Fest 2026 Issue 2

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Japanese theatre meets Scottish folk music Inside: Maya Ricote Joseph Morpurgo Sh!t Theatre A. F. Steadman Elf Lyons Demi Adejuyigbe Harriet Richardson Underground Monk Show Boys Don’t Dance Roger Prick

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Mario the Maker Magician – 11.00am – 07-30 Aug

A show full of original magic, handmade robots and modern slapstick

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Hugo’s Rainbow Show – 12.00pm – 05-23 Aug A drag show for kids about the science of rainbows!

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Bleep! Bleep! – 1.35pm – 05-31 Aug

A captivating tale about a man and his robot, with physical comedy, live drawing and music!

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Glob – 3.00pm – 05-30 Aug

Two lovable characters tumble, glide and soar through the unknown in a circus adventure like no other!

Black Blues Brothers: Let’s Twist Again! – 5.00pm – 05-31 Aug A twist and rock’n’roll jukebox, a train station and lots of acrobatics!

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(Extra 10.05 show on Saturdays) Splish-splashing circus comedy!

The Flying Bubble Show – 3.10pm – 08-29 Aug

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Step into the mischievous world of East London’s brightest circus talent

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Tweedy’s Massive Solo Show – 10.15am – 06-30 Aug The hit fringe clown is back with non-stop fun for ages 1-110.

Amazing Bubble Man – 12.00pm – 06-31 Aug Bubble art, science, magic, and fun

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Darryl J Carrington: Out of the Box – 1.20pm – 05-31 Aug

Silent comedy blends world-class juggling, inventive physical theatre and heart-warming interaction

Afronauts – 1.55pm – 06-31 Aug

An all-ages, high-flying collision of circus, theatre and space adventure

Did You Hear What I Saw? – 2.15pm – 05-16 Aug

A unique story of lasting friendship, with songs and silliness along the way

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Edinburgh 2026 Issue 2

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8 Noh Reimagined Composer Aidan O’Rourke and Mu:Arts’ Akiko Yanagisawa on their Scottish/Japanese collaboration at EIBF

11 The Bucket List 30 years since its first innings, we speak to a few of the people that make PBH’s Free Fringe all happen

14 Homecoming Joseph Morpurgo’s long-awaited solo return is a source of great intrigue, even after catching up with him

18 What Happened, Ms Perón?

SH!T Theatre shine a light on Isabel Perón with EVITA TOO, which gives her story the Evita treatment

24 Comedy Elf Lyons delivers her most personal piece yet, a mustsee journey from heartbreak to rediscovery

38 Theatre A live wire cast takes on corporate interests and careerism in Target Audience

49 Dance, Physical Theatre & Circus Marc Brew’s Boys Don’t Dance pairs a story of inclusivity with a vibrant 80s soundtrack

68 Listings Find the shows for you with our hour-by-hour show guide

Image credits (top to bottom, left to right): Gan Gokuraku Images; courtesy PBJ's Free Fringe; Michael Julings; Christa Holka; Rich Lakos; Patrick Dowse; Susan Hay; Mihaela Bodlovic

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Maya Ricote's Perfect Day Maya Ricote’s tossed-aside telenovela actress describes her perfect day, involving a swanky new youthfulness treatment

girls in audition waiting rooms, while we’re all pretending we’re not each other’s rivals.

Susana Montenegro Ramirez Rigadezza.

Marketing genius, they say.

A woman capable of making wake up. Late. After 10am as dreams come true. Some peoper usual. ple call her a witch. They say Any time after 10am, she’s bad news. Said to stay already late to life, as we say in away. But all I hear is the word show business. capable. Something I’m not.

Open the windows. Let By 13:13, I’m out the door. the day in before the day I ask around and nobody lets you down, as we say in knows where to find her. Then, show business. a woman in a yellow velvet First thing that enters my cloak whispers: “Left round mouth is hot coffee, black, as the curb. Right. Left. Up the hill. we do in show business.

The black house. The one with I stand at the window and the red door.” think: today is going to be my COLD TALENT PRODUCTIONS. big break.

Engraved on the door.

Then, as per usual, I check I don’t know what to exthe mailbox. Another rejectpect. An ugly old witch, maybe. ion letter.

Long nails and a black cat.

Yes, my life hasn’t always What I get is a casting office. been glorious. I went to drama Photos of faces, bodies, all school, and when I came out of types, all frozen mid-expresit, the world wasn’t ready for me. sion covering every wall. And I’d been hearing about behind a desk: a blonde womthis woman for weeks. You an. Perfect. Thin cigarette in know how it is in this busihand and smoke softly leaving ness, names travel. Important her mouth. names get whispered across “You must be desperate,” tables and passed between she says.

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What am I going to say?

No? She tells me she can smell the future. That I will be the most desirable, the most unforgettable, mesmerising and delicious woman.

She slides a contract across the desk.

Eternal youth. Frozen at twenty-five. No ageing. No disease. No pain. In exchange, between auditions, I’m to be kept in the freezer. Susana will make adjustments. A bit more here and a bit less there. Everything firm with an hourglass figure. It’s very important that the package is right.

“All you have to do is sign here… in blood”

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Maya Ricote: Ay Am! Pleasance Courtyard until 30 Aug (not 25), 10.40pm

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Noh Reimagined Aidan O'Rourke, Kanji Shimizu and Akiko Yanagisawa on Song of Rona Island Words: Claire Sawers

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er pacing has a natural rhythm that almost draws music out of me,” says progressive folk fiddler/composer Aidan O’Rourke, who is speaking about his love of the writing of Kathleen Jamie, the essayist and poet who was Scotland’s Makar (Poet Laureate) until 2024. “When I first read [her essay] On Rona, I was completely transported. Bringing that sense of the ancient alongside modern species decline felt deeply powerful. It felt ancient and now, all at once.”

On Rona, Jamie’s 2006 essay about her three-week stay on the island of North Rona for an archaeological study and ornithological survey of seabirds, will be the focus of a thrilling Japanese-Scottish collaboration at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where 600-year-old Noh theatre is paired with traditional Scottish music. Part Two: Song of Rona Island follows Part One: Nonomiya (Wildwood Shrine), a piece of Noh theatre which is based on the pioneering 11th Century novel The Tale of Genji.

Akiko Yanagisawa, the UK-based director of Mu:Arts (a UK-Japan arts initiative promoting cross-cultural projects) had been looking for inspiration for a unique project when O’Rourke approached her with Jamie’s essay. The setting – a windswept, uninhabited Scottish island in the North Atlantic, where Jamie writes about spotting orca from the clifftops – inspired a Scottish-Japanese collaboration combining Noh music and the Scottish fiddle, featuring a virtuoso Nohkan flute player. A

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Nohkan flute is shorter than a Western flute, made of bamboo, and traditionally played in solos during Noh dramas.

“I was immediately captivated by both the landscape, history and themes of the island,” remembers Yanagisawa, after reading On Rona.

She began making plans, only to be scuppered by the Covid pandemic. She had secured Arts Council Tokyo funding, then the project was cancelled. Undeterred, Yanagisawa decided to expand the original musical collaboration into a proper Noh-style production, bringing onboard a highly sought after, veteran shite (pronounced she-teh and meaning principal) actor Kanji Shimizu. Shimizu is so revered for his craft he is recognised as a holder of “Important Intangible Cultural Property” by the Japanese government.

Meanwhile, in Scotland, O’Rourke had invited his longtime collaborator, the Scottish smallpipes player Brìghde Chaimbeul, to join the project. After a three-day workshop in Tokyo, followed by a work-in-progress performance, where the Scottish smallpipes were played on the Noh stage probably for the first time in history, it was agreed they had found a stunning blend of traditional styles.

Yanagisawa continued to fine tune the performance, inviting dramaturg Gareth Mattey to write a script, which she then translated into Japanese, and Shimizu in turn wrote a script in Noh style.

After many online meetings, the world premiere of Song of Rona Island took place in November 2025 at Kings Place, London.

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Nonomiya

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“Stepping into the Noh world in Tokyo was extraordinary,” recalls O’Rourke. “What struck me immediately was the ritual of it all – the deep respect for the tradition, for each person’s role, and the incredible attention to detail. The time taken to really dig deep into every gesture, action or note was a revelation.”

Noh theatre dates back to 14th Century Japan and the traditional art form is rarely performed outside of Japan. It is an intense, symbolic storytelling performance, where dance and music are often used alongside silk costumes and wooden masks. Unlike Western theatre, the performance relies less on words to carry the meaning, conveying themes and emotions through visual metaphors and subtle movements instead. Plots often include Buddhist themes and references to the spirit world.

“It showed me the weight that space, stillness and a single gesture can carry, completely reframing how I think about timing and tension. Playing in this setting is all about deep listening – reacting to breath, silence, and presence in real time,” says O’Rourke. “On top of that, you’re engaging with an ancient form of theatre that taps directly into inter-dimensional concepts – the afterlife, other realms and things beyond the visible world.”

On Rona opens with Jamie describing her reaction to a particularly bad sea crossing.

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Shimizu felt an instant connection to the story, as his father was a lighthouse keeper and he believes that his upbringing played a big part in shaping his artistic outlook. “I have many fond, nostalgic memories of living on an island and ships passing,” he explains. “The sea has been a familiar part of my life since childhood.

In Kathleen Jamie’s story, I really enjoyed the descriptions of the birds, the stones, the storm. It made me want to visit the island, although unfortunately I suffer from seasickness,” he smiles.

“Of course Noh theatre draws on Japanese traditions of worshipping nature,” Shimizu continues.

“Nature worship is an art form in Japan – I’m sure you have heard of Japanese Zen gravel gardens, known as karesansui, where stones and patterns in the gravel represent things like mountains and oceans. In the story On Rona, there are descriptions of very beautiful nature and very harsh nature. Music plays an important part in conveying the atmosphere in our performance. I believe that Scotland and Japan share this deep love of nature. Our two cultures have that in common.”

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Nonomiya/Song of Rona Island Greyfriars Kirk 24-25 Aug, 7pm

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The Bucket List

An oral history of PBH's Free Fringe, 30 years on from its inception Words: Si Hawkins

Peter Buckley Hill

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996 was a landmark year for live events.

Oasis at Knebworth. Gazza at Euro ‘96. Muhammad Ali lighting the Olympic flame. Gina G lighting up Eurovision with Ooh, Ah, Just a Little Bit. Iconic moments, all.

And also – less newsworthy at the time – Peter Buckley Hill, kickstarting an Edinburgh Fringe revolution that would eventually spawn thousands of shows, several rival Fringes and some serious headlines. A low-key beginning though, revolt-wise. One show, a dream and a bucket.

“I think it’s fair to say that not many people understood the basic concept [of unticketed events with a bucket collection],” admits Buckley Hill, 30 years on. “No: why should you not charge money, especially since you were paying money for accommodation? Why should you not charge money for something that was worth money…?”

That first show – Peter Buckley Hill and Some Comedians – came after the enterprising comic had endured an expensive debut in a paid-for venue, in 1994, so resolved to do things differently. He found a spare room at the Footlights and Firkin pub, got an audience, took donations, and gradually added more venues.

By 2018 PBH’s Free Fringe – as it’s widely known – was hosting 10,000 performances, launching careers, winning prizes (consecutive Edinburgh Comedy Awards for John Kearns was a game-changer, in 2013 and 2014), while weathering frequent dramas and near disasters. They come with the territory.

“It’s over 6,000 [performances] at the moment, which is big enough and complex enough to organise,” he says. “Everything has gone wrong and can go wrong at some point in the history of the Free Fringe. And, presumably, that will continue.”

Fest meets Buckley Hill at an unlikely location: before a preview at a former Conservative Club, in leafy Hertfordshire. As he admits in his entertainingly self-effacing book, Freeing the Fringe, this movement is almost communism, with Buckley Hill leading the way, Lenin beard and all.

He certainly has a bolshy reputation. Now chairperson, he’s still hands-on, despite semi-retiring due to nearly dying a decade ago, when his pancreas rebelled. A tough act to follow.

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“He’s a bit of a genius,” admits Luke Meredith, the current CEO. A magician by trade, Meredith is also evangelical about the movement, as a model for Fringe change. “It is. It’s not just about free shows. It’s about performers working together; giving the power back, not just to the performers, but to the audience.”

And widening their horizons. By its very nature the Free Fringe needs to keep sourcing novel venues; this year Meredith mentions everything from “samurai sword workshops in a youth hostel” (Kenbu: Live Samurai Sword Experience, at the Central Youth Hostel) to conjurors in mini karaoke booths: grandly-named but small-capacity magic shows like Wish and Welcome to My Reality, at the six Supercubes on Cowgate. “Really close magic”, laughs Luke, who doubles as the magic/cabaret director.

Now, for the 30th Anniversary, they’ve a new direction: North. “We’re expanding into Leith,” he says. “Everybody has been talking about how they ought to spread around Edinburgh.

We have venues, lots of interest. Let’s really push it this year.”

Their Leith pub list – The Bowlers Rest, The Carriers Quarters, Strathmore Bar, 3 Old Monks, Diggers - looks lively already, and “there’s so much else to do there: cocktail bars, cute little places, the [Royal Yacht] Britannia, for the tourist stuff.”

One key reason for Leith’s uplift was, optimistically, “the tram! It makes it so easy.” [A Princes Street fire has since put paid to that].

Meredith and his top team are all doing shows too; but then giving performers more Fringe input is a long-term target. Actor/comedian Elise Harris is PBH’s director of theatre and children’s shows, and is now on the Edinburgh Fringe board. Which wasn’t her original plan, but the Free Fringe exudes an almost cult-like appeal. “I think I offered to help with chairs,” she recalls. “Then it’s growing, growing, then you’re programming.”

Improv, and conjuring, would both be useful skills here, as shows and spaces can suddenly disappear, or transform. Harris recalls one venue changing its name last year “while a performer was actually on stage,” which must have bewildered that audience afterwards.

Hence their programme, the Wee Blue Book, is published last-minute; August 7th this year.

Given the myriad variables, PBH appoints Venue Captains, experienced acts who can be approached by others with queries. Steve McLean was one, first playing the Free Fringe in 2014, helping out (“mainly moving chairs”), captaining, and now running the comedy.

His new passion project is Free Fringe Firsts, a whole venue dedicated to short runs by newcomers, from the intriguing Irish comedy Pornó, to Scottish-Pakistani standup Imran Hafeez. It’s at Pizza Geeks, another Leith location, and McLean dreams of decentralising the Fringe generally. Expanding outwards would lead to “more evenly distributed Fringe wealth to the local businesses,” he says, and “accommodation options increasing, which should lead to the prices stabilising.”

Which sounds positive. As a performer, though, has McLean noticed a modern problem for the free model: less physical cash, for donations? Actually, lugging fewer coins is easier, “and I think it makes people more likely to donate round sums of money,” he says. “I’ve had more £20 cash donations [via] card than I ever had £20 notes in my bucket. Card readers are a pain in the arse though.”

The Free Fringe is still going strong, three decades on. Looking back, as dusk descends over Hertfordshire, does Buckley Hill reckon he gets enough acclaim?

“I do not give a flying...”

That’s the spirit.

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PBH’s Free Fringe multiple venues until 31 Aug

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Homecoming Joseph Morpurgo on his first solo Fringe show in almost a decade Words: Jay Richardson

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here are moments when Joseph Morpurgo regrets not being a stand-up, capable of simply plucking routines from his acclaimed but painstakingly intricate comedy shows, touring with minimal fuss.

“Many’s the time I’m sat on a train, having been up until 2am the night before, desperately knocking together sound cues on what’s essentially a 700-slide PowerPoint presentation,” he laments. “Checking levels, making sure that everything clicks correctly from one slide to the next. I’ve really wished that I could just turn up and tell some jokes with a microphone.

Without all this superstructure, this scaffolding, this armour of tech and prep.

“But the joy I get out of what I do comes from drilling incredibly deep into an interesting concept, building worlds, finding ways to make a really rich, dense hour.”

Almost a decade since he last performed solo at the Fringe, after scooping an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination for 2015’s Soothing Sounds for Baby in the midst of a five-year flurry of dementedly inventive, high-concept, folk art multimedia hours, his cult following doesn’t seem diminished – a Soothing Sounds 14

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“Photos bring the past to life.

But they’re also gravestones to moments that have been and gone”

revival sold out London’s Soho Theatre at Christmas. And only “life’s chicanery” has kept him from bringing another show to the festival before now.

Prior to starting a family, he’d been developing a show that was interrupted by the pandemic. Afterwards, “I didn’t feel inclined to finish it … life got in the way ... suddenly years passed.” Though no J.D. Salinger-style recluse, having written extensively for children’s animation and computer games in the interim, as well as penning several comedy pilots for television that ultimately came to naught, he suggests that “it’s not really my disposition to be very online or very available.”

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the photos under the surface, which is what drew me to this concept.

“But before I sound too highfalutin, it is, hopefully, as inventive, fun, silly and playful as ever.”

And he enthuses: “I love coming up with big ideas, big hooks that haven’t been explored, working with constraints and restraint to realise something singular and unique. Hopefully, audiences can appreciate that I’m spelunking so deep into this concept and I’ve done a huge amount of exploratory faffing around. And they can delight in my insanity in committing to it so, so hard.”

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Joseph Morpurgo: Highlander 70 Pleasance Courtyard 20-30 Aug, 7pm

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Regardless, he’s remained part of the Austentatious improv troupe, “turning up with nothing but other people … a rather different end of the spectrum” to his “extremely controlled, labour-intensive” individual work. The contrast “doesn’t necessarily keep me sane. But it’s very nice to toggle from one headspace to the other.

“I’m just a normal guy living a normal life” he maintains.

“But there’s value in not splurging odds and sods at the world all the time unless they merit consumption.”

To that end, Morpurgo has been carefully and incrementally tinkering with his latest show, Highlander 70, “working on it piecemeal for almost a decade in bits and bobs, exploring it, putting it down, picking it up again.”

Typically, he’s divulging very little about its contents. Once again crafted around a “found artefact”, a yearbook and diaries, there’s some crossover with his 2014 sophomore show, Odessa.

But it features a more straightforwardly defined narrative and extensive range of characters than ever before.

And instead of video, he’s “experimenting” with photography and animation. “It’s a very visual show, all about image and the past, though not in the same way Odessa was. It reaches further back than that. And it plays around with things that are static but can be brought to life on stage.

“I’m not a photographer” he explains. “But I am really interested in the way that photography is both scientific and kind of magical. It pins the world down but can tell a thousand different stories, depending on what point you anchor to or hone in on. Photos bring the past to life. But they’re also gravestones to moments that have been and gone.”

He acknowledges that there’s “lots of theoretical stuff in terms of how I’m manipulating

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What Happened, Ms Perón?

SH!T THEATRE’s latest project charts the forgotten herstory of Isabel Perón: the world’s first female president and Juan Perón’s third wife Words: Megan Wallace

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19 ast year, the classic Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical Evita was brought to new audiences thanks to a West End revival helmed by Rachel Zegler which will soon be moving to Broadway. For the uninitiated, the play explores the life of Eva Perón, Argentina’s former first lady, who was widely beloved for her philanthropy, before her death at just 33.

But while Evita’s story has been consecrated by a blockbuster musical, there’s another Mrs Perón who had an even bigger political influence on Argentina’s history: Isabel.

Now, her forgotten story will be brought to light in EVITA TOO, the latest work from Rebecca Biscuit and Louise Mothersole who, as SH!T THEATRE, blend performance, politics, and music. “The central narrative is about Isabel Perón, who was the world’s first female president but who nobody’s ever heard of,” says Biscuit. “But the work also looks at populism, as well as the ways women are treated, remembered and talked about, all themes which are very in the air right now.”

While the topics explored within the show are timely, the duo had to do some digging to delve into its historical context: taking them from London to Buenos Aires.

“There’s so little information about this woman.

There isn’t even one single book in the English language about Isabel Perón,” Biscuit explains.

“We did this fellowship with The British Library, so we were able to access very rare books about her in Spanish, but it reached a point where we couldn’t find anything else. We were like, ‘Surely, in Argentina, there will be more information about an Argentinian president.’ But when we went to Argentina, people still hadn’t heard of her.”

Following the death of Isabel’s husband in 1974, she became Argentina’s leader, but was later ousted in 1976. The conditions of that loss of power have since determined how she is now viewed by those who do recognise her name. Among those who were alive to witness her rule, she has become synonymous with the state-sponsored violence of the military junta and Dirty War that followed. “When the military overthrew her, they did a very clever propaganda campaign, saying that her weaknesses as a leader were why they took power,” Biscuit says. “Even though she was imprisoned

for a number of years by the regime, in the Argentinian consciousness she is almost a figurehead for this deeply traumatic period – despite her actually being a victim.”

While Isabel’s memory has been buried, Eva’s life has been superseded by the spectacle. Splashed across the media, she became a cipher, with her image and even physical body used for others’ political, financial and even sexual ends in the decades following her death. “There are loads of accounts of various men having sex with the corpse,” Mothersole says, voice dripping in disgust during one particularly grotesque turn in the conversation. “A Peronist general who was guarding the body was having sex with it and he ended up shooting his wife because she was jealous of him fucking this corpse. It’s bonkers.”

“The central narrative is about Isabel Perón, who was the world’s first female president but who nobody’s ever heard of” Rebecca Biscuit

For Biscuit and Mothersole, the disparity in how Eva and Isabel are remembered (if at all) emphasises the control which men have within a patriarchal society, defining which stories and narratives make it into the official history.

This can be through political propaganda, like in Isabel’s case, but even through pop culture.

When it comes to Evita’s, her lasting legacy has now been shaped by a male fantasy, rather than truth. “When we went to see Evita’s grave in Buenos Aires, it had the words ‘Don’t cry for me, Argentina’ engraved on it. But she never said those words, they were made up by Tim Rice.”

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EVITA TOO ZOO Southside until 30 Aug (not 24), 6.25pm

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Skandar’s Secrets

Ahead of her Book Festival event, A. F. Steadman sits down with one young reader to talk Skandar, her epic fantasy series Interview: Lyra, age 10

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t’s safe to say that Skandar has taken preteen readers by storm. The five-book fantasy series (now plus a prequel) follows Skandar Smith’s adventures as he becomes a unicorn rider, a dangerous journey involving unexpected challenges, dark forces and surprisingly bloodthirsty unicorns.

If you were to describe the Skandar series in five words, what would they be?

The first one, I’d probably say ‘epic’. I like it when things feel really big. I try to make some jokes, so ‘funny’. ‘Magical’. We’ve got to have ‘magical’ in there. Hopefully ‘emotional’ as well, because there’s some bits which you can relate to and make you feel lots of emotions.

And what’s the last one? I feel like I should say ‘long’ because it’s a lot of words. It’s over half a million words. To be honest, I just had a lot to say about bloodthirsty unicorns.

and I used to go to Margate with my grandad all the time, so we have quite a lot in common.

I also grew up with just my mum, and he grew up with just his dad as well.

I also really like mayonnaise, which is why Skandar has it all the time, and he has Jelly Babies which are partly to do with me as well because I have type one diabetes. So when I have low blood sugar, I have to eat Jelly Babies.

“To be honest, I just had a lot to say about bloodthirsty unicorns”

What were your favourite books when you were ten (which is how old I am now), and do you think they affected how you write now?

They definitely did because I think that I recently took the online elemental test. I got a unicorn called Midnight Hours Revenge with Skandar is based on lots of my favourite books when I was your age – I think in many ways the Spirit element. Have you taken the test? they’re the books that I enjoyed most in my I have taken the test. I also wrote the questions on the test, and it’s very hard to get life, because it was a time when I was wanting to find out more about the world and also who Spirit. So you’ve done well!

I was as a person.

When I did the test, I tried to get Spirit, and One of my favourite series when I was ten then I actually got Earth every time. So I think that I am an Earth wielder, which I’m very happy was His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, I just remember reading Northern Lights and wantwith… they have inner strength. ing to be Lyra and imagining if I had a daemon all the time.

Which person in Skandar would you most I also loved some books by Jonathan Stroud, relate to, and why?

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For anyone who wants to give story writing a try – what advice would you give them?

I think I would give them the advice that sometimes it’s quite hard, and the authors find it hard as well. Because someone told me when I was younger, they were an author, and they said they found writing easy all the time. So when I found it hard, I thought, maybe

I can’t be an author. But actually, if you find it a bit hard sometimes, that’s good because it means your imagination’s working really, really hard, and you’re trying to get what you’re trying to say down onto the page.

You’ve just got to keep trying and keep practising it because you never know what could happen in the future. And if you really like an idea, then it’s probably a good one because we all like similar things, don’t we?

And so if you like it, I reckon there’s going to be someone else who likes it as well.

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Are you planning on writing any other children’s books?

I would love to write some more books, I have lots of ideas about what other books I could write. I would like to write a bit more about the world of Skandar. There’s lots of ways I could go – I could go back in time, or I could do another one that’s after the end of the Spirit War. So I think I’ve got some decisions to make.

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nother year, another festival season off with a bang! A packed-out The Gilded Saloon and People’s Leisure Club really put us back in the Fringe spirit, as if no time had passed since last August. Guests took their pick between delicious Jubel peach beer or Pochle Gael, an eau de vie produced in Edinburgh by Inchcolm Distillery. Many thanks to both brands for kindly sponsoring the event, alongside Fettercairn whisky who sponsored our wonderful new tote bags.

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The whole thing would not have been possible without everyone who came and brought the good vibes, and our party collective: Tallah Brash; Joanna Hare; Ema Smekalová; and Emilie Roberts.

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Men’s shitbaggery has long been a source of inspiration at the Fringe, and it’s jet fuel for Elf Lyons in this bruising, brilliantly inventive show. After a run of routines centred on animals (Swan, Raven, Horses), the UK comic delivers her most personal piece yet, exorcising the anguish caused when her engagement ended 24

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via WhatsApp a few months before the big day.

Lyons channels her emotional tailspin into the title character, a hysterical, Joan Crawford-like lush who’s prone to surreal digressions about bouncy castles, mannequins and snails. Her theme music is Bernard Herrmann’s woozy score for Vertigo, an apt choice for a show dissecting what happens when your identity shatters because of the whims of childish men.

