aug, £8 Chips and Cheese theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug, £7

13:15 Glitter Punch Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £8—£12 The Etiquette Show: Much Ado About Everything!

Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 15–28 Aug, £14 The Hero Who Overslept Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, Meet Me At Dawn

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Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50 21, £6—£12

Up Periscope Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 4–28 Aug, not 18, 25, £free The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, 27 Aug, £21.50 Playback Impro Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Odyssey Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 15, 22, £7.50—£13.50 Victorian Gothic Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 13, 20, 24, 25, £8 Joan Underbelly Med Quad, 24 Aug, £10.50 Alice and the Black Hole Blues Central Hall, 18 Aug, £5

13:20 Edgartown theSpace on North Bridge, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £5—£7

Syd and Sylvia Silk, 5–26 Aug, not 11, 18, 25, £free Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, £4—£5 The Expiration Date of Jonas Müller (Age 70) Pleasance Dome, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 14, 21, £6—£9.50 Once Were Pirates HH Pleasance Dome, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 15, £6.50—£11 Jennaration Y Venue 13, 12–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 16, 18, 21, £9 Probably Still Drunk Collective Presents: Inebriated Venue 13, 13 Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, £9

13:25 The Great Ridolphi Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10.50 Mary Go Nowhere Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£14 Black Mountain HHH Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 5 Aug to 26 Aug, £15—£17 Out Of Love HHH Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 4 Aug to 27 Aug, £9—£17

13:30 Tumble Tuck Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£11 City Love Bourbon Bar, 5–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Circled in the Radio Times

by John Osborne Voodoo Rooms, 5–27 Aug, not 16, £free My Cloth-Eared Heart Black Market, 5–26 Aug, £free

Lilith: The Jungle Girl

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Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £19.50

The Illusion of Truth Scottish Storytelling Centre, 3–24 Aug, not 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, £6—£9 Richard III (A One-Woman Show) The Royal Scots Club, 15–19 Aug, £12 Eve Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £19.50 Love, Bombs and Apples HHHH Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8—£12 A Thousand Doorways C venues – C primo, 2–19 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 The Last Days of Judas Iscariot Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6.50—£12.50 The Emily Triptych Quaker Meeting House, 12 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, £8 Dickens for Dinner C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8.50—£10.50 Reduced Shakespeare Company – William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (Abridged) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £6—£14 Jess and Joe Forever

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Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 13 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £19.50

Nassim HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £13—£19.50

Letters to Morrissey

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Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, 27 Aug, £19.50

Mengele Sweet Grassmarket, 14–20 Aug, £9

13:35 The Dame Dolly Donut Show C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £7.50—£9.50 Towers of Eden theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £8 An Evening With the Voices in Annie’s Head Paradise in Augustines, 14–27 Aug, not 20, £5 A Midsummer Night’s Dream theSpace @ Venue45, 11–19 Aug, not 13, £5 Enterprise Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, 22, £8—£11 And They Played Shang-A-Lang The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, £10—£12

13:40 The Recovery Version Sweet Grassmarket, 4–20 Aug, £8 Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, £4—£5 Frank Carson – A Rebel Without a Pause Assembly Rooms, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £10—£15 Bump Assembly George Square Theatre, 3–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£11 No Rest for the Lizard Banshee Labyrinth, 5–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free Confabulation Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £7—£12 Patience C venues – C royale, 16–27 Aug, £7.50—£9.50 Gratiano Assembly Hall, 3–28 Aug, not 21, £7—£12 Trashed Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, £6.50—£10.50 A Compendium of Lost Things C venues – C, 20–27 Aug, £8.50—£10.50

13:45 Welcome Question Mark Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug, £9 DIGS Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10 Play Something Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–19 Aug, £10

All My Life Long C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 17, £7.50—£9.50 Fox and Hound Presents Tennessee Williams’ Ivan’s Widow and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £7—£11 Nathan Cassidy: Watch This. Love Me. It’s Deep.

C venues – C cubed, 3–27 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Open Road C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £7.50—£9.50 The Paper Cinema’s Macbeth Pleasance Dome, 22–26 Aug, £10—£13 Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Alex Salmond... Unleashed Assembly Rooms, 13–27 Aug, £22.50 Lists for the End of the World HHHH Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£12 ScotlandsFest 2017 Quaker Meeting House, 21–25 Aug, £5

13:50 Treasure Trove of Shadows C venues – C, 20–28 Aug, £10.50—£12.50 How to Rebuild a Life New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £8 A Level Playing Field Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug, £6 Busu and the Damask Drum Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £10 Sad Girls Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–26 Aug, £8 The Cause of Thunder New Town Theatre, 19–25 Aug, £16 Surviving the Storm New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £8 Can Sustainability Ever Be Mainstream?

New Town Theatre, 27 Aug, £8 Cows Eat Grass, Don’t They?

New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £8 Women, Science Is Not For You: III New Town Theatre, 11 Aug, 25 Aug, £8 Measuring Humanity New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £8 Dr Data: The Answer to Cancer New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £8

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New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £8 Doctor Google Will See You Now! New Town Theatre, 26 Aug, £8 Dae Ye Have a Sick-Line, Ken? New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £8

13:55 From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £7—£12 Peer Gynt ZOO, 4–28 Aug, £8—£12 A Joke theSpace on Niddry St, 14–26 Aug, £12 Hell Has No Fury SpaceTriplex, 22–26 Aug, £10 10 Rillington Place SpaceTriplex, 7–19 Aug, not 13, £10

14:00 Flight Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, £15 From the Ground Up Assembly Roxy, 14–27 Aug, not 21, £9—£10 Woke Gilded Balloon Teviot, 4–28 Aug, not 17, 18, 19, £6—£12 Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, not 24, 25, £3 Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, £4—£5 Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun / The Murder of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15 Faulty Towers The Dining Experience The Principal, 4–28 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £49.50—£54.50 Above the Mealy-mouthed Sea Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10 Deadpan Theatre: Third Wheel Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, £8—£12 Firewater theSpace on North Bridge, 14–19 Aug, £8 Dr Carnesky’s Incredible Bleeding Woman HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 21, £6—£10 On Ice – Suzanne Grotenhuis/De Nwe Tijd

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Upper Church @ Summerhall hosted by RBC, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8—£10

Cockroached Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£9.50 A Field of Our Own Hibernian Football Club, 20 Aug, £12 Arthur Conan Doyle – The Spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 8 Aug, 10 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 22 Aug, £8 Meat ZOO, 7–27 Aug, not 20, £5—£9 Victim Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£11 Rhapsodes Pleasance Dome, 14–27 Aug, £10—£12.50 Party Game HH Traverse at the Wee Red Bar, 13 Aug, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, £21.50 The Divide - Part 1 King’s Theatre, Various dates from 11 Aug to 20 Aug, £14 The Divide - Part 2 King’s Theatre, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, £14 Lunacy Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 25–26 Aug, £free The Wedding Reception The Principal, 8 Aug, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £39

14:05 The Edelweiss Pirates theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug, £10 Desert Bloom theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £9 So I’ve Heard Sweet Grassmarket, 15–20 Aug, £8

14:10 Domestic theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug, £8

14:15 Egg Bourbon Bar, 5–27 Aug, £free Goody H Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£11 Yvette Pleasance Courtyard, 2–26 Aug, not 14, £6—£11 Poll Function Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 21, £6—£9 Ballistic Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £5—£12 Replay Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £7—£12 Obfuscation theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £7 Volte Face Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 14–28 Aug, £8

14:20 Sugar Baby Paradise in The Vault, 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, £4—£5 A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad)

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £7—£12

The Merry Wives of Windsor theSpace on Niddry St, 14–19 Aug, £8 The Shakespeares: Scenes from a Marriage theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 6 Aug to 26 Aug, £6—£9.50 Call Mr Robeson Quaker Meeting House, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £12 Walls and Bridges theSpace on North Bridge, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £5—£7 Matt Abbott: Two Little Ducks Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10 Just an Ordinary Lawyer Quaker Meeting House, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £12 Class Mates theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 5 Aug to 25 Aug, £6—£9.50 Submission C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, £9.50—£11.50

14:25 Bright Colours Only Assembly Rooms, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £8—£15

14:30 The Gardener Summerhall, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £5—£10 Raton Laveur HH Assembly Roxy, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £7—£12 The Giant Killers Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, £6—£12 A Sudden Burst of Blinding Light Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–19 Aug, £6—£11 salt.

