Fest 2023 Issue 3

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8 Sitar Hero Anoushka Shankar moves people through music

12 Stranger Things A chance meeting with Tilda Cobham-Hervey

15 All About That Bass Jazz star Endea Owens arrives at EIF

Comedy 18 Ed Byrne A tribute to Ed’s brother Paul

Theatre 31 Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz A smart look at Black masculinity

Music 49 Nothing Ever Happens Here Celebrating a decade of NEHH with departing founder Jamie Sutherland

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F-Bomb Theatre's Perfect Day Rachel O’Regan, writer of returning Fringe hit The Beatles Were a Boyband and co-director of feminist theatre company F-Bomb, gives us the lowdown on her perfect day in Edinburgh 6

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Where do you like to relax in Edinburgh?

At home, rewatching Grey’s Anatomy.

Where’s the best place for a night out?

Paradise Palms! It’s a veggie and vegan bar that also doubles as a creative community hangout – they genuinely support emerging artists in Edinburgh, champion diversity, and provide a safe space for LGBTQIA+ people. Plus, they have a cocktail with Buckfast in it, which I could never say no to.

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What is your favourite place to eat in Edinburgh?

I live in Leith and there’s a little place on Great Junction Street called Peter’s Food Hub – it’s a cute family-owned business that does Chinese, Filipino, Japanese and Greek. I know that sounds random, but who says you can’t have sushi and spring rolls and spaghetti in one meal? In the immortal words of Sharpay Evans, I want it all.

What shows are you most looking forward to seeing?

Anything that’s in our FemiFringe Guide! I’m especially interested in the ones that get to the Fringe with very little funding or assistance. A recent study reported a 37% gender pay gap for theatre freelancers, so it’s more important than ever to go out and buy tickets for shows made by women and people of marginalised genders.

Where is the best place to smash the patriarchy?

Probably Holyrood? But really the best place is WHERE YOU ARE. I don’t think there’s any best way to be a feminist, and What is the best show that living your life with joy and clashes with your own? authenticity is also an act I can’t wait to see Salamander, of protest.

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Where would you go in Edinburgh to find some feminist solidarity?

Nightclub bathrooms.

What is your best Fringe memory?

This might sound self-obsessed, but winning a Fringe First and the Sit-Up Award last year was the biggest thrill.

Being a woman in theatre isn’t always easy and those memories get me through times when I feel like I’m knocking on closed doors. One of the best things about the Fringe is that we are able to carve out a space for feminist theatre, and audiences receive it with open arms. I’d love to see theatre programming take a leap and look a bit more like that outside of August.

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The Beatles Were a Boyband Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose 7:30pm – 8:30pm, 18–27 Aug

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which is produced by another Scottish feminist theatre company, Pretty Knickers. It’s inspired by true events that happened in Leith in 1980 and explores a lot of the same themes we are interested in – the humanity, dignity and solidarity of women.

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Sitar Hero The composer and activist Anoushka Shankar chats to Arusa Qureshi about the joy of collaboration, the beauty of simplicity and reshaping the sitar’s legacy 8

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9 here are certain sights and sounds that you naturally become accustomed to growing up in a South Asian household. The crackling and sizzling of spices hitting a hot pan, the image of Shah Rukh Khan’s face constantly on your TV; bright yellow turmeric stains on every surface and the beautiful and otherworldly melodies of Bollywood and Indian classical. If you grew up immersed in any way in the latter, it is likely that the sitar will hold a very special place in your heart.

“I think it’s always had a deeply and very overtly emotive quality,” Anoushka Shankar says of the mediaeval instrument over a call from her home in London. “So on a piece of music, when you hear a sitar come in, it can kind of strike those chords in you in a very particular way.”

Many of us first generation South Asian kids that grew up on a steady diet of Ravi Shankar – the virtuosic Indian sitarist, influencer of George Harrison and Anoushka’s father – will be all too familiar with this feeling.

Though Anoushka has followed in her father’s musical footsteps as a composer and sitar player, she has done something exceptional with the stringed instrument. Immersing herself in a wide range of genres, she has taken the sitar out of a time period synonymous with the 60s, the Beatles and psychedelia.

“One of the things I’ve really tried to do in my career is take it out of those notions in people’s subliminal listening experience,” she explains. “So when you put it in different sound worlds, different instrumentation, or when you mic it differently or play it, maybe in a less ornamental way, it changes people’s experience of the instrument. Then it’s kind of like the sitar that they know with its beautiful emotive sound, but not in that exotified way that they think of it. And I think that makes it really intriguing all over again.”

Having begun her study of the sitar with her father as a child, Shankar made her professional debut at the age of 13 and was touring the world by the time she was an adult.

Nine Grammy nominations, 10 studio albums and numerous accolades later, she returns

this year with a new mini-album titled Chapter I: Forever, For Now, which charts a development in her relationship to the sitar and to a new way of writing and releasing music.

“I think I’ve been on a real journey of trying to find more and more simplicity over the last few years because I genuinely love very different forms of very complex layered music,” she says. “And sometimes I listen back to my own music and think, ‘Oh, that’s really busy’, or ‘there’s a lot going on’, or ‘I have so many ideas, I tried to cram them in’.”

Featuring contributions from Nils Frahm, whose LEITER label is also releasing the record, and produced by previous ‘Udhero Na’ collaborator Arooj Aftab, Chapter I: Forever, For Now explores a newfound expression of colour and clarity. “With Arooj, I’m so drawn to her simplicity, and Nils as well. They are two people that I feel like when I listen to them, I drop into something because there’s enough space for me as a listener to be in that space with them.”

No stranger to collaboration, Shankar’s work with internationally renowned musicians over the years has taken her into genres like electronica, jazz and pop, where she has always seamlessly found a natural home. “I think the reason I love collaboration is because I love the surprises that come from another human being,” she says. “I can certainly write a piece of music alone in my room. But if I’m coming up with ideas with someone else, their ideas are obviously distinct from mine and so the piece itself can become something greater than what I create on my own. It just lights up something and that excitement is very inspiring.”

Ahead of the arrival of Chapter I: Forever, For Now in October and a tour that will support the release, Shankar will be making her way to the Edinburgh International Festival with a quintet that was formed largely out of this love of and affinity for collaboration. Towards the tail end of last year, the musician returned to India for the first time in a number of years for a mini-tour, taking with her a hand-picked group of musicians, for whom she has a huge amount of respect.

“I hope the music has lasting power and moves people”

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“I thought, these are the people I’d love to play with right now and it felt so exciting and wonderful to play with them that it’s turned into my whole next year and North American and European tours. They’re soloists in their own right, who release their own music: the incredible Sarathy Korwar, who is on percussion in the band; the great Arun Ghosh who plays and composes on clarinet. My long standing bassist Tom Farmer who toured worldwide with me on [2016 album] Land of Gold and on a few other projects. And then finally Pirashanna Thevarajah, who is playing South Indian Carnatic percussion instruments.”

Shankar notes that she always likes to twin percussion so that there’s a natural balance between Western and Indian musical styles.

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tivity and unexpected harmony has occurred.

Though she is visibly bashful at the mention of her potential legacy and her pioneering status with the sitar, just like her father, she has undeniably done much to break new ground with the instrument and to bring it to new generations and contemporary audiences.

“I hope the music has lasting power and moves people,” she says when asked about the future and legacy of the sitar. “I hope music like mine, including mine, that is about connection across boundaries, continues to be proof that that works. And that great things happen when we try to be greater than our parts individually and connect with others who are different from us. That would be incredible.”

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Anoushka Shankar Festival Theatre 8:00pm – 9:30pm, 27 Aug

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Stranger Things Australian artist and co-founder of Gravity & Other Myths Tilda Cobham-Hervey explores the concept of chance meetings in her intimate audio adventure Two Strangers Walk Into a Bar...

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t might sound like a dad joke but Two Strangers Walk Into a Bar... is a journey.

Created by Australian artist Tilda Cobham-Hervey, each performance is uniquely intimate: no audience, no actors, just two random punters on a quest for nothing less than the joy of unexpected human connection.

“It’s that fantastic thing you can only get with a stranger,” Cobham-Hervey says, beaming. “There’s a different part of yourself that you can access when you have the freedom of thinking, ‘I’m never going to see this person again’. What does that bring out in you? Sometimes I think you can be more honest.”

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Sign up for a timeslot and you’ll be emailed directions to a ‘Stranger Meeting Spot’. Once there, you’ll be given headphones, through which Cobham-Hervey’s disembodied voice will offer a series of instructions and suggestions. A little later, you’ll meet your fellow stranger. But it’s no dramatic 007-style mission, nor an elaborate prank. “It’s very gentle, and very private,” she assures us. “It’s silly and light-hearted, and built to try and make people feel good.”

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the idea for Two Strangers came to Cobham-Hervey during the first Covid lockdown. “I was really lonely,” she says, frankly. “Not just for my friends and family but also for strangers. Those day-today interactions that can change the way you think about something, or even just standing in a lift with someone, being physically close to someone you don’t know.”

The show is built as an antidote to that loneliness, and even uses the audio-guide format as an homage to the podcasts which kept so many people company during those isolated months. “It’s about the intimacy of having someone inside your head,” she explains, “and how to use that to put you in a place to consider where you are, what you’re made of, what you’re doing here, and how to sit in front of someone and really ask them a question.”

After making a first draft in a garden shed with a borrowed microphone (“it was so DIY, I’m so un-technical!”), Cobham-Hervey premiered Two Strangers at the Adelaide Fringe in 2021.

She was surprised, and deeply moved, by the emotional response it received. “Because it’s all about how different people approach it, every show is incredibly different. As much as

I made it, I don’t really feel any ownership: you just get to witness the alchemy of people.”

Although it’s her first solo production as a writer, Cobham-Hervey sees Two Strangers as a natural culmination of her career so far. She grew up performing circus, and co-founded the company Gravity & Other Myths when she was just 14: “I was probably the most annoying teenager,” she laughs apologetically. Devised forms of dance and physical theatre followed before she found fame as a film actor after starring in Hotel Mumbai (2018). “The show takes all the things I love; writing, creating, and the part about being an actor where you arrive on set and meet a stranger, and they’re going to play your husband! But I also wanted to make something that wasn’t just me on

stage, I wanted to give people the chance to be in the thing.”

Two Strangers Walk Into a Bar... bottles the high-wire fizz that only a chance encounter with a stranger can bring – and without the pressure of a date, the stuffiness of a job interview, or the awkward moment when you fluff your coffee order. Embrace the unknown, Cobham-Hervey urges. And don’t cheat yourself by bringing a friend. “The magic is in getting to learn about someone, and I promise it’s not scary. Be brave!”

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The award-winning bassist and composer Endea Owens – one of jazz’s rising stars – discusses her two upcoming concerts at the International Festival Words: Eilidh Akilade

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ndea Owens is full of joy. There’s a lot going on right now, it’s a lot to handle – but it’s great and she feels great. “One of my prayers for last year was to do this very thing – to take my band internationally and tour and help people, so it’s kind of a surreal experience,” she says and her eyes begin to water, just a bit.

The Detroit-raised bassist and composer is one of jazz’s most exciting emerging talents.

Mentored by the likes of Rodney Whittaker, she’s toured with names such as Diana Ross

and Solange, amongst others. This year, amid touring Canada and Europe, she’s also releasing her debut album, Feel Good Music.

Watching her play – whether with her own band or in the house band on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert – is quite remarkable.

There’s something warm and open about it; Owens’ sound welcomes you to it.

“The bass wasn’t my first choice,” she admits.

Owens started with violin and piano, attending church four times a week and playing by ear.

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She first came to the bass through Mozart’s ‘Symphony No. 25’; having played it on violin, she tried the bass part entirely unread. “My orchestra teacher saw that and he said, ‘Play the bass or get an F,’” Owens smiles. “He always told me that I would thank him later for that.”

That teacher was, of course, correct. After graduating from The Juilliard School in 2018, she formed her own band. Endea Owens and the Cookout is made up of musicians she’s met throughout her time in New York. She writes the music herself and offers it as a “roadmap” to the band, trusting them to take it in the right direction. “What I love about jazz is the freedom of it all,” she says. “It’s always different every time – it can’t be duplicated.”

One of her two Edinburgh International Festival performances this year will be a piece commissioned by the festival and inspired by Martin Luther King’s ‘I’ve Been to the Mountaintop’ speech. In the past, she’s also written and performed a piece based on the life of Ida B Wells. For Owens, telling and retelling their stories is vital. “It’s important to uphold the great people in history,” she says. But she doesn’t want to create martyrs; rather, she wants to remind us of their humanity, allowing us to realise our own potential. “It’s going to sound 16

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“What I love about jazz is the freedom of it all” big… But it’s also going to sound familiar and homey. And heavenly.”

Certainly, Owens’ faith is central to her work. “I view my music as very spiritual, soulful music. And those are two things that you can’t really put a description on,” she says. Categorisation isn’t important – Owens is looking for something that transcends.

This desire to connect comes into play outwith the music also. She often ends her performances with an affirmation, welcoming the audience to join her. “Some people don’t know how to speak well about themselves,” she says, voice heavy. She picked up this practice from her good friend and jazz singer Jazzmeia Horn, who she previously toured with. She continues: “When you feel good, you can take that out everywhere you go.” Owens wants to be, and is, part of a greater ripple effect – of connection and kindness. Love for herself and love for others is at the forefront.

In summer 2020, Owens started the Community Cookout, providing free music and meals to under-served neighbourhoods in New York. For Owens, it’s about connecting folk while giving back, having grown up with charitable organisations herself. “It is one of my life’s greatest joys.”

But this summer, Owens also wants a much-deserved moment for herself. “I want to sit down and take it all in,” she says. “That’s the takeaway: to just be proud. To keep going and keep striving.”

Endea Owens will most certainly keep going and keep striving. There’s a brilliance about her, one that we’re lucky to witness – at the Edinburgh International Festival and beyond.

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Endea Owens: New Work at The Hub The Hub 4:00pm – 5:15pm, 23 Aug Endea Owens: at The Hub The Hub 8:00pm – 9:45pm, 24 Aug

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Comedy Reviews Ed Byrne: Tragedy Plus Time HHHHH

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Assembly Rooms 9:30pm – 10:30pm, 3–27 Aug, not 14

I saw no fewer than six standups paying tribute to the late comedy writer-director Paul Byrne in their Fringe shows last year. His brother Ed has taken slightly longer to offer this tremendously funny, thoughtful and fond reminisce, adhering to the maxim often attributed to Mark Twain that tragedy becomes comedy in time. This is the tale of the darkest joke Byrne ever told, in the show he never wanted to write.

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Chiefly, it’s an affecting account of a fraternal bond that was sorely tested but endured their clashing egos and Paul’s collapsing health. Besieged by a failing liver after a lifetime of partying, with his personal and professional life falling apart over lockdown, it was Covid that ultimately did for him. A central plank of the show is a seething Ed recalling, in typically incredulous pique, how he cut loose the conspiracy nut friend calling it a “plandemic”, because some relationships are not worth maintaining.

Byrne doesn’t underplay his brother’s selfish, spikier side, noting the lack of time he put

in with the comic’s children.

Their arguments were true ding-dongs, with resentment festering for months afterwards, though he accepts his own ADHD-influenced role in sparking them.

Above all though, he sets huge store by Paul’s comedic insight, his ability to punch up a script and help younger comics realise their potential.

They were closest ripping the piss out of each other. And naturally, he gives Paul many of the show’s best lines posthumously. Even as he retains the abiding, final vent of exasperated ultra-bastardy for himself. ✏︎ Jay Richardson

Julia Masli: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

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Monkey Barrel Comedy 1:30am – 2:30am, 16-27 Aug

Julia Masli first emerged at the Fringe as the versatile pins in clown sketch show Legs.

Since then, the London-based Estonian has established a burgeoning reputation as a solo performer. And she uses a mannequin’s leg here to encourage audience members to open up to her, prodding it into faces and inquisitively enquiring: “Problem?”

This disarming tactic, and her unlikely, mostly non-judgemental persona as an agony aunt, encourages really quite candid answers. Despite the

fact that she occasionally screams in faces, smashes up furniture or sweetly extorts money and offers next to nothing in the way of practical solutions or therapeutic help, the simplicity of the entreaty and perhaps the intimately sweaty, dimly lit confines of her basement room, encourage people to really open up, sharing malaises from the trivial to profound. All of these Masli takes onboard. Her help has an exploitative aspect, and various volunteers are really set to work on themselves and others’, scattered about her stage as she finds more marks to probe.

On the night I caught it, comedian Glenn Moore was

one of those swept up in the chaos. And it’s perhaps indicative of this often uproariously entertaining, boundary over-stepping hour that his well-meaning attempts to help ended up becoming such an imposition upon him. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha seems to have effortlessly plugged into a new zeitgeist of therapy-influenced sharing of feelings.

But it was interesting that ultimately, both he and another, otherwise equally game volunteer, refused to let Masli fully invade their personal limits, the irresistibly giddy force of bravura clowning such as this encountering modern, respectful consent. ✏︎ Jay Richardson

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It has only been five years since Janine Harouni took up stand-up comedy, and four since her first solo hour at the Fringe. It’s taken her until now to return with a much-anticipated follow-up to the hit debut – Stand Up With Janine Harouni (Please Stay Seated) – which secured her a Best Newcomer nomination in 2019 but, to be fair, she has been busy.

Newly married and eight

months pregnant, it makes sense that Harouni’s sophomore hour Man’oushe, named so after a childhood nickname coined by her Lebanese grandmother, revolves around themes of family, heritage and impending motherhood.

It’s a polished and sophisticated show which betrays none of her relative newness, instead taking audiences on a well-structured and rewarding journey through Harouni’s family history and her own path to parenthood.

Harouni’s comedy is warm but biting, with gags about

abortion limits and the brutality of maternity and labour packing an extra punch when delivered by such a heavily pregnant woman.