The Woman on the Edge character isn’t the only technique Lyons deploys to create distance as she interrogates her pain. An audience member is plucked from the crowd to read aloud the relationship’s backstory, while Lyons mimes

along. There’s more lip-syncing (to concerned voicenotes from friends and the 90s classic Apollo 13) as well as a glorious verbatim opera constructed from wild statements various boyfriends have said to her (“No, I don’t need therapy; I walk everywhere”).

The result is a playful mosaic of standup, character comedy and clowning that seems to find genuine catharsis amid the absurdity of heartbreak.

If this all sounds a bit too baroque, too theatrical, then take comfort that the show is also breathtakingly funny, with Lyons equally at home with cerebral musings about the clown Pagliacci as she is with daft prop gags involving fruit. ✏ Jamie Dunn

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lishment and self owning, nature of whatever protest movement this purports to be.

At every moment THE MOVEMENT shrouds itself in glory and kicks itself in the nuts. It’s HHHHH HHHH H a joy to watch.

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We’re also now complicit in their plan to blow up George Genuinely, the HamiltonIV bridge, in so doing breaking does-9/11 routine might be not only the fourth wall, but all the single funniest thing of the theatrical walls, and fillI’ve ever seen. It’s partly the ing the world with revolutionquality of the rap, which is ary theatre. Not once do this even better at being stilted pair of New York clowns lose doggrel than Lin Manuel their grip on this high-handed Miranda’s hit nonsense. But it’s mock heroic tone. In itself also the absolutely scattergun, that’s a remarkable feat: even unfocused, both anti-estabmore so given the onslaught

of tightly organised chaos they batter through. The Twin Towers and the unleashing of American neoconservatism are a touchpoint. The summoning of revolutionary spirits from the past doesn’t go quite as expected. If you think you’ve seen all of the visual gags involving a willy, then think again.

One senses they’ve not quite got the measure of the Underbelly space yet – a big and deep cavern that means they often end up in darkness.

But with the chemistry this bickering, incompetent pair of revolutionaries have, that’s a small battle in a war they are very much winning. Vive THE MOVEMENT. ✏ Evan Beswick

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You need to have a good whack of confidence to go for some of this. Opening with a Christmas song? And then following it up with a Halloween one? Trying (and, yes, failing) to steer a remote controlled comedy robot around a stage strewn with wires, instruments and the detritus of a series of quick fire bits? I won’t give the game away, but there’s a high stakes section mid way which skirts dangerously to scuppering the whole thing. Risky stuff.

Fortunately, Demi Adejuyigbe has the wherewithal to keep this all afloat.

Quite how he makes this feel like there’s any stakes at all is a feat in itself, because the whole thing is just plain silly. Deliciously so. A mixture of songs, stories, sketches and one liners, plus some high-reward audience interaction, Adejuyigbe has the confidence to keep the tone light, and the skill to keep the vibe teetering on the edge of chaos. This lends itself well to a certain manic, rough quality. Adejuyigbe’s super sharp comebacks to any mishaps are enough to help us understand we’re in safe hands. There’s a theme here about selling out for cash 28

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which is a springboard for silly ideas rather than an anchor that tugs.

Still, it’s possible to discern studied chaos from areas that lack finesse. There’s little attention paid to his movement in the big space, meaning

he’s on and off the mic at random. The mic is on reverb the whole time rather than just the songs. A more earnest pre-close song is very rushed and adds little. Who needs pathos when daftness is this funny? ✏ Evan Beswick

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Well, who knew this was going to blow minds? Jack Brookmyre rocks up in an oversized denim gilet bedecked with death metal badges, looking like – his description – Harry Potter doing a school shooting, with a publicity blurb

extolling his impressions of Donald Trump and David Attenborough. Not wildly promising, perhaps, for the future of Scottish comedy. But the Glaswegian has swiftly learned the secret of doing a good hour as an impressionist, for this debut show: don’t do too many impressions.

Actually that’s not entirely fair; he also does frequent voices of regular folk to embellish the storytelling, which is whip-smart already. Aside from the celebrity impressions, it turns out, Brookmyre is a gloriously visceral standup, packing this show with savvy observations, im-

passioned opinions and some fabulously caustic gags.

His overall theme is accents, how different voices, and delivery, affect our perception – particularly of politicians.

Generally speaking the celebrity sketches are the weakest bits here, but his voices really work when integrated into the overall narrative. He’s clearly decided to do something worthwhile with this new platform, even offering sage advice – at 26 – on how to talk to people with unhealthy views.

And it rocks the room. Even he looks slightly staggered by the response. Best get used to it. ✏ Si Hawkins

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on the dating scene as Alex Franklin: now her most authentic self.

Kiss Me x The show straddles pink,

(she has an impressive joke count). Exploring her gender identity and Chinese heritage fluffy and something nerdier brings an extra dimension to HHHHH HHH HH (though who’s to say women the hour, but could easily be VENUE: Underbelly Cowgate can’t do both). Breezy and a show in itself. Here, her lived TIME: until 30 Aug, 2.25pm memey is where Franklin feels experiences add vital context right at home. There’s songs to her dating glee but feel too about beavers, and one about glossed over to be weighty or Kiss Me x works best imagining the differences between men thoroughly examined in this Alex Franklin telling her bestie and women which would make stand-up style. about dating escapades laid Two Hearts proud. She also But in a world where in her teenage bedroom, legs leaves secrets for the most trans women are so unfairly curled upwards and twirling astute audience members to vilified, Franklin’s outlook is a phone cord in her hand. find; a nod to previous shows. a refreshing, upbeat and, Her enthusiasm for dating is Franklin’s best material is most importantly, hopeful infectious, especially as she’s the sweet and quickfire gags one. ✏ Polly Glynn 30

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With multicoloured lights, a couple of coat stands, and a good few stretches of duct tape, Jonathan Oldfield presents the delightfully chaotic Exquisite Corpse, his debut comedy show. Loosely guided

by a handful of personal reflections, Oldfield stitches a cast of characters together into a bizarre and silly sketch show. In watching, we’re not concerned with what comes next – Exquisite Corpse is, after all, utterly singular in its unpredictable joy.

Timing is a strength of Oldfield’s – we don’t stay too long on any one sketch, yet we’re always left satisfied by the storytelling and his attentive crafting of character. The thrill is sudden: with each character, Oldfield assumes a new accent, posture and story with astounding immediacy. From allotments

to advertising, Oldfield takes us from place to place, with a few musical numbers and hipswings to guide the way.

Despite the hilarity, Oldfield also maintains a unique warmth throughout the hour; there’s a palpable sense that he’s enjoying himself and wants his audience to enjoy themselves too – and a little side of audience participation certainly sweetens the deal.

The show doesn’t take itself too seriously and we’re all the more at ease (and tearyeyed) for it. With Oldfield, it’s simple: god, it feels good to laugh. ✏ Eilidh Akilade

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one that Harriet Richardson has spent several years – and the hour of her debut Fringe performance – attempting to deconstruct. Blending comedy, performance art and a meHHHHH HHHH H ticulously timed Powerpoint VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard, presentation, Creep is a bold, TIME: until 30 Aug, 7pm anarchic and deeply incisive exploration of obsession told with the naturalism and wit If a young woman is obsessed of a friend sending you deep with an older comedian who is cut memes. sending her dick pics, who is Richardson has until now the creep in that scenario? It largely worked as a perforis a riddle fit for our online age mance artist, and her refusal of parasocial relationships of generic boundaries in and male comedians being, Creep works to probe at the well, male comedians, and essentially performative

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nature of being alive, both creatively and emotionally. It is unsurprising that Richardson has turned to comedy to articulate the ideas around intimacy and desire she has long been exploring in her art; comedy, like performance (and dating and loneliness and connection), calls for a requisite vulnerability, and it is this idea of risk and exposure that coalesces Richardson’s seemingly chaotic romantic confessions. It is both a very impressive debut – deft as it is unhinged – and an incredibly moving journey towards selflove. ✏ Anahit Behrooz

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Palamides-directed magicof water is filled (I won’t spoil UNDERcum-drag show that was this how), it’s obvious that it will particular reviewer’s favourite mean different things for GROUND of last year’s Fringe. So each of them.

MONK SHOW thing it’s no surprise that their comFrom hereon, the show is

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bined forces are unstoppable, even if their move from The Banshee Labyrinth to Assembly’s frankly ill-fitting Piccolo Tent rids the show of its bestkept-secret vibe that made it feel so special when it was here as a work-in-progress over the past two years.

But never mind the venue, the show itself is a small miracle. From the minute its titular monks shuffle onto the stage in an embrace, the physical characterisation that sets them apart begins. So much so that by the time a bucket

structured in four parts. Each monk dives headfirst into the bowl of water, which transports us to somewhere new every time: The ocean; the womb; a fairytale; a rave, each location playing to the individual performer’s strengths.

By the time the end comes around, what’s especially astonishing is how they make the most of every prop with a machine gun of callbacks that lead, somehow, to a genuinely moving finale with Marcucci at the centre. Pray for a ticket. ✏ Louis Cammell

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American stand-up Sofia May has an hour to “open our minds to hating Buddhism”.

Clad in a devilish-red dress she wore during her seven-year stint as an assistant at Tara Mandala’s Tibetan Buddhist Retreat Center in

Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, May doesn’t hold back in denouncing her former employer/manager as a narcissistic cult leader – we, quite literally, get the guts and all. The savagery of May’s takedown is certainly justified: she was stripped of her self-worth through a series of calculated acts, such as being forbidden from eating during daylight to reduce her cognitive function.

When she successfully riffs with the audience, May has the command of the room, but more than occasionally her one-liners – particularly when they rehash tiresome

jokes about racial stereotypes – are met with awkward chair creaks. The tumbleweeds do send May into a spiral, so much so that it wouldn’t be surprising if May writes off these jokes during the rest of the show’s run.

The most gripping parts arise when May demonstrates self-awareness as to why she was susceptible to a high-control group. Ultimately, this is a show that balances vulnerability with offbeat humour to address the mechanics of human manipulation, but it never quite reaches a satisfying climax. ✏ Rachel Ashenden

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Trojan horse political commentary into the uninspired projects he’s been tasked with improving, but the company’s HHHHH HHH HH nepo baby producer, Angie (James Coward), and his rightVENUE: Pleasance Courtyard hand woman, Bruiser (Molly TIME: until 30 Aug, 4.50pm Windust), are more concerned with appeasing their shady parent company than any atThe tension between creative tempts at artistic expression. freedom and commercial Also in the meeting is intern compromise is on the mind of Isabelle (RhéAna Kamalu), an Dan Bishop with his new play aspiring writer whose mix Target Audience, which exof Gen Z snark and political trapolates corporate shilling purity is in sharp contrast to to its apocalyptic extreme.

Tobias, a much more malleable, It opens with high-minded people-pleasing millennial with novelist Tobias (Henry Calcutt) one eye on affording a house arriving at the offices of a TV one day. company where he’s slumming As entertainment industry it for a day as a script doctor. lampoons go, Target Audience His ambition is to slip some is a rather tame one. Its live 38

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wire cast does most of the heavy lifting to sock across repetitive gags about data-driven content and commercial briefs (apparently people want to watch something “simple, salacious and preferably Sydney Sweeney-ey” after work).

The satire becomes more barbed when the focus shifts to how easily, as individuals, we can abandon our ideals for the promise of an easier life.

Again, this is hardly revolutionary, but it does give you something to contemplate on your walk home past posters of standups baldly attempting to catch the eyes of streaming giants and banners for a festival whose corporate sponsor is in bed with weapons tech. ✏ Jamie Dunn

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On the 30th anniversary of theatre company Grid Iron, who specialise in site-specific productions, Andrew O’Hagan’s beloved novel Mayflies gets its first stage version (though there was a TV show made in 2022) in the warehouse of a former Leith metalworks factory.

Staged in the round inside what is now Brown’s of Leith, and true to the first half of the book, a group of Ayrshire lads in 80s Britain travel down to Manchester in its Hacienda heyday (the warehouse cho-

their younger selves, played with gusto by the charismatic Jude Baine (young Tully) and suitably geeky Kieran Devine (young Noodles).

It’s a resourceful production. The supporting cast of Paul McCole, Lucianne McEvoy, John McGeachie and Carmen Pieraccini all take multiple characters, just as the space’s iron skeleton doubles as a nightclub, swimming pool, family home and clinic with the switch of a light and some clever projections. No doubt the play, which sticks faithfully to the novel’s prose and is rather traditional beyond its rustic setting, will stand out even more strongly outwith its Edinburgh Fringe context, where boundary-pushing theatre surrounds. ✏ Louis Cammell

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sen for its resemblance) for one fateful night of hedonistic glee to remember. First to the stage aren’t the boys, though, but their grown-up counterparts, namely James “Noodles” Collins (Matthew Pidgeon) who narrates the book and play. His vantage point of decades later suggests a catalytic event has prompted him to revisit the event, and the looming spectre of his best friend Tully (Graham Mackay-Bruce) only accentuates the feeling.

Those who have read the novel will know what’s coming: a cancer diagnosis that will send into question their friendship and test their relationships. To say more than that would be to spoil it for the uninitiated, but both actors do a fine job of conveying the years between them and

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Themes of communication and lack of understanding, particularly between generations and different artistic traditions, lie at the heart of Anton Chekhov’s 1896 play The Seagull. All of which takes on new meaning in [seagull], an adaptation and transmutation of the play by Belgium’s Olympique Dramatique company, seen as part of Edinburgh International Festival.

reading the words in supertitle, however, the combination of silence and gesture takes us inside both the play’s emotional world and what it is to experience life non-verbally.

Director and co-designer (with Damiaan De Schrijver) Stijn Van Opstal has built a memorable production, for the stark, modern traverse set with a curtain which sometimes divides the audience as well as the distinctive communication of the piece.

And in this world the sound or physical vibration of loudly stamped feet, stage gunshots and brief snatches of spoken text feel richly, masterfully poignant. ✏ David Pollock

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It opens on a play, as young Konstantin (Yana Wuytjens) prepares to show his grand dame actress mother Arkadina (Sofie Decleir) and assorted friends his debut stage work. Its star is Konstantin’s lover Nina (Yousra Boukantar) and among the audience is celebrated novelist Trigorin (Serge Vlerick), both of whom will later make their own connection. Arkadina can’t help scoffing at the work, and troubled, artistic Konstantin’s place in her shadow is reinforced.

Performed almost entirely in Flemish Sign Language by eight actors, to a non-hearing, Flemish audience the new text must seem vibrant and rich.

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Brazilian director Christiane Jatahy performs open surgery on Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 classic, staging a dynamic sequel that is updated and relocated from late 19th century Norway to modern day Brazil. We pick up where Ibsen left off, as Dr Thomas Stockmann, a whistleblower of local corporate malfeasance faces a reified court of public opinion: 11 audience members summoned on stage for jury duty (with no presiding judge). This single majority will determine whether he is, indeed, an enemy of the people. Performed in Portuguese and English, with English subtitles, Stockmann (Academy Award nominee

toxic chemical compound to contaminate the water pipelines of the town’s spa resort.

Moura is prismatic as he glides between the role of the defendant, and himself, giving third person character exposition and sincere overtures to the audience. He is both a vigorous and tender presence: Stockmann is repulsed by the venal myopia of the powers that be, with his incredulity and rage at their conspiracy taking the form of impassioned, spit-heavy invective; but he is equally defeated; quietly lamenting how his exile has been the breakdown of his family (here, Moura makes a case for a compelling oneman show).

The production is at once immersive and at a remove.

Though frequent fourth wall breaks develop a playful intimacy (casual appeals to the

impact of such fragmentation: too much deconstruction has diluted the material’s urgency.

Most distracting, however, is the watery argument of the prosecution - the play’s central thrust - being conquered within minutes. The moral conviction of their scant attack is hard to sustain, and we feel the bloat of its over indexing come hour two.

The play does not prescriptively itemise all of today’s analogous, concurrent crises that threaten truth (the proliferation of super-polluter AI Data Centres, and the Draconian proscription of Palestine Action should naturally come to mind), instead, it ruminates on a broad moribund condition: the wholesale referendum on reality we contend with; a one-two punch that first erodes justice, then our very souls. ✏ Lucy Fitzgerald Photo: Caio Lírio

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In a featureless stone dungeon on Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, Mrs Stern (Ella Kaille) is processed into custody by young German policeman Karl (Brett Temple). Until recently a criminal police officer, this is his first arrest following

promotion into the new political police force. Now, in 1933, he has many new people to arrest.

Mrs Stern is educated and respectable, yet under emerging Nazi rule these qualities don’t place a Jewish woman above suspicion. A librarian at the Prussian State Library has informed on her, and now Karl believes she’s been collecting antisemitic newspaper cartoons to send to ‘Zionist’ organisations abroad. Offered counsel by lawyer Erich (Drew Hirshfield), who’s known to be connected to these organisations, accepting might feel like an admission of guilt in a world where due process no longer applies.

That Mrs Stern’s real-life connection to history isn’t mentioned in text around writer Jenny Lyn Bader’s play feels like reason not to spoiler it here. Ari Laura Kreith directs beautifully, and Mrs Stern is played with elegance and intellectual charm by Kaille, contrasting with the business-like but conflicted sense of justice which Temple brings to Karl.

Yet for all that the piece covers its core ground well, about whether love and empathy can still exist in a totalitarian state, there’s a certain lightness around the real evil Mrs Stern finds herself swept up in. As its envoy, Karl is just too nice from the start. ✏ David Pollock

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Everyone she treats is afflicted by an epidemic of unexplained but indescribable pain, but then the smooth-talking showman and entrepreneur Lucky Mack (Justin Austin) arrives in town, promising everyone freedom from their ills, if only they’ll take a ride on his narcotic carousel.

It emerges that once people give in to his cure, they’re hooked, having to return to the saturnine Mack for hits for the rest of their lives, giving him all of their money and then other, more disfiguring payments. This is viscerally and agonisingly demonstrated

on elderly addict Ivona (Susan Bullock) at the beginning of the second act, before Theresa’s daughter Noy (Gabrielle Turgeon) comes under threat.

With precise and energisingly dramatic music by Missy Mazzoli, played with volume by the Scottish Opera orchestra before Rebecca Ringst’s dazzling set of steel walkways and a blazing neon fairground ride (lit

by Lucy Carter), Royce Vavrek’s libretto is clear and darkly amusing. Under Tom Morris’s direction, this dark fantasy takes on all manner of urgent metaphorical meanings, from the opioid crisis to the rise of all-pervasive populism and propaganda. ✏ David Pollock

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brightest lights, we’re ready to start the show: one which doesn’t just represent disability, but also interweaves accesHHHHH sibility into its framework.

From there, we’re introVENUE: Assembly @ Dance Base duced to a story of smallTIME: until 23 Aug, 1.15pm town homophobia, youthful rebellion, acquired disability, Boys Don’t Dance kicks off with and, ultimately, starting anew. a different kind of interlude: an Despite being a dance show Australian cartoon crow flaps – one aimed at ages eight onto a screen above the audi- and above, no less – there’s ence, to explain that the show a remarkable amount of really is for everyone. With the exposition, and weighty BSL interpreter introduced, themes. However, the heavier details of creative captioning moments are mostly told explained, and previews of the through suggestion, and no show’s loudest sounds and explicit violence is shown

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on stage. For adults, there’s an emotive plotline here, as well as plenty of ways into broaching subjects of gender stereotypes and accessibility in age appropriate ways.

While younger viewers may fidget during these graver interludes, there is also plenty of energy to keep them upbeat: a megamix of vibrantly nostalgic 80s pop, adorable blow-up sheep which drop from the ceiling, and genuinely innovative dance routines featuring disabled and non-disabled performers. Sure to be a powerful conversation-starter for families. ✏ Megan Wallace

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REDACTED: The Coverup of a Cover-up of a Cover-up HHHHH HHH HH VENUE: TIME:

Pleasance Dome until 30 Aug (not 24), 1.55pm

Journalist Marnie Makowski arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, to unpick a conspiracy that braids local murders, alien landings, several of the twentieth century’s biggest

moments, and a search for her missing sister.

That’s the plot summary of REDACTED, but as with any shaggy dog tale, the plot is less important than the journey. That’s not to say that the show doesn’t make sense – given a few viewings and a notepad, you’d probably find it does – but to say that the stars here are four physical performances that are so well-tuned you’ll often forget to pay attention to what’s actually going on.

One of two full runs this year from the international Voloz Collective (the other: The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much at the Pleas-

ance), REDACTED feels like an in-universe play from a Wes Anderson movie, or a Complicité performance written on a caffeine surplus.

What’s on offer are the clean Fringe theatre delights of a show rehearsed within an inch of its life, with every moment packed with smart sight gags and performance beats that might impress even the biggest physical theatre grouch.

Some moments may cause a head-scratch (how did we end up in Princess Diana’s fatal motorcade, again?) but this is an hour of almost uninterrupted invention. ✏ Samuel Cain Photo: Toby Jeffries

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a miniscule portion of Bram Dracula: Stoker’s novel – the chapLucy's Dream ters where Lucy Westenra is

preyed on by the titular vampire – Dracula: Lucy’s Dream is both a visual and literary VENUE: Pleasance at EICC tour-de-force, using astonishTIME: until 29 Aug (not 26), ing puppetry to frame Lucy’s 5.30pm descent into vampirism as an act of violation and psychoFrench-Norwegian company logical devastation.

Plexus Polaire’s puppetry Plagued by insomnia and adaptation of Dracula is so nightmares, this Lucy exists in exquisitely choreographed, so a kind of looking glass world, technically assured, that when where many versions of her the curtain call happens, it – some real, some masked, is somewhat of a shock that some entirely artificial – are only five people take a bow pursued by the looming vam– and none of them is the pire puppet. This is no Sesame undead. Taking as its subject Street Count – elongated,

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hypermobile, and seemingly able to vanish into a cloud of bats thanks to the play’s astonishing use of lighting and dark space – this Dracula is a terrifying proposition entirely suited to the art of puppetry, in which Exorcist-like contortions and animal metamorphoses lean into the source material’s Gothic sensibilities.

Dracula: Lucy’s Dream recognises Lucy’s fate as a horror story: the kind of nightmare that, in some way, happens to women everywhere. It achieves what the best literary adaptations do – speaking to both the past and the present. ✏ Anahit Behrooz

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Cabaret Review Salty Brine: HOW STRANGE IT IS (The Neutral Milk Hotel Show)

alongside Andrew Lloyd Webber, West Side Story and the Buddha, all feature in this exuberant, sprawling, sometimes baffling opus from New York cabaret performer Salty Brine.

He, plus his four-strong band, take us on a wild ride, stitching together teen journal entries with triumphant trumpet and HHHHH HHH HH lots of romantic longing.

The show is based around VENUE: Summerhall Neutral Milk Hotel’s 1998 indie TIME: until 30 Aug (not 24), rock album, In the Aeroplane 9.30pm Over the Sea. Its writer, Jeff Mangum was obsessed with What do mariachi horns, Anne Frank’s The Diary of a sperm, Hanukkah and carrot Young Girl and many of the surflowers have in common? They, real lyrics on the cult album riff

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around her life in hiding, and tragic death. Brine then riffs on the album, through the lens of his own first love and lust. We are transported to an attic in Amsterdam, then bars in the East Village, all soundtracked with Brine’s rich voice.

It’s a maximalist approach, leaving some of the crowd blank-faced as they try to keep up with the interlocking stories. Brine has magnetic energy in spades, and delivers his storytelling project with unwavering conviction, so it’s best just to be his passenger and go with it. ✏ Claire Sawers

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SPRING AWAKENING BASED O N THE PL AY BY F R A NK W EDEKIND

MUSIC BY DUNCAN SHEIK BOOK & LYRICS BY STEVEN SATER

The Drum’n’Bass Aerobics Experience She/They Aug 13, 14, 15, 22, 23 10:30 Aug 7-23 12:30 Aug 26,29 16:15

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Music Review PLASTIC

ancient pasts and visionary futures. Under Kim’s dexterous hands, the instrument she HHHHH HHHH H tells us is over a thousand years old – and now incredibly VENUE: Summerhall rare – summons melodies fit TIME: until 31 Aug (not 24), for an imperial court, but also 8.45pm adrenaline-fuelled soundscapes that wouldn’t be out of In her all-black, hooded place at the club. ensemble, Minyoung Kim cuts The 3D animation behind an immaculate silhouette. her adds atmosphere, but The South Korean musician it’s almost extraneous: Kim opens with a traditional piece mesmerises whether she’s of music for the geomungo: solemnly singing jeongga (a a long, six-string zither. The genre of music dating back notes reverberate through the to the Joseon dynasty), or silence, like arrows flying and head-banging to a drum track, trembling through a forest. one hand on the geomungo What follows is a startlingly like it’s a turntable. cinematic journey deep into PLASTIC is inspired by Kim’s 56

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fixation on the material’s toxicity and malleability: it is both literally in our bloodstreams and symbolically represents who we are. Thinking about widespread climate inaction, the anguish and defiance of Kim’s music is cathartic and transcends language.

In an interlude, she shares that she’s been criticised for “ruining” Korean traditional music. But keeping heritage alive doesn’t mean fixing it into stasis, she feels. Culture is plastic too: and for better and for worse, both shall long outlive us. “So I’m gonna be a rock star now,” Kim says politely.

What she plays next brings the house down. ✏ Xuanlin Tham

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A new Quentin Blake adaptation keeps Katie, four, rapt throughout Image: courtesy of Richmond Theatre

What happened in the show?

Em, there was so many people, and there was a house, and there was a shower, but we couldn’t see the shower. And there was a doggy, and it keeps saying woof, and it was so funny. Then there was a girl. And Mama, there was so many people, but there were actually three people, but there were so many because they dressed up.

What did you like about the show?

I liked all of it.

Was there anything in the show that you didn’t like?

No, all of the things I like.

What was your favourite bit?

And, Mama, yeah, they had this thing, it was a cast, and, it was on the legs and arms.