Northern Stage at Summerhall, 5–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£12 Arlene! The Glitz. The Glamour. The Gossip.

Assembly Checkpoint, 22–26 Aug, £15 Assessment Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £5—£10 Dear Home Office 2: Still Pending Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10

Guilty Noodle Sweet Grassmarket, 23–27 Aug, £7 Mies Julie Assembly Rooms, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10—£17.50 Two Chairs Paradise in The Vault, 21–27 Aug, £10 Cold Comfort Farm theSpace on Niddry St, 21–26 Aug, £7 A Stool Against the Printed Rule Quaker Meeting House, 14–19 Aug, £7 Wedding Fever Mayfield Salisbury Church, 5 Aug, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £12 Improbable Fiction St Ninian’s Hall, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £12 The Amorous Ambassador Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 19 Aug, £12

14:35 The Road That Wasn’t There HH Assembly Roxy, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£11 The Friday Night Effect

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Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£12

The Cricket C venues – C, 2–19 Aug, £10.50—£12.50 La Dispute theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £8

14:40 Quarter Life Crisis

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

Hear Me Raw HHH Underbelly, George Square, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10 Crazy Horse: A Dream of Thunder Sweet Holyrood, 4–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £10 Swan Bake C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 The Accidental Adventures of Sherlock Holmes C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 A Machine they’re Secretly Building Summerhall, 15–27 Aug, £11 Derailed Pleasance Dome, 14–28 Aug, £6.50—£11 Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, £4—£5

14:45 Stegosaurus C venues – C royale, 2–19 Aug, £8.50—£10.50

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Bonnie Fechters – Songs and Stories of Hope and Resistance Scottish Storytelling Centre, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £9

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Polaris 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 4–28 Aug, not 10, 17, 24, £free Gunshot Medley Venue 13, 5–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10 Mia: Daughters of Fortune HHHH Summerhall, 8–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£10 Clonely Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Flight Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, £15 Locker Room Talk Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £9

14:50 Beadledom: Alpha Underbelly, Cowgate, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £6.50—£10.50 Locus Amoenus Summerhall, 15–27 Aug, £12 Other Voices Spoken Word Cabaret Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Beadledom: Omega Underbelly, Cowgate, Various dates from 3 Aug to 27 Aug, £6.50—£10.50 3000 Trees: The Death of Mr William MacRae New Town Theatre, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £9—£10 Todd & God HHH Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £7—£13

14:55 When We Ran Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£12 What Would Cathy Do? C venues – C primo, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £7.50—£9.50 Caravaggio: Between the Darkness theSpace on the Mile, 4–26 Aug, not 13, £5—£10 For the School Colours: The Life and Works of Angela Brazil C venues – C cubed, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £9.50—£11.50 Transmission Assembly George Square Studios, 5–26 Aug, not 9, 14, 21, £8—£10

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Pike St. HHH Roundabout @ Summerhall, 4–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £9—£15 Parentcraft C venues – C royale, 2–21 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Ensonglopedia of Science Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10

Jane Doe HHH Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £9—£12 Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, £10 The Girl Who Loved Stalin theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £7 Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun / The Murder of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15 Chamberlain: Peace in Our Time Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 4–19 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, £5.50—£11 Krapp’s Last Tape

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Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug, £25

Becoming Scheherazade Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £7.50—£10 The Man on the Moor

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Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, £6.50—£10.50

My Name is Irrelevant H Assembly Hall, 3–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £7.50—£11 Beautiful Little Fool Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug, £8 Moonlight After Midnight HHHH Assembly George Square Theatre, 3–28 Aug, not 9, 16, £7—£12 Spring Awakening: A Reimagining SpaceTriplex, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £5—£8 Meeting at 33 Pleasance Courtyard, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, £10 Confessions of a Personal Trainer Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 Emerald Boy Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug, £5 Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, £4—£5 Struggle Lauriston Halls, 21–27 Aug, £8 Hands-On Messiah St Patrick’s Church, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug, £7 Frogman Traverse at CodeBase, 12–20 Aug, not 14, £19.50 The Story of Snow and Other True Tales According to Reet Petite Paradise in Augustines, 14–18 Aug, £9 1984 Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug, £5

Fuaigh – Interweaving Scottish Storytelling Centre, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, £10 A Wake (For Those Dying for an Honest Job That Always Makes a Killing) Brewhemia, 18–19 Aug, £4

15:05 All KIDding Aside theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £5—£10 A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Game’s a Foot, Try the Fish theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–26 Aug, not 6, £5—£8 The F Word ZOO, 4–28 Aug, £6—£9 Woolf theSpace on North Bridge, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £7 Edgar and Me Zoo Southside, 20–28 Aug, £7—£10 Maklena theSpace @ Venue45, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £8 Bunker Girls theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–26 Aug, £7 The Bearpit Zoo Southside, 4–19 Aug, £7—£10 Awakening, Sweet and Sour Sensory Composition theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 15–19 Aug, £11 All’s Well That Ends As You Like It: A Lamentable Comedie and Hysterickal Tragedie, by William Shakefpeare theSpace on Niddry St, 20 Aug, £9.50

15:10 The Loneliest Girl in the World Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 15–26 Aug, not 20, £8 The Inconvenience of Wings HHH Assembly George Square Studios, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10—£15 Squeeze My Cans Assembly Rooms, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £5—£12 Ladies Who Lunch Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–25 Aug, £7

15:15 Venus and Adonis C venues – C primo, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £9.50—£11.50 Medea Central Hall, 18 Aug, £5 Ancient Shrines and Half Truths HHH Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 15, 21, £9—£11 Jelly Beans

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £6—£10

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6—£10

Empty Shoes Paradise in Augustines, 14–27 Aug, not 20, £10 Questioning Aslan: An Evening With CS Lewis Palmerston Place Church, 26 Aug, £11

15:20 This Really Is Too Much Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£11 The Ties That Bind Whitespace 76, Various dates from 3 Aug to 23 Aug, £7 Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, £4—£5 The Importance of Being Frank theSpace on North Bridge, 14–19 Aug, £8.50 Avery Pierson Central Hall, 18 Aug, £5

15:25 Out of the Bad New Town Theatre, 4–25 Aug, not 15, £12 Side Orders theSpace on North Bridge, 21–26 Aug, £5 Tartuffe Sweet Grassmarket, 21–26 Aug, £10

15:30 Sugar & Salt Bedlam Theatre, 5–28 Aug, not 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 21, £6—£7 PreScribed (A Life Written for Me) ZOO, 15–25 Aug, £10 Cathy HHHH Pleasance Dome, 2–26 Aug, not 9, 14, 21, £6.50—£11 Robert Burns: Rough Cut Scottish Storytelling Centre, 4–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10 All’s Well That Ends As You Like It: A Lamentable Comedie and Hysterickal Tragedie, by William Shakefpeare theSpace on Niddry St, 21–26 Aug, £9.50 Green Knight The Royal Scots Club, 7–23 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, £8 Fémage à Trois Gilded Balloon at Rose Mouthpiece

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CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 18, 22, 25, £8—£10 Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£11

Alan, We Think You Should Get a Dog HH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £7—£11.50 Finding Nana Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£12.50 Curse of Cranholme Abbey Pleasance Courtyard, 4–19 Aug, £6—£10 ScotlandsFest 2017 Quaker Meeting House, 21–25 Aug, £5 Flight Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, £15 Wired Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 23–26 Aug, £10 Dick in Space Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £free