While slick and serene to the end, Harouni is quick-witted and often cynical – but she is also unafraid of sentimentality and tenderness, lending Man’oushe a rich texture and a moving pay-off. She will reach full-term before the end of this Fringe run, she tells the crowd – potential audiences could do worse than rushing to see her first. ✏︎ Eve Livingston

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The bloke next to me has been separated from his mates and man he needs a friend. He’s lost control of his body, laughter juddering him off his seat.

He turns to me for support, his face half in hysteria, half in anguish – he whispers: “What’s happening?”

Then the lights go out.

Dan Tiernan’s debut is like being hit in the face by sheet lightning. It’s as if the genre of comedy has compressed inside him and become an unstable compound – and now all the comedy is exploding out of him.

He talks about school days both as a child in special education and as an adult working as a dinner lady. He’s preoccupied with his mum’s boyfriend Nick and – perhaps the closest he gets to sincerity – coming to terms with what he can or can’t do for his sister Phoebe’s leukaemia.

But every line, talking about his sexuality, living on his own for the first time, is undercut with a swerve into maniacal exaggeration and absurdity.

He comes head first, turning with ferocity on the audience, before he’s crashing into the back wall. Tiernan needles us with uncomfortable, offensive slang – the kind he may have been on the receiving end of. Are we being led to ridicule, are we laughing at him? There’s no time to think as we’re hit with the next 22

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crashing wave his berserk, unpredictable delivery and punchlines bring. We’re drowning in our own giggles.

When the lights fail it’s a genuine tech balls up (in a stand-up show with only the bare necessities of tech) – something to do with a hydrant getting knocked over and a hapless debate goes on behind us about finding a switch. Tiernan, now

lit by the audience’s phone torches, doesn’t fuck about and launches into an off-thecuff tirade against the techie, giving him an entire backstory and Tiernan’s fruitless attempts to sack him. Maybe it’s true; maybe the techie has Stockholm Syndrome. To be trapped in a room with Tiernan is like being aggressively tickled, a hostage to our own laughter. ✏︎ Ben Venables

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Tadiwa Mahlunge talks fast.

And talking is what Inhibition Exhibition is about, in many ways. Considering this is his debut hour at the Fringe, he’s remarkably confident, with a set as smooth as his shiny silk shirt. The way he talks (born and raised in Zimbabwe until he was eight before moving to Wales, his “posh” English idiolect now doesn’t sound “Black enough” to his London

barbers); the way his mum admonishes or congratulates him; the few things his absent biological dad has ever said to him – language makes for a smart framing of this breakneck autobiographical set.

You might think the velocity of his delivery belies an underlying anxiety, until he ultimately confirms that, yes, like most stand-ups, he suffers a debilitating need for validation. Comedy can be a cult of personality after all, and Mahlunge wrestles with the psychological and financial volatility of doing something he really loves but probably

won’t pay the bills (“If tonight goes well, you’ll never see me again,” he says, perhaps only half joking).

The show is obviously about him, but his experiences provide a lens through which to examine cultural dislocation, racial and sexual politics, family dynamics and all the intersections therein. And he gamely slingshots through these with precocious dexterity, hinting at a more considered structure that his speed might otherwise conceal, and commanding this sweaty Pleasance bunker like a pro. ✏︎ George Sully

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Sometimes you don’t know something has been missing in your life until it’s right in front of you. And sometimes that thing is musical comedy but make it misanthropic.

Huge Davies is possibly the most miserable man you’ll see at this year’s Fringe, and you’ll have a bloody brilliant time.

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audience down with the deadpan dryness that’s become his trademark. Whodunnit is a loosely set up murder mystery that allows Davies to sing a lot about death, punctuated with meanderings into strange places indeed. No spoilers, but if he invites you on a stag maybe don’t go.

Leaning into such a dry persona would be risky in the hands of someone less funny.

Davies’ purposeful alienation works because his dripping sarcasm rarely misses. It’s like being transported to a world where Robert Smith decided to do gags between songs

and started telling the audience to go fuck themselves.

Rarely in comedy has anyone been as committed to a bit as Davies. His ridiculously long set-ups are meticulously crafted, delivered with his signature sardonic sneer. A healthy dose of observational absurdism keeps everything just on the right side of total nihilism.

A trip to Nando's becomes an underworld side quest, while his campaign to expose the truth about cinema might just scramble your brain.

This is the misery business that the Fringe has been missing. ✏︎ Francesca Peschier

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Heel kicking her way out from behind a curtain, Megan Stalter appears while twirling her long, long, hair with a stretched smile upon her face.

From that first moment, it’s obvious we’re in for something absurd at An Evening of Mayhem with Megan Stalter.

It is, indeed, mayhem. There is a dating show, a novel reading, and a musical opening that starts and restarts a healthy handful of times.

There’s moments we’re not sure are intentional or not, and the glaring ambiguities are testament to Stalter’s utter commitment to the bit. It’s annoying and uncomfortable in the best possible way.

Dripping with delusion, Stalter’s on-stage persona is truly exceptional. She’s quick, each joke cutting just right – usually, something inappropriate or airheaded. There’s not a sentimental second and it’s all the better for it: we never once see her performance falter.

On opening night, Stalter’s interactions with writer Maddie Ballard – the on-stage guitarist and her alleged “exwife” – are hilarious. Maddie never really says anything but Stalter thinks everything she does is wrong. She laughs

along and it’s fun, so fun, to have someone remind us of the utter absurdity.

At some points, something of a narrative would be nice, primarily for ease of enjoyment. But, of course, that’s

exactly the point. Between her reoccurring child-like screams, it is playful but not unchallenging. And a warning: the audience participation is incessant but completely worth it. ✏︎ Eilidh Akilade

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There aren’t many ways for white, male, middle class comedians to credibly leave it all on the line, but Stuart Goldsmith has managed it.

How so? By dedicating his latest show entirely to the climate crisis: a topic almost guaranteed to produce a full-body cringe. When two audience members walk out very early doors, he laughs gamely: “They’re the first ones of the festival!” he says, with a touch of pride.

If they’d stayed on, they would’ve gotten what the rest of us had the privilege to experience: a warm, hilarious hour that pokes fun at our hypocrisies, while suggesting genuine pathways for change. When Goldsmith invites the audience to confess to their deepest, darkest acts of climate criminality, one woman all but wails: “I like cling film!” Such is the rapport he builds with his crowd that many are willing to lay our climate guilt at his feet.

For who is Goldsmith – or any of us – to judge? By skewering his love of business class flights, and his fraught relationship with his future grandchildren, Goldsmith makes clear our tangled complicity in systems beyond our control without allowing us to languish there. Through his free-wheeling anecdotes 26

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about famous tombstones, and those XR newsletters you’re never, ever going to read, he creates space to

breathe amidst the eco-anxiety; camaraderie amongst our failures; and, spoiler alert, reasons to hope. ✏︎ Deborah Chu

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In this entertaining, fastpaced and eye-opening show, charismatic American performer Lane Kwederis describes how she went from getting a BA in musical theatre to making money as a sex worker – specifically a financial dominatrix (that’s fin-dom to those in the know).

It all started when she discovered that men would

pay to worship her feet and, deciding to apply the golden rule of improv – “yes and” – to this new revenue stream, she dived in.

Thanks to her perky, witty openness about it all, any sense of judgement one might harbour quickly dissipates as she describes her journey, with stories, musical theatre-style songs, lip-syncing and a bit of multimedia (including a few clips of her work).

She teaches us about fetishes, makes us gasp with a tale of an injury (to a client – crack – whoops), and reveals

the importance of having to act like you don’t need or care about money when extracting cash from men in the world of fin-dom. Complications regarding payments come up too, underlying one of the many barriers that sex workers have to navigate.

Kwederis touches upon what happens when clients try to push boundaries, and there’s one harrowing story about maltreatment, but you might be surprised when you learn who the perpetrator is.

What an education this show is. ✏︎ Ashley Davies

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Matt Hutchinson: Hostile HHHHH we know the state-sponsored hostility that met the hopes and dreams of these young TIME: men and women, some of them ex-servicemen; exciting, because look what Hutchinson If there’s a textbook way to is doing with that heritage gain audience trust at the top, right now. to say in big bold letters, “I’ve By and large, he honours got this,” then Matt Hutchinson that well-won trust. DJ might have found it. As we file Hutchinson gets good laughs in, he’s hunched over a set of from the contrast between decks, cutting beats like a pro. his appearance, the idea of The lights dim and his DJing him as “the voice of the street” becomes VJing, mixed-up and the reality, namely that Pathé footage showing West he’s an NHS doctor who went Indians arriving on the Empire to a good school, whose mum Windrush – British citizens drove him to and from DJ settling in Britain. It’s a moving gigs, and whose closest brush start: heartbreaking because with the law was fruit-based VENUE:

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and thoroughly middle class.

Unsurprisingly, Dr H’s bedside manner is top notch. He’s a total sweetie with a very cute baby and some great jokes.

But it’s a fairly ragtag bunch of jokes, and his segues between them are as choppy as his beats. Phrases like “but...y’know,” work overtime to guide him through an hour that doesn’t quite have enough solid gear to fill it. A couple of musical jokes make for nice contrast but the fact that the vocals are recorded suggests he doesn’t have the confidence in them that they need to make them fly. ✏︎ Evan Beswick

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a dark rectangular room. May (Gabriella Munro), a young HHHHH photographer, is charged with taking photos of dissenters, rebelling against the organVENUE: Holden Street Theatres isation, as they are directed TIME: times vary, various towards a door, and their dates between 11 Feb impending doom. and 15 Mar What ensues is a tour-deTICKETS: $20 – $28 force about the adaptability of human beings within an Inspired by the horrific atrociauthoritarian dictatorship and ties committed in Cambodia’s the consequences of those S-21 prison, Feet First Collecadaptations. It’s a play that tive’s S-27 by Sarah Grochala has asks: just how far would you you in the brutal depths of a go to save yourself? Would you tyrannical regime before you’ve abandon a baby, kill your sister, found a seat in the theatre. sell your body?

Guards aggressively ‘proThe answers to these quescess’ each audience member tions, and the complexities of before herding everyone into the sacrifices being made, are

shown through gut-wrenching vignettes throughout.

These snippets are broken up by musical interludes with choreographed, repetitive body movements, allowing you further into these atrocities.

At times, the dialogue leans towards cliché, but this doesn’t detract from an incredible performance from the entire cast. Lauren Beeton and Sally Clune give are particularly transfixing performances that delve into sheer fear, hopelessness and the intoxication of power.

S-27 is a full submersion into a disturbing reality that leans a little too closely into our own. ✏︎ Edwina Sleigh

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Nathaniel is full of love – for his barber, for techno, and for Birmingham. But he’s not yet found the one: he’s been ghosted and stood up, and he’s found every spark to be an absent one. It’s a tricky position for a romantic like him. Writer and performer Nathan Queeley-Dennis takes us through a series of Nathaniel’s dates with a joyful and

cheeky humour that unfurls into a rich, intelligent look at Black masculinity and knowing oneself. Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz is an utter delight and an utter triumph.

Nathaniel is fully attentive to the world around him and such carefulness is often at the root of each comedic turn.

The character is warm and forgiving, generous and trusting, qualities which make each romantic up and down tug that bit harder. And the play fills us up with all the sweet stuff, too: something of a Beyoncé-collage, an ever chaotic group chat, and the lasting glitters of a Lush bath bomb.

But Queeley-Dennis isn’t afraid of complex matters either. Nathaniel’s own issues – guarded with a rehearsed pretence and ever seeking himself in others – are unpacked slowly, with an almost shocking gentleness. As such, the play’s conclusion lands softly, restfully, while stirring us just so.

Throughout all the heartbreak, Queeley-Dennis plays out the quarter-life with equal parts fun and wisdom – an arguably infallible combination. Carried with an endearing confidence, we fall for Nathaniel and, in doing so, we fall for everything else. ✏︎ Eilidh Akilade

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Faye can’t sleep, we learn at the outset of Ciara Elizabeth Smyth’s dark and absurd comedy Lie Low. She’s not sure why, she insists to her ineffectual male GP, met here in celestial voiceover only – yes, a year ago she was the victim of a break-in where she awoke to a masked male standing over her and exposing himself, but she’s over that now.

As we quickly learn, though, it’s difficult to get over such experiences so easily or indeed to make sense of them at all amidst contested narratives and the fallibility of memory. These are the themes at the heart of Lie Low, which pitches itself as a play about a woman undergoing exposure therapy but in fact plays out as an exploration of sexual assault, trauma, consent and the grey areas between and around each.

This is brave subject matter, and it is handled confidently in both Smyth’s writing and the performances of lead actors Charlotte McCurry and Michael Patrick. McCurry in particular displays impressive range, her character careering between high-energy fantastical dance sequences, bloody-minded denial and heart-wrenching desperation. Patrick’s portrayal of Faye’s brother Naoise, grappling, as the audience comes to learn, with his own ruinous secret, is skilful in its nuance – is he to be believed?

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The result is that Lie Low is at the same time funny, surreal and deeply unsettling. Una-

fraid to sit with ambiguity and uncertainty, this gripping play will stay with audiences long beyond its 65 minute run time. ✏︎ Eve Livingston

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Does any show at the Fringe Lucy and Friends is, in fact, have a more extensive conLucy McCormick’s first solo tent warning list than Lucy show – the setup for the joke and Friends? Walking into being a) that she didn’t get the Pleasance Forth we’re the Arts Council funding to advised about, here goes, involve pals, and, b) as we get loud music, scenes of a sexual to know her better, that in fact nature and nudity, strobe and she’s a bit of a loner. So we haze, audience participation, are her friends and, though plus allergen warnings for we don’t get our hands or our hummus, tomato puree, wine bodies quite as dirty as does and carrot. I can assure, all are McCormick, we’re involved, ticked off. And, sure enough, corralled into various bits of this is appropriately challeng- performance by this sassy, ing, uncomfortable stuff chaotic, messy perversion of VENUE:

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McCormick methodically works through a catalogue of dramatic and comedic techniques, careening between spectacle and bathos, song and dance, wordless act outs (of a cat, no less), and fierce monologues (with heavily ironised scene-chewing justifications of her art), all the while dropping one-liners. But what emerges through the fun and the flesh and the chaos are the shadows of loneliness and alienation, and the dramatisation – or perhaps the reality – of a community brought into existence before our eyes. ✏︎ Evan Beswick

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Any show promoted as this one has been, with that title and a picture of a kilted, conflicted looking man on the promotional posters, is bound to inspire a heated response in Edinburgh. Yet the subject of podcaster and performer Seamas Carey’s one-man Help!

I Think I’m a Nationalist isn’t the only area where he confounds expectations; it’s about Cornish independence, which those outside the south-west of England might not think greatly about, but a live subject to many in the area.

Carey’s piece is part theatrical presentation, part series of lightly interactive elements designed to spur thoughts of nationalism and national identity. At one point all are asked to stand, then to sit down if they don’t fit the local criteria he calls out. These include Scottish birth, parentage, descent… and finally, willingness to shed blood and die for Scotland. A handful of people remain standing.

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trivialities. Always engaging, always in motion, Carey isn’t blind to historical and current issues imposed on Cornwall from outside, from the systematic destruction of the Cornish language by English influence, to the effect on communities of second home owners in the present. Yet he

resists words like ‘swarm’ in describing the latter, because the connotation is ugly. It’s hard to disagree with the conclusion he appears to be drawing throughout – that a sense of patriotism and local pride is good, but not when it’s expressed as hatred for the outsider. ✏︎ David Pollock

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A tale of queer consciousness-raising and coming out with a difference – with several differences, in fact. Birthmarked follows in the footsteps of author Ali Millar’s recent memoir The Last Days in discussing the fallout from, and the effect on, an individual’s decision to leave the Jehovah’s Witnesses. In this case, the person who left is Brook Tate, a young singer and artist from Bristol.

The title of the show refers both to the birthmark on Tate’s forehead, and to the way in which he comes to terms with what may have once been seen as flaws, but which are now indelible parts of his sense of identity. Discovering his sexuality with another young male Witness while on a missionary trip to China, Tate was subsequently reported to church authorities and ‘disfellowshipped’; essentially excommunication, but with adding social as well as religious banning.

Tate has since moved to Bristol and built a new life for himself, and in addition to partially reuniting his family, he’s also met the members of the band for this show, who join him in creating a piece which is joyous, melodically interesting and increasingly disco, as he heads towards a full-costume reveal of his new self at the end. A lot of fun is had in the discussion of a serious subject, yet the show is almost stolen by the talking Gail the Whale, a large Biblical puppet wielded by Tate’s drummer. ✏︎ David Pollock

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you miss. As the audience files into the darkened theatre, we practise the rituals only too familiar to us, like the funeral receiving line; but so too do we experience new ways of celebrating the brevity of life, its brief flash of brilliance before we return to darkness.

Its undoubted lyricism aside, there’s a certain hollowness in Funeral’s gestures. Part of that is deliberate, of course: culturally, funereal rituals are designed to facilitate the purging of emotion. These rituals are the empty box into which we’re encouraged to place our memories and

experiences, so that we may move on. If, however, someone were unwilling, or unable, to conjure up the necessary feeling at this production, Funeral’s procession of acts may simply pass them by. For in its desire for universality, the show elides any sense of context or specificity – and aren’t these so often the things that enrich a life, that make it worth grieving over when it’s done? Even in its act of gathering us together, however, Funeral is a moving reminder that mourning those we love is an experience best shared. ✏︎ Deborah Chu

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by Thrown, an energetic rumination on Scottish identity via the appropriately Scottish, refreshingly niche sport of backhold wrestling (it’s more or less what it sounds like).