What does your grown-up think of the show?

I really enjoyed the show, and the kids were totally rapt throughout. The production value was really high, in particular the moving set and so many amazing props, which

Was that your favourite bit of the show?

Yeah.

occasionally sang! It felt like full scale musical theatre.

Would you tell your friends to go to the show?

Yes.

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The Mystery of Pleasance Two

Lyra, ten, enjoys the murder mystery show The Mystery of Pleasance Two secrets and excavating evidence along the way. All the time getting closer and closer to capturing the killer…

What happens in the show?

The Mystery of Pleasance Two is a one-woman show with loads of audience participation. The show starts with a mysterious box containing clues and evidence to a murder. Explore the suspects as you snake around the board collecting clues, solving

What did you like most about the show?

I really liked that it was done by one person although it had lots of characters and that it involved lots of audience participation.

Was there anything you didn’t like?

Not really, it was all pretty fab!

What did your grown-up think about the show?

A superb show which was

engaging and entertaining across the spectrum – the children loved it, and this grown-up had a great time. As ever, and like all sage grownups, I knew who dunnit right from the start (ahem).

Would you tell your friends to go to the show?

Definitely. This show is a must see at the Fringe, particularly for any Robin Stevens fans.

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Madame Chandelier's Grand Theft Opera

Alvie, aged five, is impressed with Delea Shand’s cool giant butterfly wings

kept chucking them and she just went away.

What did you like most about the show?

The Evil Queen and the lady with the big red hair. And that song where she goes [high pitched vocalising].

What happens in the show?

I think there was really just one lady. She keeps putting on new dresses. And cool giant butterfly wings! The blue lights gave energy to the Evil Queen. But she was allergic to the fluffy balls so the kids just

Was there anything you didn’t like?

No. What did your grown-up think about the show?

Canadian opera singer Delea Shand gives it 150% with all her costume changes, Super Mario sounds, playing accor-

dion while being chucked gummy bears, a live childbirth etc. She’s amazing, opera can still feel stuffy sometimes but she puts the rizz into classical music. I realise I need to seek help for my Vinted habit after this show . . .

Would you tell your friends to go to the show?

Yes, especially musical kids or parents. I think Timothée Chalamet should go.

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The Listies 110% Ready We take Oran (eight), Eric (eight) and Jimmy (11) to The Listies: 110% Ready

What happens in the show?

J: They try and leave the house.

E: They show pictures of bums on fruit.

O: Nothing.

What did you like most about the show?

E: Bums on fruit.

J: Bums on fruit.

E [again]: Bums on fruit bums on fruit.

O: Bums on fruit.

Was there anything you didn’t like?

E: When they had to go around asking what we do for chores.

J: When they didn’t ask me what I do for chores. I didn’t have my hand up but I think they still should have asked.

O: No. What did your grown-up think about the show?

We are long time Listies fans – their show was the first one we ever encountered that was as funny for the grown ups as for the kids, and they somehow continue to deliver year after year. 110% Ready sees Rich trying to get ready to leave the house while Matt does everything in his power to undermine him. It was

actually incredibly triggering as someone who had just spent an hour trying to leave the house while being systematically undermined by a child – truly relatable content for all involved.

Would you tell your friends to go to the show?

O: Obviously, it’s The Listies.

J: I think my friends would go to it.

E: Yes. SHOW VENUE: TIME:

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Young Critics at the Fringe We sent the Super Power Agency out into the festivals with a group of newly-trained teen reviewers to suss out the best shows for young people this Fringe Photo: Izzy Reeve

Stanislavski Can’t Save Me From The Apocalypse HHHHH HHHH H VENUE: TIME:

Greenside @ George Street until 22 Aug, 3.05pm

The end is here, but the show must go on! Stanislavski Can’t Save Me From the Apocalypse is the story of five drama teachers at a kids’ theatre summer camp as they try to protect everyone from a

deadly infection. The story, told in reverse, starts two weeks after the apocalypse and ends before the sickness even starts. This backwards storytelling helps the show to feel more hopeful than it otherwise might be, creating a sometimes melancholy, often funny, queer coming of age tale in the same vein as I Saw the TV Glow.

This is a story about girls on the brink of their new, adult lives, trying to remember who they are in the midst of the end of the world. The apocalypse feels like a metaphor for growing up, leaving your

friends and having to take care of others while still grappling with your own immaturity.

Living Room Productions makes the most of the small space they have and the show manages to take a big theme and make it accessible by focusing on the characters’ relationships and how they grow apart. The cast have blinding amounts of potential; trust that you’ll see them again.

A show for anyone looking for new talent, stories of girlhood and hope for dark times. ✏ Zahra Beattie

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The Jolly Fisherman is an intense but realistic portrayal of modern-day racism in East London, following two best HHHHH HHHH H friends struggling to keep their bond alive when their VENUE: Underbelly George Square community starts to change TIME: until 30 Aug, 12.45pm in ways they aren’t prepared for. Thanks to moments of It’s a Tuesday night in 2019 light audience interaction and and best friends Alan and Amir the storytelling throughout, have just got out of school. the audience feels as though What better way to spend they are sitting in the pub with their now-empty afternoons a pint themselves, watching than shooting darts together the lives of these two boys at The Jolly Fisherman. But play out. what happens when the pub The intensity of the music, suddenly shuts down and their lighting and performances friendship begins to strain? contrast with the subtlety of 62

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the racism enacted by the characters, highlighting the polarising effects of this issue both in the play and real life.

This means that sometimes you don’t have space to process everything that’s being said until later, but it does mean you will leave this show thinking deeply about it for a while after.

From darts to damage, The Jolly Fisherman demonstrates the loud impact that can be made by small actions, showing the effects of inequality in the UK today in a performance that is very much worth your time. ✏ Kiri May Weymark-Mains

Our Town Needs A Nando’s HHHHH HHH HH VENUE: TIME:

theSpace on the Mile, run ended

Our Town Needs A Nando’s tells the story of five high school girls living in a small town, where places to go and things to do are limited and pretty

unsafe. The cast of talented young women explore themes of friendship, sexuality and teenage pregnancy in this drama from Hot Mess Productions.

It’s clear that a lot of thought has been given to each of the characters’ backstories and the cast seem to know their roles inside out. We get some insight into each of the five girls’ different situations and their relationships with one another, but it’s often too shallow and leaves a lot of room for interpretation.

Sometimes it felt like the show was trying to cram too much

story into an hour, which left the audience without a full understanding of what was going on. With more structure or a focus on just one or two of the characters, more questions would have been answered. At the same time, the show was not lacking in sincerity and it was clear that the cast really cared about the topics the show was bringing to life.

While this show isn’t the funny comedy it’s billed as, it will leave you with plenty of food for thought. ✏ Gabriela Pascal

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24 - 30 AUG 5:30 PM

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(Joy Powered and Feminine Productions) 17th - 29th August 11:20- 12:20 (1hr)

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“SHARPLY “ SHARPLY FUNNY”” FUNNY

HHHHH HHH HH VENUE: TIME:

Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire) until 30 Aug, 1.30pm

with him quickly and easily.

Adenekan brings his honest reflections on a range of important topics whilst still keeping the show upbeat and threading through his comedic twist on everything.

Highlights include a story about an unlikely meet-cute while on shift at the Oink! hog roast sandwich shop, and hearing about his trip to Nigeria is guaranteed to make you smile. ✏ Holly Gibson

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Ayo Adenekan: Homeland Insecurity

Ayo Adenekan’s stand-up is full of personal anecdotes and memories that tell the story of his experience growing up in Edinburgh as a Black Nigerian man and a member of the LGBTQ+ community.

His performance is laidback and relatable, thanks to his conversational comedic style.

The cave-like basement room at Cabaret Voltaire adds to the intimate atmosphere that allows the audience to connect

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Burning Down the Horse

ing to the Fringe for its third run. From the moment the audience is marched into the wooden horse by Odysseus and his crew, you are imHHHHH HHHH H mersed in a ridiculous journey through Greek mythology.

VENUE: Underbelly Bristo Square Don’t go expecting a TIME: until 30 Aug, 12.35pm faithful adaptation, however.

This show, which could be described as a fun amal“Are you ready to climb inside gamation of Monty Python a giant wooden horse and ride and Horrible Histories, relies into battle?” is one of the least heavily on panto-style audibizarre things you’re likely to ence interaction and practical hear during this energetic jokes which are sure to make and unique take on the story people of all ages laugh out of the Trojan Horse, returnloud. The jokes are well-writ66

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ten and entertaining, though sometimes a bit repetitive, and delivered by a passionate, witty and experienced cast who all seem to genuinely love the show.

If you’re a fan of Greek myths, pure stupidity and comedic adventure, this show will prove to be a fun hour for all ages. ✏ Lauchlan Innes The Super Power Agency is a children’s literacy charity based in Edinburgh who work to help young people in Scotland write their own story. Find out more at superpoweragency.com

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Comedy 09:15

Growing Up with Nits and Fleas theSpace on the Mile, 24–29 Aug

09:30

A Political Breakfast PBH’s Free Fringe @ Greek Gyros Grill, 19–30 Aug

10:00

Alex Prescot: Cellars & Serpents (WIP) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 24–30 Aug 1 British, 1 Immigrant *Continental Breakfast Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Course Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug Zero F*cks theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug

10:15

Wiki Knows Best – The Rest Is Islands Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug, not 24

10:20

House Fly theSpace @ Niddry St, 24–29 Aug Grandad & Me Do Stand Up Comedy Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug, not 25

10:30

Alingon Mitra: Clean Cuts Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug Mountebank Comedy Walk of Edinburgh Meeting Point Outside of Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug

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Sarah Keyworth: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–23 Aug

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The Breakfast Club Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug

10:45

Hilarious History Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug Almost A theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–28 Aug

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4 Better or 4 Worse Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–30 Aug, not 22, 23 Table Reads: New Comedy Script Showcase Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug, not 29 A Kiwi Idiot’s Guide to Great Britain Hoots @ The Apex, 19–30 Aug Comedy Brunch Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 19–30 Aug Bring Yer Bairn Comedy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–31 Aug

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Rose Matafeo: Work in Progress Morning Hour Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug

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0% British – Mornings: An Irish Stand-Up Comedy Show Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug Good Morning Edinburgh Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–31 Aug

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Dr Jimmy: First Steps Into the Gay-niverse Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 19–23 Aug 3’s Comedy: Mornings Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug Not Medically Accurate Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–22 Aug

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The Van Man Can! Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–31 Aug Rachel Creeger: Ultimate Jewish Mother 2026 Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug, not 22, 29 Olivia Xing: Baby of Colour Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Mike Rice: A Work in Progress Show (Testing New Horrible Material) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–29 Aug, not 22

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11:30am Show Live with Adam Morrison Jones Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug Charlie Lewis: Hungry!

Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug

Mary-Kate and Ashley Ruined My Life (WIP) Laughing Horse @ Boston Bar (New Town), 19–30 Aug Brunch Show – Jake Patrick (WIP) Laughing Horse @ Kick Ass Cowgate, 19–30 Aug Wakey Wakey (It’s Time for Laughter) Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 19–30 Aug Documentary Premiere: Freewheelin’ in the Riff Dimension, The Unspecials The Pend, 19–29 Aug, not 21

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Every Day’s A School Day Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug Ian Smith: Talking and Shouting at Eleven Thirty-Five in the Morning (WIP) Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 19–21 Aug Alison Spittle: Finger Guns (Work in Progress) Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 24–28 Aug Alternative Medicine Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–22 Aug

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Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug, not 26

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In Parts Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–22 Aug Angel Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug 101 Rules for a Better World (by Comedians) Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–30 Aug, not 26

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Bed Five Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug Bed Five: A Creative Showcase About Hidden Disability Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20 Aug, 24 Aug 199 Jokes Before Lunchtime: Danny Matinee! theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–29 Aug, not 23, 24

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Ben Ashurst: The Worst Man Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug

Hosted by

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Alfie Dundas Ray Bradshaw Demi Adejuyigbe + MORE

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Mark Simmons: Jokes At Noon PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room, 19–29 Aug Mi Casa es su Casa Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 19–30 Aug The Midlife Mind Flip Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Ryan Mold: Resistant Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 19–30 Aug Catherine Bohart: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Broads in the Attic Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–22 Aug A Silent Disco Dance Tour

by Silent Adventures Meeting Point at Uplands Roast Coffee Shop, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 29 Aug, 30 Aug The Oxford Imps: Improvised Comedy Hour!

Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–30 Aug, not 27 5 Headliners for £10 Hoots @ The Wee Red Bar, Various dates from 21 Aug to 30 Aug Stuart Mitchell – Solo Show Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug An Audience with Charles Manson Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–30 Aug Aaaaaaargh! It’s the One Liner Show Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 19–30 Aug Depths of Wikipedia Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug Cut Off Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 20–30 Aug 1 Hour Of LAFS Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–31 Aug What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Funnier Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug The Over 50s Dating Comedy Game Show Frankenstein Pub, 24–30 Aug Bad Mums Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 20–30 Aug, not 24, 25, 26

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Amy Webber: Joy Ride Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19 Aug

Ayoade Bamgboye: Small Talk (WIP + Q&A) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–20 Aug Abby Wambaugh: Another World Is Possible (A WIP) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 21–25 Aug Lindsey Santoro: It Was Like That When I Got Here Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 19–30 Aug Out Damned Traitor! theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug Lorna Rose Treen: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 26–30 Aug Tom Ward: Post-Millennium Tension (WIP) Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 20–30 Aug

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Chris Cantrill: Rewilding Monkey Barrel Comedy at O’Neill’s (The Tron), 19–29 Aug Sara Fran: Time Snatch Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–22 Aug The Elephant in the Room: An Improvised Comedy Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 24–30 Aug GULP! Assembly Roxy, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Cheryl Hurst: Lots More Mr Nice Guy Hoots @ The Apex, 19–30 Aug

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Auditory Awakenings with Mr Tingles in the House of ASMR PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 19–30 Aug Lenny Sherman: One Of The Good Guys Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug Jeremy Dooley: Daddy Cool Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 19–30 Aug Jade Gebbie: The People Pleaser Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug Seymour Mace Is Covered In Stickers!

Alchemist Cocktail Bar and Restaurant, 19–30 Aug A Comedian’s Guide to Birdwatching Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug Robin Boot’s Rockomedy: Pun to the Hills PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 19–30 Aug

Cyberbully Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 24–30 Aug Tim Biglowe: Plonka PBH’s Free Fringe @ Slow Progress Cafe and Records, 19–29 Aug Adam Bromley: Hyperconnected Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–30 Aug, not 22, 23 Craig Wilson: This Might Be Nothing Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 19–31 Aug Richard Pulsford: Gold Fashioned Jokes Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–31 Aug Callum Straford Does a Show in a Karaoke Bar PBH’s Free Fringe @ SUPERCUBE George Street, 20–28 Aug, weekdays only Dr Kara Kibara – The Love Guru Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 19–23 Aug

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The Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Podcast: Live Recording Hoots @ The Apex, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug Elise Harris: Better Be Best PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 19–29 Aug, not 26 The Cambridge Impronauts Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug PG Hits! The Best in Stand-Up Comedy Without the Rude Bits!

Hoots @ The Apex, Various dates from 21 Aug to 31 Aug

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1 Hour of Clean Comedy Just The Tonic at The Hive, 19–30 Aug Sooz Kempner: Imposter Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–23 Aug Edinburgh Comedy Walking Tour with Ross Leslie The Parliament Arms, 20–30 Aug Bella Hull: Mad Cow Disease Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–30 Aug Rohan Sharma: Sharmy Infinity Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 19–30 Aug It’s a Mute Point theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug

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Hoots @ Potterrow, 20–31 Aug CUT theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug No Ducks Left To Give theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug Sounds Queer to Me Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–29 Aug, not 23 ShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug

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Ben Miller: All the Things That Are Wrong with My Body (WIP) Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 24–31 Aug In Pour Taste: A Comedy Wine Tasting Experience Assembly Rooms, 23 Aug, 30 Aug Cerys Bradley: On Road Signs WIP Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–23 Aug Anyone For Tennis?

Hoots @ The Apex, 19–30 Aug, not 23 Brit Barron: CHURCH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug, not 24 5 Mistakes That Changed History Assembly George Square, 19–30 Aug, not 24 CIA Shaman Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–23 Aug

12:45

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12:50

Hajar, Like Badger Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug The Candidates Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–30 Aug Simon Munnery The Stand Comedy Club, 19–31 Aug A History Comedy Show Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug Strangers Are Just Freaks You Haven’t Met Yet Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–30 Aug Magic Mic Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug Biff to the Future Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–30 Aug, not 26 The Adventures of Jasper Cromwell Jones Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug, not 24

12:55

Bread and Circuses Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–31 Aug Not Black Enough theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug

13:00

Eleanor Morton: The Mermaid Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 19–30 Aug, not 24, 25 2 Muslim 2 Furious 3: Sharia? I Hardly Know Her! Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug Alex Love: How To Win A Pub Quiz 2026 The Gilded Saloon, 19–31 Aug Derek Demko’s Last Day of Camp!

Assembly George Square, 19–30 Aug Gareth Gwynn: Cyril Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug

British. Broken. Chinese.

(WIP) Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug An Afternoon With Clinton Baptiste Just the Tonic Nucleus, 20–22 Aug Celine Kuklowsky: Bed Boy Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug, not 26 Rob Auton: JUPITER Assembly Roxy, 19–30 Aug Hunter Gatherer: The Agricultural Revolution and How It Ruined My Life Just the Tonic at The Caves, 24–30 Aug The Asian Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Isabelle Glinn On Ice Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Pierre Novellie: Do the One About...

Assembly George Square Studios, 19–29 Aug Old Comedians Are Funny Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 19–30 Aug Eppie Brilliant and Gareth Harrison: Alright Now Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–22 Aug Run Fat Boy Run Alchemist | St James Quarter, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 30 Aug

13:05

The Full Irish PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carbon, 19–30 Aug A Comedy Tapas PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 19–30 Aug Ed Gaughan: The Emperor Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–29 Aug

13:10

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug 100% Badgers 2: Badgers vs Hedgehogs with Matt Hobs Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 24–30 Aug Kim Hope: Lather, Rinse, Repeat Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–23 Aug Bone Man Rides Again PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 19–30 Aug

13:15

Improv Island Discs PBH’s Free Fringe @ SUPERCUBE George Street, 24–27 Aug

Paddystinian PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carbon, 19–26 Aug Luke Ditchfield: Please Stop Punching Me Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, 29 Aug 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 19–30 Aug Fred MacAulay in Conversation Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 21–30 Aug 100% Funny Feckers Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 19–30 Aug An Unbiased Afternoon with Allaster McKallaster Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 19 Aug Silly and Surviving Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman Hoots @ The Wee Red Bar, 19–30 Aug, not 24, 25 Dude, Where’s My Visa?

Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge, 20–30 Aug, not 22, 26, 29 From Goo to You in 3.7 Billion Years Braw Venues @ Hill Street, Various dates from 19 Aug to 30 Aug Mark Row: A Class Act Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 19–30 Aug Comedy Compilation Show Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug Jake Baker: The Gentle Men’s Club Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug 4 Teachers, For Teachers Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug The Political Party with Matt Forde Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20 Aug

13:20

Murder She Hoped Just The Tonic at Westside Rodeo, 25–30 Aug Trauma Made Me Hot PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pilgrim, 20–30 Aug, not 26 I Am A Snail Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–30 Aug Mr Boy: The Beauty Contest for Boys Assembly George Square Studios, 19–31 Aug, not 23

13:25

Alex Camp: Dopamine Rat Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–31 Aug Ania Magliano: Peach Fuzz Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–22 Aug Mary O’Connell: Breadwinner – Work in Progress PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse Hotel, 20–30 Aug

13:30

Nish Kumar

Larry Dean Grace Campbell Rosie Jones

13:35

Phil Green: The Boy Who Nearly Grew Up (WIP) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–30 Aug Chris Forbes: Father Christmas Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug, not 24 No, I’m Not Overthinking It. Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 24–30 Aug Felt Nowt: Nerds Assemble Alchemist Cocktail Bar and Restaurant, 20–31 Aug, not 25, 26 Ayo Adenekan: Homeland Insecurity Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 19–30 Aug Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe Pleasance Courtyard, 19–29 Aug, not 20, 27 Lord of the Zings: A Kiwi Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug Whackadoo Gone Wild Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–30 Aug Gary G Knightley: Bear Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug A Silent Disco Dance Tour

by Silent Adventures Meeting Point at Uplands Roast Coffee Shop, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 29 Aug, 30 Aug Star Wars: The Next Generation PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 20–30 Aug, not 22, 26 4 Antipodeans Walk into a Bar Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 19–30 Aug UK Pun Off Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–30 Aug, not 22, 23 Comedy Quickie: See Lots and Lots of Comedians Doing Very Short Sets Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 20–30 Aug, not 24, 25, 26

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Hasan Al-Habib Abi Clarke Kemah Bob Imogen Andrews + MORE

HOW TO FRINGE: a chat show with thom tuck Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Alastair Clark: On The Record PBH’s Free Fringe @ Slow Progress Cafe and Records, 19–30 Aug 2026 Scottish Comedy Festival’s Pick of the Fringe Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 19–31 Aug She/They Venue 13, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug Free Footlights Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug Rachel Fairburn: Vexy Beasts Monkey Barrel Comedy at O’Neill’s (The Tron), 19–30 Aug

13:40

Chris Grace: 88% Assembly George Square Studios, 20–31 Aug A Bunch of Characters – Hugo Hayes Hoots @ The Apex, 19–22 Aug Alt or Nothing: Alternative Comedy Showcase Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–31 Aug An IQ137 Cheerio (Work in Progress) Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 19–23 Aug Stuart Thomas: Bad Fatty Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug

13:45

Darren Walsh: It’s a Quarter Tutu Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 24–30 Aug My Name is Spring Day and Other Stupid Facts Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug Ashley Haden Presents Crosswords Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Dad, White and Blue Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 19–30 Aug 1.45.8 AuDHD: The Dopamine-ing of Life (Autism and Cat Mix) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Will Adamsdale: AI, AI, Oh... (Or How I Wrote a Hit Sitcom with ChatGPT But We’re Not Talking Now) Underbelly, George Square, 19–29 Aug

Listings

10 Things They Hate About Me Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 19–30 Aug George Coppen: Won’t Be Long!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait, 19–30 Aug, not 24 #BorderlandsComedy Laughing Horse @ Boston Bar (New Town), 19–30 Aug Stand-Up (Sat Down) with Ian Wood and Micky Burns The Speakeasy at The Royal Scots Club, 24–28 Aug Ian TC: Ian-Somnia Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 19–30 Aug, not 24 3’s Comedy: Lunchtime Laughing Horse @ Kick Ass Cowgate, 19–30 Aug

Harriet Kemsley: Floozy (Work in Progress) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–26 Aug The Sound Within with Eisenberg and Stern theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug Ari Eldjárn: The Icelander’s Guide to Europe Monkey Barrel Comedy, 27–30 Aug

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Les Keen: Dinosaur (How to Wipe Out the Human Race) Just The Tonic at The Hive, 19–30 Aug Scary Queen of Scots Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug, not 24

13:55

Oops! We Lost a Nuke Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–30 Aug

14:00

SAT 22 AUG 11.30PM

14:05

Sophie Sconcia: Mother Superior Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug, not 20 Thermos Museum Books PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait, 19–31 Aug, not 25 The Past Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Cool WIP Club Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug

14:10

Distraction Hero – A Stand-Up Show PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 19–22 Aug Aaagony Aunts Hoots @ The Apex, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Alan Palmer (A Little Bit Gay) Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug The Gaffe Presents Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–30 Aug John-Luke Roberts: What I Talk About When I Run About, Talking Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–30 Aug

Everything I’ve Learned Since Encountering A Serial Killer – Work in Progress PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 23–30 Aug The Oxford Revue presents: Back to Revueture Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–30 Aug Chef! Gimme One of Everything!

C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 24–30 Aug

14:15

James Regal is a People Pleaser Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–31 Aug Obituary Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug, not 25 100 Things You Are Overthinking – An Improv Stand-up Comedy Game Show!

Alchemist Cocktail Bar and Restaurant, 19–30 Aug Murder, She Didn’t Write Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug Will Sebag-Montefiore: Game of Phones Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 19–30 Aug Hanna Shammas Takes It To Heart Underbelly, George Square, 24–30 Aug

14:20

Pitch It Good – Live The Gilded Saloon, 28–30 Aug Muffins Paradise in The Vault, 19–22 Aug What’s Happening Now? Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 20–30 Aug, not 26 Lilla Multipass: Woman(33) Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Carwyn Blayney: Work in Progress Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Tacky Teacher Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug Fabled: The Improvised Fantasy Adventure Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug Betty Thompson: Work in Prosecco The Gilded Saloon, 23–25 Aug Lizzy Sunshine Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug, not 24

Richard Pulsford: Yorkshire Dad, Immigrant Mum Hoots @ The Apex, 20–31 Aug

14:25

Alfie Moore: Fair Cop – Live!

Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge, 19–30 Aug Alex Franklin: Kiss Me x Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug ¡Ay! Papi: Jilberto Soto Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–30 Aug The Beat Goes On Paradise in Augustines, 19–22 Aug Stuart Goldsmith: Canary Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 19–30 Aug Serena Smart: Little Miss Sunshine WIP Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug

14:30

The Comedians Paradise Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge, 19–30 Aug No Notes Improv PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pizza Geeks Easter Road, 19–21 Aug A Pub Quiz for D**kheads Hoots @ The Wee Red Bar, 19–30 Aug, not 24, 25 Destroy Capitalism or Die Tryin’ (WIP) Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–31 Aug Harun Musho’d: A History of the Last Conservative Government, In Their Own Stupid Words PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pilgrim, 19–30 Aug, not 25 0% Shame: A Late Night Comedy Show at Lunchtime Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 20–30 Aug, not 26 101 Comedy Club Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 19–30 Aug Stand-up Philosophy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug The Durham Revue: Raiders of the Lost Laughs Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug Extraordinary Alien Le Monde, 24–30 Aug Animal?

Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 24–30 Aug Adrian Minkowicz: Latin America PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–30 Aug

Non-Threatening Boys Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–23 Aug Olivia Raine Atwood: Oops Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug Paddy Seery: Hereditary Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 19–30 Aug Rachel Creeger: “Queen of the Jews!”

Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug, not 22, 29 Marina di Marzo: Love in the Time of Fifth Grade Braw Venues @ Hill Street, 19–20 Aug Olaf Falafel Presents: I Used to Work in a Helium Balloon Factory Until they Let Me Go Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 20–30 Aug

14:35

Marjolein Robertson: Clouds (WIP) The Stand Comedy Club, 19–30 Aug Jill’s Tupperware Party Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 24 The Grumpy Magicians Present: What Could Possibly Go Wrong!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse Hotel, 19–22 Aug

14:40

Showstopper! The Podcast – Live Recording Pleasance Courtyard, 19 Aug Gerry Carroll: Young Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug Aidan Jones: Chopin’s Nocturne Assembly George Square Studios, 19–31 Aug Sarah Bradley: How to Write a Romcom Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Ellie Summerling’s Tomato Soup Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug All the Animals: Ranked (by Comedians) Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Jody Kamali: This is My Dad Assembly George Square, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Alexander Bennett: All It Takes PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 19–30 Aug Bron Lewis: Chaos Pleasance Courtyard, 19 Aug

Hosted by

Nish Kumar

Larry Dean Grace Campbell Rosie Jones

Hasan Al-Habib Abi Clarke Kemah Bob Imogen Andrews + MORE

Tim Vine: Sillypun Valley Pleasance Courtyard, 24–30 Aug

14:45

Cyclopath Stand-Up and Songs Vol 3 Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug, not 24 4 Aussies, For Aussies Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 19–30 Aug Raul Kohli: Makes It Up As He Goes Along Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–30 Aug, not 26 The Cringe Factor: Rock’n’Roll Part 2 Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Wood and Crook: Wooden Crook PBH’s Free Fringe @ Slow Progress Cafe and Records, 19–30 Aug Butter Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Eat Pray Cult Laughing Horse @ Coco Boho, 19–30 Aug, not 24 The Thinking Drinkers’ Great British Pub Ride Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 19–30 Aug Freya Parker: An Hour Of Decay!

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug Gavin Webster: Proper Jokes On Tyne Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 19–31 Aug Daniel Downie: Alba Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 19–30 Aug Australia: A Comedian’s Guide PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Seymour Mace’s Other Show!

Alchemist Cocktail Bar and Restaurant, 24–30 Aug

14:50

Cosmopolitan – Aliki Tsakoumi Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–29 Aug Em Stroud: Navigating Life C ARTS | C venues | C alto, 19–23 Aug Absolute Nickhead Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Eric’s Tales of the Sea – A Submariner’s Yarn Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug

Listings

Mark Silcox: Gold Trading Sucks, I Lost Everything.

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 19–30 Aug The Stand at Edinburgh Food & Drink Academy: The Great Big Comedy Cook Off The Stand at Edinburgh Food & Drink Academy, 22 Aug, 29 Aug Struan Logan: Beertender (WIP) Alchemist | St James Quarter, 19–21 Aug International Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ Kick Ass Cowgate, 19–30 Aug Michael John Ciszewski: Mother, Superior Bedlam Theatre, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Now That’s What I Call Irish Stand-Up Comedy!

Vol 1 Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 19–30 Aug Adele Cliff: Work in Progress Hoots @ Potterrow, 20–30 Aug, not 26 100% Irish Beef – An Irish Crowd Work Show Laughing Horse @ Boston Bar (New Town), 19–30 Aug Bits ‘n’ Pieces Alchemist | St James Quarter, 23–31 Aug, not 29 Jim Smith: Work in Progress The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 19 Aug 1 MC and 3 Absolute Killers (of Comedy!)

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 19–31 Aug Joe Sib: Aggie – A Comedy About Moms Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug (Some Guy Called) Dave Joke of the Fringe Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug, not 25

Another Day Ruined with Jack Dee, Seann Walsh and Sara Morgan The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20 Aug The Edinburgh Society of Unapologetically Imperfect Mothers Just the Tonic Nucleus, 29–30 Aug Mike Blaha: Pivotal Nomad Le Monde, 22–30 Aug Mark Watson: Sometimes People Are Being Over-Cautious When They Say Work-In-Progress, But This Truly Is Rough The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–30 Aug Locomotive For Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Good Boy Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–31 Aug Michelle Ahern: Are We There Yet? Paradise in Augustines, 24–30 Aug He Was a Punk, She Did Ballet Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 19–23 Aug

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Irish Comedy Headliners Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug Krystal Evans: I’m Gonna Die in a Ditch (WIP) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19 Aug Susan Morrison: Swearing, Shit and Shagging – Scotland’s Filthy History The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–30 Aug Anna Thomas: How to Juggle a Ferret Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 19–30 Aug Eric Rushton: Could Well Be In Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–30 Aug Paul McDaniel: Harder Better Faster Paul-er The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 19–20 Aug One: The Musical Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–29 Aug, not 23

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Veterans v Civilians Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug Mark Simmons: Jokes At Noon PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room, 28–29 Aug Amy Matthews: Definitions of Toast Monkey Barrel Comedy at O’Neill’s (The Tron), 20–30 Aug, not 26 Christian Dart: GUMSHOE! Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug A Silent Disco Dance Tour

by Silent Adventures Meeting Point at Uplands Roast Coffee Shop, 20–30 Aug, not 24, 25, 26 A Clean Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 19–30 Aug Tim Key: Loganberry Pleasance Courtyard, 24 Aug Leith Laughs – Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Brass Monkey Leith, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 29 Aug, 30 Aug LMAOF (for OF.TV) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 31 Aug

FRI 21 AUG 11.30PM

Stuart Mitchell and Festival Friends Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug She Beast – WIP Alchemist | St James Quarter, 19 Aug Jodie Mitchell: John Travulva Finds His Father (But Only to Get an Irish Passport) [Work in Progress] Monkey Barrel Comedy at O’Neill’s (The Tron), 19 Aug Emoji: The Hieroglyphs of Our Time, or how I learned to stop worrying and send the risky text C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Tom Houghton – New Stuff PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room, 19–27 Aug, not 23 Adele Birkmyre: Total Chaos Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 29 Aug Improbotics Presents: Artificial Reality Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug Grace Mulvey: Gigantica Assembly George Square, 19–30 Aug Comedy Headliners Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, Various dates from 20 Aug to 28 Aug Comedy Bingo Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–31 Aug, not 25 Anime-Zing! Game Show Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–30 Aug, not 26

15:05

Michael Brunström: William Tell vs the Algorithm Hoots @ Potterrow, 19 Aug 30, Burty and Thriving PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 19–30 Aug MC Hammersmith: Ice Ice Nepo Baby Assembly George Square Studios, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Thom Tuck: Heartwarming Animal Content Hoots @ Potterrow, 20–31 Aug

15:10

Traumedy: A Guide to Being a Fabulous Homeless Addict Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug Adam Riches: The Critic’s Way Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug

Geoff Norcott: Basic Bloke 2 – There’s No Bloke Without Fire Underbelly, Bristo Square, 24–30 Aug Every Single Sound in the World Greenside @ George Street, 24–29 Aug CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–23 Aug Bob Graham – Tap Dancing on a Sinking Ship Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Shine Just The Tonic at The Hive, 19–22 Aug Lucas Jefcoate: If I’m Not Somebody, I’m Nobody Assembly Roxy, 19–30 Aug Henry Paker – Pencil Case Preview Just the Tonic Nucleus, 19–22 Aug Proud Father, Exhausted Dad PBH’s Free Fringe @ SUPERCUBE Cowgate, Various dates from 19 Aug to 26 Aug Silky in ‘No, YOU’RE Poster Syndrome’ The Stand Comedy Club 2, 19–30 Aug Lew Fitz: Sweet Nothings (WIP) Just The Tonic at The Hive, 24–30 Aug The Manchester Revue Just The Tonic at Subway, 20–30 Aug

Alex Leam: Two Turntables and a Microphone PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Prateek Kohli: Denial PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 19 Aug Billy Kirkwood: Mayhem Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 19–31 Aug Rizal Van Geyzel: Arrested Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug The Buddha Wears Prada Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 19–30 Aug, not 24

15:15

£0 In My Savings, And A Fox In My Kitchen Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–31 Aug Michael McPheat is BRUTAL! Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Paul Merton and Suki Webster’s Improv Show Pleasance Courtyard, 19–23 Aug 100 Things You Are Overthinking – An Improv Stand-up Comedy Game Show!

Alchemist Cocktail Bar and Restaurant, 19–30 Aug An Afternoon With Clinton Baptiste Just the Tonic Nucleus, 20–22 Aug Jew-O-Rama Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug Mary Flanigan: Scream If You Want To Go Slower Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug

Tom Neenan: Portrait of a Tom as a Young Neenan Underbelly, George Square, 19–31 Aug Lorna Rose Treen (WIP) Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 19 Aug Laughing Horse Clean Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug Guilt Free Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–30 Aug Hannah and Kat: Pretty Pretty Princess PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 20–30 Aug Jokers in the Pack Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 19–30 Aug A Complete Idiot’s Guide to New Zealand Laughing Horse @ Kick Ass Cowgate, 19–30 Aug

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Deborah Frances-White

Ali Woods Emmanuel Sonubi Felicity Ward

Alfie Dundas Ray Bradshaw Demi Adejuyigbe + MORE

15:20

100% Badgers with Matt Hobs Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug Lance Mao: The Pig with the Dragon Tattoo Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug 30 and F*cked: Alessandra Ford Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug Sofie Hagen – I Think Some of This Is My Fault Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug, not 24

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Will Davies: Heroic Scale Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–31 Aug 0% Faithful: Can You Solve The Traitors Murders?

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 19–30 Aug

15:30

The Brush Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug Ruby Wax: Absolutely Famous Pleasance Courtyard, 25–29 Aug

15:35

Rosalie Minnitt: Clementine 2 Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Danny Ward: The Holiday PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 19–30 Aug Fatiha El-Ghorri: Cockney Stacking Doll Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug

15:40

Fil Milton... Is a One-Liner Comedian PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pizza Geeks Easter Road, 22–30 Aug Humdinger Words for Lollygaggers and Fuddy-Duddies Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 25–31 Aug 1 Irish 1 English: A Stand-up Comedy Show Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug Speed Dating an Italian Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–31 Aug Still Got It: Back Again!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pilgrim, 19–30 Aug Carl Carzana THE Comedian Creative Genius Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug Alexis Sakellaris: CHILD STAR (Work in Progress) Gilded Balloon Patter House, 20–30 Aug, not 24 Jon Gibbons – Real Adult Man (WIP) Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–20 Aug Richard Wooflord: Daft Junk PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pizza Geeks Easter Road, 19–21 Aug John Achkar: His country is collapsing. He’s having a baby. So obviously, this is the right year for a Lebanese comedian you’ve never heard of to try English stand-up for the first time.

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug Katie Pritchard is Sir Elton Scone Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug

Molly McBride: Work in Progress The Gilded Saloon, 23–30 Aug

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The Limerence PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse Hotel, 20–30 Aug The Ewart Bros present: Fraudcast The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 22–23 Aug Get Your Geek On: A Nerdy Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 19–30 Aug, not 25 ...Eventually by James Beckett Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug Manogram – A Man with Breast Cancer. Stories of Confusion, Disbelief, Irony and Downright Ridiculousness Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Jim Smith: Work in Progress The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 29–30 Aug 55 Minutes of Adequately Amusing Jokes And Stories From An Irishman Who Recently Turned 67 PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 19 Aug Movieoke!

Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 25 Aug I REGRET THIS ALREADY Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug 100% Funny Feckers Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 19–30 Aug Anti-Fascist Pasta Night Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 19–30 Aug Tam Cowan: A Pee With Pele (And Lots More P*sh) The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 19–28 Aug, weekdays only Matt Hollins – Greatest Hits!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 20–30 Aug, not 25 Shaggers Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug

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Alistair Barrie: Rabbits Don’t Fart Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–22 Aug Felicity Ward: I Wish I Could Come Out of My Shell Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 19–30 Aug

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Leo Hincks: Emotional Cowboy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–31 Aug 5 Headliners for £10 Hoots @ The Wee Red Bar, 19–30 Aug, not 24, 25 Ruby Carr: Bite Me Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug John O’Keeffe: Not My Finest Hour (WIP) Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug Fool On Comedy Crew Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 23–31 Aug

15:55

Zoe Brownstone: How To Be Happy All The Time PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 19–30 Aug

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SAT 22 AUG 11.30PM

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Tom Sainsbury: Lessons Not Learnt Assembly George Square, 19–23 Aug

16:10

Gabey Lucas: Check Out This Potato That Looks Like a Beluga Whale Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–31 Aug, not 24

Dee Allum: Raumdeuter Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug

16:15

Will Mars: A Year in Augusts Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Improversity Challenge Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–23 Aug Chinese AF Edinburgh Thistle Hotel, 19–22 Aug Bloomin’ Late Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 19–30 Aug, not 24 James Barr: A Punchy Title (WIP) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug Much Ado About Climate: An Interactive Improv Show Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 24–25 Aug Georgia Polly-Taylor: Very Hot. Very Messy.

Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug INDY! Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20–30 Aug, not 26 John Kearns: Tilting at Windmills Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug Affirmation (WIP) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 19–21 Aug The Bite: Mixed-Bill Stand-Up Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Bruce Devlin: Mummy Loves M&S The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 19–30 Aug Sid Singh: Love Bombing Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug Burger and a Pint: Treats for the Soul Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug Chindian Express – Interracial Comedy Ride Edinburgh Thistle Hotel, 25–28 Aug

16:20

This Is My Baby: Live Podcast!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug, 30 Aug From The Inside Out PBH’s Free Fringe @ Fingers Piano Bar, 25 Aug Em Humble: Lady of the Lakes Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug

Gareth Mutch Means Well The Stand Comedy Club, 19–31 Aug Mel Hudson: Richard Ashcroft Revived My Libido Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug Tamsyn Kelly: Rat’s Ass Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 20–30 Aug Will & Noah: Dinner Dinner Chicken Winner Underbelly, George Square, 19–31 Aug Amanda Hursy: Carted Gilded Balloon Patter House, 22 Aug Kwami Odoom and Jack Henry: Support Group Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug, not 22 Gareth Waugh: Is Pepsi OK? Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug Scout Boxall: God’s Favourite Assembly George Square, 19–30 Aug, not 24

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Tom Ballard: Be Funny Challenge (Impossible) Monkey Barrel Comedy at O’Neill’s (The Tron), 19–30 Aug Side Quest C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 24–30 Aug

16:30

David Tsonos: Club Comedian Laughing Horse @ Kick Ass Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 24 James Beatty: I’m Not Busy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug A Silent Disco Dance Tour

by Silent Adventures Meeting Point at Uplands Roast Coffee Shop, 20–30 Aug, not 24, 25, 26 Brennan Reece: Live PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room, 19–30 Aug Rule of Threes Laughing Horse @ Boston Bar (New Town), Various dates from 19 Aug to 27 Aug The Real Housewife of Scotland Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–30 Aug Basil Bottler: Don’t Tell No One Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19 Aug Enrico Touché: Hot Knees Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–31 Aug

Hannah Gadsby is Getting Ready (WIP) Pleasance Courtyard, 26–30 Aug Aaaaaaargh! It’s the One Liner Show Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 19–30 Aug Connor Burns: FLOW (Plus Support) Edinburgh Playhouse , 22 Aug Aditya Mayya Pretends to Be Sad Just The Tonic at The Hive, 19–30 Aug Always A Silver Lining PBH’s Free Fringe @ SUPERCUBE Cowgate, 24–27 Aug (2026 Greek Comedian of the Year) George Zacharopoulos: The Meaning of Life (Maybe) Just The Tonic at The Hive, 19–30 Aug, not 24, 25, 26, 27 Happy Hour – Stella Graham PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 19–30 Aug 60 Minutes About Scotland Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 19–30 Aug, not 24

16:35

Couplet: Folk Marry Kill Assembly George Square Studios, 19–30 Aug Barcelona Comedy Tapas: Bite-Sized Stand-Up Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–29 Aug Omar Badawy: Guided Detour Pleasance Courtyard, 19–28 Aug Emmeline Downie: Gail Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Chris Rutter: Ignorance Is Chris The Stand Comedy Club 2, 19–30 Aug Garrett Millerick: We Tried it Your Way Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug, not 24 3’s Comedy: Afternoons Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug Raj Poojara: Dice Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug 1 Big Aussie Showcase Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug

16:40

Big Value Showcase Just the Tonic at The Caves, 22 Aug, 29 Aug Ed Mulvey: For Sale – Dead Dog, Never Worn PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carbon, 19–30 Aug

Hosted by

Nish Kumar

Larry Dean Grace Campbell Rosie Jones

Hasan Al-Habib Abi Clarke Kemah Bob Imogen Andrews + MORE

Eva Peroni: Jungled Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug Ben’s Book Club Assembly George Square Studios, 19 Aug

16:45

Ed Night: We’ll Be Alright, Darling Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug Aarian Mehrabani: How’s Your Head?

Underbelly, George Square, 19–31 Aug Stories From the Office of a Sex Dungeon Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug Lab Rats: A Science Gameshow Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug Jack Dee: Jack’s Joke Show Assembly Rooms, 19–23 Aug 0% British – Afternoons: An Irish Stand-Up Comedy Show Alchemist Cocktail Bar and Restaurant, 19–31 Aug Chris Parker: Take A Good Hard Look At Me Pleasance Courtyard, 24–30 Aug Girlbosses and Billionaires theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–29 Aug Alex Mason: Obsessed PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carbon, 19–30 Aug

16:50

Two Guys, One GCSE Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–30 Aug One Man Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Sami Abu-Wardeh: Palestine - Peace de Resistance Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug Britney: Holy Mackerel!

Pleasance Courtyard, 19–21 Aug Lorraine Hoodless: Mean PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pilgrim, 19–30 Aug, not 24 David Alnwick: Magician.

Not Creepy.

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 19–30 Aug Kitty’s Salon of Dreams Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–30 Aug Rob Moriarty: Sick in the Head Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug

Listings

GamesMaster: A Stand-Up’s Guide to Escape Rooms Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–30 Aug Mitch Benn: Asking Elvis Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–31 Aug Gregor Fisher: An (Early) Evening With Gregor Fisher Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Ed Gamble: Work in Progress Pleasance Courtyard, 19–24 Aug An Idiot’s Guide to Murder Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 19–20 Aug Friz Frizzle: A Certain Appeal PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Magic and Mishaps: Stand-Up Comedy Magic Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–31 Aug Ana Little: Dating Through the Ages Laughing Horse @ Coco Boho, 19–30 Aug, not 24 I Have No Pension... Did I Mention Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 21–30 Aug Marc Burrows in the Ten Best Songs of All Time Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 19–30 Aug Closure Cabaret Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–31 Aug

Maisie Adam Presents: Comedy at the Fringe Pleasance Courtyard, 25 Aug The Frank Carson Story Le Monde, 19–30 Aug, not 24 The End of Reason Just The Tonic at Westside Rodeo, 20–30 Aug Funny Cluckers: Best of the Fest – Free Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug Emmy Fyles: Not Like That, You’re Doing It Wrong Alchemist | St James Quarter, 19–30 Aug, not 22, 29 2 Wongs and a White Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 19–23 Aug Ed Byrne: Work in Progress Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 24–30 Aug Candace Bryan: Don’t Be Ridiculous, Everybody Wants This Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug 28.06.1980 (or How A Fake Version of Deep Purple Brought Rock Music to Mexico) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Slow Progress Cafe and Records, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Jack Ansett: Looks Like A Bit Of Me! Assembly George Square Studios, 20–30 Aug Rosie Jones: I Can’t Tell What She’s Saying Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug The Pleb’s Pow Wow Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Around the World in 80 Puns Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug Gyles Brandreth: Up Memory Lane!

Assembly George Square, 19–30 Aug Caroline McEvoy: RAGIN’ (Work in Progress) Assembly George Square Studios, 19 Aug Improv on Demand Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–30 Aug

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Christopher Beanland: Hipster Hell – Small Plates Ruined My Life (WIP) PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 19–30 Aug Leslie Bloom Solves a Murder Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–22 Aug Impromptunes – The Completely Improvised Musical Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug

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A Feast of Comedy Alchemist | St James Quarter, 19–31 Aug, not 22, 29 Artificially Intelligent Procrastinating Pundit Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge, 19–30 Aug Laura Lexx: Work in Progress The Gilded Saloon, 19–27 Aug Nate Kitch Replica Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Harry Stachini: Lobster Hoots @ The Apex, 19–30 Aug Caitriona Dowden: Sesh Head PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carbon, 19–30 Aug LMAOF (for OF.TV) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 31 Aug BDP Presents: Marisol Soledad WIP Sharing Underbelly, Cowgate, 25 Aug Story Platform The Gilded Saloon, 28 Aug 007 Tons of Laughs – World Comedy from Japan, Europe and Beyond Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug Tom Cashman: NPC (Nearly Proficient Comedian) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–30 Aug Absolute Monopoly Assembly George Square, 19–30 Aug East Infection Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 19–29 Aug Kat Ronson: Millennial Girl (WIP) Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–30 Aug

FRI 21 AUG 11.30PM

John Tothill: Close Your Eyes With Holy Dread For He On Honey-Dew Hath Fed, And Drunk The Milk Of Paradise (WIP) Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug Crybabies: Eye Infections Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 19 Aug Maxx Eddy: Bi Meets World Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Gags Army Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug Kate Hammer: Government Approved Comedian Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry Street), 20–30 Aug Sofar Comedy Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19 Aug Mat Wills: My Wife Took My Dad to a Brothel (I Drove) Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 19–30 Aug Hypnotist Matt Hale: Funbelievable! 90s Rewind Gilded Balloon Patter House, 20–31 Aug Adele Birkmyre: Total Chaos Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 30 Aug Harvey Cobb: Pink Boots and an Alcoholic Sock Puppet Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Phil O’Shea: Something About Dogs Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry Street), 19 Aug The Gaffe Showcase Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–30 Aug Comfortable Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug Deborah Frances-White: DreamDate Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 23 Aug Hannah Morton: Crushed The Gilded Saloon, 29–30 Aug

17:05

The Leeds Tealights: SPF5000 Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug Sketchy Comedy: Where Art and Comedy Collide Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug, not 24

17:10

Adrian Minkowicz: The Hand of God PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–30 Aug

This Is Your Trial! The Fully-Improvised Comedy Courtroom Hoots @ The Apex, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Your Choice Amanda Royce ZOO Playground, 19–23 Aug Kat Higgins: In Memory of Me Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug Hannah Byczkowski: Killer Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug #1 Son: The Tale of an Alternative Arab Comedian and His Father Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–31 Aug Alex La: Fool as Hell Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–29 Aug, not 23

17:15

Danny O’Brien: Sure Look, Be Grand.

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 19–31 Aug Milo Edwards: Catamaran Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 19–30 Aug, not 21, 22, 23 1 Pill, 2 Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill: A Matrix Parody Musical PBH’s Free Fringe @ Slow Progress Cafe and Records, 19–30 Aug, not 25 James Gardner: Good Afternoon Hoots @ The Wee Red Bar, 29–30 Aug 2 Boys, 1 Bucket Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 19–30 Aug After Arthur PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 19–30 Aug, not 22 Jollybox Party Games PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 19–30 Aug Alcohol Is Good For You Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 19–30 Aug, not 25 1979: Persianality Disorder Laughing Horse @ Coco Boho, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Feral Daydreams Greenside @ George Street, 24–29 Aug Rory o Hanlon: Honestly Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 19–30 Aug

17:20

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug

Hosted by

Deborah Frances-White

Ali Woods Emmanuel Sonubi Felicity Ward

Alfie Dundas Ray Bradshaw Demi Adejuyigbe + MORE

Andrew and Carrie: A Night of Comedy, Violins and Violence Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–30 Aug Asian, But Wrong Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–30 Aug Improvised Couples Therapy Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Phil Nichol: Aren’t We Lucky Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug The Circus of Public Opinion Just The Tonic at Westside Rodeo, 24–30 Aug The Stand at The Scotsman The Stand at The Scotsman, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 28 Aug, 29 Aug 48 Chicken Nuggets in a Sequin Dress Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug Hoani Hoani Hoani Must Be Funny in a Rich Man’s World Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug Chris Turner: In The Moment Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug The Cambridge Footlights Tour Show 2026 Pleasance Dome, 19–30 Aug, not 24

17:25

Annie Boyle: To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug The Glitch Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–22 Aug Zoe Wohlfeld: Dog Funeral Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug

17:30

How Now Brown Rao Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug Stefania Licari: I Can Make You Italian in 55 Minutes Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–31 Aug Sam Morrison: DUCK Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug Hasan Al-Habib: Stuck in the Middle (East) With You Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Julian Clary: Fully Dilated Assembly Rooms, 19–23 Aug

Amy Annette: Say What You Like About Me Pleasance Dome, 19–30 Aug The Stand’s Pick of the Fringe The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 19–30 Aug Anu Vaidyanathan: Allegory Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–30 Aug Eli Matthewson: Blood Bender Assembly George Square, 19–30 Aug Alex Edelman: What Are You Going to Do Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug Stephen Carlin: Kapitan Bomba Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Olga Koch: Fat Tom Cruise Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug, not 29 Tartan Tabletop: A Dungeons & Dragons Comedy Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Davina Bentley: Dancing While Old Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Funeral Show Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Improv Wolves Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–23 Aug 100% Dry Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 19–30 Aug Stand-Up Science Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 19–30 Aug Tom Lawrinson: Speak of the Devil Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug MOM! WTF!!

Greenside @ George Street, 24–29 Aug Burce Tutku Tuncali: Perfectly Imperfeckt!