15:35 Fine, Thanks C venues – C, 20–27 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

15:40 Offside HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£12 The Greenhouse theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 5 Aug to 25 Aug, £6—£9.50 Van Gogh Find Yourself #VGFY Natural Food Kafe, 3–26 Aug, not 10, 18, 19, 20, £free Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, £4—£5

15:45 Misterman C venues – C primo, 4–28 Aug, not 14, £9.50—£11.50 Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard’s Tale Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, not 14, £free iDENTiTY Sweet Holyrood, 4–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 24, 25, £8 Translunar Paradise Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 15, 22, £6.50—£13.50 The Offering (Guru Dakshina) C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £9.50—£11.50 Jocky Wilson Said Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–24 Aug, £6—£12 Noose Women theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 6 Aug to 26 Aug, £6—£9.50 Ivona, Princess of Burgundia – Tibaldus Upper Church @ Summerhall hosted by RBC, 15–27 Aug, not 17, £8—£10

The Alien Chicken Remembers Galatea The Royal Scots Club, 10–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, £15 The Etiquette Show: Much Ado About Everything!

Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 25–28 Aug, £14 Lilith: The Jungle Girl

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Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £19.50

Eve Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 13 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £19.50 Nassim HHHH Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £19.50 Letters to Morrissey

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Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £19.50

15:50 Anxiety and Animal GIFs Black Market, 6–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Three Tales of Life and Death by Craig Lucas Assembly Rooms, 3–26 Aug, not 9, 15, 22, £6—£12 Scribble HH Assembly Roxy, 3–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £6—£11 26.2 Paradise in The Vault, 14–19 Aug, £7.50

15:55 Pharmacophilia Paradise in The Vault, 21–27 Aug, £7 Blank Tiles Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£11

16:00 Daniel Piper’s Day Off Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10 Wild Bore HHHH Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50 The Egg-Born Princess SpaceTriplex, 14–19 Aug, £5 Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun / The Murder of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15 Little Boy C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £8.50—£10.50 Fag/Stag HHHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£12.50 Cracked Tiles C venues – C royale, 13–28 Aug, not 17, £8.50—£10.50 Lost in Translation: A Bilingual Journey Institut français d’Ecosse, 4–28 Aug, not 7, 14, 15, 22, £6—£8

RON DAVIS’

symphronica

FROM OFFIE-NOMINATED DIRECTOR JACK SILVER

THE SWEET SCIENCE

The Scottish Arts Club 24 Rutland Square

Listings

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BOXING, BULLYING SEXISM, TECH STARTUPS

August 14 – 19 August 21 – 26

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

This is the music you’ve been looking for

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Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10

The Delights of Dogs and the Problems of People SpaceTriplex, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £6—£10 The Whip Hand HHH Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £21.50 The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £21.50 Jess and Joe Forever

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Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £13—£19.50

James Tait Black Prize for Drama 2017: The Award Ceremony Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £7 The Emily Triptych Quaker Meeting House, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £8

16:05 From Today, Everything Changes. theSpace on North Bridge, 21–26 Aug, £8 Super Earth theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Various dates from 11 Aug to 18 Aug, £10 God Ltd theSpace on Niddry St, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £5—£8

Whore: A Kid’s Play Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £6—£12 Fox and Hound Presents 1 in 2 Chance Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £6—£10 The Unaccompanied Minor theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £10 Overshare! theSpace on North Bridge, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £8 Know Brexit theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, £10 Someone Dies at the End theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £free—£8 The Play theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug, £7

16:10 The Tempest theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £7 Cannonball Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £4—£8 Beethoven in Stalingrad Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–19 Aug, £12 An Act of Kindness C venues – C cubed, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £8.50—£10.50 The Bothy Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–26 Aug, £2 Me, as a Penguin theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug, £10 Under My Thumb Assembly Roxy, 3–20 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Tense Vagina: an actual diagnosis HH Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 14, 21, £6.50—£11

Wil Greenway: These Trees the Autumn Leaves Alone

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Underbelly Med Quad, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£11.50

16:15 Shame Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £7—£11 Flight Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, £15 I’m Always the Bridesmaid Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Deadly Dialogues C venues – C, 4–28 Aug, not 15, £10.50—£12.50 1917: A Phantasmagoria Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £10 Diary Pilgrim, 5–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £free #DirtyWoman Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 3–27 Aug, £free The Waiting Game Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5—£9 A Great Fear of Shallow Living Zoo Southside, 4–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £5—£10 Attila the Stockbroker – Undaunted Bannermans, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £free Wrong Tree Adventures Lauriston Halls, 18–27 Aug, not 20, £7 Adam Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50

16:20 One-Man Apocalypse Now Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, £8

Arm – Mireille & Mathieu

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Summerhall, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8—£10

Father of Lies Silk, 5–26 Aug, not 14, £free We Are Not a Muse theSpace on North Bridge, 7–19 Aug, not 13, £6 Brutal Cessation HHH Assembly George Square Theatre, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £7—£11 Sandman ZOO, 17–28 Aug, £10 6x6x6 Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10 What If the Plane Falls Out of the Sky? HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £7—£12 Broken theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £8 Interrobang theSpace on North Bridge, 21–26 Aug, £5

16:25 The Soft Subject (A Love Story) Assembly Hall, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£11 Taiwan Season: Ever Never Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 7, 14, 21, £8—£12

16:30 Iraq Out & Loud: We Read the Chilcot Report (Documentary) Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 7–19 Aug, not 9, £free Alex in Shadow Paradise in The Vault, 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8 A Hundred Different Words for Love

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Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 20, 21, £8—£10

The Missing Girl of Grigglewood C venues – C south, 3–28 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

Lula del Ray by Manual Cinema HHH Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £7—£14 Borders by Henry Naylor

Sarah, Sky and Seven Other Guys C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, £9.50—£11.50

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16:45

Help!

ZOO, 4–28 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £10 Velvet Evening Séance Assembly Hall, 3–28 Aug, not 15, 22, £8—£12 The Gardener Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, 21, £5—£10

Performers H Assembly Rooms, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£15 Matt Panesh – Freedom...!

Banshee Labyrinth, 5–26 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Penthouse theSpace on Niddry St, 4–26 Aug, not 13, £8—£10 Scene Paradise in Augustines, 14–27 Aug, not 20, £6

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £7—£12.50

16:35 Private Peaceful theSpace on Niddry St, 21–26 Aug, £8 Ursula, Queen of the Jungle C venues – C primo, 13–28 Aug, £9.50—£11.50 The Odyssey C venues – C, 20–27 Aug, Meet Me At Dawn

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Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, 27 Aug, £21.50 £7.50—£9.50

16:40 Lemonade Assembly Rooms, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£12 Dust HHHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£11 Box Clever HH Roundabout @ Summerhall, 4–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £11—£13 Instructions for Border Crossing HHH Northern Stage at Summerhall, 5–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£12

16:50 Teahouse Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–18 Aug, £10

16:55 Teddy Bears’ Picnic Natural Food Kafe, 4–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free Alice – Underground Lives My Buried Mind (Deflowering Lewis Carroll’s Script) ZOO, 4–20 Aug, £8—£10 Seanmhair

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Bedlam Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £9—£12

An Audience With Ted Pendleton Paradise in The Vault, 14–19 Aug, £7

17:00 Leaf by Niggle Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 4 Aug to 28 Aug, £12 Places New Town Theatre, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £10—£12 What If I Told You Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 11–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£12

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Iraq Out & Loud: We Read the Chilcot Report (Documentary) Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 7–19 Aug, not 9, £free The Portable Dorothy Parker Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£12 Nassim HHHH Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, 27 Aug, £19.50 Flesh and Bone

Brighton Argus

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The tale that inspired Shelley's Frankenstein

"A stunning one man play"