In particular, the generational-spanning, mixed-heritage cast demonstrate real chemistry. To a woman, Efè Agwele, Maureen Carr, Lesley Hart, Chloe-Ann Tylor and Adiza Shardow give the impression of having a genuine dog in the

and tension of the characters’ identities, across heritage, age, birth, wealth, gender, feels mechanistic rather than dramatic – like the methodical working of each face of a Rubik’s cube. Tonally, it’s a bit confused too. It’s never clear, for instance, if the chavvy Glaswegian Chantelle is a character or a caricature, or if the wrestling is played as dance, or if we’re meant to feel real physical jeopardy.

Coupled with some ropey dialogue (“I will not have this hateful talk and mean words!”) and irregular breaking of the fourth wall, this feels at times like a piece on the curriculum for excellence rather than the National Theatre. ✏︎ Evan Beswick

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fight of what it means to be Scottish – testament, of course, to their skilful ensemble work.

But it’s hard to really love the script and the direction they’re lumbered with.

Backhold wrestling at highland games is a nice leaping-off point, but starts to feel like a tight hold in which everything is squeezed until it screams ‘metaphor’: the micro-tears in a muscle – the accumulation of small injuries which, in fact, breeds strength; the thudding final reveal of a bespoke tartan which weaves their identities together into something greater than the sum of the individual warps and wefts.

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All is not well behind the net curtains of this 50s Americana-dream house. The spaghetti casserole looks a bit green and the domestic goddesses seem rather more interested in consuming each other, romantically and literally. Dotty hasn’t even the manners to bring a pie round to Shirley’s before titillating her with a little cannibal role play. Whatever happened to hospitality…

What If They Ate the Baby? purposefully leaves gaps for the audience to insert their own narrative interpretation of what on earth is going on.

Trapped in an endless simulated loop of pie dishes and prejudice, the two women battle, flirt and navigate around each other as if to some unspoken code of behaviour neither dare transgress.

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makeup, frozen and emotionless, it serves to flatten their face further into a terrifying forced rictus.

An other-worldly darkness pervades here. There is a constant underscore of threat; noises in the attic, neighbours being disappeared, discus-

sions of bodies that may or may not be lurking under the floorboards. The lack of specificity does not detract from the inherent creepiness, yet there is the sense of waiting for a hatchet through the door that never quite comes. ✏︎ Francesca Peschier

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From the perspective of the 1960’s, and the emergence of the European Union, Sir Oswald Mosley looks back on his experiences in the 1930’s. The play brings to life the meteoric political rise of Mosley as a potential Labour Prime Minister, and the subsequent founding and development of the British Union of Fascists.

We see Mosley and Diana Mitford on their wedding day at Joseph Goebbels’s house in Berlin, and witness the events leading up to the infamous Battle of Cable Street, before the Mosley’s are incarcerated in Holloway Prison, during the war.

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emotional damage that violence often leaves behind.

Ali’s beautifully lithe and tender dance solo brings a welcome burst of vulnerability and softness to the onslaught of macho bravado, while Banks’ realisations about his fetishising of fighting feel like very casual but necessary insights into toxic masculinity. Might isn’t always right but clearly neither is bottling or bluffing either. A sweet awakening between two boy friends and a gentle provocation about dangerous cis het culture in the midst of many cartoon kick ins. ✏︎ Claire Sawers

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Dance is the art of control: it generates meaning and feeling through the control of one’s body. In The (Hong) Kong Girls, we witness three choreographers paint anarchic narratives about grappling with the idea of bodily control itself.

In PK Wong’s ‘Bird-watching’, the objectification of a faceless, naked form is troubled by her monstrous movements: her claw-like fingertips; her shuddering, rippling flesh.

We are estranged from the eroticism of the vulva-ed body and are made to behold its corporeal weight, its terror and presence. Justyne Li’s ‘Bleed-through’ presents a body caught between opposing forces like a marionette, where every agential movement meets an even more powerful counter-force – a quotidian portrait of the structural violence of feminine life. Alice Ma’s ‘Wu’ sees the jagged disintegration of a life-sized music box dancer – a Black Swan-esque fracturing of body and psyche that builds to a genuinely unsettling final image.

Stylistically varied though they are, each of the three dance pieces asks: Who owns my body? Who decides the nature and conditions of its movement? What is an acceptable way for my body to behave?

‘Kong Girl’ originated as a derogatory term in Hong

Kong to describe non-normative women, but has been reclaimed for new liberatory purposes – like those illuminated by these dancers. The bodies of the marginalised have always been the terrain where authority most violently

wrestles for control; always strange and never beautiful, The (Hong) Kong Girls uses those very same bodies to carve out narratives of resistance, to make flesh both powerful and strange again. ✏︎ Xuanlin Tham

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Much like throwing and catching a juggling ball, a great deal of precision is needed for a show like this to land. Robin Boon Dale is, unquestionably, a talented juggler – not just on a purely technical level, but also in terms of both the creative potential of the discipline, and its broader philosophical ramifications. He is also a charming and knowledgeable spokesperson, something the format of What Does Stuff Do?

requires, delivered as it is in the style of a TED talk.

But it’s on this tricky midpoint between entertaining circus and thought-provoking seminar that the show wobbles slightly off balance.

In exploring the metaphysical underpinnings of objects, manipulators, movements and systems, Dale packs his script with heady jargon and stodgy academese. And while he often punctures the resulting tension with a winking acknowledgement that sorry, this is all a bit technical – usually with a brilliantly unique routine that even seasoned jugglers

(and fans) will find fresh – he doesn’t quite do that enough to keep us fully engaged.

This audience is head over heels whenever Dale switches to his stunts – particularly when he juggles water (!) and gets into an altercation with his flip chart. But they are noticeably restless during his longer, wordier passages, which is a shame as that’s where he seems most passionate. There are the makings of a truly excellent show here, but Dale’s musings on the nature of reality are currently quite hard to catch. ✏︎ George Sully

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Kiwi-Australian drag queen Jason Chasland, aka Leather Lungs, brings a set of powerhouse anthems to the House of Oz, in a colourful explosion of music and comedy. Higher Love is a celebration of survival and self-love, by a performer who tackles adversity with humour.

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octaves. With a voice spanning four, Chasland, self-proclaimed ‘master of falsetto and stiletto’, knows they can sing and have created a show that relies heavily on their voice. Higher Love sees them belt out renditions of songs

by ABBA, Whitney Houston and Queen, using them to illustrate significant events and relationships in their life. They tell the audience in brief snippets about an abusive relationship they eventually got out of, but they prefer to let the music do the talking and they don’t want your pity. They’re here to

reclaim their life through song and invite us all to sing along.

Chasland successfully connects with the audience, creating an inclusive atmosphere with banter and jokes, and they seem genuinely moved by the response they get, despite their voice not being the best tonight. This is possibly due to the jet lag they mention more than once and it results in the show being somewhat lacklustre at points, but it’s fun and uplifting nonetheless, and Chasland’s voice is still twice as good as the average male’s. ✏ Veronica Finlay

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As Nothing Ever Happens Here’s founder Jamie Sutherland departs, we reflect on a decade of resonance and rebellion – including this year’s gigs at Summerhall Words: David Pollock

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ager, now CEO, into giving NEHH a try. “I liked the idea of adding creative, contemporary music into the world of visual arts and contemporary theatre.

That’s where we wanted it to sit, there are clear lines between this building and the

Barbican and Southbank Centre in London. It operates on a smaller scale, but I wanted to have the same ambition.”

What’s been seen of this year’s programme so far has shown the breadth of NEHH’s remit. As is now tradition, Photo: Ellie Koepke

early a decade ago, Summerhall’s year-round series of contemporary rock, indie and electronica gigs Nothing Ever Happens Here began; also known as NEHH, its name is a tongue-in-cheek reference to complaints that Edinburgh’s music scene is too quiet.

NEHH’s festival bill has become a major constant of the city’s contemporary music provision in August for a decade, booking artists including Pussy Riot, Cate Le Bon, Grandaddy and the Sun Ra Arkestra.

Now, after a decade, NEHH’s founder Jamie Sutherland – who also plays in the band Broken Records, which releases a new album this autumn – is leaving to take up the post of creative director at SEALL on the Isle of Skye, and an era of great live music on the Fringe may be ending.

“When I came to Summerhall, there was some really good work happening, but no real musical provision,” says Sutherland now. “There were a few bits and pieces, but it was all quite scattershot. As a musician working in the city, Edinburgh was missing a 450-capacity space, and there was room for it here.” He talked Sam Gough, then general man-

Rebecca Vasmant Ensemble

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“I liked the idea of adding creative, contemporary music into the world of visual arts and contemporary theatre” Glasgow’s Optimo (Espacio) hosted the opening party (4 Aug), an evergreen blend of techno and post-punk attitude, with a live set from Eyes of Others, aka Heavenly-signed Edinburgh musician and producer John Bryden, whose two-person analogue set was rich and dub-fuelled, a perfect accompaniment to the music being played on the dancefloor.

Sutherland himself played a support set for Michael Head and the Red Elastic Band (11 Aug), whose set of measured indie-rock was infused with an occasional country edge. The 61-year-old Liverpudlian Head made jokes about needing his eyes checked, but the presence of old Shack classics like 'Pull Together' and 'Meant To Be' inspired a youthful, passionate reaction among a crowd of his contemporaries.

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The flip side of the coin arrived with Los Angeles’ burst of funk-rock silliness Thumpasaurus (13 Aug). On record, the overall-wearing six-piece’s music is a featherlight, frat boy riff on Prince, but in person it’s considerably elevated, with raw live power coursing through the dense basslines and ‘80s keyboard riffs of 'Lipstick Makeup', and a fierce saxophone solo accompanying the menacing grind of 'Evil'.

Before this phase of Summerhall’s music journey – and maybe NEHH itself, it’s uncertain – comes to an end, shows by the Rebecca Vasmant Ensemble, Breabach and Maranta’s closing party happen this month. “We’ve put through some amazing shows,” says Sutherland. “Ticket sales have gone up in Edinburgh across the board, and while I take

some credit for that, other people have been doing the same kind of thing. Through that collective will, more shows come to Edinburgh than they did eight years ago, and that’s been real, tangible success in my eyes.”

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Kids Critics The Lost Lending Library Oran, five, infiltrates Punchdrunk’s immersive library What happens in the show?

We did the show. No one else did the show, we did the show.

We were the performers. I just walked around. Other people found things but I didn’t find anything at all. It wasn’t a show place. It was just a library. The show didn’t have a name. It wasn’t a show, anyway.

Was there anything you didn’t like?

No. Well, I didn’t like that they didn’t get my attention whenever I put my hand up.

[This version of events is disputed by other witnesses.]

What did your grown-up think?

A trainee librarian welcomes the children, introducing a magical lending library that travels the world with all of human knowledge, reconfiguring each time… But the lending library is lost! The children must choose a book and weave a story using their collective imaginations. There’s some sleight of hand, a bit of

Would you tell your friends to go?

Which friends?

[Specific examples provided] Yes I’d tell all of them.

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What did you like most about the show?

Everything.

At the end somebody tells us a story about a spider and the spider got washed down the plughole and he found himself in Spiderville. But I really do not want to hear it again.

a treasure hunt, some guided exploration of the magical set.

Oran enjoyed it, particularly getting to make false claims about Charles Dickens being his favourite author. Engaging, immersive, explorative, imaginative storytelling.

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A Political Breakfast PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake, 23–27 Aug

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Editburgh Meeting Point @ Ibis Hotel, 23–29 Aug

10:00

What’re You Looking At! Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug

10:15

The Early Word Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Wiki Knows Best – Mythical Islands Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug

10:30

Neil Harris: Codebreaker Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23–26 Aug Mountebank Comedy Walk of Edinburgh Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug First Thing (Work in Progress by Daniel Kitson) Roundabout @ Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

10:40

The Breakfast Club Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug

10:45

Made in Bangladesh Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug

11:00

Daman Bamrah: Salmon Camera Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 23–27 Aug Around the World in 80 Puns Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug

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Richard Duffy is Asleep: A Retrospective PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 23–27 Aug 3’s Comedy: Mornings Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug

11:20

Rose Matafeo: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug

11:25

50 Midlife Crises to Try Before You Die Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug

11:30

Sounds Proper Comedy’s Hot Picks Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug Bucket Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 23–27 Aug The Dark Knightley Rises Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Those Who Can’t Do Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 23–27 Aug Rozarina Larsen Presents: Whitefishing Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug

11:35

1998: A Walking Disaster – Anxiety, Absurdity, Airfryer Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug

11:40

Luke Manning: One Manning Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug

11:45

AL! The Weird Tribute (And How Daniel Radcliffe Got Mixed Up in This Nonsense) Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug

11:50

5 Mistakes That Changed History Assembly George Square, 23–27 Aug

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12:00

Keroseno and Finito: Cock O’Clock Leith Depot, 23–27 Aug Cecilia Delatori: Rock Spinster Gilded Balloon Teviot, 24–28 Aug Chris Thorburn: Cineman Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug Aaaaargh! It’s the One-Liner Show Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 23–27 Aug

Sarah Keyworth: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug Mark Row: A* in the Making Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 23–27 Aug Arzoo Malhotra: First Degeneration Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Lunch with a Cyclopath Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Sharon Wanjohi and Abbie Edwards: Screaming, Crying, Throwing Up Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug The Generation Gap (WIP) Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23–27 Aug Sex, Art and the Art of Survival Frankenstein Pub, 23–28 Aug Joe Wells: King of the Autistics PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 23–27 Aug

12:05

Sam Lake: Aspiring DILF Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug Corona Daze theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug

12:10

The Shit Kid Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug An American Christmas with the BXG DXG Hootenannies @ The Apex, 23–28 Aug Dinesh Nathan: Nathan Knows Nothing (WIP) The Voodoo Rooms, 23–27 Aug Milo Edwards: Sentimental Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 23–27 Aug

12:15

Big Smoke Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 23–27 Aug Better Paul Paul Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–28 Aug #BigDerryEnergy with Peter E Davidson Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Steph Aritone: Excelf-esteem Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug

Harry Potter or My Girlfriend... Who Do I Love More?

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 23–27 Aug

12:20

David McIver: Small Boy Trapped in a Wellness Retreat PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 23–27 Aug Table for Two? Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug Can You Tell Me Where This Is? Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 23–27 Aug The Oxford Imps Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Hannah Platt – Work in Progress Hootenannies @ The Apex, 23–28 Aug

12:30

MC Hammersmith: Straight Outta Brompton Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug Ageing Folks Telling Jokes Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug PG Hits! Stand-Up Comedy That’s Everyone’s Cup of Tea Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug A Spaniard’s Guide to Learning Shakespeare Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 23–27 Aug Sarah Roberts: Worm in Progress Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23–27 Aug Live Podcast Hour Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug Phil Ellis’s Excellent Comedy Show Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 23–27 Aug

12:35

Ashley Barnhill: Texas Titanium (Show ‘Bout Gettin’ a New Skull) Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug

12:40

Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe Pleasance Courtyard, 24–26 Aug

12:45

Is It Just Us?!

Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 23–27 Aug

Richard Pulsford: Short Joke Teller Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–27 Aug Lee Kyle: England’s Best Comedian Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 23–27 Aug RGB Monster’s Format Factory Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug

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Pam Ford Don’t You Dare!

(Put Me in a Care Home) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug And Now...

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Coffee Kid Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug

13:00

Sameer Katz: Love Is a Lie Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 23–27 Aug The Weegies Have Stolen the One O’Clock Gun! St Columba’s by the Castle, 26 Aug Achtung!! The Germans Are Coming!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 23–27 Aug Alphabet Soup – Serving Hot LGBTQIA+ Comedy Brunch Le Monde, 23–28 Aug Robin Ince – Weapons of Empathy Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 23–27 Aug Max Norman: A Pirate’s Life For Me Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug Alastair Clark: Happy Ending PBH’s Free Fringe @ Slow Progress, 23–27 Aug Shoot From The Hip Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Get Blessed!

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Last Stand on Honey Hill Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug Silent Disco Walking Tours Edinburgh: Boogie Shoes theSpace @ Niddry St, 26 Aug Board Game Smackdown Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug

The Opera Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 23–27 Aug

13:05

Joy’s Bed and Breakfast Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug Australia: A Whinging Pom’s Guide PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 24–27 Aug Hooked: Mr Sister Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Gerry Carroll – Young Zoo Southside, 23–27 Aug

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Fiona Ridgewell: No-Nonsense PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 23–27 Aug Deepu Dileepan: American Alien PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pilgrim, 23–27 Aug Henry Ginsberg’s Hyper Masculine Cookery Show Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug

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Jamie Allerton Goes to the Movies Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 23–27 Aug Gremlin Head Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Irish Comedy Invasion Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23–27 Aug Ross McGrane: Get Rich or Cry Trying PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 23–27 Aug 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 23–27 Aug 4 Funny Feckers Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 23–27 Aug Marcus Ryan – Eat, Pray, Walk Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug

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Seymour Mace Does Drawring The Stand Comedy Club 2, 23–27 Aug Twenty Hamsters Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug A Star is Re-born!

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug

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Arguments! The Comedy Debate Show Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Michael Porter: Love and Brain Damage Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 23–27 Aug Gavin Webster: Proper Jokes Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 23–28 Aug The 5th Alternative Black Comedy Showcase PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug Aidan Jones: Adult Adoption Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Stephen Buchanan: Charicature Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug Alex and Roger Work It Out Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug Rachel Creeger: Ultimate Jewish Mother PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug Bad in Bed: Arthritis to Insomnia Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–27 Aug Bryony Byrne: A Clown Tries to Write a Play (WIP) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 23–27 Aug Silent Disco Dance Tours

by Silent Adventures Meeting Point at Uplands Roast Coffee Shop, 26 Aug eBae: Ruby Carr (WIP) Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 23–27 Aug Born in a Wheelchair Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug The 5th Alternative Black Comedy Showcase PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 26 Aug

13:35

Ted Milligan: The Finished Product (A Work in Progress) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 23–27 Aug

Dog Dies Under Porch – A Comedy!

Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 23–27 Aug Ian Smith: Crushing Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 23–27 Aug

13:40

The Temp Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson Assembly George Square Studios, 23–28 Aug Long Long Long Live Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug Mark Silcox: Women Only PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 23–27 Aug Ginny Hogan: Regression Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug The Cambridge Impronauts Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug

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129.5 Steps to Autistic Success Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug Josh Elton: Mountain Jew (Plus Support) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse, 24–27 Aug 3rd Rock from the Pun: Darren Walsh Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug Mark Simmons: New Jokes PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 23–27 Aug 101 Psychos: We turn Insanity into Hilarity Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Colleen Lavin: Do the Robots Think I’m Funny?

Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug Pottervision Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23–27 Aug

13:50

How to Cheat on Your Husband Just the Tonic Nucleus, 23–27 Aug

13:55

Harriet Dyer: Mother Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 24–27 Aug Oddity Comedy Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 23–27 Aug

An Asian Queer Story: Coming Out to Dead People Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug Dead Inside theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Yuriko Kotani: This Is My Work Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 23 Aug

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Stanley Brooks: I Can Make Me Rich Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Daniel Downie: Jacobite Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–27 Aug Comedy Caper Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 23–27 Aug Aaaargh! It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!

Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 23–27 Aug James Barr: Chains and WIPs Excite Me Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 23–27 Aug Rhiannon Shaw: Wedding Night Bedlam Theatre, 23–27 Aug Sandy Not Just on Sunday!

The Saltire Society Headquarters, 23–28 Aug, weekdays only The Grand Return of the Edinburgh Revue Paradise in Augustines, 23–27 Aug Sam Coade and James Trickey: Floorfillers Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 23–27 Aug

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Abi Clarke: Try Hard (Work in Progress) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug

14:10

❤ Katy Berry: Diamond Goddess Crystal Pussy

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Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug ❤ Adam Riches is The Guys Who... HHHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug ❤ Tatty Macleod: Fugue

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Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug Grotto Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug

14:15

Comedians and (Similar to but Legally Distinct from) Dragons Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 23–27 Aug Raymond Mearns – Old Town Comedy Walking Tour Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 Aug Holly Spillar: Hole Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug AC/DC: Australian Comedians / Dope Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 23–27 Aug Dickie Richards: Sexual Tyrannosaur 2023 PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 23–27 Aug Millwall Jew Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug

14:20

Iraqnophobia (Work in Progress) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–26 Aug Rob Duncan: Baby Trains PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 23 Aug Alex Something Is Missing Again!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pilgrim, 23–27 Aug

14:25

One Man 12 Angry Men Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug The Oxford Revue Will See You Now Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Thenjiwe – The Mandela Effect Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug Sex Job Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Rosalie Minnitt: Clementine Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug Rob Auton: The Rob Auton Show Assembly Roxy, 23–26 Aug

14:30

Matt Hutchinson: Hostile Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug Tom Crosbie: Actions Speak Louder Than Nerds Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug

Overthinking It Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 23–27 Aug 1 Billion Songs Please!

Hill Street Theatre, 23–27 Aug You Don’t Know You’re Beautiful C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 23–27 Aug Men With Coconuts PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 23–27 Aug Stand-Up Philosophy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Old Movies Saved My Life: 2 Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Silent Disco Walking Tours Edinburgh: Boogie Shoes theSpace @ Niddry St, 26 Aug Adam Greene and Peter Bazely: Bi and Large – Bier and Larger Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23–27 Aug 101 Comedy – Club Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 23–27 Aug Five Mugs, No Tea Leith Depot, 23–27 Aug The Durham Revue: Death on the Mile Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug The Edinburgh Fridge Show Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 23–27 Aug Ryan Wingfield: American Comedy for Brits Boteco do Brasil, 24–27 Aug

14:40

Mary Bourke: 200% Irish The Stand Comedy Club 2, 23–27 Aug Phil Green: Four Weddings and a Breakdown PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 23–27 Aug Murder, She Didn’t Write Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Amy Webber: No Previous Experience Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug

14:45

Finlay and Joe: Past Our Bedtime Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Thinky Winky PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 23–26 Aug

The Asian Comedy Showcase!

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Will BF: The Last Gun Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Angus Coutts – Short King The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 23–27 Aug 999 Problems Laughing Horse @ Bar Soba, 23–27 Aug Share PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 23–27 Aug Darius Davies: Charmingly Offensive Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 23–28 Aug Billy Kirkwood: Buzzin (WIP) Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–27 Aug The Early Late Show Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Raul Kohli: Makes It Up as He Goes Along Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug The Young-ish Offenders Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 23–27 Aug

14:50

A Collection of Nothing Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 23–27 Aug Ted Hill: Tries and Fails to Fix Climate Change Assembly George Square, 23–27 Aug Sofie Hagen: Banglord Monkey Barrel Comedy, 24–27 Aug Eric’s Tales of the Sea – A Submariner’s Yarn Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Biswa Kalyan Rath: Live Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 23–27 Aug Harun Musho’d: Why I Don’t Talk To People About Terrorism PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 24–27 Aug

14:55

Pirates: You Wouldn’t Steal a Boat theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Will Adamsdale: Show of Just Songs Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–25 Aug Laura Davis: Well Don’t Just Stand There Dancing Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug

15:00

Harriet Dyer: Mother Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 23 Aug Gabby Killick: Conversations With My Agent Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug The Meaning of Wife PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 24–27 Aug The Weegies Have Stolen the One O’Clock Gun! St Columba’s by the Castle, 25–26 Aug Lynn Ferguson: Storyland Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug McClaine Beirne: Wheelie Funny Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug Sam’s Scriptz!

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Angel Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23–27 Aug Jaz Mattu Emerges Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Amy Matthews: I Feel Like I’m Made of Spiders Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 24–27 Aug Susan Morrison Is Walking Funny The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 23–27 Aug Silent Disco Dance Tours

by Silent Adventures Meeting Point at Uplands Roast Coffee Shop, 25–27 Aug Njambi McGrath: OutKast Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug Indonesia Presents (Far) East Meets West The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 23–27 Aug AAA Batteries (Not Included) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug James Nokise: God Damn Fancy Man Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug Dominique Salerno: The Box Show Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug 200 IQ Audience Only (No Munters) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 23–27 Aug

Emotionally Unreasonable Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 23–27 Aug Serena Terry – Socially Needier The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–25 Aug Ed Patrick: Catch Your Breath The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 26–27 Aug John Robins: Work in Progress Just the Tonic Nucleus, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–27 Aug

15:15

Alexis Gay & Friends Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug Simon Munnery’s Jerusalem The Stand Comedy Club, 23–28 Aug St Doctor’s Hospital Assembly George Square Studios, 23–28 Aug Shaggers Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 23–27 Aug 2 Truths, 1 Lie Hootenannies @ The Apex, 23–27 Aug 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 23–27 Aug Thor Stenhaug: Grateful for the Opportunity Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Laughing Horse Clean Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug A Complete Idiot’s Guide to New Zealand Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–27 Aug Alex Leam: Now 40!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait, 23–27 Aug

15:20

Bronwyn Sweeney: Off-Brand Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Candace Bryan: Communist Dad Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug Adam Flood: Remoulded Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 23–27 Aug Louise Atkinson: Mates Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug

Salma Hindy and Danielle Deluty: Parallel Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug ❤ Stuart Goldsmith: Spoilers HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug

Our Place in the World Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug Bishops Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug

15:25

Sian Davies: This Charming Man Assembly George Square, 23–27 Aug Lizzy Lenco: Full Frontal Lobe Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 23–27 Aug 33 Years Single Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 23–27 Aug ❤ Eric Rushton: Not That Deep HHHH Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23–27 Aug Olaf Falafel: Look What Fell Out Of My Head Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 23–27 Aug Patrick Susmilch: Texts from My Dead Friends Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug Adam Riley: Late-Night Comedy in the Afternoon Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Sooz Kempner: Y2K Woman Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–27 Aug Shagadelic: The Origins of Slang Words for Doing It Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 23–27 Aug Alex and Sharlin: White Chicks 2 Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug

Shelf: Teenage Men PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 23–27 Aug

15:30

Adam Kay: Undoctored – This is Going to Hurt...

More Pleasance Courtyard, 27 Aug Not My Audience! The Interactive Panel Show You Control with an App! Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 23–27 Aug Cerys Bradley: Not Overthinking Things 2019 Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug The Silliad: Improvised Myths and Legends Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Peter Fleming Meets Doctor Who! Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 26 Aug Ivo Graham: Organised Fun Pleasance Courtyard, 26 Aug Eddy Hare: Leave It With Me PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 23–26 Aug The Jew Rogaine Experience with Josh Edelman PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pilgrim, 23–27 Aug Aussies Abroad Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 23–27 Aug Comrie Sf: Ultramarine Bedlam Theatre, 23–27 Aug 1 Ball Show: 1 Lung Less Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug

15:35

Ari Eldjárn: Saga Class Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug

15:40

Married at First Sleight Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug The Stand-Up Horror Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug

15:45

15:50

Grubby Little Mitts: Hello, Hi Assembly George Square Studios, 23–28 Aug Bilal Zafar: Imposter Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug

15:55

I’m Having Distressing Thoughts theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Danny Ward: A Ward Winning!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 23–27 Aug Alex Franklin: I Must Reach the Summit, Please God I Must Reach the Summit Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug

Anesti Danelis: This Show Will Change Your Life Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–27 Aug

16:00

Ron Placone – Balding is Punk Rock Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 23–27 Aug Tegan Marlow: Jeans and a Nice Top x Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Ian Stone Will Make It Better Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Noam Shuster Eliassi: Coexistence My A** Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug All About Philosophy in 100 Jokes Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 23–27 Aug Great Sketchpectations theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Irish Comedy Headliners Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Friend (The One with Gunther) Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 24–27 Aug ❤ Philipp Kostelecky: Daddy’s Home HHHH The Stand Comedy Club 2, 23–27 Aug Aaaaargh! It’s the One-Liner Show Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 23–27 Aug Jon Culshaw: Imposter Syndrome Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug 1001 Normal Dysfunctional Families Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 23–27 Aug American Cheese Laughing Horse @ The Cocktail Mafia, 23–27 Aug Knock, Knock Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Silent Disco Walking Tours Edinburgh: Boogie Shoes theSpace @ Niddry St, 26 Aug Scotland’s Pick of the Fringe: Early Edition Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–27 Aug Mitch Benn: The Point Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug A Show for Gareth Richards PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 23–27 Aug

Gyles Brandreth Can’t Stop Talking!

Assembly George Square, 23–27 Aug Nicola Macri: Single Entendre Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug 1990 Child from Wuhan: Trauma, Love, Diarrhoea Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug

16:05

Cal Halbert – Calcoholic The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 23–27 Aug Mike Rice: An Irish Work in Progress Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 23–27 Aug

16:10

Failed by Design Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug Adrian Bliss: Inside Everyone Pleasance Dome, 23–27 Aug CCTV theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug Ali Woods: Working On It Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug

16:15

Bennett Arron: Loser PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 23–27 Aug Eme Essien: Fine Print Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–27 Aug Liz Guterbock: Geriatric Millennial Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Dane Baptiste: Bapsquire Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 23–27 Aug Patrick Spicer: Yes Haha What PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse, 23–27 Aug 3’s Comedy: Afternoons Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug Zach Zucker: Spectacular Industry Showcase Pleasance Courtyard, 23–26 Aug AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug Spencer Jones: Making Friends Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug

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Comedy Stefania Licari: Medico Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–27 Aug Sasha Ellen: When Life Gives You Ellens Make Ellenade Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–24 Aug The Bite (A Mouthful of Fringe Madness) Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug Andy Onions: PowerPointless Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 25–27 Aug Sid Singh: Table for One Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23–27 Aug Think ‘n’ Grin: A Solo Improv Comedy Show PBH’s Free Fringe @ Strathmore Bar, 23–27 Aug

16:20

Jody Kamali: Things We Do for Love Assembly George Square, 24–28 Aug Priya Hall: Grandmother’s Daughter Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug Nathan D’Arcy Roberts: Present/Tense Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug JJ Whitehead – White Noise The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug Laufey Haralds: Pip Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Ange Lavoipierre: Your Mother Chucks Rocks And Shells Underbelly, George Square, 23–27 Aug

16:25

Earthly Blessings Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 23–27 Aug Aaron Simmonds: Baby Steps Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Garrett Millerick: Never Had It So Good Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 23–27 Aug

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16:30

60 Minutes About Scotland Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 23–27 Aug Adventures of the Improvised Sherlock Holmes Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug

Angles of the North PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 23–27 Aug A Bookish Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Benji Waterstones: You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug One’s a Musical Comedian and One Isn’t Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 23–27 Aug Silent Disco Dance Tours

by Silent Adventures Meeting Point at Uplands Roast Coffee Shop, 26–27 Aug Tied for Second Just the Tonic Nucleus, 23–27 Aug Gus Lymburn and Jay Lafferty: Club Sets Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–27 Aug

16:35

Eve Ellenbogen: Dead Mom Stuff Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug Lulu Popplewell: Actually, Actually Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Lorna Rose Treen: Skin Pigeon Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Ania Magliano: I Can’t Believe You’ve Done This Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Nightwatchman Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug

16:40

Kathy Maniura: Objectified Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug Francis Breen: White Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug An Evening with Michael Fry and Killian Sundermann Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug The Comedy Arcade The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 23–27 Aug The Oxford Revue Did It! Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 23–27 Aug

16:45

Kevin Precious: The Reluctant Teacher Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug

Married at First Fight Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug Helen Bauer: Grand Supreme Darling Princess Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug Hannah Campbell and Becky Umbers: The North/South Divide Hootenannies @ The Apex, 23–28 Aug Stuart Laws? Is That Guy Still Going?

Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 23–27 Aug Darran Griffiths: Inconceivable Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Jokers in the Pack Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 23–27 Aug

16:50

Rory o Hanlon – Happy Hour PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 23–26 Aug Isabelle Farah: Nobu and Amytis (WIP) Hootenannies @ The Apex, 23–27 Aug Cults, Startups and Pornstars: How I (Almost) Won My Dad’s Approval ZOO Playground, 23–27 Aug The Leeds Tealights: A Very Special Birthday Party Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Heidi Regan: Finding an Inner Peace That All Your Friends Will Envy PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 23–27 Aug Alex Hylton: I Won’t Let Failure Go To My Head Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 23–27 Aug Egg: Absolutely Fine Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Will Hall: Mild Peril Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug Very British Problems: Live The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug

16:55

Raul Kohli: Raul Britannia (The Full Inglish) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug Palindrome Fight!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 23–27 Aug

17:00

Marjolein Robertson: Marj The Stand Comedy Club, 23–28 Aug Alcohol Is Good For You Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 23–27 Aug Schalk Bezuidenhout: Keeping Up Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug Aalex Mandel-Dallal: Break It Down (with Friends) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Tom Little: The Reliably Funny Comedian You Want To See PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 23–27 Aug Troy Kinne – Made Wrong 4042., 24–27 Aug Alex Farrow: Wisdom of the Crowd Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23–27 Aug Childlike theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Hypnotist Matt Hale: Top Fun! 80s Spectacular Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug AI Jesus – Peter Bazely with Special Guest(s) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Luka Muller: Five Top Smells I Smelled Last Year (WIP) Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 23–27 Aug Silent Disco Walking Tours Edinburgh: Boogie Shoes theSpace @ Niddry St, 25 Aug Frank Lavender: Be Funny Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 23–27 Aug Steve Bugeja: Self Doubt (I think) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake, 23–27 Aug An Irish Roast Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 23–27 Aug

17:05

Ross Leslie: Unfit for a King Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug Adele Cliff Can Break Your Arm Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug

17:10

Ruth Hunter: The Ruth is on Fire PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 23–27 Aug Stephen Mullan: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!

Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug Jeromaia Detto: MUSH Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug

17:15

Method Vs Madness Laughing Horse @ The Cocktail Mafia, 23–27 Aug The Northern Irish Comedy Protocol Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 23–27 Aug Cheekykita: An Octopus, The Universe ‘n’ Stuff Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Furious Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug Celebrity Girlfriend Draft Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug Danny O’ Brien: Sweet Child O’ Brien Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–27 Aug 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 23–27 Aug Jew-O-Rama PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 23–27 Aug Becoming Virgin Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 23–27 Aug Emma and Harry Paradise in Augustines, 23–27 Aug 4 Big Cs Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug Ashley Blaker: Normal Schmormal Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–27 Aug

17:20

jD Shapiro: If It Ain’t Woke Don’t Fix It – Stories from the Hood to Hollywood Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug Geoff Norcott: Basic Bloke Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–27 Aug Shamilton! The Improvised Hip Hop Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug

Gavin Webster – You Cannot Say Nowt These Days The Stand Comedy Club 2, 23–27 Aug ❤ Max & Ivan: Life, Choices HHHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug Erik Scott – Talkin’ Trash PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 23–27 Aug Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!