Greenside @ George Street, 19–22 Aug One Man One Mullet: The Dan Stephens Show Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–31 Aug Disabled Cants Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug

17:35

Sammy Obeid: WIT SUPREMACY Assembly George Square, 19 Aug Police Cops: The Original Assembly George Square, 20–30 Aug

17:40

Anna Leong Brophy: Born Sexy Yesterday Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug Keeley Hazell: Everyone’s Seen My Tits Pleasance Courtyard, 19–29 Aug Bebe Cave: Swoon Pleasance Dome, 19–30 Aug Lara Ricote: INKLING Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug David Hoare: How To Live To 100 Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 20–31 Aug Matt Winning: Solastalgia Assembly George Square, 19–23 Aug Fab Goualin: Mixed Messages Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug

17:45

Sapphire McIntosh – Squeaky Bum Time Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug Millennial Man (WIP) Laughing Horse @ Boston Bar (New Town), Various dates from 19 Aug to 27 Aug Japanese Grandma Funeral ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 19–30 Aug Fakespeare Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug Roger O’Sullivan: Divil May Cry Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug Aidan Greene: Stuttermilk Pancakes Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–31 Aug The Irish Mob Laughing Horse @ Kick Ass Cowgate, 19–30 Aug Cobin Millage: I Promise That I Am Banksy, and There’s No Reasonable Way for You to Prove That I’m Not (WIP) Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Andrew White: What a Life!

Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 19–30 Aug Jack Abela: Reaching PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait, 19–30 Aug Michael Shafar: Inappropriate Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 19–31 Aug

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The Mr Thing Show Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–30 Aug

17:50

Adam Larter: Who Remembers the 90s?

Just The Tonic at The Hive, 19–30 Aug Sadia Azmat: Rapism Just The Tonic at The Hive, 19–30 Aug Rob Copland: ONE (more please) Monkey Barrel Comedy at O’Neill’s (The Tron), 20–30 Aug, not 26 Grace Jarvis: Getting Dragged Backwards Through a Hedge Underbelly, George Square, 19–30 Aug Freddie Meredith: Need a Light?

Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Alfie Brown: The Entertainer Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug Got Mushroom For Sketch Comedy? theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug 200 Puns in 1 Hour with Roger Swift Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug

17:55

The Last Funny Woman PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Charlie Vero-Martin: Poltergeist (WIP) Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–31 Aug Liz Bains: Born To Be Mild PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carbon, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Irene Woo: Golden Child Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug

18:00

SAT 22 AUG 11.30PM

18:05

Mark Thomas: 40 in Stand-Up Years The Stand Comedy Club, 19–30 Aug, not 20 Chris Forbes: Stop Watering Dead Flowers The Stand Comedy Club, 20 Aug Rory Marshall: Thank You for the Opportunity Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug

18:10

ADHD: A Crowdwork Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug Colman Hayes: Don’t Make a Fuss Hoots @ The Apex, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Alfie Packham: Fresh Classic (Work in Progress) Assembly Roxy, 19 Aug Justin Elizabeth Sayre Is a 40-Year-Old Woman Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug Claire Hooper: Fun Show xx Assembly Roxy, 20–30 Aug Celya AB: We Must Stop Meeting Like This Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–30 Aug, not 26 & taxes theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug Helen Bauer: Working and God Willing Progressing (WIP) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19 Aug Crowd Work with Frank Skinner Assembly George Square Studios, 19–26 Aug

18:15

Dave Chawner: Dry Humour Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Edinbra Fringe Comedy Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug 2nd Row Comedy Showcase Braw Venues @ Hill Street, 19–30 Aug Steffan Alun: Windows Hoots @ The Apex, 20–31 Aug 100 Million Fish in the Aquarium Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 19–30 Aug Guy Williams: Rich people are stealing from you and blaming brown people and trans people and some people believe them aaahhhhhh!

Assembly George Square, 19–30 Aug Australia’s Least Decorated Soldier Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug Rob Duncan: Toilet PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carbon, 19–30 Aug, not 25

Ageing Disgracefully: A Glass Ceiling-Smashing Comedy Showcase PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse Hotel, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Punchline Bingo Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 19–30 Aug Heist: How to Steal a Masterpiece PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 19–30 Aug Pasta and Passive Aggression (WIP) Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–31 Aug

18:20

Annabelle James: Annabalism Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–30 Aug Shaun Guff: Enuff Is Enuff Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–30 Aug Claire Robin: NUN SLUT Gilded Balloon Patter House, 20–31 Aug, not 26 Refashioned: From Childhood Dream to Stylish Nightmare Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–30 Aug, not 24 Katie Mitchell: Giddy Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–31 Aug Lewis Garnham: Work in Progress The Gilded Saloon, 19–30 Aug

18:25

Holy Shit Improv Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–23 Aug Ali Woods: Working on it Part Two: The Revenge Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–30 Aug Samantha Day: I’ve Started So I’ll Finish PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 19–29 Aug, not 24 Jenny Gorelick: SORRY Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry Street), 19–30 Aug Improvabunga! theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–29 Aug, not 23 MISTRANSLATED Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–30 Aug Gail Porter: Portergeist Assembly Rooms, 19–30 Aug, not 25 The Van Gogh Shogh Assembly Rooms, 20–30 Aug, not 26 800 Pound Gorilla Alumni Showcase Monkey Barrel Comedy, 27 Aug

18:30

A Incredible Show No-One Has Ever Seen Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 25–29 Aug The Oxford Revue: Stand-upping Citizens Laughing Horse @ Coco Boho, 19–30 Aug, not 24 In Pour Taste: A Comedy Wine Tasting Experience Assembly Rooms, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Fast Fringe Pleasance Dome, 19–29 Aug Andy Roach: Best Comedy Newcomer Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug Camilla Borges: Be Not Afraid!

Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug Pythonesque Comedy by a Dry Surreal Geordie Bloke Who Has ADHD PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 19–30 Aug, not 22, 29 Juliette Burton: Villain Era Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug Ray Fordyce’s Not-SoRoyal Variety Show Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 19–30 Aug HR The Musical Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Escocia con Ñ Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Rosie Holt: The Illegal Aliens Have Landed!

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug, not 24 Edinburgh Fringe Comedian of the Year Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–23 Aug Liam Tulley: Adult-ish Rotunda Theatre, 19–23 Aug The Dodgy Accent Show Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 19–30 Aug Larry Dean: Hellbent Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug 1 in 2 Men Think They Could Land A Plane – Could You? Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–31 Aug, not 24 Deage Paxton: Immature Alchemist Cocktail Bar and Restaurant, 19–30 Aug 2 Dad, or Not 2 Dad Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug

18:35

Zachary Ruane: Comedy Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug, not 25

Hosted by

Nish Kumar

Larry Dean Grace Campbell Rosie Jones

Hasan Al-Habib Abi Clarke Kemah Bob Imogen Andrews + MORE

Right That’s It (I’ve Had Enough) Greenside @ George Street, 24–29 Aug

18:40

Chris Martin Lied To Us Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug Cheese & Chuckles Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug Night Mail (WIP) Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug New York City Dreams Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–30 Aug Lt Love Dr’s Boot Camp for Lonely People Like You Just The Tonic at Westside Rodeo, 19–30 Aug Not My Audience! The Stand-Up Panel Show You Control!

Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Ironing Board Man Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Geraldine Hickey: A Weight Off My Chest Assembly George Square Studios, 20–30 Aug Dan Rath: Help Me Please Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 19–30 Aug

18:45

Demi Adejuyigbe Sells Out Pleasance Dome, 19–30 Aug Jeromaia Detto: Giuseppe’s Love Quest Underbelly, George Square, 19–30 Aug Sponta-Deity Improv: Who Let the Gods Out?!

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Strippers Advice Bureau Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Lizzie Simpson: Just Be Confident, Loser!

Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 19–30 Aug Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 19–30 Aug

18:50

Paul Savage: Comic, Relieved Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug Andrew Ryan: Honest Capacity Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–22 Aug Shane Daniel Byrne: Baby This Time Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug

Listings

Ted Hill: PowerPoindexter Assembly George Square Studios, 19–30 Aug Tarang Hardikar: If I’m Not Wrong Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Rizal Van Geyzel: Single Fatherhood Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug The History of Electronic Music Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug Alan Jay: Hell Hath No Humour Like a Gayboy Scorned Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–30 Aug

Friendliest Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug A Silent Disco Dance Tour

by Silent Adventures Meeting Point at Uplands Roast Coffee Shop, 19–31 Aug Connor Burns: FLOW Just the Tonic Nucleus, 19–30 Aug, not 22 Dane Buckley: Darling Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Amanda Dwyer: Better Than Revenge The Stand Comedy Club 2, 19–30 Aug 0 Plans: A Crowd Work Comedy Show Alchemist Cocktail Bar and Restaurant, 19–31 Aug John Hegley’s New and Selected Potatoes Ukrainian Community Centre, 19–20 Aug NewsRevue Pleasance Courtyard, 20–31 Aug Ignacio Lopez: The Four Of Us Are Dying Up Here Hoots @ The Apex, 20–31 Aug Critics’ Choice Comedy Showcase Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–31 Aug, not 25 Dead Parent Society – Chris Groves Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–29 Aug Maia Tassalini: I Was 22 and Stunning Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Millwall Jew Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug, not 25 The Improv All Stars Frankenstein Pub, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Fiona Allen: White Lies Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–29 Aug Emmanuel Sonubi: What’s Next? (WIP) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room, 19–30 Aug Chindian Express – Interracial Comedy Ride Edinburgh Thistle Hotel, 24 Aug

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18:55

Roger Prick: Sexopolis Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Courtney Büchner: One of the Girls Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug Jess Fuchs: Feral Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Jack Brookmyre: Impressionable The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 19–30 Aug Rory Cargill: On TV! Assembly George Square, 19–30 Aug

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Jack Rooke: Good Grief Underbelly, Bristo Square, 27–29 Aug Killian Sundermann: Killian Dollar Baby Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug Comedy Through The Ages Laughing Horse @ Freddy’s, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Craig Speirs: Problem Child Alchemist | St James Quarter, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug Adi Parmar: Sunny Boy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug The Ardbeg Comedy Lounge The Mother Superior, 19 Aug

FRI 21 AUG 11.30PM

Rich Hall: Chin Music Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug, not 27 Kim Blythe: Puzzle Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Joseph Morpurgo: Highlander 70 Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug Harriet Richardson: Creep Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Max Fulham: Memory Foam Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug Bits ‘n’ Pieces Alchemist | St James Quarter, 28 Aug John Robertson: Excitable Boy! Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug LMAOF (for OF.TV) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 31 Aug WIP It Up Alchemist | St James Quarter, 24–28 Aug #1 All-Time Best Comedy Champion: War of the Flags Laughing Horse @ Kick Ass Cowgate, 19–30 Aug Irish Comedy Invasion: 14th Year Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 19–30 Aug 1 MC and 3 Absolute Killers (of Comedy!)

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 19–31 Aug Comedy for the Curious: 2026 Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 19–30 Aug, not 26 Best in Class Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug BIRDS: Alex Hines and Sarah Stafford Assembly George Square, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Frankie McNair: Huge Ass Mindset Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug So You Think You’re Funny? Grand Final Gilded Balloon Teviot, 27 Aug Joe Casey and Pierce Higgins: Northern Soul Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–30 Aug Kimchi Comedy: K-Comedy Racist Hunters Laughing Horse @ Boston Bar (New Town), Various dates from 19 Aug to 27 Aug Hannah East: Express Yourself Pleasance at EICC, 19 Aug

Underbelly’s Big Brain Tumour Benefit Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19 Aug

19:05

Pierre Novellie: Okay, One More Then Bedtime Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–29 Aug An Asexual Show About Cunnilingus by Eliott Simpson Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 24–30 Aug Kate Dehnert: Echo Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Gavin Webster: The Last Ever Punk Rocker Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–31 Aug The Best of Jay Sodagar Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–23 Aug

19:10

Cüneyt Nergiz Just The Tonic at Subway, 22 Aug David O’Doherty: At This Stage Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug Two-Tongued Queers PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carbon, 22–30 Aug All Tied Up theSpace @ Niddry St, 23–25 Aug Jehovah’s Witness for the Prosecution – Work in Progress PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carbon, 19–21 Aug Evaldas Karosas: A Very Capable Man Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 20–30 Aug Jonno: Here Comes Mr Funny Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–29 Aug Adam Greene: The Wizard of Ozempic Just The Tonic at The Hive, 19–30 Aug Jason Byrne: 30 Years Byrning Assembly Hall, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Andrew O’Neill: A Short, Aggressive Lecture On Krill. Then Jokes Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 19 Aug Sashi Perera – Pear Tree Just The Tonic at Subway, 24–30 Aug Buse Sinem Iren Just The Tonic at Subway, 21 Aug

Hosted by

Deborah Frances-White

Ali Woods Emmanuel Sonubi Felicity Ward

Alfie Dundas Ray Bradshaw Demi Adejuyigbe + MORE

19:15

Alfie Dundas: First Class Panic Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug 0 Ambition – A Jew Running the Numbers Alchemist Cocktail Bar and Restaurant, 19–29 Aug PUSS PUSS Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Nathan Cassidy: From the Ashes Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug Molly and Paul Try Heron Foods: Goodbye Stretford Monkey Barrel Comedy at O’Neill’s (The Tron), 29 Aug Marty Gleeson: Dog Ear Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Katie Boyle: Irish Immigrant Monkey Barrel Comedy at O’Neill’s (The Tron), 19–28 Aug Big Tobacco’s Pinocchio theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–29 Aug, not 24 Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug Hannah Platt: Cult Classic Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Alex Leam’s Absolute Scenes PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Jennifer Jane: Happy Tea Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug Hot Singles in Your Area (Are Having an Existential Crisis) PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 19 Aug Comedy in the Dark Just the Tonic Nucleus, 19–30 Aug Nina’s C*nti Cabaret Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–24 Aug

19:20

Gearóid Farrelly: No Pressure Assembly George Square Studios, 19–31 Aug Tom Little in His Comfort Zone PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 19–30 Aug Adele Cliff’s Topical Early Late Show With Adele Cliff Hoots @ Potterrow, 20–30 Aug, not 25, 26

Jess Carrivick: For Your Consideration Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug Connor Burns: FLOW Just the Tonic Nucleus, 24–25 Aug Derek Mitchell: Work in Progress Summerhall, 19–30 Aug, not 24 The Passion of Mr Cardboard Underbelly, George Square, 19–30 Aug Paul Foot: The Future Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–30 Aug

19:25

Mark Nelson: Seven Night Run The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 24–30 Aug Chris Thorburn and Chris Weir: Growin’ and Showin’ The Stand Comedy Club 2, 19 Aug An Immigrant’s Comedy Show Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug 2026 and the Shit Hits the Fan for Vladimir McTavish The Stand Comedy Club 2, 19–30 Aug Seann Walsh: This Is Torture The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 19–23 Aug Madeleine Munford: Who the F*ck is Madeleine?

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug Craig Hill: You’re Not Even Safe Up the Back!

Just the Tonic Nucleus, 19–30 Aug, not 24, 25 Tom Evans: All You Weed Is Love Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug Jay Lafferty: Playback WIP The Stand Comedy Club 2, 21–23 Aug

19:30

Freya McGhee: Experimental PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carbon, 20–30 Aug Jack Docherty: Butterfly Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–29 Aug, not 24 1 Funny Fecker: Havin’ the Craic with Wes Dalton Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 19–30 Aug

2 Slut Drops and a Chicken Burger Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug, not 24 The Guilty Feminist Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20–23 Aug Big Value Showcase Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug Cordelia Graham: Faint Heart Never F*cked A Pig Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 20–30 Aug, not 26 The Big Fat Whisky Quiz The Mother Superior, 23 Aug, 30 Aug Soness: Sumo Injury Comeback Tour Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–30 Aug, not 26 The Stand at W Edinburgh The Stand at W Edinburgh, Various dates from 21 Aug to 30 Aug Chris Kent: That’s All I Need Now! PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room, 19–30 Aug Dan Kelly: How I Went to Every Supermarket in the World Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug 0 Hair – Bald Man Sings Rihanna PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse Hotel, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Emma Doran: Emmaculate Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Paul Black: Cash Cow Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 24–30 Aug Ahir Shah: Golden Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Fred MacAulay: Good Evening!

Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 19 Aug 9/11 Birds and the Bees Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Troy Hawke: Never Stop, Never Change!

Edinburgh Playhouse , 21 Aug Tim Reeves: An Hour of Accessible Material To Further My Career (WIP) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carbon, 19 Aug Enterteasement: Comedy! Magic!

Burlesque!

Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 20–31 Aug

19:35

Marc Jennings: If & When Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug

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Monks Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23

19:40

She’s a LOT: Louise O’Toole Hoots @ The Apex, 19–29 Aug A Good Time Charlie Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–26 Aug A Very Important Panel Show The Gilded Saloon, 19 Aug Humour Mill Compilation Show The Gilded Saloon, 20 Aug Gianmarco Soresi: Theater Adult (WIP) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Josh Pickar: Getting Off Assembly Roxy, 19–30 Aug Teresa Livingstone: Nice Lady Just the Tonic at The Caves, 27–29 Aug Pantomonium – The Improvised Panto PBH’s Free Fringe @ Central Youth Hostel, 19–30 Aug, not 29 Spooky Dookie: Cool New Planet!!

Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Ali Brice: This Is The Way We Brush Our Teeth Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–30 Aug, not 20 Kate Smurthwaite Writes and Performs a Brand-New Full-Length Stand-Up Show Every Single Day for the Entire Edinburgh Fringe Based on Audience Suggestions from the Previous Day (Not Tuesdays) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 19–30 Aug, not 25

19:45

SAT 22 AUG 11.30PM

19:50

Wild Wild Christian Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–22 Aug Title Goes Here C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 19–30 Aug Sean Morley: Backchannel Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry Street), 19–30 Aug, not 20 Shamilton! The Improvised Hip-Hop Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 19–30 Aug Josie Long: Florida panther sits beside last remaining tree in massive cleared field alone (but good vibes actually) (WIP) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 24 Aug

Justina Seselskaite: Settled Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–31 Aug, not 28 Geoffrey Asmus: Patriautism Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Police Cops in Space Assembly Roxy, 20–30 Aug 1 Irishman: A Stand-up Comedy Show Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug Married at Fringe Sight Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Phil O’Shea: Something About Dogs Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry Street), 20 Aug

19:55

2026 Pick of the Fringe Hoots @ The Wee Red Bar, 19–30 Aug, not 24, 25 Richard Stott: Streets Won’t Forget Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug

20:00

Crybabies: The Scaring Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Beat the Comic Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug AAA Comedy Gala Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–30 Aug Bruce Fummey: Scotland Made the World The Stand Comedy Club, 24 Aug Tom Stade Rules The Stand Comedy Club, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Lizzy Hoo – Says Hoo? Assembly George Square Studios, 20–30 Aug Reuben Kaye: Hard to Swallow Assembly George Square Gardens, 19–29 Aug, not 23, 24 The Double G Comedy Rodeo Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 19–30 Aug Li Jin Hao: Falling From a Moon Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Progress In Work Just The Tonic at Westside Rodeo, 23–27 Aug Baba Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–31 Aug Noah Szto – Med School Assembly George Square, 20–30 Aug

Fresh Off the Boat Alchemist | St James Quarter, 24–28 Aug Michelle Wolf: Best Job in the World Edinburgh Playhouse , 24 Aug Connor Burns: FLOW (Plus Support) Edinburgh Playhouse , 22–23 Aug Rat Candy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–30 Aug Nerine Skinner: Decisions Decisions WIP Just The Tonic at Westside Rodeo, 19–20 Aug David William Bryan Dies On Stage Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug Kate Butch: A Kate in the Hand is Worth Two in the Butch Pleasance Dome, 20–30 Aug The Heterosexuals Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Doris, Dolly and the Dressing Room Divas Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Eryn Tett: Tasting Menu Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug

20:05

Making Love with David Magidoff Assembly George Square, 19–23 Aug Reuben Solo: Someone in This Crowd Will Betray Me [Revenge Edition] Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug Rosco McClelland: The Bones Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 19–30 Aug

20:10

Elouise Eftos: Aphrodite Pleasance Dome, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Rhys James: Chop Logic Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Ele McKenzie: Bringing It All Back Home Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Crowley Time: Link’s Gambit Pleasance Courtyard, 19 Aug Viggo Venn: Only One Pleasance Dome, 20–30 Aug Tattoo Dave – Tat’s Life Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug Octopus Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–30 Aug, not 24

Eric Lampaert: Zero Minus One Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug Killer Comedy Club Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug Crudi Dench: Someone Help Her! Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Cecily Hitchcock: Family Recipe Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug

20:15

Joke Thieves: World Championship Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug, not 25 101 Impressions in One Hour Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 19–31 Aug Spencer Jones: Dogs Pleasance Dome, 19–30 Aug Bitches in Stitches: The New Grrrl Order Laughing Horse @ Boston Bar (New Town), Various dates from 19 Aug to 27 Aug Ifrah Qureshi: 48 Flaws of Power The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 19–30 Aug Off With Your Head!

Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Jo Griffin: Renegade (WIP) Underbelly, George Square, 20–29 Aug Reginald D Hunter: Something Wicked That Other Way Comes Assembly Rooms, 19–30 Aug, not 24 5 Comedians Do Comedy and Karaoke Laughing Horse @ Kick Ass Cowgate, 19–30 Aug Twonkey’s Soft December Night in Tallahassee Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 19–30 Aug, not 24 The Best Nerd Fest Showcase Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 25 Aug Skunkhaus Improvised Movie Laughing Horse @ Freddy’s, Various dates from 21 Aug to 28 Aug Solve-Along-A-MurderShe-Wrote theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 19–29 Aug, not 23

20:20

Christopher Hall: Pizazz Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug, not 25

Hosted by

Nish Kumar

Larry Dean Grace Campbell Rosie Jones

Hasan Al-Habib Abi Clarke Kemah Bob Imogen Andrews + MORE

Ruaridh Miller – Autocorrect Thinks My Name is “Rubbish” Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–30 Aug The Pleasance Comedy Reserve Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Madeleine Brettingham: Legend Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug Robin Grainger: Lemonade Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug Amelia Hamilton: Moral Support Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug CVNT Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug, not 20, 27 Rob Preston: Amazing Global Solutions Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Charlene Kaye: Diversity Shredder Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug, not 25 John O’Keeffe: Surviving Myself Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug Johnny Hollywood Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–29 Aug, not 26 Frenchy: The Instigator Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–30 Aug

20:25

Comedy Shorts PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 19–30 Aug Jessica Barton: Dirty Work Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug

20:30

Bec Hill’s Work In Progress Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 23–30 Aug Frisky’s Remix Roulette Assembly Rooms, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Francisco de Nata Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug Bilal Zafar: Rubicon Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug Sophie Duker: Hot Beef Injection Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Guy Branum: Be Fruitful Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug

Listings

Irish Comedy Free-For-All Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 19–30 Aug Man Sings the Same Song Over and Over Again for an Hour Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Aidan Jones – JS Bach Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug Ian Winter: Revolution!

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19 Aug Anja Atkinson: Calmer Comedian (WIP) Alchemist Cocktail Bar and Restaurant, 19–30 Aug, not 26

Joey Dardano: Another Direction Underbelly, George Square, 19–30 Aug One Dog, One Nutter Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug Three Bird Roast Just the Tonic at The Caves, 24–26 Aug CK Nath: ‘A Bit of Foreign Stuff’ (WIP) Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19 Aug Zoe Cousin: Paul Sykes Is Back on the Family Patch Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 20–30 Aug Men Love Horsies: The Musical Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Sneaking Into Taylor Swift Cost Me $1989 Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug Absolute Improv! theSpace on the Mile, 19–29 Aug Ray Bradshaw: Five Years in a Row Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 21–29 Aug Jocks and Geordies PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 19–30 Aug, not 22, 29 Anna Beros – High Hoe Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 19–30 Aug The Rise and Fall of a Mormon Homecoming Princess Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug Whisky for Dafties Just the Tonic at The Caves, Various dates from 20 Aug to 29 Aug

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Juliette Burton’s Board To Distraction Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Becky Umbers: Tell That Horse To Keep His Mouth Shut (WIP) Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–22 Aug Best of Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug Damn Me (to Hell) Just The Tonic at Subway, 19–22 Aug 0.1% Accurate: Magdalena the Fortune Teller Show Alchemist Cocktail Bar and Restaurant, 19–29 Aug Betsy Carroll’s Slippery When Wet Just The Tonic at The Hive, 19–30 Aug Frank Sanazi: A Little Bit of History Re-Putin Le Monde, Various dates from 20 Aug to 29 Aug Harry Jun: Inside Jokes, Outside Voice Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug Paul Currie: REMOVE YOUR SKIN PLEASE Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Frank Sanazi: Unleashed Le Monde, 23 Aug Funny Women: The Glitter Project at the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19 Aug, 26 Aug Grace Campbell: The Lady Is a Tramp Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug, not 27 Good Noticings Just The Tonic at Subway, 24–30 Aug The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy’s Fringe Showcase!

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug Dom McGovern: Prize Hog Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Bob Koomen: Pear Just The Tonic at The Hive, 19–30 Aug Improv Comedy with Box of Frogs theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug

20:35

Steffen Haanes: The Master PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 19–30 Aug

FRI 21 AUG 11.30PM

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Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 19–30 Aug The House of Pitman ZOO Playground, 24–30 Aug Phil Cooper: Deckchair Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug Jonathan Rudge: Stay at Home Son Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug Kate Dolan: Trout Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug

20:40

Bound and Gags Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug Lawrence Dodd: This Can’t Be It Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–31 Aug Ashish Vijh – Performative Male Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Alice Fraser: Oh Man! Monkey Barrel Comedy at O’Neill’s (The Tron), 19–30 Aug Margaret Thatcher Queen of Hollywood Assembly George Square Gardens, 19–30 Aug Time Travel Postman Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Love, Peace and Chicken Grease Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19 Aug Let The Best Man Win Just the Tonic Nucleus, 24–30 Aug TuzBiber 3’lü Just the Tonic Nucleus, 19 Aug Serkan Altunigne – Umurumda Degil Just the Tonic Nucleus, 22 Aug

20:45

101 Comedy Club Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 19–30 Aug Susie McCabe: Coming of Rage Assembly George Square, 19–30 Aug 100% Scouse Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Wait What Show: Deal with the Devil Greenside @ George Street, 19–22 Aug Comedy Canopy Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge, 19–30 Aug Animal?

Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–23 Aug

0 BC: Before Crisis Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 19–30 Aug Connor Burns: FLOW Just the Tonic Nucleus, 27 Aug Simon Evans: Shadow Play Just the Tonic Nucleus, 19–20 Aug Angelos Epithemiou – Can I Just Show You What I Got Just the Tonic Nucleus, 28–30 Aug 100% Full Blown Redacted Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug Alex Kitson: Now Look Here Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–30 Aug Anarchy Cabaret Presents: West End New Act of the Year Showcase 2026 PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Nathaniel Jones: 2 BY 2 Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug Karen Dunbar: Chirpy Just the Tonic Nucleus, 21–23 Aug Henry Ginsberg: Childless Cat Gentleman (Work in Progress) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 24–30 Aug A Letter To My Parents Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Frankie Thompson: Horrible Things Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug

20:50

Naughty Boy Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–30 Aug Tilly Fletcher: Television Underbelly, George Square, 19–30 Aug Matthew Gallagher: Last Minute The Stand Comedy Club 2, 19–30 Aug, not 21, 22 Turn This Sh*t Off Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug Rob Nother: Another Way Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–31 Aug Giggle Merchants with Matt MacDonald and George Leeson The Stand Comedy Club 2, 21–22 Aug

20:55

Edith Alibec: The Void PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–30 Aug, not 26

Hosted by

Deborah Frances-White

Ali Woods Emmanuel Sonubi Felicity Ward

Alfie Dundas Ray Bradshaw Demi Adejuyigbe + MORE

Abandoman: Afterglow Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 24 The Gay Divorce Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–22 Aug

21:00

Muck – The Dark Jokes Show Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 19–30 Aug LOLyamorous: A Speed-Dating Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ Coco Boho, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Blood on the Clocktower: Live Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–23 Aug Wild Wild Christian Greenside @ Riddles Court, 24–29 Aug Tia Rey: Oot Ma Banger The Gilded Saloon, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Matthew Hayhow: Bring Out The Gimp The Parliament Arms, 28–29 Aug Glenn Wool Is Luv (Sic) Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 19–31 Aug, not 25 StingAlong! (with Brad and Steve) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Daniel Kitson: Thrum The Queen’s Hall, 19–21 Aug Airplane Baby Alchemist | St James Quarter, Various dates from 23 Aug to 30 Aug The Tokyo Idiots presents The Ultimate Japanese Comedy Show WU, 19–22 Aug Shrink Wrapped: A Psychologist Analyses Comedians Live Hoots @ The Apex, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Patrick Monahan: I’m Not A Terrorist – I’m Freddie Mercury Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–30 Aug 0 to 2 mph In Under 60 Minutes Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug Schalk Bezuidenhout: Hey Hey Divorcè Gilded Balloon Teviot, 24–30 Aug Davro’s Back! Bobby Davro Frankenstein Pub, 19–29 Aug, not 24, 25

Choose Your WIP: A Choose Your Own Adventure Comedy Show / Jacob Williams: Space Peace Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Angela Bra – Secret Diary of a Bingo Call Girl Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Anna Beros – The Devil in Miss Beros Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 19–30 Aug Lost in Translation Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Nathan Cassidy: Ewwww!

Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–31 Aug

21:05

I Think I’m Turning Japanese (I Really Think So, Not!) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–30 Aug Every Ghost Story Ever Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–31 Aug 1 Big Oops Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug Who Wants To Be A Sketch Comedian?

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–29 Aug, not 25

21:10

Mark Silcox – I Have It All [A Success Story] Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug Kanan Gill: Not This Again Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Samira Banks – Work in Progress Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug The Best of Scottish Comedy The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 19–30 Aug Ollie West: Discovery (WIP) Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug Bryn Woz: SMUT Assembly Roxy, 19–31 Aug, not 25 & taxes theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug

21:15

The Vampire Run Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 19–30 Aug Rachel Morton-Young: Dutch Courage Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug

Rob Duncan: Printer of the Year Underbelly, George Square, 19–30 Aug Bad Dates Anonymous: Dating Horror Story Confessions by Top Stand-Ups Hoots @ The Wee Red Bar, 19–30 Aug, not 24, 25 Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: Hamlet Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug Graham and Steen Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19 Aug Blessings from a Blesbian Boomer PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 19–30 Aug Lou Wall: Where Are All The Tall Grandmas?

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–30 Aug Ryan Cullen: Cullen Me Softly Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry Street), 19–30 Aug Comedy Queers Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug Deage Paxton: Dead Man’s Hand Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug

21:20

Among the Pigeons theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–25 Aug Otto & Astrid: The Stages Tour Assembly Roxy, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Oh My Jehovah!

Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–31 Aug Brendan Scannell: The Abyss Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–30 Aug Garry Starr: Classic Penguins Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Wisard Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug James Mileham: 1 Joke After Another Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug RapGPT: Macshane Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug Emma Holland: The Dog Dies at the Start Assembly George Square Studios, 20–30 Aug Mock the Clock Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–31 Aug

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Andy Field: Giddy Up Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Katie Norris: Mother Succubus Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug James Trickey: Split Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Jacob Hatton: Ruins Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–31 Aug

21:30

SAT 22 AUG 11.30PM

21:35

Merlesque: How an Adult Woman Became a Mermaid theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug Sam Serrano: Mars The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 19–30 Aug Abby Govindan: Pushing 30 Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug

Mr Gary’s Adult Kids Show Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug

21:40

Metroland Live: As Seen On TV Pleasance Dome, 19–30 Aug Jamie Wolf: Psycho Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug Will Hitt: Burying The Dead Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–31 Aug 33 Years Single Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug, not 23 Jonathan Oldfield: Exquisite Corpse Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Adults Only Magic Show Assembly George Square Studios, 19–30 Aug, not 24 How to Art Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Aideen McQueen: Wo-Manosphere Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug

21:45

Silly Goose! theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug Chad Goes Deep – Chill Towards Enlightenment Assembly George Square, 19 Aug Tori Morancay: Le French c’est Freak theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug Kim Blythe: Puzzle Gilded Balloon Patter House, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 28 Aug, 29 Aug Paul Dennis: Title Explained In Blurb – The Musical. Well… sort of.

Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug Lil Wenker: BOYKING Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Abi Clarke – Revenge in Progress Assembly George Square, 21–30 Aug Exiled in Ireland theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 29 Aug The Stand Late Club The Stand Comedy Club, Various dates from 20 Aug to 29 Aug Iain Connell: Work in Progress The Stand Comedy Club, 26 Aug Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug

Coco The Time-Travelling Tart Underbelly, George Square, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Tom Towelling Teaches You to Knit Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Jordan Brookes: The Part of You That’s Always Screaming Pleasance Dome, 19–30 Aug Late Bite: Mixed-Bill Late-Night Stand-Up Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 19–30 Aug, not 24 So You Think You’re Funny? Heats Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–26 Aug Chelsea Birkby: Is In Full Control The Entire Time Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Chris and Lizzie Hall present: Stay Hydrated Live!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 28–29 Aug 0% British – Evenings: An Irish Stand-Up Comedy Show Alchemist Cocktail Bar and Restaurant, 19–31 Aug

21:50

Andre’s Guide to Women PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 19–30 Aug Fanny Bleach: The Nearly Naked Show Assembly Roxy, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Casey Filips: What a Character Assembly George Square, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Sam Rhodes: Toy Cocoon Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug James Barr: Sorry I Hurt Your Son (Said My Ex to My Mum) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 27–29 Aug Eric Davidson: More Traditional Pish and Chips theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 26–28 Aug Stamptown Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–30 Aug Jamie Kilstein: Can’t Tie Knots Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Outlaugh: Edinburgh theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug

21:55

Citizen Chen Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug

New Zealand Comedian, New Zealand Comedian, New Zealand Comedian Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug Will BF: Moon Team IIIV Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug GOSS Assembly Roxy, 19–30 Aug Alcohol Free Comedy Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug Jamali Maddix: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–20 Aug

22:00

Darryl J Carrington: Tennish Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug Ryan Charnoky: Sell Out Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–31 Aug Nerdy and Dirty: Part Classroom, Part Classless Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 19–30 Aug Sami Abu Wardeh Hates You Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug FOC IT UP! with Kemah Bob Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 21 Aug Patti Harrison: Just Ironing Some Things Out! Pleasance Courtyard, 24–29 Aug Tony Cantwell: You Cry Weird Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug Sophia Wren: The Best Girl in the World Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–29 Aug 3’s Comedy: Nights Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 19–30 Aug Excel Comedy and Mathem-antics Just the Tonic Nucleus, 22 Aug, 29 Aug Ayoade Bamgboye: Swings And Roundabouts Pleasance Courtyard, 20–22 Aug F*cking Famous PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carbon, 19–30 Aug, not 22, 29 3 out of 4 Twats Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 19–30 Aug Adam Flood: Life and Death of the Party Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 19–30 Aug Purple Park Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 19–30 Aug

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Sjur Hjeltnes: Go Go Go Cake and Piano Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Frankie Monroe: Trowel of Tralee (WIP) Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 28 Aug Sarah Roberts: Scary Movie 7 Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug Late Night Locomotive: The Improvised Whodunnit Gilded Balloon Patter House, 30 Aug John Robertson’s The Dark Room Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–30 Aug The Stand-Up Experience Just the Tonic Nucleus, 19–20 Aug ADULT LESSONS Just the Tonic Nucleus, 23–28 Aug Good Pill Hunting Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug Absolutely! One-Liner Jokes!

Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge, 19–29 Aug

22:05

Gag Writer Greenside @ George Street, 19–22 Aug The Gay Divorce Greenside @ Riddles Court, 24–29 Aug William Thompson: Touch Grass Monkey Barrel Comedy at O’Neill’s (The Tron), 20–30 Aug Where is Sikisa? (WIP) Monkey Barrel Comedy at O’Neill’s (The Tron), 19 Aug

22:10

Anorak Comedy Presents: The Alternative Comedy Nightmare PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 25 Aug Julie Belliveau: Enlightened?

Greenside @ George Street, 24–29 Aug American Assholes: Escape to Edinburgh Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–29 Aug Dan Lees and Tom Curzon: The Sonic Joy Orchestra PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Dru Cripps: Juicy Bits Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–31 Aug

Listings

Big Braw Comedy Bonanza Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 28 Aug, 29 Aug Devin Gray: Golden Retriever Energy Laughing Horse @ Kick Ass Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 28 Selina Mosinski: Puss in Boots – A Working Class Fairy Tale Pleasance Dome, 20–30 Aug As Seen on TV: Prime Time Stand-Up All-Stars Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–31 Aug Ask A Stripper: The Champagne Room Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Filthy Funny Females Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 20–30 Aug CHUCK PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Huge Davies: Sleep Paralysis Princess Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 20–30 Aug Abi Carter-Simpson and Joe McTernan: Stand-up Couple Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 19–28 Aug Thor Stenhaug: Happy To Be Here (WIP) Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 19 Aug Sasha Nezlobin: I’m Fine Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug 0% Moisture – A Dry Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ Freddy’s, Various dates from 19 Aug to 27 Aug Brainwashed Paradise in The Vault, 19–30 Aug, not 23 An American Comedy Show That Quite Possibly Might Be Funny to the British Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug Here Comes Almost ZOO Playground, 19–29 Aug, not 24

John Tothill: This Must Be Heaven Pleasance Courtyard, 24–30 Aug Barnish & Carmichael: Probably The Greatest Improv Duo You Have Never Heard Of Laughing Horse @ Boston Bar (New Town), 24–27 Aug The Stevenson Experience: O Brother, Where Art Thou! (On stage, beside me) Assembly George Square, 19–30 Aug Elf Lyons is The Woman on the Edge Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug Stolen Table’s Very Spooky (and 100% Genuine) Ghost Tour Hoots @ Potterrow, 20–30 Aug, not 25, 26 150% Masala Comedy Showcase Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–31 Aug Ify Nwadiwe: An Hour With Ify Nwadiwe Pleasance Courtyard, 19–20 Aug David Elms Describes a Room Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Imogen Andrews: The Unlikeable Worms Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug Blizzard (WIP) Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Baby Wants Candy Assembly George Square Studios, 19–30 Aug All Killa No Filla: Live!

Pleasance Courtyard, 25 Aug Two Hearts: Don’t Stop Throbbing Pleasance Courtyard, 24–30 Aug Lorna Rose Treen: Now That’s What I Call Characters Pleasance Courtyard, 19–23 Aug Ify Nwadiwe’s Big Facts Pleasance Courtyard, 21–23 Aug

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Verity Sharpe: Landlord’s Wet Dream Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug Mad Ron Presents Identity Theft – The Gameshow Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug Not Another Quiz Night Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Tom Short: I Get ChatGPT To Write My Edinburgh Show Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–31 Aug Katie-Rose Petley: Dirty Bitch Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 19–30 Aug Late Night in Canada Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Mar’s Market Presents: Impress the Vaudevillian PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 19 Aug “Be Good!” with Paulette Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug Comedy Lock-in Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 19–29 Aug, not 25 Darren Gaffney: The Full Gaffney Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 19–31 Aug, not 28 Leo Mahr and Jonny Bennett: Two Hot Gays Telling Jokes Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug 1 Hour of Headline Comedy Just the Tonic Nucleus, 19–30 Aug Giggle Merchants with Matt MacDonald and George Leeson The Stand Comedy Club 2, 28–29 Aug UNDERGROUND MONK SHOW Assembly George Square Gardens, 19–30 Aug This Is Your Trial: UNLEASHED! The Late-Night Improvised Comedy Courtroom Hoots @ The Wee Red Bar, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug Jake Donaldson Tries to Remember and Perform the Magic Show He Did Once at a School Talent Show When He Was 15 Alchemist Cocktail Bar and Restaurant, 24 Aug

FRI 21 AUG 11.30PM

Cult Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–23 Aug MCU: Musical Comedians Unite!

Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19 Aug, 26 Aug Best of the Queer Fringe Gilded Balloon Patter House, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Andy Barr: A Comet Appears (WIP) Hoots @ Potterrow, 24–30 Aug IKEA WARS Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Magners Share the Craic presents Ashlee Bentley: Wallflower Underbelly, George Square, 19–30 Aug

22:25

Dan Tiernan: Quartz and All Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug Miami Advice Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug You Straights Are F**ked Up! Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–30 Aug, not 26

22:30

Stephen Catling: Clown Fish Out Of Water Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–31 Aug Laughing Stock Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug Theologist theSpace on the Mile, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug, 29 Aug Another Compilation Show Beginning With A Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug 12th Annual Haters’ Ball Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Student Sketch Off Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24 Aug Shit Arcade Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–31 Aug Comedy Night at the Museum Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 28 Aug, 29 Aug Let’s Listen to Some of Lou Bega’s Other Songs Together for an Hour Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19 Aug, 26 Aug Elouise Eftos: Australia’s First Attractive Comedian Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 22 Aug, 27 Aug

Comedy Against Humanity (321... on Fire!)

Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 19–30 Aug

22:35

Freya Mallard: Come Get Me World! I’m Wide Open! (WIP) Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug Free Comedy Every Night on Cowgate PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carbon, 19–30 Aug, not 22, 29

22:40

Rhino Conservation Erotic Novel Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug Remy Kassimir: How Cum Just The Tonic at Westside Rodeo, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug B48Y Crash Lands on Earth!

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–30 Aug, not 25 Martin Bearne – After Burn: Dark Jokes for the Dark Hour Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 19–30 Aug, not 23, 24, 25 Paul Hilleard: Grogg Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry Street), 19–30 Aug Sam Hickman: First Woman Just The Tonic at Westside Rodeo, 26–27 Aug Phil Ellis: Bath Mat Pleasance Courtyard, 20 Aug MC Hammersmith: The Freestyle Big Dawgs (One Night Only!)

Assembly George Square, 24–25 Aug Vittorio Angelone: you can’t Say Nothing any more Assembly Hall, 24–26 Aug 123movies.com Gilded Balloon Patter House, 20–30 Aug Finlay Christie: Champagne Casanova Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug Maya Ricote: Ay Am! Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug, not 25

22:45

A Comedy World Cup Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Ashley Haden: Genocidal Liberal 2, Electric Boogaloo Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug, not 25

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Trans Butch: Glorious Dog Woman theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–28 Aug TITCLOWN: daddy’s little girl Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Scally-wankers theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–28 Aug 0% Shame, 100% Irish!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait, 19–30 Aug, not 24 The Sound Within with Eisenberg and Stern theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug Bilal Rashid: The Pros and Cons of Joining ISIS PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 19–30 Aug WEBBER! theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug Puck Bunnies: A Heated Rivalry Drag Musical Parody Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Cobin Millage and Pete Carson: Touching Tips (with Friends) Laughing Horse @ Kick Ass Cowgate, 19–29 Aug

22:50

Mates Rates – The Golden Age Begins Pleasance Dome, 19–29 Aug, not 20, 24 Wally Baram: My Snake’s Quinceañera Pleasance Dome, 19–21 Aug Maria Fedulova: Literal Saint Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug Andrew Doherty: Reviewers Welcome...

TO DIE! Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Dog Park Pleasance Courtyard, 20 Aug Rachel Baker Presents: Gwen – This is Not a Pyramid Scheme Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 20–31 Aug Baby Lame: Hit Me Baby One More Lame!

Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug My Mum Accidentally Set Me Up With A Married Woman Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19 Aug Awkward and Depressed Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–30 Aug

22:55

The Miss Milky Way Pageant: Stars of Stand-Up PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carbon, 19–30 Aug, not 22, 29 Italian Rhapsody Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 23–27 Aug Fin Taylor: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 19–20 Aug

23:00

Ethan & Gigi Present: THE MOVEMENT Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug Lady Bolognese: Class War Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug 10,000 Digits of Pi PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 19–30 Aug Bin Fire Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug Comedians Play Video Games Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug The Improverts!

Bedlam Theatre, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Tim Key: Loganberry Pleasance Courtyard, 21–30 Aug, not 24 The Landlady Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin: Good News! It’s Been Destroyed Pleasance Courtyard, 19–29 Aug Late Night with Terry Wogan Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 27–28 Aug 11pm Live at the Big Cave Just the Tonic at The Caves, Various dates from 20 Aug to 29 Aug Those People Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug Jeff’s Flight Club >-)-> Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug Rachel Kaly: Between Us (A Crowd Work Show) Pleasance Dome, 19–23 Aug

23:05

Blind Mirth Presents: Improv with a Twist theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–28 Aug August McEachern: Be My Friend theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug

23:10

Hudson Hughes: At Your Service Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug My Date with Pierce Brosnan Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–30 Aug Rob Kemp: Beatlesjuice Hoots @ The Apex, 19–29 Aug

23:15

All You Can Eat Continental Buffet Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 19–30 Aug CADET KELLY IS THE BEST MOVIE I’VE EVER SEEN IN MY FRIGGIN LIFE Underbelly, George Square, 19–30 Aug, not 25 The Comedy Chaos Gameshow Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 19–30 Aug Major League Bombs PBH’s Free Fringe @ Greek Gyros Grill, 19–30 Aug Best of the Fest: The New Class Assembly George Square, 20–30 Aug, not 24, 25, 26 Becky Fury: My Dad Paints Rainbows, Your Dad Paints Roundabouts Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug One Joke Pleasance Dome, 26–27 Aug 666 the Devil – My Side of the Story Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–30 Aug Beer with a Queer Paradise in Augustines, 19–30 Aug, not 23 Blip Blarp: An Alien Love Story Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug Mark Watson: Before It Overtakes Us Pleasance Courtyard, 27–29 Aug Kiell Smith-Bynoe’s Kool Story Bro Pleasance Courtyard, 20–22 Aug

23:20

F*ck Trump: A Stand-Up Show for Charity Hoots @ The Apex, 19–31 Aug Sexatron Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Gutter Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug

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People I Consider Comedians Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20 Aug, 27 Aug The Late Nite PowerPoint Comedy Showcase Assembly George Square Studios, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 28 Aug, 29 Aug Nu Metal Karaoke Monkey Barrel Comedy, 28–29 Aug The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy’s Fringe Showcase!

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 22 Aug, 29 Aug

23:25

Luke Rollason: Alas! (WIP) Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 23–26 Aug Jake Glanc: Teen School High WIP Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire), 19–20 Aug Sam Eley is Basil Crumbwick: Soul Sewage Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–30 Aug Pervert Werewolf PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 19–20 Aug

23:30

23:35

Siobhan Dodd’s Heckle Championship PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 23–29 Aug

23:40

Notes: The Comedy B-Sides Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug

23:45

Big Naked Comedy Show Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–31 Aug 3’s Comedy: Late Nights Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug The Infamous Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–23 Aug David Ian: Bad Decisions Hoots @ Potterrow, 20–29 Aug, not 26 Late Night Comedy Death Camp Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 24–30 Aug MIND ER3CTION Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug Queer Diary Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 19–30 Aug

23:50

Megasquirt: Fully Loaded Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug LEMONFACE Underbelly, Cowgate, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 28 Aug

23:55

Late’n’Live Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug 1 hOur...

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug, not 24

Horatio Gould’s: Weekend at Dad’s Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–22 Aug Carnival of Light Hoots @ Potterrow, 24–26 Aug The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society Monkey Barrel Comedy, Various dates from 19 Aug to 30 Aug CLONG Monkey Barrel Comedy, 25–26 Aug The Battered Book Club Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–20 Aug John-Luke Roberts: Sunday Lates Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–24 Aug Stepdads: The Stepdads Les Mis (And More) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 27–29 Aug Show Swapper Saturday Assembly George Square, 29–30 Aug Princess Sparkles Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–31 Aug, not 24, 25, 26 Mina Liccione: Arabized C ARTS | C venues | C digital, 31 Aug–1 Sep Best of the Fest Assembly George Square, Various dates from 20 Aug to 29 Aug That’s Clown Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry Street), 19–30 Aug Free for All Monkey Barrel Comedy, 21–22 Aug

00:00

2 White Guys Rapping: Macshane and Delby Hoots @ The Apex, 20–31 Aug

00:10

A Comedian’s Drinking Game Hoots @ The Apex, 19–30 Aug Is He Bothering You? Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–29 Aug

00:30

100% F***ed Up and Far From Home Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 19–24 Aug Sex! with Becky Fury Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–31 Aug Bedlam Late Bedlam Theatre, Various dates from 21 Aug to 30 Aug Comedy Striptease Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Follow PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carbon, 19–30 Aug, not 22, 29

00:35

Matt Klein: Boyoyoyoyoing PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 19–31 Aug

00:45

Toxic Femininity Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–31 Aug

00:50

Lil Wenker in Ronny Eucalitto’s Love Hour Live Monkey Barrel Comedy, 19–20 Aug Lachlan Werner: Sleeper Hit (WIP) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 26–30 Aug Laurie Luxe: Scold (WIP) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 21–25 Aug

01:00

Struan Logan: Chaotic Good Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–31 Aug

01:30

In the Doghouse with Frankie Monroe Monkey Barrel Comedy, 25–31 Aug

00:15

The Agony and Ecstasy of Bingo Joe Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–31 Aug

Listings

ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 22–23 Aug Andrew O’Neill’s History of Punk Bannermans, 20–22 Aug Edinburgh Comedy Allstars Underbelly, George Square, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 28 Aug, 29 Aug Comedian Cover Bands Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug, not 28 Gobby Girls: The After Party Gilded Balloon Teviot, 28–29 Aug David Correos: Noise Zealand Monkey Barrel Comedy at O’Neill’s (The Tron), 19–30 Aug Stand Up For Freedom Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–22 Aug BATSU! Underbelly, George Square, 23 Aug, 30 Aug Mat Ewins: Adventureman 7: The Return of Adventureman Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 28–29 Aug Slay24 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22–23 Aug

Drunk and Heckle Show Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 19–29 Aug, not 24 Jill Weiner: Soup Freak Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug 4 Backpackers, For Backpackers Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 19–30 Aug Theo Mason-Wood: Innocent Until Proven Sexy (Work in Progress) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–23 Aug Jaz Mattu Fights His Audience Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 19–30 Aug, not 24

00:25

3 Bad Sisters Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–31 Aug

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Get Set for the Day Sauna Session Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25

09:15

Can You Teach Me How To Breathe? theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 24–29 Aug Locker Room Talk Traverse Theatre, 19–30 Aug, not 24

09:25

Keeping Secrets theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–29 Aug, not 23

09:30

The Extraordinary Life of a Rat Racer theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–22 Aug The Unsolvable Case of Keir Starmer theSpaceTriplex, 19–22 Aug

09:35

The Colour of Water theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug

09:45

Pink Dolphin theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug

09:50

Nude theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug

10:00

What Happened Here theSpace @ Venue 45, 24–29 Aug

10:10

Jekyll and Hyde theSpace @ Venue 45, 19–22 Aug The Horse That Jumped at the Moon theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug Confessions Of A Mulatto Love Child Zoo Southside, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Daughter of Sweden – That One Princess Who Got Drunk with Lizzie I and Thrown Out of England theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug Baby Everything Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25

10:15

Reformer Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 ArounD the WorlD in 80 ToyS Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 For Dolores Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 27 Aug He’s Six Years Older Than Me Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–22 Aug ‘Anyone Fancy a Bagel?’

Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 26–30 Aug Badgers Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, 30 Aug flights for future generations ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Mrs Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 29 Aug Noted Assembly Roxy, 19–30 Aug, not 25

10:20

One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 19–26 Aug, weekdays only Antigone – A Modern Retelling theSpace on the Mile, 20–21 Aug

10:30

Mandy: Prince of Darkness Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Apples in Winter Paradise in The Vault, 19–30 Aug, not 23 Between Strands Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–22 Aug

One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 19–26 Aug, weekdays only The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show Pleasance Courtyard, 20–31 Aug Morning Sauna Rave Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25 A Nation Divided Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–22 Aug The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Supposing: Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, 28 Aug Never Not Murder Just the Tonic at The Caves, 25–30 Aug William Street Braw Venues @ Hill Street, 19–21 Aug The Wreck Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25

10:35

If I See Him theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–26 Aug 00:45:00 theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug Launa theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–22 Aug Is This Your First Crime? theSpace on the Mile, 24–29 Aug Miss Thing theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 27–29 Aug

10:40

One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 19–26 Aug, weekdays only Operation Blank theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug Via Dolorosa by David Hare theSpaceTriplex, 19–22 Aug As Far As We Know Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Happiest I’ve Ever Been Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug THE LOVE YOU TAKE Paradise in Augustines, 24–29 Aug The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug, not 24

10:45

Bella theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug The Last Ballad theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug Broadguess Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug Does the Oracle Speak Truth? theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug

Pilate: The Lost Gospel Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug, not 25

10:50

One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 19–26 Aug, weekdays only Grandma’s Shop theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19 Aug Space Cadet Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Waiting for a Call Paradise in Augustines, 19–22 Aug

10:55

Gloves theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug

11:00

One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , Various dates from 19 Aug to 26 Aug Boiler Room Six: A Titanic Story Pleasance Dome, 20–31 Aug Agent November’s Indoor Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Royal Scots Club Edinburgh, 19–29 Aug Hater Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug, not 24 A Little Green Leaf theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 19–22 Aug An Audience with Virginia Woolf: Writing One’s Mind Assembly Rooms, 20–30 Aug CAI – Cadence of Altered Illusions University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 19 Aug Ulysses of Scranton Bedlam Theatre, 19–29 Aug, not 24, 25 Build a Fort The Speakeasy at The Royal Scots Club, 21–23 Aug

11:05

Nude theSpace on the Mile, 24–29 Aug THIS IS NOT AMERICA: A Razor-Edge New Play To Start Your Day! Pleasance Courtyard, 20–31 Aug Dear Lihua theSpaceTriplex, 24–29 Aug Brew Hill theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug

11:10

One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , Various dates from 19 Aug to 26 Aug Mummy’s Dead, Long Live Mummy! theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 24–29 Aug Pews at Ten Paradise in Augustines, 24–29 Aug

He Wants Kids, She Doesn’t Just The Tonic at Subway, 19–22 Aug

11:15

The Orchardist theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug Dribble Underbelly, George Square, 19–31 Aug, not 24

11:20

One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , Various dates from 19 Aug to 26 Aug I Almost Died for This?! (A love story. Sort of.) theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug Ghosts of West Hollywood Paradise in Augustines, 19–22 Aug Lavender Paradise in The Vault, 25–29 Aug Helen Bradley: Painter and Storyteller Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug The Lady Doth Protest Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 DADDY ISSUES Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–29 Aug, not 23, 24

11:25

Inside Voices theSpace @ Venue 45, 20–29 Aug, not 23 There Was A Time Greenside @ George Street, 26–29 Aug Awaiting Evaluation Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–29 Aug, not 23 See You Tomorrow Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 The Death of Hundun Greenside @ George Street, 24–29 Aug That’s Why Mums Go to Switzerland Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–31 Aug

11:30

One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , Various dates from 19 Aug to 26 Aug Chopin’s Last Tour C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug Youth in Flames – Winner: Scotsman Fringe First Award Pleasance Courtyard, 20–31 Aug Make Me Good Again theSpace @ Venue 45, 19 Aug Delivering Debussy C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 20 Aug, 22 Aug Shakespeare x 5 ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug Just Fall Over!

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–22 Aug

Julie Baby theSpace @ Niddry St, 24–25 Aug The Wester Ross Story Club The Royal Scots Club, 27–29 Aug Bog Witch Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug, 30 Aug We Love and Then We Drown Greenside @ George Street, 19–22 Aug Bull / Fight Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Cathy Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, 29 Aug Dear Cathy Paradise in Augustines, 24–29 Aug Dylan Thomas: Return Journey – Bob Kingdom, Original Direction by Anthony Hopkins Pleasance Courtyard, 20–31 Aug After Party Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, 28 Aug Not There Yet Greenside @ George Street, 24–29 Aug DOOMSCROLL TILL I DIE Pleasance Courtyard, 20–31 Aug

11:35

Letters to Joan – A Lovely New Play Pleasance Courtyard, 20–31 Aug Eight theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–22 Aug Jerk Off! Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Down To Chance Pleasance Courtyard, 20–31 Aug Famous Last Words theSpace on the Mile, 24–29 Aug

11:40

One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , Various dates from 19 Aug to 26 Aug My Screaming Pomegranates Greenside @ Riddles Court, 24–29 Aug QFWFQ Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 CAKE: A Crime of Love theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Just William theSpace on the Mile, 24–29 Aug Sobremesa Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug How Do I Hold It? Greenside @ George Street, 19–22 Aug Tomatoes Tried to Kill Me but Banjos Saved My Life Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25

Listings

Arcana Assembly Roxy, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Henry VIII and His Groom Paradise in The Vault, 24–30 Aug What’s Rotting in the Office Fridge? theSpace on the Mile, 24–29 Aug Agent November’s Indoor Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Royal Scots Club Edinburgh, 19–29 Aug A Desperate Remedy theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug I Killed My Father theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug Shakespeare for Breakfast C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 19–30 Aug CAI – Cadence of Altered Illusions University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 19 Aug How My Hormonal Imbalances Killed My Friends theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 24–27 Aug

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Theatre Long Way Home Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Searching for Robert Hennessey Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Smile: The Charlie Chaplin Story Pleasance Dome, 20–31 Aug, not 26 Elsa McTaggart: Capturing the Light theSpaceTriplex, Various dates from 19 Aug to 28 Aug

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Safety Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Suitcase Show Assembly Roxy, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Murder at the Fringe 2 Braw Venues @ Hill Street, 19–30 Aug The Chairs Revisited Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug David William Bryan – In Loyal Company Pleasance Courtyard, 20–31 Aug MAJENIN – A Palestinian Love Story Pleasance Dome, 20–31 Aug The People in Our Lives Greenside @ George Street, 25–29 Aug Fatherload Zoo Southside, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Parkies theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–29 Aug, not 23

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One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , Various dates from 19 Aug to 26 Aug Wolf Play Reading Pleasance Dome, 25 Aug Jesse North Is Broken Pleasance Courtyard, 19–20 Aug The Shit Table Gilded Balloon Teviot, 27–30 Aug The Last Days of Liz Truss? theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug Hecuba: Why Am I In Your Country?

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug, not 25

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Live From The Afterlife Assembly Roxy, 19–31 Aug, not 24

festmag.com

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This Is Not Hansel and Gretel PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 19–30 Aug, not 25 One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , Various dates from 19 Aug to 26 Aug FLIGHT Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug

Almost Everything Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Van Gogh & Me Dovecot Studios, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Whale Fall or Song to Dance With My Death St Cuthbert’s Church, Various dates from 19 Aug to 27 Aug Mysteries of the Picts Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25 One Million Words Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug, not 25 The Dream Machine Pleasance Courtyard, 22–29 Aug When Vincent Met John C ARTS | C venues | C alto, 19–30 Aug ARCADE Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug The Very Best of Tommy Cooper – Just Like That!

Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug GANNET Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 24–30 Aug Agent November’s Indoor Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Royal Scots Club Edinburgh, 19–29 Aug An Ode to the Casting Director Assembly George Square Studios, 19–29 Aug, not 20 It’s the Economy, Stupid!

Pleasance Dome, 25–31 Aug Jitters Summerhall, 19–21 Aug 3.2.1. Hold Me on Stage theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug CAI – Cadence of Altered Illusions University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 19 Aug Drone Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug

12:05

Mrs Macbeth theSpace on the Mile, 24–29 Aug 2%: A Play About Privilege (And Also Milk) theSpaceTriplex, 19–29 Aug, not 22 The Upwards Journey of a Champagne Bubble Gilded Balloon Patter House, 25–29 Aug

12:10

One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , Various dates from 19 Aug to 26 Aug Only Fans for Therapy ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug, not 24 The Love Hungry Farmer Assembly Rooms, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Pigeon Syndrome theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 19–22 Aug

12:15

Pip Utton’s Farewell to Edinburgh Fringe: Bacon Pleasance Courtyard, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, 29 Aug COMA Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug Holmes and Watson: Rathbone and Bruce (and a Hound) Palmerston Place Church, 22 Aug Is It Too Late Now To Say Sorry?

Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Epic Economics: What would you protest about today?

Paradise in The Vault, 19–30 Aug, not 23 The Understudy Assembly George Square, 19–30 Aug, not 24 SLAYERS by Corinne Salisbury Assembly George Square Studios, 19–30 Aug Pip Utton’s Farewell to Edinburgh Fringe: Hunchback of Notre Dames Pleasance Courtyard, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug Jellyfish Underbelly, George Square, 19–31 Aug Pip Utton’s Farewell to Edinburgh Fringe: Before I Forget I Love You, I Love You Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, 28 Aug, 30 Aug

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One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , Various dates from 19 Aug to 26 Aug KEVIN!!!!!

Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Heart Beats Strong Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Planet of the Grapes – An Epic, Tabletop, Sci-Fi Adventure!

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Mortal Sin Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Alan Bissett: The Red Hourglass The Stand Comedy Club 2, 19–29 Aug

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A Ghost Among the Living Pleasance Dome, 20–31 Aug The Tao of Lloyd Assembly Rooms, 19–30 Aug Hamlet: Prince of Sweden Teatro Fisico, 19–21 Aug Tiny Planet Pleasance Dome, 19–23 Aug

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Wiener Beacon Venue 13, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug

One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , Various dates from 19 Aug to 26 Aug FLIGHT Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug Midsummer!

Assembly Rooms, 19 Aug The Event Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Perudo Underbelly, Cowgate, 24–30 Aug The Longer My Mother Is Dead the More I Like Her Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Love in the Cracks C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 19–23 Aug Pecking Order Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–23 Aug Meet Mayor Max Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug The Ballad of Jack and Stacey Canonmills Church, 25 Aug, 27 Aug Cogito, Ergo...

Something?

Bedlam Theatre, 19–30 Aug, not 24

A Midsummer Night’s Dream theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–22 Aug 58 To Go Greenside @ George Street, 24–29 Aug Macbeth’s Midsummer Night’s Dream theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug Seeksaw theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug Blackbox Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug Crash Course Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–22 Aug

12:45

Against the Grain theSpace @ Niddry St, 23–25 Aug Ludwig: Unfinished Business Assembly Rooms, 19–30 Aug The Vagina Monologues theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–22 Aug ARCADE Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug A Giggle With The Gaggle theSpace on the Mile, 24–29 Aug Until Spring Comes Greenside @ George Street, 19–22 Aug Jane Eyre Convention Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–28 Aug Billie and The Big Turn On The Speakeasy at The Royal Scots Club, 20–21 Aug Burning Down the Horse Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug Dreaming of Max Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 More Myself Than I Am theSpace on the Mile, 24–29 Aug Rip Her to Shreds Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug

COMA Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug It’s a Mystery! theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug How to Poop in an Outhouse at -58°C Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 One Man Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart and The Pit and the Pendulum Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, 29 Aug Am I Losing My Mind Or Just My Figure?

ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug The Second Best School Shooting Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug, not 26 One Man Poe: The Business Man and The Case of M. Valdemar Greenside @ Riddles Court, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, 28 Aug Supposing: Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, 29 Aug Badgers Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, 27 Aug Water Colour Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug Mrs Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 30 Aug The Jolly Fisherman Underbelly, George Square, 19–31 Aug Babyface Paradise in The Vault, 24–30 Aug One Man Poe: The Black Cat and The Raven Greenside @ Riddles Court, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, 27 Aug

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12:35

Hope This Helps! theSpace @ Venue 45, 19–29 Aug, not 23 One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , Various dates from 19 Aug to 26 Aug Dinner With the Wolves Greenside @ George Street, 19–22 Aug

One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , Various dates from 19 Aug to 26 Aug Fractured Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug The Last Mad Man Assembly Roxy, 19–30 Aug, not 24

The Crimes of Pete Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug The Sins of the Father theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug The Next Chapter Greenside @ Riddles Court, 24–29 Aug Love (5 Ways) Paradise in The Vault, 19–22 Aug That’s Ace Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug Day of the Locust Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Seledka Paradise in Augustines, 19–22 Aug Cruising Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug, not 25

12:55

Book Club theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug Slugs Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug, not 25 The Pigeon Factory Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug

13:00

I Half-Read Don Quixote and Now I Know the Truth (WIP) Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 27 Aug An American Love Letter to Edinburgh Scottish Storytelling Centre, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 29 Aug, 30 Aug One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , Various dates from 19 Aug to 26 Aug FLIGHT Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug A Wolf Shall Devour the Sun Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 19 Aug to 28 Aug A Ghost in the Throat (WIP) Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 20 Aug For Dolores Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, 28 Aug Acts of Contrition Braw Venues @ Hill Street, 19–30 Aug No One Dies... Probably Le Monde, 27–28 Aug Agent November’s Indoor Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Royal Scots Club Edinburgh, 19–29 Aug Dead Prepared C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 26–30 Aug Already Here Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–30 Aug Angels in America King’s Theatre, 20 Aug

HESS Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug Bad Boy Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug To Be A Bat (WIP) Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 21 Aug Annie Wobbler (Revisited) Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug Cluedo St Ninian’s Hall, 22 Aug ROOMIES Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–31 Aug Lil’ Miss Kate – Ward of the State Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 A Man Proposes to a Balloon, or Possibly Something Worse Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Too Clowns (WIP) Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 29–30 Aug

13:05

Lawrence of Arabia and ME theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Delusions and Grandeur ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug Best. Dad. NEVER. Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug Putting the Ass in Brass theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug Nose Country for Old Men C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 24–30 Aug Cinderella and Frankenstein’s Monster Are Dead theSpaceTriplex, 19–29 Aug, not 23

13:10

Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band theSpace on the Mile, 24 Aug, 27 Aug One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , Various dates from 19 Aug to 26 Aug Plaything Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–31 Aug, not 25 ARCADE Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug Waiting For The Match (Duet Version) Paradise in Augustines, 19–21 Aug Silent Disco Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug Robert Louis Stevenson: The Body Snatcher theSpace on the Mile, 19–29 Aug, not 23, 24, 27

Nocturnal Is The New Sexy theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug The Dreaming Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25

13:20

Forget About Me Pleasance Courtyard, 20–31 Aug, not 26 One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 19–28 Aug, not 23 Boy in a Box Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–30 Aug, not 24 ADDING UP AMERICA: Solving the Race Equation Assembly Roxy, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Therapy “R” Us theSpace @ Niddry St, 24–29 Aug Wherefore Art Thou, Woman-Hater? theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug Fake Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug The King of All Birds Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery: ABBAsolute Murder theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Larkhill theSpace on the Mile, 24–29 Aug

Diary of a Mad Man Assembly Roxy, 19–31 Aug You Come From a Long Line of Shallow People Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug Playback Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 19–28 Aug, not 23 Moth and Dog Are Dying to Get Out Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug, not 25 What’s the Craic, God? Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Raul Kohli: Buddha vs Jesus Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Buggers Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug, not 24 A Simply Beastly Murder Pleasance Dome, 19–30 Aug, not 25

13:25

A Costume Drama ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug Krapp’s Last Tape Assembly Roxy, 19–31 Aug

13:30

Little Animals Traverse @ The Lyceum Studio, Various dates from 19 Aug to 30 Aug Handle with Care Zoo Southside, 24–30 Aug One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 19–28 Aug, not 23 FLIGHT Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug Don Toberman: Ping-Pong Champ Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Lunch Break Luxuriate Lit Salon Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25

13:35

Star Vehicle theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug ALONE Assembly George Square, 19–30 Aug, not 24 A Pebble in the Road Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Dungeons and Shakespeare Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–27 Aug Unearthed theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–22 Aug

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Giraffe Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Betsi theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug COMA Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug Man or Bear Summerhall, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Bean vs The Robots: A Solo Show Musical theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug It’s Always Sunny on Olympus theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 19 Aug to 29 Aug

Lear’s Fool Greenside @ George Street, 19–22 Aug ARCADE Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug Angelshark theSpace on the Mile, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug In Perfect Harmony Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Girlfriends Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 The Hunger Artist Rotunda Theatre, 22–23 Aug Citizen Otherplace Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Belly Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23

13:50

One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 19–28 Aug, not 23 A Woman in Berlin 1945 Teatro Fisico, 19–21 Aug Call Me When You Get This Just The Tonic at Subway, 20–30 Aug We Love and Then We Drown Greenside @ George Street, 24–29 Aug The Spy Network Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–29 Aug, not 23

13:55

Of Mice And Men Assembly Rooms, 19–30 Aug, not 25 REDACTED: The Cover-Up of a Cover-Up of a Cover-Up Pleasance Dome, 20–30 Aug, not 24 Ten Ways to Die Happy Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–31 Aug If Aliens Attack, I’d Die First theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–22 Aug

14:00

Reparations Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Churchill’s Urinal Pleasance at EICC, 20 Aug, 22 Aug KINDER Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 25 One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 19–28 Aug, not 23 FLIGHT Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug We Are All Florida Man theSpace @ Niddry St, 24–29 Aug BDP Presents: Nicholas Pilapil WIP Sharing Underbelly, Cowgate, 25 Aug The Wedding Date Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23

The Tale of the Original Jekyll and Hyde (Told by a Mad Hatter from Stockport) Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–29 Aug, not 23 DeepFake Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Agent November’s Indoor Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Royal Scots Club Edinburgh, 19–29 Aug Cowards!

C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, Various dates from 19 Aug to 29 Aug Haribo Kimchi Studio Theatre, 22 Aug Clown Show King’s Theatre, 29 Aug The Pitch Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug, not 20, 29 3 Times I Killed ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug Night Falls on Burma C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 19–22 Aug Quinn’s Abyss C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, Various dates from 20 Aug to 30 Aug

14:05

TO BE FRANK Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug, not 26 CAMPITALISM: Three Gays Try to Fix The Economy Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug Who We Become: The Moonshot Tape by Lanford Wilson theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug, 29 Aug Dead Wrong theSpaceTriplex, 19–29 Aug Who We Become: Breakfast at the Track / A Poster of the Cosmos by Lanford Wilson theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug Sisters of the Seas theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 19–29 Aug, not 23 James Rowland: Team Viking Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug

14:10

Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band theSpace on the Mile, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, 29 Aug The Problem Assembly Rooms, 20–30 Aug One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 19–28 Aug, not 23 DUST Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Grief Encounters theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug

Charles Dickens: The Hanged Man’s Bride theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 19 Aug to 28 Aug The Late Utopians Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug

14:15

A Vacuum at the Centre Paradise in The Vault, 24–30 Aug Laughing Out Lonely Summerhall, 19–30 Aug, not 24 COMA Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug Return to the Hiding Place Palmerston Place Church, 24–25 Aug CS Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters Palmerston Place Church, 22 Aug Wallace Braw Venues @ Hill Street, 19–30 Aug 1917: The Woodbine Poet and Padre Palmerston Place Church, 19–20 Aug

14:20

One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 19–28 Aug, not 23 Don’t You Forget About Me Assembly Roxy, 19–31 Aug, not 24 ARCADE Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug DeepFake Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Broke and Fabulous in the 21st Century Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Patient 13 ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug, not 25 In A Bad Way Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug, not 24

14:25

Spin Cycle Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–31 Aug Woodhill Zoo Southside, 19–30 Aug, not 24

14:30

Sacred Arts Festival Drama at St John’s Princes Street: Doctor Faustus St John’s Church, 19 Aug One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 19–28 Aug, not 23 FLIGHT Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug 11½ Angry Men Pleasance at EICC, 19–22 Aug Furniture Boys Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug, not 25

Listings

13:15

Laughing Out Lonely Summerhall, 19–30 Aug, not 24 The Three Marias Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge, 26–30 Aug

This Play Shouldn’t Exist (and I Was Supposed to Be on Holiday) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–28 Aug, not 24 COMA Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug The Horse of Jenin Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug The Gas Station at the Edge of the Universe Venue 13, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug, 29 Aug Georgina Thomas: Hysterical Soprano Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–31 Aug HumAnimalia Dynamic Earth, 19–22 Aug Wiesenthal Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Come Back Home Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24

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Mind the Gap Braw Venues @ Hill Street, 21–30 Aug Troubled Waters Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20–30 Aug, not 26 About a Bogle The Speakeasy at The Royal Scots Club, 19 Aug The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of Macbeth Newington Trinity Church, 22 Aug Turn the Cloth Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug, not 26 Tenderly: The Life and Times of Nat King Cole The Jazz Bar, 26–30 Aug Brassed Off Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 22 Aug Cathy Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug, 30 Aug Bloody Mary(s) The Speakeasy at The Royal Scots Club, 27–30 Aug I Love Thee, I Love Thee Not The Speakeasy at The Royal Scots Club, 20–26 Aug

Cyn theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug

Cellotape theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug, 29 Aug Eight Hours theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug Morna Burdon: The Sound of My Own Voice Scottish Storytelling Centre, 26 Aug Sitting (In Silence) Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Morna Burdon: Gie’s Peace Scottish Storytelling Centre, 19 Aug Liz Wesleydale: (Shadow) Home Secretary Paradise in The Vault, 19–30 Aug, not 23 The 40-Year-Old Ballerino Venue 13, 19–29 Aug, not 24 Treasure Island theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug The Kingmaker (WIP) Pleasance Courtyard, 19–23 Aug After Party Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, 29 Aug Common Tongue Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20–31 Aug, not 26 Sad Bride Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug

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14:35

One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 19–28 Aug, not 23 Whatever Happened To That Guy? Pleasance Dome, 20–31 Aug Taken theSpace on the Mile, 24–29 Aug Gameplay Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug It Happened on a Tuesday theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–22 Aug A Dark Line Upstairs ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug Temi Wilkey: Lover Girl Pleasance Courtyard, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Catching a Cheese Pervert: A Priscilla Patton Mystery Just The Tonic at Westside Rodeo, 19–27 Aug DeepFake Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Overtone Pleasance Dome, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Body Parts theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug

14:55

ARCADE Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug Paint, Vincent, Paint Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Propaganda theSpace @ Venue 45, 19–21 Aug The Ghost of White Hart Lane Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–31 Aug After Careful Consideration theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug Bombs Over Byker Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Offgridland Greenside @ Riddles Court, 24–29 Aug

15:00

Truthmachine C ARTS | C venues | C alto, 19–30 Aug, not 24, 25 One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 19–28 Aug, not 23 FLIGHT Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug HANG TIME The Lyceum, 22–23 Aug STAY Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–30 Aug Van Gogh & Me Dovecot Studios, Various dates from 21 Aug to 30 Aug Clary C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 19–30 Aug DeepFake Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 24 The Crossing PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room, 30 Aug Bi-Curious George: Snail Trail Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug Agent November’s Indoor Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Royal Scots Club Edinburgh, 19–29 Aug You and Me (and Whoever Comes Next) Summerhall, 19–29 Aug, not 25 The RemAIns of the Butler Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19–30 Aug Clown Show King’s Theatre, 30 Aug Fly, You Fools!

Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Sims Holland: Learning to Human Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug Widow Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 SLAY Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug Chestnuts Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Aufguss x The Waves Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25 CAI – Cadence of Altered Illusions University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 19 Aug Stay A Little Longer Pleasance Courtyard, 20–31 Aug The Fox, the Slipper and the Severed Head Rotunda Theatre, 22–23 Aug

15:05

Stanislavski Can’t Save Me From The Apocalypse Greenside @ George Street, 19–22 Aug The Seat of Me theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug

The Hypochondriac theSpace on the Mile, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug 113 Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Dear Michelle Kwan theSpaceTriplex, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Fool’s Gold theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 24–29 Aug Carys Should be the UK’s Next Eurovision Entry theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug In Her Hand theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug Extra Dry Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–29 Aug, not 23

15:10

Charles Dickens: The Signalman theSpace on the Mile, 20–29 Aug, not 23 One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 19–28 Aug, not 23 The Great Shakespeare Showdown theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug D H Lawrence: The Prussian Officer theSpace on the Mile, 19 Aug Shotgunned Assembly George Square Studios, 19–30 Aug, not 24

15:15

The Woman in the Mirror Zoo Southside, 20–30 Aug COMA Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug Kirsty Mann: Corpse Summerhall, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Bad Lesbians (WIP) Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 29–30 Aug We Have Been Here For... (WIP) Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 21 Aug For Dolores Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, 29 Aug Living the Dream theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 19 Aug to 29 Aug Atomic Tales ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug Forest Fringe: Three Queer Daughters (WIP) Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 25–26 Aug The Librarians: A Very Serious Comedy!

Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Bog Witch Traverse Theatre, 28 Aug Mister Jackpot Teatro Fisico, 19–21 Aug HE/HIS/HIM Rotunda Theatre, 22–23 Aug Save the Queen? (WIP) Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 23 Aug Supposing: Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug

Water Colour Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 27 Aug, 30 Aug Shakespeare’s Big Brother Paradise in Augustines, 19–22 Aug Behind Closed Doors Braw Venues @ Hill Street, 19–30 Aug Mrs Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 26 Aug BULK (WIP) Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 20 Aug

15:20

One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 19–28 Aug, not 23 DeepFake Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 24 A Foot is Not an Appropriate Prize for the Tombola Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug Rockpools Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug, not 24 The Subplot: A Hyperfixation on the Titan Submersible Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Trans People Are Awful Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug, not 24

15:25

A Traitors Pantomime theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–22 Aug Primal Scream Assembly Rooms, 19–30 Aug Don Quixote (Is a Very Big Book) Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Mohan: A Partition Story Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug Justice PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carbon, 19–30 Aug, not 24

15:30

Breathe: Five Arias That Saved My Life The Royal Scots Club, 19–22 Aug Delphi: The Musical Bedlam Theatre, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Deluge Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug Call Me Elizabeth: from Lassie to Cleopatra Assembly George Square Studios, Various dates from 19 Aug to 29 Aug Bog Witch Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, 25 Aug A Play on Words Assembly Rooms, 20–30 Aug Kafka for Beginners Braw Venues @ Hill Street, 19–30 Aug

Vincent van Gogh: Between Worlds Assembly George Square, 19–30 Aug The Curious Case of Osgood MacKenzie The Royal Scots Club, 27–29 Aug Badgers Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, 28 Aug One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 27–28 Aug Call Me Elizabeth: from Burton to Humanitarian Assembly George Square Studios, Various dates from 20 Aug to 30 Aug Sinatra: One Last Shot Le Monde, 19–30 Aug, not 24

15:35

Kitty Daddy theSpace on the Mile, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Dogberry and Verges Are Scared C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Right before I go.

Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug, not 24 I Bought a Flip Phone ZOO Playground, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Cabin theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug

15:40

A Queer Little Murder Gilded Balloon Patter House, 20–31 Aug Soaked theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–25 Aug Play Dead Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug Stayin’ Alive Gilded Balloon Patter House, 20–31 Aug, not 26 DeepFake Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Turn Your F*cking Phones Off Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 27–28 Aug

15:45

Secrets Secrets Shhh!