Theatre

21-26 Aug,8.20pm,Venue 18

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Iraq Out & Loud: We Read the Chilcot Report (Documentary) Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 7–19 Aug, not 9, £free Mairi Campbell: Pulse Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 3 Aug to 27 Aug, £12 Amy, 25, Almost Cool C venues – C royale, 2–22 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun / The Murder of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15 Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, not 24, 25, £3 Nocturnes ZOO, 21–26 Aug, £14 Freshlings Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 21–25 Aug, £5 Sam Shaber: Life, Death & Duran Duran Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£11 Parable of Lysistrata Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 17–18 Aug, £6 Testosterone Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 20, £6—£11.50 The Damned United Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 22, £6—£12.50 Death High Bar Bados Complex, 5–28 Aug, not 21, £free 1902 Wee Red Bar, 2–28 Aug, not 6, 7, 10, 17, 24, £12 My Mind is Free The Salvation Army Edinburgh City Corps, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, £8 The Emily Triptych Quaker Meeting House, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, £8

17:05 A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Man with the Twisted Hip theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, £5—£8 Mental Assembly Roxy, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£12 Burnt Toast Assembly Rooms, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £7—£10 Love vs Fear and My Mother’s Prayers theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 21–26 Aug, £10 Died Blondes theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 15–19 Aug, £5 Dada Surrealist Cookbook Silk, 5–26 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free A Feyre Tale theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug, £7

17:10 Waggo theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 15 Aug to 26 Aug, £8 The Other Side of the Flood Banshee Labyrinth, 5–25 Aug, not 16, £free The Course of True Love C venues – C cubed, 13–28 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Commons theSpace on North Bridge, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £8 Doreen’s No-Brainer Lectures – Live theSpace on North Bridge, 21–26 Aug, £10 Lipstick and Scones theSpace on the Mile, 4–26 Aug, not 13, £9 Dead Men Tell No Tale theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 14 Aug to 25 Aug, £8 Conversations With Rats theSpace on the Mile, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £7—£8

Dirty Bitches theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 14–19 Aug, £8

17:15 Fleabag Underbelly, George Square, 21–27 Aug, £12—£14 100 Years of Balfour Just Festival at St John’s , Various dates from 11 Aug to 19 Aug, £10 Mirror, Mirror, Off the Wall Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 4–19 Aug, not 13, £4—£8 ScotlandsFest 2017 Quaker Meeting House, 21–25 Aug, £5 Torn Apart – By Romeo and Juliet Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 21–26 Aug, £8

17:20 Richard Carpenter is Close to You HH Underbelly, George Square, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£11.50 Education, Education, Education Pleasance Dome, 2–27 Aug, not 15, 25, £6—£11 Sleepwalkers theSpace on the Mile, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £8.50 Jack Rooke: Happy Hour HHHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£12 Guy Fawkes It Up theSpace on North Bridge, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £7 Teresa di Maggio Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–26 Aug, £15 The Tinder Tales Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug, £free Freshers Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–18 Aug, £7

17:25 In Pieces Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 4–19 Aug, not 13, £5—£9 (My Father) John Gabriel Borkman SpaceTriplex, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £5—£9

17:30 Siri HH CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8—£10 Good With Maps C venues – C primo, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £9.50—£11.50 The End, the End, the End… Venue 13, 5–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10 Iraq Out & Loud: We Read the Chilcot Report (Documentary) Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 7–19 Aug, not 9, £free Occam’s Chainsaw Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 10, 13, 17, 20, 24, £4.50—£9 The Wedding Reception The Principal, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, £39—£43 Suspicious Minds Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 16, £6—£10 Turntable / Edinburgh Scottish Storytelling Centre, 14–20 Aug, £6—£8 Spect-Act Just Festival at St John’s , 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £8

17:35 Bluebeard’s Ghost Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 24, 25, £7

17:40 Amy Conway’s Super Awesome World Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, £8—£11

Tom and Bunny Save the World HHH Assembly George Square Theatre, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £7—£11 Siren HHH Pleasance Dome, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £6—£11 Fix HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£11.50 Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guide to Consciousness Assembly George Square Studios, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £8—£10 Deep in the Heart of Me Sweet Grassmarket, 8–26 Aug, not 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, £8 Fall of Duty Sweet Grassmarket, Various dates from 7 Aug to 19 Aug, £8

17:45 Mission Abort Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£11 I Am Faransis W. Summerhall, 6–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £12 Edison Zoo Southside, 4–27 Aug, £5—£10 A Hunger Artist (Kafka Adaptation) HHHH ZOO, 4–28 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £5—£11 Celebration ZOO, 15–28 Aug, £5—£8 That’s What She Said Bar Bados Complex, 16–26 Aug, £free

17:50 Rock and Hunt Paradise in The Vault, 5–19 Aug, not 13, £8 The Sweet Science C venues – C too, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £9.50—£11.50 Sex Education Paradise in The Vault, 21–27 Aug, £9

The North! The North!

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Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, £6—£11

Birthday Cake C venues – C, 13–19 Aug, £8.50—£10.50

17:55 Heather Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, 21, £8—£12

18:00 A Girl and a Gun Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 7, 14, 21, £5—£10 Seagulls The Leith Volcano, 8–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £12 Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 2–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£17.50 Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, not 24, 25, £3 Oresteia: This Restless House The Lyceum, 22–27 Aug, £10 Iraq Out & Loud: We Read the Chilcot Report (Documentary) Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 7–19 Aug, not 9, £free Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun / The Murder of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15 The B*easts HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£11 Behind Our Skin C venues – C royale, 21–26 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Frogman Traverse at CodeBase, 12–27 Aug, not 14, 22, 23, 24, 25, £19.50 Joe’s NYC Bar Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £8—£13

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Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug, £19.50

18:05 Sugar Baby HHH Roundabout @ Summerhall, 4–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £9—£15 Lord Dismiss Us theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–26 Aug, not 13, £7—£9 Marking Time theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £8 Ripe theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £7 Man and Boy theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £6 #Vile: The Untimely Demise of a Manufactured Pop Star theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £6.50

18:10 Wishing on a Stopgap theSpace on the Mile, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £5—£7 Frozen C venues – C cubed, 13–28 Aug, not 21, £10.50—£12.50 Lunch Girls theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug, £7 Goldilock, Stock and Three Smoking Bears HHH ZOO, 4–20 Aug, not 14, £12 Rich Hyde, Homicide theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £6 The Second Coming theSpace on North Bridge, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £7 Givin’ It Some theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 15 Aug to 26 Aug, £8 Space Dogs theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 14 Aug to 25 Aug, £8

18:15 Ancient Shrines and Half Truths HHH Summerhall, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 15, 21, £11 One for the Road... theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £9.50

The Fall HHHH

Assembly Hall, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10—£15

Macblair C venues – C primo, 13–28 Aug, not 21, £9.50—£11.50 Death on the Nile theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug, £8 Jess and Joe Forever

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Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £19.50

The Murderous Philanthropist of Croydon Town theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug, £8 The Fair Intellectual Club The Royal Scots Club, 14–19 Aug, £10 Lilith: The Jungle Girl

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 13 Aug, 19 Aug, £19.50

Nassim HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £19.50

Letters to Morrissey

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Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £19.50

18:20 Cheeks Silk, 5–26 Aug, not 14, £free Size Matters Sweet Holyrood, 15–27 Aug, not 21, 24, 25, £8 Thy Name is Woman theSpace on North Bridge, 22–26 Aug, £10 Professional theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £7

18:25 Jamie Wood: I Am a Tree Assembly George Square Theatre, 14–27 Aug, not 21, £10—£12 Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters Paradise in Augustines, 14–27 Aug, not 20, £9.50 Elephant in the Room Assembly Rooms, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £8—£12 Teresa di Maggio Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–19 Aug, not 13, £15 Atlas theSpace on North Bridge, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £7 Tatterdemalion Assembly George Square Theatre, 21 Aug, £14