Pleasance Courtyard, 24 Aug Can You Put This in the Bin For Me? Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 23–27 Aug Lucas O’Neil: Emotional Man Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug

17:25

Charlotte Fox: Ouroboros the Return Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug Bee Babylon: Cancer Culture The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 23–27 Aug

17:30

Daniel Muggleton: How the Whitey Have Fallen Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23–27 Aug Edinbra Fringe Comedy Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug The Gossip Gays Underbelly, Bristo Square, 24 Aug William Thompson: The Hand You’re Dealt Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Gary Tank Commander: Gary Talks (Yous Listen) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug Luke Kempner in Gritty Police Drama: A One-Man Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Disabled Cants Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug Men in Quilts Boteco do Brasil, 25–27 Aug NewsRevue Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Stella Graham – Dragon PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse, 23–27 Aug Jake Baker: Alone Together Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug

Improv Comedy with Box of Frogs theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Jon Courtenay: Mental Flavour Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23 Aug This Is Your Trial Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Nick Doody – The Difficult Twelfth Album PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 23–27 Aug The Magic of Terry Pratchett Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug 10,000 Ideas Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 23–27 Aug Any Suggestions, Doctor? The Improvised Doctor Who Parody Pleasance Dome, 23–27 Aug

17:40

Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Billy Kirkwood: Show Me Your Tattoo The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug James Cook: Anonymously Viral Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug The Glitch PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait, 23–26 Aug Tom GK: Chemodian Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Stuart McPherson: Love That For Me Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Maggie Crane: Side

by Side Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Gary Little Still Here Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–28 Aug Martha McBrier: Story-tastic Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 23–27 Aug Ruby McCollister: Tragedy Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug

17:50

Troll Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug The Crisp Review: Live Paradise in The Vault, 23–27 Aug Crizards: This Means War Pleasance Dome, 23–26 Aug Connor Burns: Vertigo Just the Tonic Nucleus, 24–27 Aug Benjamin Alborough: Absolute Monopoly Assembly George Square, 23–28 Aug Grace Jarvis: This Is the Last Goldfish That I Am Going to Eat for You Underbelly, George Square, 23–28 Aug Emily Walsh: Dad Girl Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 23–27 Aug Freya Parker: It Ain’t Easy Being Cheeky Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Kirsty Mann: Skeletons Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug

Kosher Russian Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug Marc Jennings: Away From Here Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 23–27 Aug

17:55

George-prov: An Improvised Theatrical Experience Assembly Roxy, 25–28 Aug The Coil’s Lament Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug

18:00

Sachin Kumarendran: Deceit Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug 24 Shows in 24 days: Live at the Big Cave Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Old Jewish Jokes Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug ❤ Mary O’Connell: Money Princess

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Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Troy Hawke: Work in Progress Just the Tonic Nucleus, 23–27 Aug Pick of the Fringe The Sheraton Grand Hotel, 24 Aug Artificial Intelligence Improvisation Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug Andrew Silverwood: I Really, Really, Really Want a Zig-A-Zig Ah.. and a Nap Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Aaaargh! It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!

Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 23–27 Aug Gentrif*cked (Work in Progress) Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 23–27 Aug Wholesome Prison Blues: Wicked Comedy for (Mostly) Good People Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 24–27 Aug Silent Disco Dance Tours

by Silent Adventures Meeting Point at Uplands Roast Coffee Shop, 23–28 Aug Shaparak Khorsandi: ShapChat!

Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug

Braingystics: Sieze the Mind Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 23–27 Aug Lindsey Santoro: Pink Tinge Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug A Shark Ate My Penis: A History of Boys Like Me Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug

18:05

❤ Nabil Abdulrashid: The Purple Pill HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Anuvab Pal: The Department of Britishness Assembly George Square Studios, 23–28 Aug

18:10

Micky Overman: The Precipice Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 23–27 Aug Mamoun Elagab: Why I Love White People Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Emmanuel Sonubi: Curriculum Vitae Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Tom Ballard: It is I Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug Ticked-Off Einstein Telling Jokes Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 23–27 Aug Nick Pupo: Addicted Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug Ray Fordyce and His Wonderfully Spiffing Variety Show Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug The Umbilical Brothers: The Distraction Assembly Roxy, 23–28 Aug

18:15

Smart and Dumber Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 23–27 Aug Ben Hodge: It’s a Boy? (WIP) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Dave Chawner: Freelosophy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Aidan Jones: The Morning After Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23–27 Aug Marmalade Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 23–27 Aug

Alex Leam: Awkward Question Time PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake, 23–27 Aug

18:20

❤ Janine Harouni: Man’oushe HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 23–25 Aug Matt Price: As Seen on CCTV Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug ❤ Jay Lafferty: Bahookie HHHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug

18:25

Sam Williams: Himbo (WIP) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Adrián Minkowicz: Brown Privilege III PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 23–27 Aug Robin Tran: Don’t Look at Me Assembly George Square, 23–27 Aug The Best of Irish Comedy The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 23–27 Aug Vittorio Angelone: Who Do You Think You Are? I Am! Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug Ollie Horn: Not Much Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug

18:30

Tom Mayhew: This Time Next Year, We’ll Be Millionaires!

Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Adam Bromley: Time Traveller Laughing Horse @ Bar Soba, 23–27 Aug Not My First Rodeo...

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Ivo Graham: Organised Fun Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug A Night of the Mind Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 23–27 Aug Twonkey’s Greatest Twitch The Voodoo Rooms, 23–27 Aug 44 and Flippin’ Furious Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug

Fake Jews Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 23–27 Aug The Many Colours of Comedy: A Prism Comedy Variety Show Laughing Horse @ The Cocktail Mafia, 23–27 Aug Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 23–27 Aug Rick Molland: Natural Born Dickhead Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–27 Aug Silent Disco Walking Tours Edinburgh: Boogie Shoes theSpace @ Niddry St, 25 Aug Spontaneous Potter: The Unofficial Improvised Parody The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug Matt Storer: Hot Nonsense Assembly George Square Studios, 23–28 Aug

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Marcus Ryan – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Comedy Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 23–27 Aug Abigail Paul: Involuntary Momslaughter Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug Mark Pleases You C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 23–27 Aug

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Sapan Verma: Shame on Me Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Neil Frost: The Door BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 23–27 Aug Dolly Diamond’s Rather Large Variety Night Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–26 Aug Reuben Solo: Palindrome Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug Gareth Mutch: Belter The Stand Comedy Club 2, 23–27 Aug Chloe Petts: If You Can’t Say Anything Nice Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Still Surviving In Hong Kong – Cantonese Comedy Show theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug

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Shane Daniel Byrne: But He’s Gay...

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug Paul Sinha: Pauly Bengali The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug Amrita Dhaliwal: A Lady that Fikas BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 23–27 Aug Tartan Tabletop in a Dungeons & Dragons Comedy: The Never-Ending Quest (Ends Aug 27th) Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Scott Murphy: About a Buoy Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Mustafa Algiyadi: A Little Killing Hurts No One Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 23–27 Aug Drew Michael: Drew’s Adventures Pleasance Dome, 23–27 Aug Hal Cruttenden: It’s Best You Hear It From Me Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug ❤ Kuan-wen Huang: Ilha Formosa HHHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug Luisa Omielan: Bitter Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug Amusements by Ikechukwu Ufomadu Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug

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James Nokise – Right About Now The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 23–27 Aug Stand-Up Science Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 23–27 Aug ❤ Gareth Waugh – Wouldni Be Me

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The Stand Comedy Club, 23–28 Aug Joe McTernan: Life Advice That Won’t Change Your Life Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Irish Jokers Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Bald Man Sings Rihanna PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse, 23–27 Aug Spontadeity: Whomst Let the Gods Out?! (Improv) Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug Adam Greene and the Diet of Destiny Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23–27 Aug

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Jonny Pelham: Optimism Over Despair Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Madeleine Hamilton: Piping Hot Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Sara Schaefer: Going Up Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–25 Aug Improvabunga! theSpace @ Niddry St, 23–26 Aug

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The Disney Delusion Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Alexandra Haddow: Not My Finest Hour Pleasance Courtyard, 23–25 Aug Charlie Vero-Martin: Picnic Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug

19:05

❤ Daniel Foxx: Villain HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Mark Nelson: Bits & Pieces Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 23–27 Aug Pierre Novellie: Why Are You Laughing?

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug Bad Play theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug

Samantha Day: The Booby Trap Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug

Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & The Pool Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–27 Aug

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❤ Liam Withnail: Chronic Boom HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug 2023: The End Of The Beginning Of The End – Vladimir McTavish The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug Siân Docksey – Pole Yourself Together!

Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Laurie Stevens: Sticky Floors (Work in Progress) Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 23–27 Aug Josh Weller: Age Against The Machine Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug

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Micky Bartlett: Let Me Start from the Start Just the Tonic Nucleus, 23–27 Aug Sam See: Government Approved Sex Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Ed Gaughan: Words and Music Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Dad, Playboy and Me...

Not Your Average Slideshow Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug Matty Hutson: Don’t Hold Back Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Best of Irish Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 23–27 Aug Absolute Onions: Improv Comedy PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 23–27 Aug ❤ Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Scary Times HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 23–27 Aug Michael Herd: Deep Shanghai’d Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 23–27 Aug Chloe Radcliffe: Cheat Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug

Paul Foot: Dissolve Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug The Kinsey Sicks: Drag Queen Storytime Gone Wild!

Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 23–27 Aug The Friendship Recession Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Kate Dale: Up to Scratch Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 23–27 Aug David O’Doherty: Tiny Piano Man Assembly George Square, 23–28 Aug Matt Goldich: What If This Is The Best I Can Do? Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug The Power of Yep Assembly Roxy, 23–27 Aug

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Richard Cobb: Couple’s Massage Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug ❤ Louise Young: Feral

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Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Josh Baulf: Bulldog Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug

19:30

Craig Hill: This Gets Harder Every Year!

Just the Tonic Nucleus, 23–27 Aug Colin Etches: Attention Deficit Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 23–27 Aug Adam Kay: Undoctored – This is Going to Hurt...

More Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Andrew Frank: Ecstatic Blasphemy Hill Street Theatre, 23–27 Aug Nurse Georgie Carroll: Sista Flo 2.0 Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug 2 Funny Feckers Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 23–27 Aug Ew Girl, You Nasty Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23–27 Aug

So You Think You’re Funny – Grand Final Gilded Balloon Teviot, 24 Aug Anthony Schuman: Failures in Fatherhood Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug Sofa SoFunny So Fringe PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 23–27 Aug Celya AB: Second Rodeo Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Improv Cage Match PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 23–26 Aug 2023 Asian Daddy, Dead: Pitch-Black Humour Guaranteed!

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Tania Lacy: Everything’s Coming Up Roses Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–26 Aug Aaaaand Up Front Are Webster, Bourke and Bragg Frankenstein Pub, 23–27 Aug Comedy in the Dark Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 23–27 Aug Silent Disco Dance Tours

by Silent Adventures Meeting Point at Uplands Roast Coffee Shop, 25–26 Aug Alex Kitson: Fired Up! Ready to Go! (WIP) Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug A Slice of Elvis Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 23–27 Aug Danny Bhoy – Now Is Not a Good Time The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug Ray Bradshaw – Work in Progress Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 23–26 Aug Coor Cohen: Ignorant American Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug

19:35

❤ Olga Koch: Prawn Cocktail HHHH

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug Krystal Evans: The Hottest Girl at Burn Camp Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 23–27 Aug

19:40

Las Vegas in Edinburgh theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug Janitor/Manager and How to Have an Affair Without Really Trying ZOO Playground, 23–27 Aug

Jack Traynor and Daniel Petrie: Introducing Two of Scotland’s Most Exciting New Stand-up Comedians Just the Tonic at The Caves, 24–27 Aug ❤ Darren Harriott – Roadman HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Chelsea Hart – Damet Garm: How I Joined a Revolution Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug Fearghas Kelly: Tip of the Ice-Fearg Hootenannies @ The Apex, 23–28 Aug Kate Smurthwaite: Fire Snake PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 23–27 Aug Ignacio Lopez – Nine Ig Fails Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug

19:45

Jocks, Geordies and Aussies PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug Myq Kaplan: ImPerfect Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Best of Adelaide’s Fringe Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Push, Mrs Johnson!

Laughing Horse @ The Cocktail Mafia, 23–27 Aug Angela Bra: MicroRAVE Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 23–27 Aug Culture Savage Laughing Horse @ Bar Soba, 23–27 Aug Absolute Improv! theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug Michael Shafar – Well Worth the Chemo Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Myles and Dan Just Might Break a World Record Tonight Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Becky Fury: Identity Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug Suggestions of the Unexpected Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug Geraldine Hickey: Of Course We’ve Got Horses Assembly George Square, 23–27 Aug

Listings

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Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty to Me Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Broad Strokes Improv Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 23–27 Aug

Gail Porter: Hung, Drawn and Portered Assembly George Square Studios, 23–28 Aug Pete Heat: Huge Pleasance Dome, 23–27 Aug Abigail Rolling: Shit Lawyer Alchemist | George Street, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug Michelle Brasier: Reform Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug Susan Riddell: Wonder Woman Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug Police Cops: The Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 24–28 Aug Phil Kay – Funny Walks Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–26 Aug Sophie Santos… is Codependent Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Deage Paxton: Impersonable – Free Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 23–27 Aug Fast Fringe Pleasance Dome, 23–26 Aug Andy Parsons: Bafflingly Optimistic Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Simon Evans: Have We Met? Assembly Rooms, 23–27 Aug Raymond Mearns is Alive in the Hive Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–28 Aug Tom Houghton – Work in Progress Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Lorraine Hoodless: Fuzzy Duck PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 23–27 Aug Kieran Hodgson: Big In Scotland Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug

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Comedy BriTANicK: Work in Progress Assembly George Square Studios, 23–26 Aug An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman...

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–27 Aug

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Blind Mirth Presents: Your Mum (And Other Playground Insults) theSpace @ Niddry St, 23–26 Aug Karen Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug Sikisa: Hear Me Out Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug Lou Wall vs The Internet Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug Palatable Gay Robot Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug Reuben Kaye: The Butch is Back Assembly George Square Gardens, 23–27 Aug Laser Kiwi: Rise of the Olive Assembly Roxy, 23–27 Aug

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Jordan Gray: Is it a Bird?

Assembly Rooms, 23–24 Aug

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20:00

Raul Kohli: Kohl and The Gang Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Bumble Me Tinders!

Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 23–27 Aug Parsons and Emslie: Always a pleasure, never a chore, be good to yourself, alright?

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23–27 Aug Matt Forde: Inside No. 10 Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug The Retreat Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: Romeo and Juliet Pleasance at EICC, 27 Aug Myra DuBois: Be Well Pleasance Dome, 23–27 Aug William Stone: Lofi Jokes to Study/Relax to Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Rosie Holt: That’s Politainment!

Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug

Carl Donnelly – The Dead Dad Show BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 23–27 Aug Robin Grainger: An Audient with Robin Grainger The Stand Comedy Club 2, 23–27 Aug Patrick Hastie – My Grandpa’s Grandpa’s Dad Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug A Cut Above Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug Anna Piper Scott: Such an Inspiration House of Oz, 23–27 Aug Jarred Christmas: Silly Billy Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 23–27 Aug Talkies: Improvised Classic Hollywood Comedy Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug String V SPITTA Pleasance Courtyard, 23–26 Aug 10 Songs for Geeks, with Jollyboat PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 23–27 Aug

20:05

David Quirk – Astonishing Obscurity The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 23–27 Aug Dylan Rhymer: The Dark Side of the Room Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug

20:10

Greta Titelman’s Exquisite Lies Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug André de Freitas: What If Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Fever Peach: Intense Goblin Nightmare Woman Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Pear: But Braver Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug

20:15

Simon David: Dead Dad Show Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–27 Aug Jacob Henegan: Mostly Killer (Some Filler) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 23–27 Aug

Glenn Wool: The Tardigrades Picnic Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–28 Aug Buffy Revamped Pleasance at EICC, 23–27 Aug Wage Against the Machine PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait, 23–27 Aug Best in Class Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Comedy for the Curious Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 23–27 Aug Jo Caulfield: Razor-Sharp The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 23–27 Aug The Anti Self-Help Show Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 23–27 Aug

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Dan Rath: All Quiet Carriage Along the Inner Western Line Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Sunanda Loves Britney BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 23–27 Aug Laura Ramoso: FRANCES Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug ❤ Gillian Cosgriff: Actually, Good HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Eden Sher: I Was On A Sitcom Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug Josh Jones: Gobsmacked Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug The Best of Scottish Comedy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug Michael Welch: Ethnic Reveal Party Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug 3am Brain Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug

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Six Chick Flicks... Or a Legally Blonde Pretty Woman Dirty Danced on the Beaches While Writing a Notebook on the Titanic Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug ❤ Foxdog Studios: Robo Bingo HHHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug

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Horatio Gould: Sweet Prince Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Olivia Xing: Party School Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 23–27 Aug ❤ Annabel Marlow... is this okay?? HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Luisa Omielan: God is a Woman The Musical Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Tom Lawrinson: Hubba Hubba Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy’s Fringe Showcase 2023!

Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 23–27 Aug John Tothill: The Last Living Libertine Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Tom Stade: Natural Born Killer The Stand Comedy Club, 23–27 Aug Connor Burns: Vertigo Just the Tonic Nucleus, 23–27 Aug ❤ An Evening of Mayhem with Megan Stalter HHHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug Jack Docherty in David Bowie and Me: Parallel Lives Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug Matt Hobs: Moontalker Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 23–27 Aug Nikki Osborne is Bad Barbie Gilded Balloon Teviot, 25–28 Aug Amos Gill: The Pursuit of Happy(ish) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–24 Aug Nathan Cassidy: Fifty Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–26 Aug Jerry Sadowitz proudly presents... Last Year’s Show!

The Queen’s Hall, 23–25 Aug George Zacharopoulos: Wonderland Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug 100% C*ntintental Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 23–27 Aug Simon Brodkin: Xavier Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug

Alice Fraser: Twist Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug

20:35

Marc Adams: BMW Bavarian’s Most Wanted Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug ❤ Susie McCabe: Femme Fatality

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Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug ❤ Larry Owens Live

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Assembly Roxy, 23–27 Aug Julia Stenton and Firuz Ozari: Wolves PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 23–27 Aug ❤ Robin Ince – MELONS: A Love Letter to Stand-Up Comedy HHHH The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug John Hastings: The Times They Are A John Hastings Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug

20:40

Christopher Hall: Self Helpless Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Luke McQueen and Mark Silcox: Songs With My Father Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 23–27 Aug Robbie McShane: It’s All This These Days Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug Tamsyn Kelly: Crying in TK Maxx Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Pablo Escobar Doesn’t Need a Second Job Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 23–27 Aug JARUJARU: Arigato 2023 Assembly Roxy, 23–27 Aug Jason Byrne: The Ironic Bionic Man Assembly Hall, 23–27 Aug Henry Ginsberg: Cuddle Slut Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug

20:45

Comedy Reserve at the Courtyard Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Stuart Mitchell: Cost of Living (WIP) Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 23–28 Aug Sigmund the Viking: Valhalla Calling Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug

Rhod Gilbert: Work in Progress Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug Lost in Translation Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug Character Building Experience Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug 101 Comedy – Club Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 23–27 Aug Aidan Greene: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Stutter!

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Richard Stott: Dear Lord…

What A Sad Little Life Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23–27 Aug Cobin Millage: Lewis Capaldi is Invited and Absolutely No One Else (WIP) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug

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LOLyamorous: A Live Speed-Dating Comedy Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug John Robins: Howl Just the Tonic Nucleus, 23–27 Aug Frank Skinner: 30 Years of Dirt Assembly George Square, 24–27 Aug Ben Ashurst: Three Cheese Straws for a Pound Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 23–27 Aug Peter Flanagan: Meditations Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–26 Aug Urooj Ashfaq: Oh No! Assembly George Square, 23–27 Aug Jazz Or A Bucket of Blood Underbelly, George Square, 23–27 Aug

20:55

Nicole Travolta is Doing Alright Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug Julia Masli: CHOOSH! Assembly George Square Gardens, 23–27 Aug Sophia Cleary: It Gets Worse Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug

21:00

Mark Watson: Search Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug

Rosco McClelland: Bring Out Your Dead Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 23–27 Aug Steve N Allen: Alzheimer’s? I Can’t Even Remember How to Spell It Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug Europe’s Most Wanted!

Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 23–27 Aug Paul Currie: Shtoom Just the Tonic at The Caves, 24–27 Aug Ashley Barnhill: Skullduggery Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug What Would You Do If That Was You? Laughing Horse @ The Cocktail Mafia, 23–27 Aug Phil Kay: Silent DiscoVery...

(Walking Tour) BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 23–26 Aug Alexander Bennett: I Can’t Stand the Man, Myself Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug ❤ Courtney Pauroso: Vanessa 5000 HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Frank Sanazi’s Comedy Blitzkrieg Frankenstein Pub, 23–26 Aug Big Value Comedy Show Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 23–27 Aug Scotland’s Pick of the Fringe Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–27 Aug Patrick Monahan: Exclusively Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Sascha LO: Brat Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Rizal Van Geyzel: Arrested Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug Vanlord Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Joe White: Ethiopian and Still Not Hungry Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug

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This Time Next Year theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Hannah Camilleri: Lolly Bag Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug

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Adults Only Magic Show Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug Dan Jones: This Seems Ambitious Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Foil Arms and Hog: Hogwash Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–26 Aug 10 Songs: The Best of Jollyboat PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 23–27 Aug Jo Griffin: The Power Hour Assembly George Square, 23–27 Aug Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug Rope-A-Dope Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug 5 Headliners for £10 Hootenannies @ The Apex, 23–27 Aug Ashley Haden: Genocidal Liberal Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Mat Ewins: Mr TikTok Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug

21:20

Tim Murray is Witches Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Jim Smith – The Hills Have Ayes The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug The Chocolate Scot Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug Two Little Dickheads: Slot Fillers BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 23–27 Aug

Eddy MacKenzie and Liam Farrelly: Little and Large The Stand Comedy Club 2, 23–27 Aug Zoë Coombs Marr: The Opener Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug AAA Stand-Up Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug

21:25

Lara A King – Midlife at the Oasis The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 23–27 Aug ❤ Tadiwa Mahlunge: Inhibition Exhibition

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Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug

21:30

Skye Scraper: The Life and Times of a Drag Queen Accountant Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug Dubai Fling: Ali Al Sayed and Mina Liccione Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–26 Aug Teardrops on My Dildo Bedlam Theatre, 23–27 Aug Lawrence Chaney – Overweight and OVER IT! Ian McKellen Theatre, Saint Stephens Stockbridge, 23–27 Aug Scotland’s Best Comedians at the Fringe Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 23–27 Aug The Stand’s Pick of the Fringe The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25–26 Aug Filthy Funny Females Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug An Aussie, African and Englishman Walk Into a Bar...

Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 23–27 Aug War on Woke C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 23–27 Aug ❤ Ed Byrne: Tragedy Plus Time HHHHH Assembly Rooms, 23–27 Aug Brian Gallagher: Something, Somewhere, Some of the Time Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–26 Aug

21:35

Paddy Young: Hungry, Horny, Scared Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug

Aaaaaand now!

Teknicolour Smoof Comedy Club Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug

21:40

Awake and Narcoleptic with Sarah Albritton theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Comedy Reserve at the Dome Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Don Biswas – The Revolution Will Be Disorganised Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Garry Starr: Greece Lightning Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–27 Aug My Last Two Brain Cells Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Healing King Herod Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug The Mr Thing Show Underbelly, George Square, 26–27 Aug Paul Chowdhry: Family-Friendly Comedian Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Kiran Deol: Joysuck Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug Huge Davies: Whodunnit Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Charlie Lewin: Cockatiel Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug Jazz Emu: You Shouldn’t Have Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug How to Live a Jellicle Life: Life Lessons from the 2019 Hit Musical Cats Pleasance Dome, 23–27 Aug

21:45

666 Black Widows: The Web of Dark Comedy Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug Vida Slayman in Comedy of Terrors theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug Chris Turner: Vegas, Baby!

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–27 Aug Snake Oil Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 23–27 Aug Martin Urbano: Apology Comeback Tour Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 23–27 Aug Leila Navabi: Composition Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Al Porter: A Work in Progress Just the Tonic Nucleus, 23–27 Aug

21:50

Flat and the Curves: Divadom Pleasance Dome, 23–27 Aug Found Our Funny Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug Jodie Mitchell: Becoming John Travulva Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Bipolar Badass Paradise in The Vault, 23–27 Aug That Don’t Hurt My Feelings None Assembly Rooms, 23–27 Aug

21:55

Chelsea Birkby: Silly Sausage (Pain) (WIP) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug Elliot Steel: Love and Hate Speech Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug Free Medical Advice Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug Cara Connors: Straight for Pay Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Stay Big and Go Get ‘Em Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug How to Eat a Bear Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug Adam Rowe: What’s Wrong With Me? Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug 25 Years of Red Raw The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 23–27 Aug How to Flirt: The TED XXX Talk Assembly Roxy, 23–26 Aug

22:00

Blood on the Clocktower: Live Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug Laughing Stock Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug Ralph Brown: Ralpha Male Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 23–27 Aug

Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: Romeo and Juliet Pleasance at EICC, 23–26 Aug Sounds Like...

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–25 Aug Cam Gavinski: Bonheur Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug John Robertson’s The Dark Room Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug ❤ The Poor Rich

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Assembly Roxy, 23–27 Aug The Bite, Late-Night (A Mouthful of Fringe Mayhem) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Matt Storrs: Portly Lutheran Know-It-All Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 23–27 Aug A Little More Conversation a Little Less Action Please Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug ❤ Bill O’Neill: The Amazing Banana Brothers HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Creepy Boys Summerhall, 23–27 Aug ❤ Dan Tiernan: Going Under HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug Folk’n’TikTok Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 23–27 Aug 2 Slut Drops and a Chicken Burger – Kirsty Munro Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 23–27 Aug Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Friends: Kool Story Bro Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug Dave Hill: Caveman in a Spaceship The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug

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Avital Ash Workshops Her Suicide Note Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 23–27 Aug

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Drag Queens vs Vampires Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug Free Footlights Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 23–27 Aug The St Andrews Revue Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug

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Liars & Clowns: A Late Night Comedy Show Assembly Rooms, 25–26 Aug AAA Stand-Up Late Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug Baby Wants Candy Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug

David Ian: (Just a) Perfect Gay Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Femme Natale Theatre Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug

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Comedy Red Rum: Glue or Glory Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug

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Comedy Queers Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Mike Rice – Hand of a Sinner Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–27 Aug Atomic Comic Meltdown Just the Tonic Nucleus, 25–26 Aug Sophie Sucks Face Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Best of So You Think You’re Funny?

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 Aug Nathan Cassidy: Amnesia Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–26 Aug Rachel Morton-Young: Organised Chaos Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug 50 – End of the Road? theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Kelly McCaughan: Catholic Guilt Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–27 Aug The Witching Hour Laughing Horse @ The Cocktail Mafia, 23–27 Aug Mark Thomas: Gaffa Tapes The Stand Comedy Club, 23–24 Aug Annie and Angela’s Disco Divorce Party Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 23–27 Aug

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Alice Cockayne: I Showered Before I Came Underbelly, George Square, 23–28 Aug ❤ Moses Storm: Perfect Cult HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Andy Roach – Laughing at Conspiracy Theories Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Joe and Rory: Television 1 Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug AAA Stand-Up Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug One Room Sleep One Night Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug

Dahn Rozario: White People Need to Relax Assembly George Square, 23–27 Aug Watch List theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug

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Catnip! Greatest Hits Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Andrew O’Neill – Geburah Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–28 Aug

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3’s Comedy: Late Nights Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug The All Irish After Party Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug ❤ Lachlan Werner – Voices Of Evil HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 24–27 Aug Ciarán Bartlett: Machine Gun of Filth Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug RVG’s International Comedy Club Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug The Stand Late Club The Stand Comedy Club, 25–26 Aug Baked Shakespeare: As You Like It Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug

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Mad Ron: Crime School Assembly George Square, 23–27 Aug

22:40

Dungeons ‘n’ Bastards: An Adam Riches Gameshow Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug Attack of the 36 Triple-G Woman theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Comedy in the Dark – Late Just the Tonic at The Caves, 24–27 Aug

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North Americ*nts Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug Hate ‘n’ Live Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug BATSU! Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug

Eliott Simpson: (A)Sexy and I Know It Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 27 Aug Shaggers Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Nocturnal Animals PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 23–27 Aug Men Who Are Being Preserved in Oil (with Nate and Ed) theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug Cobin Millage and Pete Carson: Touching Tips (with Friends) Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–27 Aug

The Wild Geeze Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug How to Write a Eulogy That Kills Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Stamptown Comedy Night Pleasance Courtyard, 24–26 Aug Aaaaargh! Tear This Flyer Into Tiny Little Bits and Weep in the Green Room as You Realize Your Hatred Only Makes Him Stronger Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 23–27 Aug

Indonesia Presents (Far) East Meets West Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug Siblings and Family Friends Pleasance Dome, 23–24 Aug

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Tarot: Hive Mind Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug A Terrible Show for Terrible People Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug

Stu Murphy: Debut Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 23–27 Aug BattleActs!

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug The Gong of Edinburgh: Comedy Gong Show Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Late’n’Live Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug Mick McNeill: Taking the Michael Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–27 Aug Comedians’ DJ Battles Assembly George Square Studios, 27–28 Aug Not Another Quiz Night Gilded Balloon Teviot, 24–26 Aug Kenya Handle It? Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 23–27 Aug Marcus Dean – Foreigner Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug I See Three Laughing Horse @ The Cocktail Mafia, 23–27 Aug Absolute Chaos Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 23–27 Aug Jazz Emu’s Pleasure Garden Assembly George Square Studios, 24–26 Aug

Jordan Brookes: Snakes for Cats to Watch (Work in Progress) Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Bristol Revunions presents Ready to Board Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–26 Aug Philipp and Phriends: A Late Night Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug

22:55

Best of the Fest: The New Class Assembly George Square Studios, 25–26 Aug

23:00

You Dress Funny – Darren Harriott and Rachel Fairburn Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24 Aug Adam Kay: Undoctored – This is Going to Hurt...

More Pleasance Courtyard, 25–26 Aug The Prince Andrew Tate Appreciation Hour Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug The Improverts Bedlam Theatre, 23–27 Aug Yoshi Obayashi’s Adult Content Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug All Killa No Filla Pleasance Courtyard, 24–25 Aug This Is Your Trial (Unleashed) Hootenannies @ The Apex, 23–28 Aug A Retrospection PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 23–27 Aug

23:15

Jeremy Flynn: In Like Flynn Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug Marc Burrows in the Glom of Nit Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug Werewolf: Live – Charity Spectacular!

Underbelly, George Square, 24–25 Aug Edinburgh Comedy Allstars Underbelly, George Square, 25–26 Aug Alex Owen-Hill Asks Himself ‘Is It ADHD?’ Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 24–27 Aug Beehavioural Problems: Something Something Autism theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Erin McKinnie and Fearghas Kelly: Stragglers Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 23–27 Aug Best of Northern Irish Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 23–27 Aug The Confessional Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug

23:20

Some Laugh Live Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–24 Aug Act Normal Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–24 Aug

23:25

Jay Handley – The White Jesus Chronicles PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 23–27 Aug Paul F Taylor: Head in the Clouds Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–27 Aug

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23:35

Anarchy Cabaret Presents: West End New Act of the Year Showcase 2023 PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 23–27 Aug The George Lucas Talk Show Assembly George Square Studios, 25–26 Aug

23:40

Drag Queens vs Zombies Underbelly, Cowgate, 25–26 Aug

23:45

Late Night Comedy Death Camp Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug Jessie Nixon: Damsel Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–27 Aug

23:50

Party Assembly George Square, 25–26 Aug

23:55

Best of the Fest Assembly Hall, 25–26 Aug The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23 Aug, 27 Aug King of the Table Monkey Barrel Comedy, 25–26 Aug The Drunk and Heckle Show Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 23–26 Aug

23:59

The Midnight Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 25–26 Aug

00:00

Late with Kate PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait, 24–27 Aug Best of Edinburgh Fringe Comedy: Late Show Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 24–28 Aug Abbas Wahab: Gracefully Balding Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 24–28 Aug

00:05

Irish Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–28 Aug Viggo Venn: British Comedian Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–28 Aug

00:15

Vibe Shift Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–28 Aug

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African-ish Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 23–28 Aug

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(o) (o) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake, 23–28 Aug Comedy Striptease Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 24–28 Aug

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Gusla Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Shakespeare for Breakfast C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 23–27 Aug The Wizard of Oz theSpace @ Niddry St, 26 Aug NASSIM Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug ADULTS Traverse Theatre, 27 Aug ❤ The Grand Old Opera House Hotel HHHH Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug Pieces of Us theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug Horizon Showcase: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World Traverse Theatre, 26 Aug Horizon Showcase: A Crash Course in Cloudspotting (Audio Installation and Performance) Summerhall (Offsite) @ Institut Français d’Ecosse, 23–24 Aug Funeral Zoo Southside, 23–27 Aug

10:05

33 to 04 theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug

10:10

Who Killed My Father Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

10:15

The Trials of Galileo Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug The Father Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23 Aug

10:20

OTMA theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 Aug

The Fish Bowl Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

10:40

What If theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug

10:45

PLEASE LEAVE (a message) Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–24 Aug Wiesenthal Pleasance Courtyard, 24–27 Aug Big Kid Kindergarten C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 23–25 Aug ❤ Heaven by Eugene O’Brien HHHH Traverse Theatre, 27 Aug

11:05

Call Me Elizabeth theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Ludomachy! The Summoning of Games PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 23–27 Aug

Serious Nonsense (for Terribly Grown-Up People) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake, 23–27 Aug

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10:50

Prick theSpace on the Mile, 23 Aug, 25 Aug The Wizard of Oz theSpace @ Niddry St, 26 Aug Shadow Kingdom Assembly Roxy, 23–28 Aug Hole Paradise in Augustines, 23–26 Aug

Breaking the Castle Assembly Rooms, 23–27 Aug Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug

10:55

Chasing Butterflies Pleasance Dome, 24–28 Aug

11:00

The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, 27 Aug O Tusitala: Tellers of Tales Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, 27 Aug Cathedral Song School Tours St Mary’s Cathedral, 23 Aug, 25 Aug 1000 Miniature Meadows Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Steve Richards Presents: Rock’n’Roll Politics theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 23–26 Aug Thrown Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug Cooked Bedlam Theatre, 23–27 Aug Horizon Showcase: FORGE Lyceum Roseburn, 24–25 Aug Horizon Showcase: A Crash Course in Cloudspotting (Audio Installation and Performance) Summerhall (Offsite) @ Institut Français d’Ecosse, 23–24 Aug

Julius Caesar Must Die theSpace on the Mile, 24 Aug, 26 Aug

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11:20

...And This Is My Friend Mr Laurel Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Funeral Zoo Southside, 23–27 Aug

11:25

He Wears It Well Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug My Dad Wears a Dress Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug

11:30

Tending Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug Twelfth Night theSpace @ Niddry St, 23–25 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug The Death & Life of All of Us Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

Some Sonnets and a Bit of Bach Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug

11:35

Île Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Appraisal Assembly George Square Studios, 23–28 Aug

11:40

The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, 26–27 Aug Loft Clearance Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23–26 Aug Coconut theSpaceTriplex, 23–26 Aug Adaptation: Enough Already theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 23–26 Aug Tomorrow’s Child Assembly Checkpoint, 23–28 Aug ❤ Rewind HHHH Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

11:45

Do Rhinos Feel Their Horns or Can They Not See Them Like How We Can’t See Our Noses Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Eulogy Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Sing, River Pleasance Courtyard, 24–27 Aug Casting the Runes Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug

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this is a scam. theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Polko Roundabout @ Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Blueprints Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug How to Bury a Dead Mule Pleasance Dome, 23–27 Aug

11:55

❤ Ben Target: LORENZO HHHHH Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

12:00 Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug Sneakpeek: Shadow Game ZOOTV, 23–27 Aug

JM Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K Assembly Hall, 23–27 Aug Yoga with Jillian – A New Comedy Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Deeper – Demo Version Voices from the South, 23–24 Aug CREEKSHOW Zoo Southside, 23–27 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Horizon Showcase: FORGE Lyceum Roseburn, 23–25 Aug Raising Kane Assembly George Square Studios, 23–28 Aug Klanghaus: Darkroom Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Pavementology Meeting Point, East Princes Street Gardens, 23–28 Aug Them Pleasance Dome, 23–27 Aug In Conversation with…

Anas Sarwar The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug In Conversation with…

Ken Loach The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug Horizon Showcase: A Crash Course in Cloudspotting (Audio Installation and Performance) Summerhall (Offsite) @ Institut Français d’Ecosse, 23–24 Aug The Court Hill Street Theatre, 23–27 Aug Letter to Boddah theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug ❤ Two Strangers Walk into a Bar... HHHH House of Oz, 23–27 Aug Enquiry Concerning Hereafter Panmure House, 26 Aug In Conversation with…

Jeremy Corbyn The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug

12:05

The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug Uisge theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug How to Find a Husband in 37 Years or Longer theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug

12:10

The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much Pleasance Courtyard, 24–28 Aug Tennessee, Rose Pleasance Dome, 24–28 Aug Upstart! Shakespeare’s Rebel Daughter Judith Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug

12:15

My Neighbours Are Kind of Weird?