18:30 Iraq Out & Loud: We Read the Chilcot Report (Documentary) Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 7–19 Aug, not 9, £free Mimi’s Suitcase Quaker Meeting House, 21–26 Aug, £12

Shakespeare in the Garden: The Tempest C venues – C south, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £8.50—£10.50 Dark Satanic Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug, £7 £¥€$ (LIES) – Ontroerend Goed Upper Church @ Summerhall hosted by RBC, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £10—£14 Cosmic Scallies HHH Northern Stage at Summerhall, 5–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£12 La Maladie de la Mort d’Après Marguerite Duras Institut français d’Ecosse, 4–28 Aug, not 7, 14, 15, 22, £6—£10 Eve Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £13—£19.50 Flight Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, £15 The Gin Chronicles at Sea artSpace@StMarks, 3–19 Aug, not 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, £12 Dreaming Amidst Thorns Quaker Meeting House, 14–19 Aug, £8 Bin Laden: The One Man Show C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £9.50—£11.50 The Burning Gadulka Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 4–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Wrecked Greenside @ Royal Terrace, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £8 Queen of the F*cking World The Street, 6–26 Aug, not 16, £free Secret Life of Humans Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £7—£12.50 Sylvia Plath, Your Words Are Just Dust Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–26 Aug, £10 Last Resort HH Summerhall, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £10 Home Front – Front Line Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–19 Aug, £free Jess and Joe Forever

HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, 27 Aug, £19.50

18:35 Sage Francis and B Dolan Present: Tricknology New Town Theatre, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £15 Choir of Man Assembly Rooms, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£16

18:40 Dark Matter Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–26 Aug, £10 Katsura Sunshine: Rakugo!

Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, £7 Cognitions Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £6 Bruce Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£14

18:45 Tea and Nuisance Leith Depot, 22–26 Aug, £free Awake Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 3–27 Aug, £free Morgan Stern C venues – C primo, 6–28 Aug, not 14, £9.50—£11.50 The HandleBards: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – West Gate, 22–26 Aug, £15 Stand By Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 11–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £14

18:50 Dickless HHH New Town Theatre, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £9—£10 The Last Queen of Scotland

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Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–26 Aug, not 9, 16, £6.50—£14

18:55 The Stage Manager’s Guide to Dating Assholes Venue 13, 5–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £9

19:00 Speaking in Tongues: The Lies Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 17, 18, £6—£9.50 Mine Zoo Southside, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £7—£10 (More) Moira Monologues Scottish Storytelling Centre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £10—£15 Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun / The Murder of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15 Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, not 24, 25, £3 Iraq Out & Loud: We Read the Chilcot Report (Documentary) Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 7–19 Aug, not 9, £free

Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, not 3, £4—£5 Echoes ZOO, 4–28 Aug, £10 I Ran With The Gang: The Story of Alan Longmuir, the Original Bay City Roller Le Monde, 4–18 Aug, not 5, 12, £15 Real Magic The Studio, 22–27 Aug, £25 The Jurassic Parks Assembly Roxy, Various dates from 2 Aug to 27 Aug, £8—£12 Nikola and His Travelling Lux Concordia C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £10.50—£12.50 The Principle of Uncertainty Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £10 At the Illusionist’s Table The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 19, 21, £69 Mars Actually Assembly Roxy, Various dates from 3 Aug to 26 Aug, £8—£12 Nerdf*cker: a solo play with bad boundaries Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £9 Great Expectations Inveresk Lodge Garden, 26 Aug, £11.50 A Field of Our Own Hibernian Football Club, 20 Aug, £12 Faulty Towers The Dining Experience The Principal, 7 Aug, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, 28 Aug, £49.50 The Whip Hand HHH Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, 10 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £15—£21.50 The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £21.50 Locker Room Talk Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £9 The Wedding Reception The Principal, 8 Aug, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £39 Letters Live King’s Theatre, 27 Aug, £18

19:05 The Rape of Artemisia Gentileschi theSpace on the Mile, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £10 My Name Is... theSpace on North Bridge, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £7 Hopeless theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £7 Bubbles and Martini theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £10

Two Sides of the Curtain theSpace on North Bridge, 14–19 Aug, £4

19:10 Five Kinds of Silence C venues – C too, 3–28 Aug, £10.50—£12.50 Don’t Cry for Me Kenny Dalglish theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–19 Aug, not 13, £7 Slap and Tickle ZOO, 21–26 Aug, £10 (FEAR) HH ZOO, 4–20 Aug, not 9, 15, £5—£10 BlackCatfishMusketeer Summerhall, Various dates from 4 Aug to 27 Aug, £9—£11 Roaming Collisions – Free Serenity Cafe, 5–27 Aug, not 14, 15, 16, £free Love+ Summerhall, Various dates from 2 Aug to 24 Aug, £9—£11 The Staff Room theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £10 Your Point of View theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 15–19 Aug, £10

19:15 Adrian Plass: Out of His Head Palmerston Place Church, 24–25 Aug, £11 First Light Whitespace 76, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10 Double Feature Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8—£16 Wordplay Bourbon Bar, 12–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free Wild Bore HHHH Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50 Flight Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, £15 Questioning Aslan: An Evening With CS Lewis Palmerston Place Church, 23 Aug, £11 Cafe Voices Meet Me At Dawn

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Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £21.50 Scottish Storytelling Centre, 10 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

Would You Adam and Eve It? Palmerston Place Church, 21–22 Aug, £11

19:20 Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, not 3, £4—£5

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Carried Away C venues – C royale, 2–20 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Break Up (We Need to Talk) Summerhall, 7 Aug, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £10 Hands-On Messiah St Patrick’s Church, 17–21 Aug, weekdays only, £7 Blackwell’s Writers at the Fringe Blackwell’s Bookshop, 3 Aug, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £free Lilith: The Jungle Girl

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The Black Cat Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–20 Aug, not 13, £6.50—£11 Joan Underbelly, Cowgate, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £10.50—£11.50

19:25 Tiger Natural Food Kafe, 5–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Doglife HH Summerhall, 4–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10 MANWATCHING

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free

A Common Man: The Bridge That Tom Built

C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £10.50—£12.50

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Pistorius: A Shakespearean Tragedy Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £7 Plan 9 from Outer Space Sweet Grassmarket, 21–27 Aug, £7 The Amorous Ambassador Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 5–18 Aug, not 6, 13, £12 Curse of the Mummy Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £3—£10 Descent Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 4–20 Aug, not 18, £6—£12 Faulty Towers The Dining Experience The Principal, Various dates from 3 Aug to 27 Aug, £59 Sad Little Man Paradise in The Vault, 23–27 Aug, £10 The Divide - Part 2 King’s Theatre, 9–20 Aug, not 10, 14, 16, 18, £14

The Teeth of Haros Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £8 My Pet, My Love C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £8.50—£10.50

Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 4 Aug to 27 Aug, £9—£17

Shakespeare’s Big Brother Paradise in Augustines, 14–18 Aug, £8 Hide theSpace on the Mile, 4–25 Aug, not 6, 14, 20, £6.50—£8.50 Going AWOL Paradise in The Vault, 14–19 Aug, £7

19:30 Power Ballad HH Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, 21, £10—£12 Adam Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, 27 Aug, £21.50 Knock Knock C venues – C primo, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8.50—£10.50 The Shape of the Pain

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Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, not 3, 14, 21, £10—£15

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Cacophony Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 24, 25, £8 Thus Spoke... HH CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8—£10 Wedding Fever Mayfield Salisbury Church, 4–18 Aug, weekdays only, £12 Improbable Fiction St Ninian’s Hall, 7–19 Aug, not 13, 17, £12 Neighbourhood Watch The Royal Scots Club, 21–26 Aug, £12 Stuart Maconie: Jarrow Road to the Deep South Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 21–27 Aug, £12 1902 Wee Red Bar, 25–26 Aug, £12 Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid HHH The Hub, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug, £15 Spect-Act Just Festival at St John’s , 22–23 Aug, £10 Hands-On Messiah St Patrick’s Church, 23–25 Aug, £7 Deleted Central Hall, 18 Aug, £5