C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 23–27 Aug The Last Bantam theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Pressure Cooker theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug Dirty Words Pleasance Dome, 24–28 Aug

12:20

The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, 25–27 Aug Layers Assembly Roxy, 23–27 Aug Sunsets Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug It’s Magic, but is it Art? Paradise in The Vault, 23–27 Aug Spin Cycles Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Mystery House Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug

12:25

Artist/Muse Assembly George Square Studios, 23–28 Aug Happier Daze theSpace on the Mile, 24 Aug, 26 Aug

12:30

Agent November: Outdoor Escape Game – Robyn Yew Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Truly Madly Baldy Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Nation Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug The Birth of Frankenstein Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Eulogy Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug

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Agent November: Outdoor Escape Game – Robyn Yew Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Agent November: Outdoor Escape Game – Major X Ploe-Shun Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, 26 Aug

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Theatre Klanghaus: Darkroom Summerhall, 23–27 Aug An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug The Hearth Scottish Storytelling Centre, 23–27 Aug Anything That We Wanted To Be Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Agent November: Outdoor Escape Game – Major X Ploe-Shun Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Self-Raising Pleasance Dome, 23–27 Aug Terrence the T-Rex Bedlam Theatre, 23–27 Aug June Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug WONDER DRUG: A Comedy About Cystic Fibrosis Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Blue Dragon Just the Tonic Nucleus, 23–27 Aug

12:35

Lena Assembly George Square, 23–28 Aug Tom Brown’s Schooldays theSpace @ Niddry St, 23–26 Aug

12:40

The Van Paemel Family Zoo Southside, 23–27 Aug Silly Little Things Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug Alison Skilbeck’s Uncommon Ground Assembly Rooms, 23–27 Aug Man Shed Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug Fit Ye Sayin’ Quine?

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug Dugsi Dayz Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug Frigid Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug Witches Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug

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12:45

Sir Percival and the Jabberwock Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug Four Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug

30 and Out Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Blueballs theSpaceTriplex, 23–26 Aug An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Picasso: Le Monstre Sacré Assembly Roxy, 23–28 Aug Chariot: The Eric Liddell Story Palmerston Place Church, 26 Aug

12:50

Violet and Me Pleasance Courtyard, 24–28 Aug Twenty People A Minute theSpace on the Mile, 23 Aug, 25 Aug Robert Garnham, Bouncer Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 23–27 Aug MUSIC Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug The Mrs Dewinters Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23–26 Aug Where is Love theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug

12:55

Molly Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug Break Up With Your Boyfriend Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Before the Drugs Kick In theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug

13:00

In Everglade Studio Assembly George Square, 23–28 Aug An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug Chatham House Rules Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug An Afternoon with the Ladies of the Cliff Richard Fan Club, Sutton Coldfield, 1995 Assembly Rooms, 23–27 Aug

Eccentrics Unite! The Guerilla Autistics and Neurodiverse Show – Year Nine Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug The Ice Hole: A Cardboard Comedy Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Impact Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug How to Drink Wine Like a Wanker Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Memories of the Early 1950s Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug What Girls Are Made Of Assembly Rooms, 23–27 Aug NASSIM Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug Wind in the Willows Musselburgh Racecourse, 26 Aug ADULTS Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug ❤ The Grand Old Opera House Hotel HHHH Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug Horizon Showcase: FORGE Lyceum Roseburn, 23–24 Aug Klanghaus: Darkroom Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug Horizon Showcase: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World Traverse Theatre, 27 Aug ❤ Two Strangers Walk into a Bar... HHHH House of Oz, 23–27 Aug Nick Wilty: Veteran Comedian Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, 25 Aug

13:05

Burning Down The Horse Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Aionos ZOO Playground, 23–27 Aug Brothers theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 23–26 Aug The Ghost of a Smile theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug

13:10

Chopped Liver and Unions theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug

The Hunger Assembly George Square Studios, 23–28 Aug ❤ An Interrogation

HHHH

Summerhall, 23–27 Aug ❤ England & Son

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Roundabout @ Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

13:15

An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug ❤ Her Green Hell

HHHH

Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Chance Paradise in The Vault, 23–27 Aug Temporarily Yours Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–27 Aug Oh My Heart, Oh My Home.

Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Eulogy Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug In Memoriam theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug What Happened to Agnes C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 23–27 Aug Ringer Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–27 Aug Shortlist Assembly George Square, 23–28 Aug Choo Choo! (Or... Have You Ever Thought About ****** **** *****? (Cos I Have)) Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug The Grandfathers Hill Street Theatre, 23–27 Aug Love’s Labour’s Lost theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug

13:20

Pilot Summerhall, 23–27 Aug The Devil’s Passion Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug The Brilliance of Broken Glass Underbelly, George Square, 23–28 Aug

13:30

An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Poof!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug ❤ Lie Low HHHH Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug Better Days Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 23–26 Aug

In Loyal Company Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Thrown Traverse Theatre, 26 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Klanghaus: Darkroom Summerhall, 23–27 Aug ❤ Groomed HHHH Pleasance Dome, 24–28 Aug Summer Camp for Broken People Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Santi and Naz Pleasance Courtyard, 24–28 Aug Horizon Showcase: A Crash Course in Cloudspotting Summerhall (Offsite) @ Institut Français d’Ecosse, 23–24 Aug Dough Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug 1953: The Race for the Summit C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 23–27 Aug The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug ❤ Heaven by Eugene O’Brien HHHH Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug

13:35

Cowboys and Lesbians Pleasance Dome, 23–27 Aug

13:40

Intimacy theSpace @ Niddry St, 23–26 Aug I’ve Got Some Things To Get Off My Chest Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard’s Tale PBH’s Free Fringe @ Little White Pig, 23–27 Aug The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, 25 Aug

13:45

An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug ❤ Lie Low HHHH Traverse Theatre, 27 Aug A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery – Murder at the Movies theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Super Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Cat Sh!t Crazy theSpaceTriplex, 23–26 Aug

❤ Clown Sex HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug I’m the Greatest Starr Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Photon StarBlaster and the Suicidal Spaceship C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 23–27 Aug Split Lip Assembly Roxy, 23–28 Aug

13:50

Buff Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Walk Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug White Butterfly Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug

13:55

Good and Gaslit theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Five Short Plays Loosely Linked by the Theme of Crime Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug Constellations theSpace on the Mile, 24 Aug, 26 Aug Rise theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug

14:00

Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug MEMBER Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug The Steamie Loretto School Theatre, 26 Aug Life with Oscar Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug Traditional Tales of Scotland Scottish Storytelling Centre, 23–27 Aug Eulogy Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug FOOD The Studio, 26–27 Aug The Queen of England Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug The Madwoman Paradise in The Vault, 23–27 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug

Klanghaus: Darkroom Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Horizon Showcase: FORGE Lyceum Roseburn, 25 Aug Glass Ceiling Beneath the Stars Pleasance Dome, 23–27 Aug Blub Blub Summerhall, 23–27 Aug The Great Ruckus Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Witch? Women on Trial The Lost Close, 23–28 Aug The Butcher, the Brewer, the Baker and Merryn Somerset Webb Panmure House, 26–27 Aug ❤ Two Strangers Walk into a Bar... HHHH House of Oz, 23–27 Aug Home Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug

14:05

Ctrl theSpace on the Mile, 23–25 Aug Being Sophie Scholl theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 24–26 Aug Thirst Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Nuclear Children Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug

14:10

❤ Blood of the Lamb HHHHH

Assembly Rooms, 23–27 Aug 24, 23, 22 Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug

14:15

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Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug Banana Zoo Southside, 23–27 Aug 17 Minutes Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug

14:20

Breed or Bust Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Beasts (Why Girls Shouldn’t Fear The Dark) ZOO Playground, 23–27 Aug Be My Guest Assembly George Square, 23–28 Aug ❤ It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure HHHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–27 Aug Bitter Lemons Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Spin Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug

14:25

The Life Sporadic of Jess Wildgoose Pleasance Courtyard, 24–28 Aug Manifest Destiny’s Child Assembly Rooms, 23–27 Aug

14:30

The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, 26–27 Aug Paul Zenon in Monkey Business Le Monde, 23–27 Aug An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Agent November: Outdoor Escape Game – Robyn Yew Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug The Church of Princess Cassandra Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 23–27 Aug Sad-Vents Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug The Chairs Revisited Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug Titanic: The Last Hero and The Last Coward Charlotte Chapel, 23–25 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug

Sudha Bhuchar: Evening Conversations Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Life is a Dream The Lyceum, 26–27 Aug ❤ Help! I Think I’m a Nationalist HHHH Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, 23–27 Aug Attenborough and His Animals Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 24–26 Aug Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug Mrs President C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 23–27 Aug Salty Irina Roundabout @ Summerhall, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug Graham in the Green Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug Agent November: Outdoor Escape Game – Major X Ploe-Shun Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Maureen House of Oz, 23–27 Aug

14:35

The Half Moon Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Declan Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug Horizon Showcase: The Talent Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

14:40

Paradok Platform Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–27 Aug ❤ England & Son

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Roundabout @ Summerhall, 26 Aug

14:45

An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Crash and Burns: A New Comedy Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Eulogy Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug iCON Summerhall, 23–27 Aug The Grammar of Witchcraft C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 23–27 Aug Concerned Others Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

14:50

Best Man Underbelly, George Square, 23–27 Aug waiting for a train at the bus stop Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Terminal: A Play About 0 Planes, 1 Person, and a 6-Hour Delay Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug Sit or Kneel theSpace @ Venue45, 23–26 Aug Soldiers of Tomorrow Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Blowhole Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug

14:55

Dual Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug We Are, in Fact, the Problem theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Singing Sands Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug What Can Indian Look Like?

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23–26 Aug Kitchen Underwear Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug

15:00

Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug Wild Onion Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug The Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 24–26 Aug Tomatoes Tried to Kill Me but Banjos Saved My Life theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Under the Mirrie Dancers Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Guffy Pleasance Courtyard, 24–28 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Horizon Showcase: FORGE Lyceum Roseburn, 23–25 Aug Midnight Building Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug Tones: A Hip-Hop Opera Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Blizzard Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

15:05

Victorine: The Artist’s Model Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug Goodbye Christopher Robinson theSpace on the Mile, 23 Aug, 25 Aug

15:10

The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, 26–27 Aug Stark Bollock Naked Assembly Roxy, 23–28 Aug What Goes on Without Me theSpace on the Mile, 24 Aug, 26 Aug Marie Lloyd Stole My Life Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23 Aug, 25 Aug A Teacher’s Lament Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug Tom Moran is a Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug

15:15

An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 24–26 Aug The Portable Dorothy Parker theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Gilbert and Sullivan’s Nightmare Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 24 Aug, 26 Aug Can’t Stop Carrying On theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23 Aug Edmonds Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 Aug Helios Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Watson: The Final Problem Assembly George Square Studios, 23–28 Aug

15:20

Alone Assembly George Square Studios, 23–28 Aug 52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Park Bench theSpace on the Mile, 24 Aug, 26 Aug

The Other Paradise in The Vault, 23–27 Aug Dead End Job theSpace on the Mile, 23 Aug, 25 Aug

15:30

All Aboard! at Termination Station Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug The Rosenberg/Strange Fruit Project Assembly Rooms, 23–27 Aug A Dram O’ History The Lost Close, 23–28 Aug Boy Out The City Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug Eulogy Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug I Believe in One Bach C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 23–27 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Flickering Seasons St John’s Church, 24–25 Aug Trainspotting Live Pleasance at EICC, 27 Aug Bacon Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Horizon Showcase: A Crash Course in Cloudspotting Summerhall (Offsite) @ Institut Français d’Ecosse, 23–24 Aug Revelations of Rab McVie Pleasance Courtyard, 24–25 Aug

15:35

I Love You, Now What?

Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Godot is a Woman Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Billy and The Situation PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 23–27 Aug The Rejects theSpace on the Mile, 24 Aug, 26 Aug

15:40

Unforgettable Girl Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug Nobody’s Talking About Jamie Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug Strays theSpace on the Mile, 23 Aug, 25 Aug Beautiful Evil Things Pleasance Dome, 23–27 Aug

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An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Heart of the Mind and A Useful Tragedy theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug A Shetland Folktale Scottish Storytelling Centre, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug MEAT Pleasance Courtyard, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug Exit 20:20 Paradise in Augustines, 23–27 Aug HoneyBEE Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug Jane/Norma theSpace on the Mile, 23 Aug, 25 Aug

Hear Us and Hasten Scottish Storytelling Centre, 24 Aug, 26 Aug ❤ One Way Out

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Wallace Hill Street Theatre, 23–27 Aug An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Pitch Pleasance Courtyard, 24–28 Aug

15:50

The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, 26–27 Aug For Better, For Worse C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 23–27 Aug The Knot theSpace @ Niddry St, 23–26 Aug

15:55

The Kids with Nae Hame C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 23–27 Aug The Psychic Tests C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 23–27 Aug

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Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Lady Dealer Roundabout @ Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Let the Bodies Pile by Henry Naylor Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug I Hope Your Flowers Bloom Scottish Storytelling Centre, 23–27 Aug Thrown Traverse Theatre, 27 Aug NASSIM Traverse Theatre, 26 Aug Wind in the Willows Musselburgh Racecourse, 26 Aug ADULTS Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Hayfever theSpace @ Venue45, 23–26 Aug ❤ The Grand Old Opera House Hotel HHHH Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug

Horizon Showcase: FORGE Lyceum Roseburn, 23–24 Aug Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug Help Yourself Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Horizon Showcase: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug Hollywoodn’t Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug Enquiry Concerning Hereafter Panmure House, 23–27 Aug Brain Freeze Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug

16:05

Abbey’s Box Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug The Bad Daters theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Scaredy Fat Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug After Shakespeare theSpaceTriplex, 23–26 Aug Pretending to Fly theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 23–26 Aug

16:10

The Rampant Rise of Willy of Normandy Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23–26 Aug Sound Clash: Death in the Arena Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, 23–24 Aug

16:15

Second Helping: Two Dead Lovers, Dead Funny PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 23–27 Aug OommoO Summerhall, 23–27 Aug ❤ Lie Low HHHH Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug J.E.N. Paradise in The Vault, 23–27 Aug Eulogy Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Paper Walls theSpace on the Mile, 23 Aug, 25 Aug

16:20

Everyone’s Worried About Eve Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug Marlon Solomon: How to Be an Antisemite Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug All the Glorious Moments In Between theSpace on the Mile, 24 Aug, 26 Aug A Trilogy: bag-theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 24 Aug A Trilogy: box. theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23 Aug, 26 Aug A Trilogy: blood (line) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 25 Aug SHOWSTOPPER Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, 25 Aug

16:25

Sherlock Holmes The Last Act theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug We’re All Mad Here Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23–26 Aug

16:30

An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Bowjangles: Dracula in Space Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug The Insider Zoo Southside, 23–27 Aug Gie’s Peace Scottish Storytelling Centre, 24–26 Aug Agent November: Outdoor Escape Game – Robyn Yew Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Fool’s Gold ZOO Playground, 23–27 Aug Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Twinkle C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 23–27 Aug Kill the Cop Inside Your Head Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Breakup Addict Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug Save the Princess theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug

Agent November: Outdoor Escape Game – Major X Ploe-Shun Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Lost Soles Assembly Roxy, 23–28 Aug

16:35

Of Moonset and the Milky Way Assembly Roxy, 23–27 Aug

16:40

The Importance of Being... Earnest?

Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug

16:45

An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

16:50

The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, 23–24 Aug

16:55

Gate Number 5 C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 23–27 Aug

17:00

Klanghaus: InHaus Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug Conversations We Never Had, as People We’ll Never Be C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 23–27 Aug Good Grief: Five Deserts in Search of My Father. A One-Man Show by Writer Jon Lawrence Hill Street Theatre, 23–27 Aug An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Bards at the Barracks Army @ The Fringe, 23–25 Aug ❤ Dark Noon HHHH Pleasance at EICC, 24–27 Aug Eulogy Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug ❤ Frankie Thompson and Liv Ello: Body Show

HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Move Bedlam Theatre, 23–27 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug

Horizon Showcase: FORGE Lyceum Roseburn, 23–24 Aug Dahlia Wilde: Oh My God Particle Show!

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Tickbox 2 Pleasance Courtyard, 24–27 Aug Horizon Showcase: A Crash Course in Cloudspotting Summerhall (Offsite) @ Institut Français d’Ecosse, 23–24 Aug Junk Monkey Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug ❤ Two Strangers Walk into a Bar... HHHH House of Oz, 23–27 Aug ❤ Nova HHHH Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, 23–27 Aug The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, 25 Aug

17:05

Jacob Storms’ Tennessee Rising: The Dawn of Tennessee Williams Assembly Rooms, 23–27 Aug Blue Assembly George Square, 23–28 Aug Kingdom theSpace on the Mile, 24 Aug, 26 Aug All is Pink in West Berkshire County theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 23–26 Aug Collar theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery – Murder on the Disorient Express theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug

17:10

Graveyard of the Outcast Dead theSpace on the Mile, 23 Aug, 25 Aug The Caravel theSpace @ Venue45, 23–26 Aug The Courteous Enemy theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug

17:15

An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Nan, Me and Barbara Pravi Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

Awake, Gay and Writing a Play PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 23–27 Aug Sea Words Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

17:20

The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug The Way Way Deep Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug Dom – The Play Assembly Rooms, 23–27 Aug 2-Faces Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug Strategic Love Play Roundabout @ Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Character Flaw Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23–26 Aug ❤ Lucy and Friends

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Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug Hey Pamela? Yes Pamela?

Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug

17:25

Peephole Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug

17:30

An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Vino Veritas theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug Walking Home Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug Brain Hemingway Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23–26 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug Thorns Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug The Imitator Assembly Rooms, 23–26 Aug

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The Quality of Mercy: Concerning the Life and Crimes of Dr Harold Frederick Shipman theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug The Stronger Assembly Rooms, 23–27 Aug

17:45

An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug The Last of the Soviets ZOO Playground, 23–27 Aug Thunderstruck Scottish Storytelling Centre, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug Eulogy Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Yippee Ki Yay the Die Hard Parody Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 24–27 Aug Distant Memories of the Near Future Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Trainspotting Live Pleasance at EICC, 27 Aug Chariot: The Eric Liddell Story Palmerston Place Church, 25 Aug Land Under Wave Scottish Storytelling Centre, 25 Aug, 27 Aug

17:50

Fool’s Paradise Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

17:55

The Baron and the Junk Dealer Assembly Roxy, 23–24 Aug

18:00

House of Oz, 23–27 Aug

18:05

Constrictor theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug The Ballad of Truman Capote theSpace @ Niddry St, 23–26 Aug Does My Fanny Look Big in This? theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Certain Death and Other Considerations ZOO Playground, 23–27 Aug

18:10

On the Rail theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Hersterectomy Just the Tonic at The Caves, 24 Aug, 26 Aug Lost and Found Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug

18:15

The Standard Short Long Drop theSpaceTriplex, 23–26 Aug Mister Shakespeare Hill Street Theatre, 23–27 Aug

18:20

Grown Up Orphan Annie Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Meat Cute Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Oggie! Oggie! Oggie!

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18:25

My Father’s Nose Assembly Rooms, 23–27 Aug The Last Vagabonds Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug Maybe Things Are Okay Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug

18:30

The Death of Molly Miller Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug MacBeth Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug Agent November: Outdoor Escape Game – Robyn Yew Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug

Teacher’s Pet Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug The Lifespan Tour Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23–26 Aug KING Assembly @ Dance Base, 23–27 Aug Eulogy Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Thrown Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug Draining the Swamp C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 23–27 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Trainspotting Live Pleasance at EICC, 23–26 Aug Horizon Showcase: A Crash Course in Cloudspotting (Audio Installation and Performance) Summerhall (Offsite) @ Institut Français d’Ecosse, 23–24 Aug Agent November: Outdoor Escape Game – Major X Ploe-Shun Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug True Spirit Pathway Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug Hot as Hell Pleasance Courtyard, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug ❤ Heaven by Eugene O’Brien HHHH Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug

18:35

ORFARM – Animal Farm Greenside @ Riddles Court, 23–26 Aug Notes to Future Self theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug

18:40

The Society for New Cuisine Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug How to Become Ridiculously Well-Read (In About 50 Minutes) Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23–26 Aug Paved with Gold and Ashes Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug

18:45

Everything Under the Sun Army @ The Fringe, 23–27 Aug

18:50

Candide theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Bangers Roundabout @ Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

18:55

Playing Latinx Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Optimistic: Elizabeth Holmes Zoo Southside, 23–27 Aug 1984 Assembly Roxy, 23–28 Aug Hi, I’m Zoë...

Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 23–27 Aug

19:00

Klanghaus: InHaus Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug Tipples, Tales and Traditions with Edinburgh Gin Edinburgh Gin Distillery, 28 Aug And Then The Rodeo Burned Down theSpace @ Venue45, 23–26 Aug Pleading Stupidity Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Growler Summerhall, 23–26 Aug Havisham ZOO Playground, 23–27 Aug NASSIM Traverse Theatre, 27 Aug ADULTS Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug Messhead Paradise in Augustines, 23–27 Aug Murder in the Cathedral Old Saint Paul’s Church, 28 Aug Almost Adult Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug ❤ The Grand Old Opera House Hotel HHHH Traverse Theatre, 26 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug April Small: Bloody Medea!!

BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 23–27 Aug Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug Our Anxious Measurements PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 23–27 Aug

Horizon Showcase: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug ❤ Two Strangers Walk into a Bar... HHHH House of Oz, 23–27 Aug Kravitz, Cohen, Bernstein and Me Assembly Rooms, 23–27 Aug Pride and Prejudice Musselburgh Racecourse, 26 Aug

19:10

Three Sisters and Them theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug

19:15

A Working Title theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug A Good Panto Die Hard Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Drumming Up Poetry theSpaceTriplex, 23–26 Aug Eulogy Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug ❤ Horizon Showcase: Birthmarked HHHH Assembly Rooms, 23–27 Aug What You See When Your Eyes Are Closed / What You Don’t See When Your Eyes Are Open Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Rhubarb and Custard Paradise in The Vault, 23–27 Aug Tituba C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 23–27 Aug Lovefool Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Chariot: The Eric Liddell Story Palmerston Place Church, 23–25 Aug

19:20

Bang ZOO Playground, 23–27 Aug GUSH Assembly George Square, 23–28 Aug Quitting Comedy PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 23–27 Aug

19:25

Otto & Astrid’s Joint Solo Project Assembly George Square Gardens, 23–27 Aug

19:30

A Fairie Tale Scottish Storytelling Centre, 24–27 Aug

The Steamie Loretto School Theatre, 23–26 Aug The Beatles Were a Boyband Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Never Trouble Trouble (Till Trouble Troubles You) Tynecastle Park, 25 Aug, 27 Aug Tales of Edinburgh Horror Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 24 Aug Life is a Dream The Lyceum, 23–26 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Bits ‘N’ Pieces Leith Arches, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug Bear with Me: A Polar Bear in Scotland Scottish Storytelling Centre, 23 Aug A Comedy of Tenors The Royal Scots Club, 23–26 Aug

19:35

Locusts theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Modern Witches Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug When Worlds Collide Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug Did You Eat? Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug

19:40

When We Died Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Tea and Milk C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 23–27 Aug

19:45

Wildcat’s Last Waltz Assembly Rooms, 23–26 Aug Satan vs God C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 23–27 Aug

19:50

A Manchester Anthem Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug In Loving Memory of Mary Mort Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23–26 Aug

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Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug

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Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Wasteman Assembly George Square Studios, 23–28 Aug Hamlet The Royal Scots Club, 23–26 Aug A Migrant’s Son House of Oz, 23–26 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Horizon Showcase: FORGE Lyceum Roseburn, 23 Aug James Rowland: Piece of Work Summerhall, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug

❤ Two Strangers Walk into a Bar... HHHH

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Theatre Eulogy Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Shakesperimental Bedlam Theatre, 23–27 Aug FOOD The Studio, 23–26 Aug Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard The Royal Scots Club, 23–26 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Mark Twain’s The Stolen White Elephant Paradise in The Vault, 23–27 Aug

20:05

Runaway theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug

20:10

Report to an Academy Zoo Southside, 23–27 Aug Unveiled theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 24–26 Aug

20:15

The Alpha Podcast theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Two Cats on a Date ZOO Playground, 23–27 Aug Captain Avaritia’s Carnival of Wonders theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 23–26 Aug Gold! theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug

20:20

❤ Andronicus

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by Song of the Goat Theatre HHHH Zoo Southside, 23–27 Aug ❤ Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz

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Roundabout @ Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Goodbye Uncle Fudgey Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug Please Love Me Pleasance Dome, 23–26 Aug

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Hysterical Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

20:30

Ctrl Room :_ Army @ The Fringe, 23–27 Aug

Agent November: Outdoor Escape Game – Robyn Yew Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Love is Blue C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 23–27 Aug Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Welcome to The Big Show Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug An Oak Tree Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, 23–27 Aug Agent November: Outdoor Escape Game – Major X Ploe-Shun Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug

20:35

A Perfectly Average Glimpse into a Perfectly Average Day ZOO Playground, 23–27 Aug Bill’s 44th Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–27 Aug

20:40

Four Cut Sunflowers theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug

20:45

I’ve Never Met Anyone Quite Like You Before theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug A Preoccupation with Romantic Love PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake, 23–27 Aug How To Rob a Millionaire (In Five Easy Steps) Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug Eulogy Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug We’re All Mad Here Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug Trainspotting Live Pleasance at EICC, 23–26 Aug Good Morning, Faggi Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Pinched Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug

20:50

Peer Gynt: A Jazz Revival Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 24 Aug, 26 Aug 1 Tent, 4 Girls Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug

Garry Bonds’ Balanced Breakfasts Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23 Aug, 25 Aug ❤ Chicken HHHH Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Blanket of the Dark theSpace @ Niddry St, 24–26 Aug YOU ARE GOING TO DIE Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

21:20

Brief Candle theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug Culture for the Many The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug Mythos: Ragnarok Assembly Roxy, 23–27 Aug

21:30

House of Life Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–25 Aug

International House of Vape: Redefining Theatre Experience Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–24 Aug

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Séance Pleasance Dome, 23–28 Aug Klanghaus: InHaus Summerhall, 23–27 Aug Club Life Summerhall, 24–27 Aug Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug Séance: Live Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23–27 Aug Thrown Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug Queer Folks’ Tales Scottish Storytelling Centre, 25–26 Aug The Leading Lady Club Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug Is This the End of Edward J Payne?

Paradise in Augustines, 23–27 Aug ❤ Heaven by Eugene O’Brien HHHH Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, 26 Aug

21:05

The Mystery of Dracula PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 23–27 Aug

21:10

Gunter Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

21:15

What If They Ate The Baby? theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug Internal theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug The Good Dad (A Love Story) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug A Night With Me, Myself and Bipolar Brenda theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 23–25 Aug

The Last Show Before We Die Roundabout @ Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

21:55

Grief Lightning: A Satire in 78 Slides Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

22:00

Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–27 Aug NASSIM Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug ADULTS Traverse Theatre, 26 Aug ❤ The Grand Old Opera House Hotel HHHH Traverse Theatre, 27 Aug Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug Horizon Showcase: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug Auto-Engrain: A One-Woman Show Fringe Online, 27 Aug Auto-Engrain: A One-Woman Show Hill Street Theatre, 23–27 Aug

22:05

Rock Bottom Paradise in The Vault, 23–27 Aug

22:10

Until Death theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug

22:15

That is the Question theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug Slash Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

Ay Up, Hitler! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–26 Aug

22:20

Horizon Showcase: Little Wimmin Zoo Southside, 23–27 Aug

22:30

The Thin Place theSpace @ Niddry St, 23–26 Aug B Dolan – Modified Warrior The Voodoo Rooms, 23–27 Aug An(dre)a Spisto: El Dizzy Beast Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug

22:40

Shakespeare Up Late: A Right Royal Visit C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 23–27 Aug

22:45

Babs for Life C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 23–27 Aug

23:00

Lash – A Pulsating New Play About Going Out Out! Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug HEART Roundabout @ Summerhall, 24–26 Aug Asexuality!

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug Purgatorio theSpaceTriplex, 23–26 Aug

23:05

The Fruity Prince Paradise in The Vault, 23–27 Aug

23:10

Punk theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–25 Aug

23:25

Magic for Animals Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–26 Aug

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Whipped Up! (0+) Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23–26 Aug

09:45

Taiwan Season: World in a Word (3+) Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

10:00

CeilidhKids at the Fringe (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug Down the Hatch! (0+) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Plague, Poo n’ Punishment (8+) The Lost Close, 23–28 Aug

10:30

Vampire’s Ball: Ultimate Halloween Party! (8+) Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23–27 Aug Wriggle Around the World (0+) Stockbridge Church, 24–26 Aug Cartoooon!! (0+) Assembly Roxy, 23–28 Aug Grow (0+) Scottish Storytelling Centre, 24–27 Aug

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Lost in the Woods (5+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug The Spanish Gentleman Juggler (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug Story Builders (5+) Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug Pinocchio! The Panto (3+) theSpace on the Mile, 23–26 Aug

11:20

Mog the Forgetful Cat (3+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 24–27 Aug

11:30

11:50

First Piano on the Moon (Revisited) – Will Pickvance (5+) Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

12:00

A Bee Story (3+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 23–27 Aug Doktor Kaboom and the Wheel of Even More Science! (8+) Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Plague, Poo n’ Punishment (8+) The Lost Close, 23–28 Aug Chevalier – Hobbyhorse Circus (3+) Assembly George Square Studios, 23–27 Aug

15:55

12:30

The Railway Children (0+) C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 23–27 Aug

Children’s Underground Ghost Show (5+) City of Edinburgh Tours @ Old Police Box, 23–28 Aug Amazing Bubble Man (0+) Underbelly, George Square, 23–28 Aug

11:40

11:45

Ancient Coins of Forgotten Kingdoms (8+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake, 23–27 Aug Shelf: The Kids’ Show (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug

10:55

Mario the Maker Magician (3+) Underbelly, George Square, 23–27 Aug

11:00

Science Magic: Messy Mayhem (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug

Olaf Falafel’s Super Stupid Show (20% More Stupider) (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 24–27 Aug Mr Sleepybum (5+) Assembly George Square, 26–27 Aug

Jon – The Music Man (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug

14:30

12:15

Science Magic: Crazy Gadgets (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug

10:45

Bubba-Licious (0+) Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 23–27 Aug

14:15

The Alphabet of Awesome Science (5+) Underbelly, George Square, 23–28 Aug

The Greatest Magic Show (3+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 23–28 Aug

Improvised Rubbish Shakespeare – The Incomplete Works (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug

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14:00

Kings and Queens (0+) Stockbridge Church, 24–26 Aug Game On: Boss Level (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug

Trash Test Dummies (0+) Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 23–26 Aug

Monski Mouse’s Baby Cabaret (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 23–25 Aug Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 26–27 Aug

Rubbish Romeo and Juliet (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug

Children’s Underground Vaults Tour (5+) Welcome Edinburgh Tourist Information Booth Outside of the Bank of Scotland, 23–27 Aug

12:05

Bubba-Licious (0+) Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 23–27 Aug Who Stole My Hammer?

(5+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–28 Aug Children’s Underground Vaults Tour (5+) Welcome Edinburgh Tourist Information Booth Outside of the Bank of Scotland, 23–27 Aug Blue Badge Bunch: ReRamped (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 23–28 Aug

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Children’s Underground Ghost Show (5+) City of Edinburgh Tours @ Old Police Box, 23–28 Aug Drag Queen Story Hour (3+) Assembly Roxy, 23–27 Aug Wee Seals and Selkies (5+) Scottish Storytelling Centre, 26–27 Aug Beetle (3+) House of Oz, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug

13:00

The Slightly Annoying Elephant (3+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–28 Aug

13:05

13:15

13:30

Brotipo (5+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 23–27 Aug

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Comedy Club 4 Kids (5+) Assembly Roxy, 25–27 Aug

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Teach Rex Live – A Dragon’s Tale (3+) Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23–26 Aug Taiwan Season: The Way Back (5+) Summerhall, 23–27 Aug

16:25

The Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show Strikes Back! (5+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 23–27 Aug

16:30

101 Ways to Annoy Your Parents... And Other Really Old People (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug

17:30

The Dark Room for Kids! (8+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug

18:40

Teach Rex Live – A Dragon’s Tale (3+) Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23–26 Aug

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Fringe Dog meets

79 Fringe Dog

Lucas O’Neil The canine journalist gets emotional with the American stand-up star

but with one of those invisible fences, so I could have the illusion of freedom, but never truly experience it. That last line is a joke, but we did have an invisible fence for our actual dog. Feeling safe, but confined, was something she and I bonded over. So, if you’re going away for the weekend, and you need a place to leave your dog, my family is a great option. But if your dog likes going to parties or staying out past 9pm, then forget it.

i heard you had a sheltered childhood – tell me a little more about your fantastic kennel?

It was a top-of-the-line kennel.

A lot of structured time (piano lessons, dance lessons, disciplined walks). The staff (mom, dad, older sister) were very kind. They even let me out in the yard sometimes,

i must now ask you a question of the utmost importance: do you have a dog?

I do. Her name is Rhuby, which is short for Rhubarb, which is short for Rhubarbara. And I’ll answer what is surely your follow-up question: is she a good dog? Yes. She’s a very good dog. And I know that because I ask her that question 450

Image: courtesy of the artist

dogs have many emotional states between bow-wow and grrr. why have you called your show ‘emotional man’ and what emotions will it explore?

This show dives into all sorts of emotions – happy, angry, annoyed, sneaky, mischievous, pensive, maybe even chagrined, if the mood is right.

And I named it Emotional Man because – for one thing – I am one. I’ve always been one to feel things. I wrote a lot of poems growing up is what I’m saying. And so, the show details the making of this Emotional Man (me) and the unraveling and repair of the family that raised him (still me).

I also wanted to be a little cheeky about the idea that being an “emotional” man is some sort of subset of being a man. It’s not! All men are emotional. It’s a myth that they aren’t! I don’t yell this much in the show, but it’s important to say!

times a day, and the results have never varied. i understand your dad preferred your older sister to you! does your dog share the same prejudice, or are you their number one boy?

I am their number one boy. And also, if my sister is nearby, my dog will gladly abandon me in a heartbeat. But – and this is important – my dog would also abandon my sister in a heartbeat, if my dad is around – or really, any person at all. Every single person my dog meets is her number one person until she sees the next person.

So, she does play favourites, but it is always a tie.

SHOW VENUE: TIME:

Lucas O’Neil: Emotional Man

Just the Tonic at The Caves

5:20pm – 6:20pm, 3–27 Aug, not 14

Selected by Korean C u lt u r e a n d A r t s C o u n c i l 2021|2022

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Selected by Seoul F o u n d at i o n f o r C u lt u r e a n d A r t s

2023

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13:40

ASSEMBLY ROOMS

03 - 27 AUG

BALLROOM

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16:30

15 - 27 AUG

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13:05 2 - 27 AUG

STUDIO TWO

12:00

3 - 27 AUG

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