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The Divide - Part 1 King’s Theatre, 8 Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, £14 Desperation Bingo The Biscuit Factory, 15–19 Aug, £7.50 Americana Psychobabble

19:40 Everest Calling Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–26 Aug, £10 Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, not 3, £4—£5 Staging Wittgenstein

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C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £9.50—£11.50

Anathema theSpace on North Bridge, 21–26 Aug, £8 The Gun Show SpaceTriplex, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £9 Heads Up Summerhall, 22–27 Aug, £12

100 Ways to Tie a Shoelace Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 4–19 Aug, not 13, £8.50 Red Button theSpace on North Bridge, 14–19 Aug, £10 Julius Caesar theSpace on Niddry St, 21–26 Aug, £8

19:45 Lady Macbeth and Her Pal, Megan C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £8.50—£10.50 Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 2–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£17.50 The Sky Is Safe Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, 21, £8—£15 Over the Garden Fence Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug, £8 Dates – At the Speed of Sound!

Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, 21, £8—£12 Nora and Jim Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug, £9 A Field of Our Own Hibernian Football Club, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, £12

19:50 Skeptics on the Fringe: Enlightening the Fringe - Free Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, £free

19:55 Looking for Mummy: Nazanin’s Story C venues – C cubed, 20–28 Aug, £8.50—£10.50

20:00 Shell Shock Sweet Grassmarket, 12–27 Aug, £10 Dick in Space Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 3–27 Aug, £free Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, not 24, 25, £3 Krapp’s Last Tape

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Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 4–27 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, £25

Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, not 3, £4—£5 The Pitchfork Disney C venues – C royale, 14–28 Aug, not 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, £8.50—£10.50 Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun / The Murder of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15

How To Get Paid... To Play With LEGO! Riddle’s Court, Various dates from 5 Aug to 22 Aug, £15 (I Could Go on Singing) Over the Rainbow Summerhall, 11–27 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 18, 21, 22, 25, £10 My Real Life Assembly Hall, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10—£14 Like Dolphins Can Swim C venues – C royale, 13–27 Aug, not 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, £8.50—£10.50 Like a Prayer C venues – C south, 20–28 Aug, £9.50—£11.50 Outside Mullingar The Royal Scots Club, 14–19 Aug, £12 An Evening with the Plague Doctor The Edinburgh Dungeon, 4 Aug, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £25 Flight Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, £15 The Emily Triptych Quaker Meeting House, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £8

20:05 #Instalove theSpace on North Bridge, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £8—£9 POV theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £7 Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist HHH ZOO, 4–28 Aug, £7—£12 Year Zero theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £8 The Emotional Immune System theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 22–26 Aug, £7 The Charlie Question theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug, £7

20:10 Angels in Erotica theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–26 Aug, £8 Sex Offence New Town Theatre, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £10—£12 Elegy for an Echo theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 20, £5—£7 Seven Devils theSpace on the Mile, 15–19 Aug, £6.50

20:15 Speaking in Tongues: The Truths Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 17, 18, £6—£9.50 Space Rocket Oddity Man Zoo Southside, 4–28 Aug, not 10, 21, £5—£9

Vines C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £9.50—£11.50 Like Blood From a Cheap Cigar theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £6—£8

20:20 Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, not 3, £4—£5 Golem Sweet Grassmarket, 21–26 Aug, £10 Hug More Thugs New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £9 Call Mr Robeson Quaker Meeting House, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £12 Fibre Optic Sensors Can Save the World!

New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £9 Our Genes Tell Us What to Do New Town Theatre, 27 Aug, £9 Turn to the Darknet New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £9 A Virus to End Humanity?

New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £9 Just an Ordinary Lawyer Quaker Meeting House, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £12 What Keeps You Sharp?

New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £9 Psychiatry is the Best Medicine!

New Town Theatre, 26 Aug, £9 Is Monolingualism Making Us Ill? New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £9 Find Your Neurotribe!

New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, 25 Aug, £9 The Romance Novel as High Art? New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £9

20:25 Evocation theSpace on the Mile, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £5—£8

20:30 A Robot in Human Skin Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£11 Trygve Wakenshaw & Barnie Duncan: Different Party HHHH Assembly Roxy, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£12 You’ve Changed HHH Northern Stage at Summerhall, 5–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£12

Letters to Morrissey

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Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug, £19.50

£¥€$ (LIES) – Ontroerend Goed Upper Church @ Summerhall hosted by RBC, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £14 An Evening with the Plague Doctor The Edinburgh Dungeon, 4 Aug, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £25 Mary Contini and Pru Irvine – Unscripted Valvona & Crolla, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £10 The Gin Chronicles at Sea artSpace@StMarks, 3–19 Aug, not 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, £12 Joe’s NYC Bar Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£13 Party Game HH Traverse at the Wee Red Bar, 8–20 Aug, not 14, £15—£21.50 Mimi’s Suitcase Quaker Meeting House, 14–19 Aug, £12

20:35 Lovecraft’s Monsters Sweet Grassmarket, 3–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £8 Church Blitz theSpace on the Mile, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £9

20:40 Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, not 3, £4—£5 The Class Project Summerhall, 15–27 Aug, not 21, £10—£12 The British Idles theSpace on the Mile, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £9

20:45 Doris, Dolly and the Dressing Room Divas Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £10—£15 Eve Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £19.50 Matt Panesh – Greyhound!

Bar Bados Complex, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Cursed Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug, £9 The Alien Chicken Remembers Galatea Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £15 Lilith: The Jungle Girl

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Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £19.50

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Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £19.50

Letters to Morrissey

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Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 13 Aug, 19 Aug, £19.50

Flight Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, £15

20:50 Medea on Media C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, £10.50—£12.50 Joy Donze: 13 and Not Pregnant Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5—£10 Certain Young Men theSpace @ Venue45, 21–26 Aug, £9

21:00 Loud Poets Scottish Storytelling Centre, 4–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £10 Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun / The Murder of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15 Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, not 24, 25, £3 Miss Julie, Clarissa and John Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 8–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £15 Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 5 Aug to 26 Aug, £17.50 Faulty Towers The Dining Experience The Principal, Various dates from 3 Aug to 27 Aug, £49.50—£54.50 Well Thumbed Whitespace 76, 5–27 Aug, £10 Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, not 3, £4—£5 Paper Doll Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, £8 Eve Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, 27 Aug, £19.50

21:05 Catherine and Anita Assembly Rooms, 3–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £6—£10 Changelings theSpace on North Bridge, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free—£10 We Are All Going to Die theSpace on North Bridge, 4–19 Aug, not 13, £5—£7 Radio Paradise in Augustines, 5–19 Aug, not 13, £8 Vaccine theSpace on North Bridge, 21–26 Aug, £7.50 The British Idles theSpace on the Mile, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, £9 Church Blitz theSpace on the Mile, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, £9

21:10 What Would Kanye Do? theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 8, 15, 20, 22, £6—£9 Women at War C venues – C cubed, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £8.50—£10.50 Workshy Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 9, 16, 21, £9—£12 The Sandman theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £8 Eggs Collective Get A Round HHHH Summerhall, 2–25 Aug, not 3, 5, 14, 21, £8—£10 Adulting SpaceTriplex, 21–26 Aug, £9

21:15 DollyWould

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Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 21, £6—£8

Stiff Dicky SpaceTriplex, Various dates from 4 Aug to 19 Aug, £7 Mine SpaceTriplex, Various dates from 5 Aug to 18 Aug, £7

21:20 Not: Lady Chatterley’s Lover Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £8 Frankie Vah by Luke Wright

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Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£14.50

Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, not 3, £4—£5

Eric Davidson: When John and Yoko Waved Goodbye theSpace on the Mile, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £10—£12

21:25 Alpha C venues – C primo, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8.50—£10.50 Scribbles ZOO, 4–28 Aug, £7—£10 Ubu Roi HHHH Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 8, 14, 21, £7—£11

21:30 Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story HHH CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 5–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £10 Wanna Dance With Somebody! Or, A Guide To Managing Social Anxiety Using Theoretical Physics Zoo Southside, 4–28 Aug, not 16, £5—£12 Play on Words C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £7.50—£9.50 Probably Still Drunk Collective Presents: Inebriated Venue 13, 20–26 Aug, £9 F*ckboys for Freedom Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £7 Guilty Noodle Sweet Grassmarket, 16–20 Aug, £7 Freedom Just Festival at St John’s , 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £10

21:35 How to Be a Sissy with Percy Q Shun C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8.50—£10.50 300 to One Bar Bados Complex, 5–27 Aug, not 14, £free

21:40 Losing Days New Town Theatre, 3–27 Aug, not 15, 21, £9—£10 I Am Your Love Story Paradise in Augustines, 14–27 Aug, not 20, £8

21:50 5 Guys Chillin’ Assembly Roxy, 2–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£15 The Trial theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £7

21:55 Bone Woman Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5—£10 Pulled C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £9.50—£11.50

22:00 Wolf Meat Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£11 Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun / The Murder of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15 Kara Sevda Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £7—£9 Dirty Poetry Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 3–27 Aug, £free The Darling Core Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 21–26 Aug, £8 We Are Ian Pleasance Dome, 7–28 Aug, £8—£10.50 Brodsky Station Novotel Swimming Pool, 21–27 Aug, £8 I Am My Own Wife Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12 The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50 Letters Live King’s Theatre, 27 Aug, £18

22:05 The Best Play Ever theSpace on North Bridge, 21–26 Aug, £7 DROLL theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £13 Vaccine theSpace on North Bridge, 14–19 Aug, £7.50 Crave theSpace on North Bridge, 21–26 Aug, £10

22:10 Anathema theSpace on North Bridge, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £8

22:15 The Optimists theSpace on Niddry St, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £8 Hidden theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 21–26 Aug, £8 The Whip Hand HHH Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50 Morale Is High (Since We Gave Up Hope)

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Northern Stage at Summerhall, 5–20 Aug, not 9, 16, £10—£12

Bacchae theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £10

Lucille & Django’s Totally Restorative Yoga Retreat! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £7 Two Man Show Northern Stage at Summerhall, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £12 Adam Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £21.50

22:20 That Moment C venues – C cubed, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £8.50—£10.50 Vichy Goings-on Paradise in The Vault, 14–27 Aug, not 20, £10 All Cashed In theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £5—£8 The Writers’ Room theSpace on Niddry St, 21–26 Aug, £9

22:25 Cherry theSpace @ Venue45, 10–26 Aug, not 14, 15, 16, 17, Meet Me At Dawn

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Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £21.50 18, 19, £7

One Hander C venues – C primo, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8.50—£10.50 Indie as F*ck C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £9.50—£11.50

22:30 Pornography by Simon Stephens C venues – C too, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £9.50—£11.50 About a Goth theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Various dates from 5 Aug to 19 Aug, £5—£10 Thief Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £10 Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid HHH The Hub, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £15 Werewolves Summerhall, 20–27 Aug, £10 Ginger Beer theSpace on the Mile, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £8 Wild Bore HHHH Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, 27 Aug, £21.50 Mixed Brain Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17–19 Aug, £10 Bottleneck theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Various dates from 4 Aug to 18 Aug, £5—£10

22:35 The Unmarried Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £6.50—£10

22:45 Hotter Paradise in Augustines, 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £10

Listings

Frogman Traverse at CodeBase, 4 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug, £13—£19.50 The Wedding Reception The Principal, 5 Aug, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug, £43

22:50 The Prophetic Visions of Bethany Lewis HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10

23:00 An Evening With an Immigrant Traverse Theatre, 22–25 Aug, £19.50

23:05 Cloud Avenue Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 15 Aug to 26 Aug, £7 What Do Bears Eat? Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 14 Aug to 25 Aug, £7 The Barista Chronicles Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £10 Crave theSpace on North Bridge, 14–19 Aug, £10

23:10 Leaf Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £5—£11

23:15 Blurred Justice New Town Theatre, 16–22 Aug, £10—£12 Revolution Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £5—£11

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Losers HHHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10

23:25 Cherry theSpace @ Venue45, 14–19 Aug, £7

23:45 This Is Not Culturally Significant Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 4–26 Aug, not 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, £7—£10

23:50 Knowledge Is Power Paradise in The Vault, 5–19 Aug, not 13, £7

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All We Ever Wanted Was Everything Roundabout @ Summerhall, 4–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £9—£14 War of the Sperms Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £6—£8 Nassim HHHH Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £19.50 Jess and Joe Forever

FINDING NANA

The Stage

Pleasance ABOVE 10.20am DAILY

rrrr 09:00 09:35 Jason and the Argonauts theSpace on Niddry St, 14–19 Aug, £8

10:00 The Giant’s Loo Roll

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theSpace @ Venue45, 11–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £11

BambinO The Edinburgh Academy, 8–20 Aug, not 14, £free

10:15 Brave Macbeth Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 18–27 Aug, £8 Dr Zeiffal, Dr Zeigal and the Hippo That Can Never Be Caught HHH Assembly Roxy, 3–28 Aug, not 15, 22, £5—£8 Magic Travel With Hello Potter and Uno Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free

La Vie Dans Une Marionette Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£9 Happy Birthday Mia Paradise in Augustines, 22–26 Aug, £7 Ami and Tami Underbelly, Cowgate, 11–24 Aug, £9—£10 The Tale of the Cockatrice Venue 13, 5–26 Aug, not 14, £9

The Giant Jam Sandwich Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £7—£11.50

Kids

10:30

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The Wonderful World of Lapin HH Scottish Storytelling Centre, 3–27 Aug, not 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, £6—£8 AnimAlphabet the Musical Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 21, £6—£10

Flamenco for Kids C venues – C too, 5 Aug, 7 Aug, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug, £9.50

10:50 The Magic Wand With Three(!) Ends theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 15–19 Aug, £7.50—£8

11:00 Aladdin Zoo Southside, 11–19 Aug, £10

King Arthur Stockbridge Church, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £15

Princess Pumpalot: The Quest for the Purple Super-Farting Bean Le Monde, 4–18 Aug, not 5, 6, 12, £8

The Gruffalo’s Child Pleasance Courtyard, 2–20 Aug, not 5, 9, 16, £7—£11.50

Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Medicine Pleasance Courtyard, 16–23 Aug, £7—£9

10:40 The Runner Underbelly, Cowgate, 15–19 Aug, £8.50—£9.50 The Star Seekers

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2-28 August

London City Nights

Hairy Maclary Assembly George Square Theatre, 3–20 Aug, not 16, £10

Pleasance Dome, 10–27 Aug, not 15, £6—£9

10:45 A Strange New Space Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £5—£8 Africa Weird and Wonderful Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1–26 Aug, £free How to Be a Kid Roundabout @ Summerhall, 4–20 Aug, not 8, 15, £5—£10

Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall Assembly George Square Gardens, Various dates from 4 Aug to 27 Aug, £7.50 One Man Shoe HHH Assembly George Square Theatre, 3–28 Aug, not 14, 15, 21, 22, £5—£10 Grumpy Pants Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4–27 Aug, £free Calvinball HHHH

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – John Hope Gateway, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £5

Baby Loves Disco The Jam House, 12 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £9 Ruby Redfort Assembly George Square Theatre, 3–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£9

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11:55

The Polar Bears Go Up

Father Christmas Comes Up Trumps theSpace @ Venue45, 11–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £11

5 Children and It C venues – C royale, 13–19 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

Pleasance at EICC, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 21, 23, 24, £8

11:30

Flying Atoms The Leith Volcano, 22–26 Aug, £10

The Amazing Bubble Man Underbelly, George Square, 3–28 Aug, £7—£12

11:05

Junk in His Trunk Sweet Holyrood, 4–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 24, 25, £7

Mavis Sparkle

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–20 Aug, £6—£9.50

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Jazz Cat theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £6

11:10 Sarah and Duck Underbelly Med Quad, 2–20 Aug, not 14, £8—£12 The New Maths Magic Show Hispaniola, 5–26 Aug, £free

BambinO The Edinburgh Academy, 8–20 Aug, not 14, £free

Rodney’s Really #Good Family Show Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free

11:40

Pub Quiz for Kids With Patrick Monahan Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 20, £6—£10

The Complete History of Europe (More or Less) C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

Gobland for the Goblins!

Paradise in Augustines, 5–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £6—£9

Nick Cope’s Family Song Book HHHH

11:45

Ella Enchanted Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 14, 21, £6—£9.50

This Is Your Trial (PG) Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 31 Jul–27 Aug, £8

The Tales of Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddle-Duck Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 5–26 Aug, not 14, £7—£12

11:15

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 17, 22, 24, £free

Alice in Wonderland Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£9.50

Tarantella by Hilaire Belloc Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £10

The Showstoppers’ Kids Show Pleasance Courtyard, 2–20 Aug, £6—£10

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–20 Aug, £5—£7.50

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Robin’s Hood C venues – C too, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £7.50—£9.50 Taiwan Season: The Backyard Story H Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £6—£10

11:50 Oskar’s Amazing Adventure HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £5—£7.50

The Magic Circus Paradise in Augustines, 5–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £7 Kidocracy The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 3–20 Aug, £7—£8 Science Magic Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 31 Jul–27 Aug, £free The Legend of Finn McCool: A Silly Tall Tale of Giant Proportions!

Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–20 Aug, not 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, £14 David Walliams’ The First Hippo on the Moon Pleasance Courtyard, 2–20 Aug, not 15, £7—£12 Festival Strings St Giles’ Cathedral, 17–18 Aug, £free

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Follow Suit A madcap frenzy of physical comedy with political bite.

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The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen HHHH New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 15, £7—£8

12:15 Eaten HHH Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £4—£8 Doktor James’s Akademy of Evil Sweet Grassmarket, 4–20 Aug, £7 Children Are Stinky Assembly George Square Gardens, 3–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £6—£9

12:20 There May Be Pirates...

There May Be Dragons...

Hispaniola, 5–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free

13:15

13:50

Jellybean: When Will I Be Famous?

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £free

Bitey and Bertie’s Grand Tour Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £8

Children’s Haunted Underground Experience Meet outside Tron Kirk at Auld Reekie Tours Boards , 4–28 Aug, £10

13:25

14:00

Baby Loves Pop Bingo Disco The Jam House, 27 Aug, £9

13:30

Funny Stuff for Happy People Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, £free The Listies Make You LOL Pleasance Courtyard, 2–20 Aug, £6.50—£9.50

Baby Loves Silent Disco: Juniors vs Seniors The Jam House, 19 Aug, £9

12:45 Three Half Pints Present The Three Musketeers Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 21, 22, £6—£11

The Topsy-Turvy Hotel

Andrew Roper’s Superheroes for Kids 2 Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 31 Jul–27 Aug, £free

Sweet Grassmarket, 3–20 Aug, not 9, £7

Small Laces Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£10

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12:25

Dommy B Presents...

Hispaniola, 5–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

Children’s Haunted Underground Experience Meet outside Tron Kirk at Auld Reekie Tours Boards , 4–28 Aug, £10 Robin Hood Assembly George Square Gardens, 3–20 Aug, £8—£10 Funz And Gamez: Flogging a Dead Horze Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £7.50—£8.50 The I Hate Children Children’s Show theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–26 Aug, £8—£12

Calvinball HHHH

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – John Hope Gateway, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £5

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Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 5–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £6.50—£12.50

Shakespeare for Kids: Toil and Trouble C venues – C south, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £7.50—£9.50 Huggers (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 31 Jul–27 Aug, £free Future Perfect Pleasance Courtyard, 2–20 Aug, not 9, 16, £2

13:00

Dance Base, 5 Aug, 12 Aug, 26 Aug, £8—£9

Bubble Show with Mini Milkshake C venues – C, 13–28 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

Trash Test Dummies Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 5–26 Aug, not 14, £9.50—£12.50

Baby Loves Disco The Jam House, 12 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £9

Singing Hands Summer Spectacular Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–19 Aug, £11

Children’s Underground Ghost Tour City of Edinburgh Tours, 1–31 Aug, £6

Morgan & West: More Magic for Kids!

Underbelly Med Quad, 12–25 Aug, not 23, £10.50—£11

Balloonatics Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, £5—£9

13:10 Clowntown theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–19 Aug, not 6, £8

13:45 Cockadoodlemoo C venues – C too, 3–19 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

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theSpace @ Venue45, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £11

Baby Loves Pop Bingo Disco The Jam House, 6 Aug, 27 Aug, £6—£9

Arr We There Yet?

Snigel and Friends

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Wriggle Around the World Stockbridge Church, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £15 The Giant’s Loo Roll

Nutty Noah – Wear Your Pants With Pride Pleasance Courtyard, 21–28 Aug, £8—£10

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Baby Loves Silent Disco: Juniors vs Seniors The Jam House, 19 Aug, £9

The Polar Bears Go Up

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Pleasance at EICC, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £8

Flying Atoms The Leith Volcano, 25–26 Aug, £10

14:30 Clan Mucmor Family Circus Show Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free

14:40 Morgan & West: More Magic for Kids!

Underbelly Med Quad, Various dates from 2 Aug to 27 Aug, £6.50—£11

15:00 Calvinball HHHH

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – John Hope Gateway, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £5

Is This a Dagger? The Story of Macbeth Scottish Storytelling Centre, 3–20 Aug, not 10, 17, £6—£9 Snigel and Friends

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Dance Base, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, £8—£9

The Little Prince and the Pilot Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10

15:50 Father Christmas Comes Up Trumps theSpace @ Venue45, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £11

16:10 Jason and the Golden Fleece Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–26 Aug, £8

16:30 The Dark Room for Kids Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£10

17:30 Card Ninja Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£11

17:40 Comedy Club 4 Kids Assembly Roxy, 4–27 Aug, £8—£10

18:00

Alice Through the Looking Glass Inveresk Lodge Garden, 26 Aug, £8.50

Mark Thompson’s Spectacular Science Show Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10

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19:00

Boogers, Books and Big Bottom Burps!

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free

Three Wee Kings: Grandad’s Cut Duddingston Kirk Manse Gardens, 15–19 Aug, £7

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Fringe SOS:

Sweatshop

“The Edinburgh Fringe is like Hieronymus Bosch’s famous painting ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’. Temptation is everywhere, and your Fringe season can be heaven or hell or purgatory, and often an intoxicating combination of all three. We humans like like to poison ourselves daily. Alcohol flows like rivers through the drinking houses of Edinburgh.

“This Fringe I’ll be turning wine into water as I attempt to navigate the festival in sobriety and deliver the goods for two shows a night. Sometimes I’ll be led astray by the creatures of the night; we are only mortal after all. But mostly, Mikelangelo will behave like an archangel.” / Sweatshop VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:

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Assembly George Square Gardens 10:00pm – 11:10pm, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 14, 21 £14.50 – £16.50

Credit: Kat Gollock

Fringe wearing you down?

Mikelangelo, the impeccably coiffed host of late night cabaret Sweatshop, knows that feeling. But, fear not, he sings with the voice of experience and provides his tip on staying safe and sane