Underbelly, George Square, 19–31 Aug The Last Girl There theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug Spider Witches of Appalachia PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 19–30 Aug, not 24 The Postcode Lottery Paradise in The Vault, 24–30 Aug The Court 3 Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge, 19–30 Aug Gathering Stones Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge, 19–30 Aug, not 25

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14:45

COMA Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug In the Black Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–31 Aug

One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 19–28 Aug, not 23 Dreams Through Thin Walls – Three One-Act Plays by Tennessee Williams theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–22 Aug The Boline Inn Paradise in Augustines, 24–30 Aug LANDSFRAU Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Omaha Paradise in Augustines, 19–21 Aug Dickens: The Readings Assembly George Square Studios, 19–30 Aug, not 24

Big Stuff Assembly Roxy, 19–30 Aug

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Theatre Happy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–30 Aug Acid’s Reign Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug, not 24 ...Earnest?

Underbelly, George Square, 19–30 Aug

15:50

Truthmachine C ARTS | C venues | C alto, 19–30 Aug, not 24, 25 Join the Club! A Story About the Sex You Never Wanted Paradise in Augustines, 19–30 Aug, not 23 One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 27–28 Aug

15:55

Mind Full theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug Racists, Recessions and Revolutions ZOO Playground, 20–30 Aug, not 26 BASIC BALD B*TCH Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Sonder theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug, 29 Aug Macbeth: Blood and Bluegrass theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 20–29 Aug, not 25 CRUSH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug

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Sanctuary Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug Little Animals Traverse @ The Lyceum Studio, 19–30 Aug, not 24 In Other Words Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug The Invisible City Artspace, 21 Aug NON HUMAN ANIMAL Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Mayflies Brown’s of Leith, 19–30 Aug, not 25 MAN!FEST: The Drag Boyband Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug, not 26 DeepFake Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Agent November’s Indoor Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Royal Scots Club Edinburgh, 19–29 Aug Chai, Samosa and Climate Gupshup Pianodrome at St Oswald’s Centre, 19 Aug Hadid Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–29 Aug, not 23 One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 27–28 Aug

Strange Face: Adventures with a Lost Nick Drake Recording...

The Story Continues Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug

16:05

Woodcutter theSpaceTriplex, 19–29 Aug, not 23, 24 The Yellow Wallpaper Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 The Poetical Life of Philomena McGuinness theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Shatter Resistant Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Cubicle Dialogue theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 24–29 Aug Billie and The Big Turn On The Speakeasy at The Royal Scots Club, 19 Aug Bloated In Vegas Greenside @ Riddles Court, 24–29 Aug The Bob Ross Effect Assembly George Square Gardens, 19–31 Aug Take Care theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug

16:10

With the Possible Exception of Abraham Lincoln Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Copycat Pleasance Dome, 20–31 Aug, not 26 Isle of No’Man Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 27–28 Aug Scaramouche Jones Assembly Rooms, 19–30 Aug Goodbye Dandelion Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug Giro Baby Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 We’ve Got Time Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Reaching The C theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 19–22 Aug

16:15

Our Other Organ Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Otuz Bir Venue 13, Various dates from 20 Aug to 29 Aug Wiener Beacon Venue 13, 26 Aug, 28 Aug Brick C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 19–30 Aug My Dead Mum’s AI Boyfriend Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 26–30 Aug Pink Rabbit Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug

Shamaniac Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Sex, Drugs and Conscious Souls PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 22–30 Aug I Dreamt You Differently C ARTS | C venues | C alto, 19–30 Aug Painting the Roses Red Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Sister Sophia Kicks the Habit Venue 13, 19 Aug, 21 Aug

16:20

Romeo and I theSpace @ Venue 45, 24–29 Aug Aliens Zoo Southside, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Louise: The Last Dance Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Mind The Gap Year theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug DeepFake Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Good With Faces Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Monster Made Paradise in The Vault, 24–30 Aug One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 27–28 Aug BearGirl Assembly Roxy, 19–31 Aug, not 24

16:25

Amnesia Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug CIRCLE theSpace on the Mile, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Circle of Fifths Zoo Southside, 24–30 Aug

16:30

Bubble Schmeisis (Remixed) Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Our Martin in the Background Scottish Storytelling Centre, 26–30 Aug The Dark Pool Scottish Storytelling Centre, 23–24 Aug ELBA Just the Tonic Nucleus, 19–30 Aug Nesting Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Crocodile Rock Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug, not 25 I’m Mom Just The Tonic at Subway, 19–30 Aug Aderyn / Bird Scottish Storytelling Centre, 19–22 Aug Father, Away She Goes ZOO Playground, 20–30 Aug, not 26

We Will Hear The Angels Summerhall, 19–30 Aug, not 24 One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 27–28 Aug The Unknown Soldier Rotunda Theatre, 19–23 Aug Tether Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25

16:35

Follow Me theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 19 Aug to 29 Aug Turn the Screw, Tickety-Boo theSpace on the Mile, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug

16:40

The End of the World Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Truthmachine C ARTS | C venues | C alto, 19–30 Aug, not 24, 25 Baby Brain Assembly George Square Studios, 21–30 Aug An Echo in the Void Assembly Roxy, 20–29 Aug Mrs Gary Breath Assembly Roxy, 19–31 Aug Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–31 Aug Caligula Teatro Fisico, 19–21 Aug One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 27–28 Aug DeepFake Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 24 THE LOVE YOU TAKE Paradise in Augustines, 19–22 Aug Dreamgirl Zoo Southside, 19–23 Aug

16:45

JULIUS CAESAR VARIETY SHOW Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Through the Shortbread Tin Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20–31 Aug, not 26 A: What Is Yours?

Braw Venues @ Hill Street, 19–30 Aug Notes from a Narcissistic Negro and Other N Words Paradise in The Vault, 19–22 Aug

16:50

The Passion theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–22 Aug Dregs theSpace @ Niddry St, 24–29 Aug Taxidermy: The Sexy Death Play Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–31 Aug, not 21

Target Audience Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 27–28 Aug Motorway ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug

16:55

Becoming Dr Ruth Assembly Rooms, 19–30 Aug Clive Assembly Rooms, 19–30 Aug

17:00

Love Did a Number on Me PBH’s Free Fringe @ Greek Gyros Grill, 22–30 Aug A Head Full of Bees C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 19–30 Aug Dancing Shoes (WIP) Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 20 Aug The Dark I Swim (WIP) Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 21 Aug LuluLand Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Bloody Mary’s theSpace @ Venue 45, 19 Aug Agent November’s Indoor Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Royal Scots Club Edinburgh, 19–29 Aug Forest Fringe: Sex Yacht (WIP) Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 25–26 Aug Taverna Miresia - Mario, Bella, Anastasia Church Hill Theatre, 28 Aug Love Letters to the Public Transport System Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 24 Aug Call Her The Ringmaster Braw Venues @ Hill Street, 19–30 Aug One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 27–28 Aug Childhood’s End (WIP) Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 22 Aug Sublimation Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge, 20–30 Aug Trainspotting Live Pleasance at EICC, 30 Aug

17:05

Lysistrata theSpace @ Venue 45, 21–29 Aug, not 23 A Forgotten Woman: Mrs Oscar Wilde theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug, 29 Aug The Skarsgård Effect theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–25 Aug After Shakespeare theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug January 6th the Musical theSpaceTriplex, 19–29 Aug Top Gunchained Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–30 Aug, not 26

I Think I Hate Actors Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug Happily Ever Never theSpace @ Niddry St, 19 Aug

17:10

Fruit Flies theSpace on the Mile, 24–29 Aug Do Better: A Dramagedy Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 hame. teeth. CLUB. Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery: Knives In theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–29 Aug, not 23 One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 27–28 Aug DeepFake Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug, not 24

17:15

To Do Lists Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug, not 26 Holmes and Watson: Rathbone and Bruce (and a Hound) Palmerston Place Church, 21 Aug When We Were Young theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug Rev Awdry: The Thomas the Tank Engine Man Palmerston Place Church, 24–25 Aug Headcase Greenside @ Riddles Court, 24–29 Aug I Am Going to Reveal Something Personal About Myself Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Eric Liddell: The Chariot of Fire Palmerston Place Church, 19 Aug Remember, Remember!

Pleasance Dome, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Pilgrims Greenside @ George Street, 24–29 Aug

17:20

Room 1219 theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug A Seance Spectacular with the Mystical Medium Wolf Sisters from the Great White North Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–30 Aug Uncorked Just The Tonic at Westside Rodeo, 20 Aug, 22 Aug Mark Vigeant: OUT THERE Assembly Roxy, 20–30 Aug Casual Receptionist of the Quarter Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 27–28 Aug

89 Steve Burns: Alive Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug Surreally Good Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Get a Grip Just The Tonic at Westside Rodeo, 19 Aug, 21 Aug

17:25

After the Fact theSpace @ Niddry St, 24–29 Aug

17:30

Truthmachine C ARTS | C venues | C alto, 19–30 Aug, not 24, 25 Dracula: Lucy’s Dream Pleasance at EICC, 20–29 Aug, not 26 Mr Bergmann of Deadman’s Point Paradise in The Vault, 19–30 Aug, not 23 The Good, The Bad and The Almighty Greenside @ Riddles Court, 24–29 Aug M (Woman of Fashion) C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 19–30 Aug CQD to SOS: A Titanic Story Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–22 Aug After Party Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug, 30 Aug One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 27–28 Aug

17:35

Spare Room theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug In the Cold Light theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Woyzeck (MacKendrick) theSpace on the Mile, 24–29 Aug

17:40

Parasocial Activity Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Lucy Best: Unbelievable Paradise in Augustines, 19–30 Aug, not 22, 23 An Evening with Gerald Lloyd-Davies Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 27–28 Aug

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17:50

ARCADE Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug Jack Off The Beanstalk Just the Tonic Nucleus, 19–30 Aug ROLEPLAY Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25 One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 27–28 Aug

17:55

ASURA: An Enlightenment Experiment Zoo Southside, 19–30 Aug, not 25 CADEL: Lungs on Legs Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20–30 Aug, not 26

18:00

The Invisible City Artspace, 20 Aug International Aufguss Masters Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25 FLIGHT Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug For Dolores Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug, 30 Aug Agent November’s Indoor Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Royal Scots Club Edinburgh, 19–29 Aug Angels in America King’s Theatre, 19 Aug Endgame by Samuel Beckett Pleasance at EICC, 19–30 Aug, not 24, 27 Supposing: Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug We Had Fun Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Women of Will Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Badgers Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, 29 Aug Maestro, play us Moonlight Sonata!

St Vincent’s, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, 28 Aug Water Colour Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, 28 Aug One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 27–28 Aug Mrs Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, 27 Aug The Distance Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Cluedo St Ninian’s Hall, 22 Aug

18:05

Come As You Are theSpaceTriplex, 24–29 Aug

18:10

The Problem With Kate Winslet’s Dress theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–22 Aug Deckhand theSpace @ Niddry St, 24–29 Aug An American (Not) in Paris Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–30 Aug One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 27–28 Aug

18:15

I, Claudius: Part 2 The Royal Scots Club, 20 Aug COMA Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug When We Were Young theSpace on the Mile, 24–29 Aug Saving Britney Underbelly, George Square, 19–30 Aug, not 24 I AM JOHNNY Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Film Noir Frog theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug I, Claudius: Part 1 The Royal Scots Club, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug Bite theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug The Ostrich Principle Scottish Storytelling Centre, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug 1 King, 2 Princes and Shakespeare’s Lie theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Spinster Scottish Storytelling Centre, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug, 29 Aug, 30 Aug The Vampire of Rio Rotunda Theatre, 19–23 Aug The Burnings Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge, 19–30 Aug

18:20

Chip and Gus: A Comedy with Balls theSpace @ Venue 45, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Tap Out! (Or I’ll Hit You Again) Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Fragments Hoots @ The Apex, 19–30 Aug, not 24, 25

The Misfortunes of a Spy and Her Mystic Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Big Dog Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Having a Baby – The Sh!t They Don’t Tell You in Books theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug Erika. Reflections on a New Era theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–21 Aug One Hundred Voices The Scottish Parliament , 27–28 Aug

18:25

ARCADE Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug Doughboys Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–22 Aug Most of My Moms Are Gay Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Bumpo Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Always, Sometimes, Maybe ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Long Story Short theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug My Oh My, Mr Dream Paradise in The Vault, 19–30 Aug, not 23 EVITA TOO Zoo Southside, 19–30 Aug, not 24

18:30

FLIGHT Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug Book of Shadows Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–30 Aug Top GRRL! Pay Him to Peg You PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 19–30 Aug, not 22 Bog Witch Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, 29 Aug Cathy Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, 28 Aug Dinosaurs Greenside @ Riddles Court, 24–29 Aug Do Not Attempt This Conversation Greenside @ George Street, 24–29 Aug A Better Memory Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug, not 25 The Taming of the Shrew Braw Venues @ Hill Street, 19–30 Aug Trainspotting Live Pleasance at EICC, 20–29 Aug, not 24

18:35

I Almost Died for This?! (A love story. Sort of.) theSpace on the Mile, 24–29 Aug

Disciples of Anatomy Greenside @ George Street, 19–22 Aug One Man Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart and The Pit and the Pendulum Greenside @ Riddles Court, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, 28 Aug Paywall C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 19–30 Aug One Man Poe: The Business Man and The Case of M. Valdemar Greenside @ Riddles Court, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, 27 Aug One Man Poe: The Black Cat and The Raven Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, 29 Aug

18:40

A Queen’s Way Greenside @ George Street, 24–29 Aug Selkie: Past, Present, Future Scottish Storytelling Centre, 19–30 Aug Pajama Talks theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Krystyna Hutchinson: Congrats On Not Killing Yourself!

Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug

18:45

COMA Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug Trust Me, I’m a Doctor theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug MANWATCHING Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 28 Aug An Evening with an Immigrant Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 19–21 Aug Forest Fringe: Like You Were Before Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 26 Aug Forest Fringe: Like the party has been cancelled Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 25 Aug The Song of Lip and Tarantula PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 20–30 Aug A Little Inquest Into What We Are All Doing Here Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 29–30 Aug

18:50

Max Olesker: Making the Cut Pleasance Dome, 19–30 Aug, not 22, 29 We Were Sisters theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug The Wetness Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug

18:55

TWITCH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug

19:00

ARCADE Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug FLIGHT Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug Tiny Apocalypses ...that led me here Barnton Bunker, 19 Aug Into The Light: True Story of Survival and Faith Duncan Street Baptist Church, 19–21 Aug The Last Drop ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug, not 24 @Jenna C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 19–30 Aug Agent November’s Indoor Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Royal Scots Club Edinburgh, 19–29 Aug Adam Riches: The Captain Summerhall, 25 Aug Steak Out Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug, not 24

19:05

The Powerpop Girls: A New Diva Religion theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–22 Aug La Musicca von Scene / Sonata theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Innsmouth Crown theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug If We Really Were Witches Paradise in The Vault, 19–30 Aug, not 23

19:10

JUDAS EXCLUSIVE Zoo Southside, 19–28 Aug Nosejob Paradise in Augustines, 19–30 Aug, not 23

19:15

Horrorshow Summerhall, 25–31 Aug COMA Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug Holmes and Watson: Rathbone and Bruce (and a Hound) Palmerston Place Church, 20 Aug The Night Ali Died theSpace on the Mile, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Peggy Day theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 19–22 Aug Titanic: The Last Hero and The Last Coward Palmerston Place Church, 19 Aug Transmission Summerhall, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug

Listings

Prophets Assembly Roxy, 19–31 Aug, not 24 DESPERATE WEE GAY BOY Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug The Speakeasy Experience Summerhall, 19–31 Aug Boogie on the Bones Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Shakespeare Dice: As You Like It Venue 13, 19–23 Aug

Waiting For Elvis theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug

Against the Grain theSpace @ Niddry St, 23–25 Aug Argonauts ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Guns in Dragonland theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–22 Aug Vampires of Mississippi PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 19–30 Aug Two Halves theSpaceTriplex, 19–22 Aug

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Theatre God Complex theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 24–29 Aug Chamberlain: Peace in Our Time Palmerston Place Church, 24–25 Aug The Woman in the Box theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug CS Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters Palmerston Place Church, 21 Aug The Girls Who Made Us theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 25 Aug, 27 Aug, 29 Aug Trainspotting Live Pleasance at EICC, 30 Aug

19:20

Truthmachine C ARTS | C venues | C alto, 19–30 Aug, not 24, 25 15 Minutes of Shame ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug A Public Display of Affection Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–30 Aug, not 24

19:25

Operation Market Garden theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–29 Aug, not 23 The Last Audition theSpace on the Mile, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Dirty Dancer Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug

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FLIGHT Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug Sherlock Holmes: The Death and Life Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 19–29 Aug, not 24 Operation Blank theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug Al-Sirah Al-Hilaliyyah The Lyceum, 26–29 Aug HAM Summerhall, 19–30 Aug, not 25 The Court 1 Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge, 19–30 Aug Double Bill The Royal Scots Club, 24–29 Aug Did You Charge Your Phone for the End of the World?

Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–29 Aug, not 23 The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of Macbeth Newington Trinity Church, 19–21 Aug Brassed Off Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 19–21 Aug The Plot Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Aufguss x Nils Frahm Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25

Lions Summerhall, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities: A Toy Theater Atlas C ARTS | C venues | C alto, 19–30 Aug Cluedo St Ninian’s Hall, 19–21 Aug

19:35

ARCADE Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug 1918: The Final Salomé Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Pyg Greenside @ George Street, 24–29 Aug It Couldn’t Get Worse; or, The Margarita Boat Tour Incident theSpace @ Venue 45, 24–29 Aug A Companion theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug Likewise Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–22 Aug SpinQueen™ Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23

19:40

Danger Plan!

Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–30 Aug The Witches of Macbeth theSpace @ Venue 45, 19–22 Aug Magic Lantern Anthology Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Nothing Personal Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Laughing Matters Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–29 Aug, not 23 This Is How I Got Arrested...

ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads The Speakeasy at The Royal Scots Club, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug Crying At My Podiatrist Paradise in Augustines, 19–30 Aug, not 22, 23

19:45

Witches Corner theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug If I See Him theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 27–29 Aug Two Little Pigs Pleasance Courtyard, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Arachne / Athena Assembly Rooms, 19–30 Aug The Bathroom Floor Greenside @ Riddles Court, 24–29 Aug COMA Assembly George Square, Various dates from 21 Aug to 30 Aug The Speakeasy Experience Summerhall, 19–31 Aug

The Terribly Credible Definitely Edible Tale of the Town of Cropshire Assembly Roxy, 19–31 Aug Define Queerness Venue 13, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug, 29 Aug Operotica: Lovers in Every Lifetime Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Pierrepoint: The People’s Hangman theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug Luscinia Venue 13, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug Miss Thing theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–26 Aug John Wayne Gacy: The Killer Clown, Born Evil? theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug

19:50

Claudwick.

Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 20–31 Aug

20:00

HANG TIME The Lyceum, 20–22 Aug FLIGHT Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug Whale Fall or Song to Dance With My Death St Cuthbert’s Church, 21–23 Aug Never Let Go: An Unauthorised Retelling of James Cameron’s Titanic Underbelly, Cowgate, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, 28 Aug, 30 Aug The Last Word Cask and Vine, 21–22 Aug Goodbye Horses: An Unauthorised Solo Retelling of The Silence of the Lambs Underbelly, Cowgate, Various dates from 19 Aug to 29 Aug Agent November’s Indoor Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Royal Scots Club Edinburgh, Various dates from 20 Aug to 29 Aug Taverna Miresia - Mario, Bella, Anastasia Church Hill Theatre, 26 Aug, 27 Aug, 29 Aug Haribo Kimchi Studio Theatre, 20–24 Aug Clown Show King’s Theatre, 27–29 Aug Betsy and Patty Find Out Bedlam Theatre, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Forge Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 20 Aug to 29 Aug

20:05

Bachelors of Fine Arts theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Persona theSpaceTriplex, 19–29 Aug, not 23

atticwife theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–25 Aug

20:10

Truthmachine C ARTS | C venues | C alto, 19–30 Aug, not 24, 25 ARCADE Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug

20:15

COMA Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug Madam(e) Lou Paradise in The Vault, 19–30 Aug, not 23 In the Eyes of Neptune Laughing Horse @ Freddy’s, 19–20 Aug The Tamer Tamed or, The Woman’s Prize Braw Venues @ Hill Street, 19–30 Aug Down in Colorado ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug, not 24 The Joker and The Thief theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–29 Aug, not 23

20:20

My Life Is a Sonnet theSpace on the Mile, 19–29 Aug Linus Karp Was Hit With An Umbrella Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–30 Aug 116 Grams: A Play to Lose Weight Zoo Southside, 19–30 Aug, not 24

20:25

My Grandpa Doesn’t Follow Me On Instagram Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug

20:30

Churchill’s Urinal Pleasance at EICC, 21 Aug, 23 Aug The Corpse Road Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–22 Aug FLIGHT Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug For Dolores Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 26 Aug Hold On To Your Butts Pleasance Courtyard, 19 Aug, 26 Aug BITS OF IN BED WITH MY BROTHER Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 22 Aug Sex Idiot Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 27 Aug, 30 Aug Marjolein Robertson: Shetland Folklore Scottish Storytelling Centre, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 28 Aug, 29 Aug, 30 Aug Taverna Miresia - Mario, Bella, Anastasia Church Hill Theatre, 28 Aug The Wolf of Poyais Assembly Roxy, 20–30 Aug, not 26

Endgame by Samuel Beckett Pleasance at EICC, 27 Aug Supposing: Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, 27 Aug, 30 Aug Badgers Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 25 Aug Water Colour Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, 29 Aug Alan Bissett: When Billy Met Alasdair Scottish Storytelling Centre, 23 Aug Mrs Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, 28 Aug The Mysterious Seelie Wight Women Museum of Magic, Fortune-Telling and Witchcraft, 29 Aug Dust: The Sixth Sense theSpace on the Mile, 24–29 Aug Dry Ice Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 23–24 Aug Forest Fringe: A Song and Dance (WIP) Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 25–26 Aug

Bean vs The Robots: A Solo Show Musical theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug The Eight Faces of Ellie Morrison Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Hendrik Quast: Spill Your Guts Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–22 Aug Woman Seeking Cuddles theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug chameleon; mirage Braw Venues @ Hill Street, 19–30 Aug Love’s Labour’s Found Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–22 Aug Trainspotting Live Pleasance at EICC, 20–29 Aug, not 24

20:35

20:55

When You Are a Tick ZOO Playground, 19–23 Aug Like a Good Neighbor Paradise in The Vault, 19–22 Aug

20:40

Invasion (JoMarZeb) theSpace @ Venue 45, 24–28 Aug 2050: A Manifesto Greenside @ Riddles Court, 24–29 Aug Glenn & Flenn Paradise in The Vault, 24–30 Aug Naked SARA! Greenside @ George Street, 24–29 Aug Jealousy Play Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–22 Aug

20:45

Make Yourself at Home Paradise in Augustines, 19–30 Aug, not 23 COMA Assembly George Square, 19–31 Aug ARCADE Pleasance Dome, 19–31 Aug PrimeTime theSpace on the Mile, 24–29 Aug I, Claudius: Part 2 The Royal Scots Club, 21–22 Aug Collateral Damage theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug CVNTCLAVE Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Nuns!

Assembly George Square Studios, 19–31 Aug, not 25

20:50

Crooked Shadows Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23, 24, 25 Lighthouse Greenside @ Riddles Court, 24–29 Aug You Are What You Eat theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug

Obsessive, Compulsive, Divine Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23

21:00

Truthmachine C ARTS | C venues | C alto, 19–30 Aug, not 24, 25 Sauna Sessions Arts Club – The Hottest Club in Town Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25 The Singer Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug, 30 Aug Agent November’s Indoor Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Royal Scots Club Edinburgh, Various dates from 20 Aug to 29 Aug Werewolf Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Benjamin Quirk: Twink Death Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Last Laugh ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug, not 25 FORIEGNER Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Meteors Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24

21:05

JOSIAH theSpaceTriplex, 19–22 Aug The Reunion C ARTS | C venues | C alto, 19–30 Aug

Raves R Us Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug Rattlepole! An Improv Shakespeare Show Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–22 Aug The Mothman Cometh Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug

22:15

Bunny!

Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Eve and Adam theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug

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Fear and Misery of the Third Reich Greenside @ George Street, 19–22 Aug 1518: The Dancing Plague theSpaceTriplex, 24–29 Aug 44 Minutes Assembly Rooms, 19–30 Aug, not 24 The Faustus Project Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–30 Aug

21:10

Bigfoot Ripped My Dog In Half I Saw It Summerhall, 19–30 Aug, not 25

21:15

AI Campfire [Return] Venue 13, 19–29 Aug, not 24 The Singer Traverse Theatre, Various dates from 19 Aug to 29 Aug Adult Panto (Unscripted): The Improvised Adult Panto PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room, 19–30 Aug The Body I Left in Susquehanna National Forest theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–22 Aug Puttana Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24 exit strategy’s How to Win a Gameshow theSpace @ Venue 45, 19–22 Aug

21:20

21:25

Mythos: Ragnarök Assembly Rooms, 19–29 Aug, not 24

05 - 30 AUG

21:30

Salty Brine: HOW STRANGE IT IS (The Neutral Milk Hotel Show) Summerhall, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Mother, Maiden and Crone Bedlam Theatre, 19–30 Aug, not 24 The Séance Starter Kit™ The Speakeasy at The Royal Scots Club, 19–30 Aug, not 22 Whose Play Is It Anyway? theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug boobytrapped theSpace on the Mile, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Ce de Lu’ C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 24–30 Aug

21:40

The First Annual Inaugural Grief Awards Paradise in Augustines, 19–22 Aug (No) Refunds Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Homunculus theSpaceTriplex, 19–29 Aug Transmission: Into the Dark Traverse – Elsewhere, 19–23 Aug My Beautiful Brain! theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug

21:45

Graduatric theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug House of Life Underbelly, George Square, 19–30 Aug, not 24

21:50

Truthmachine C ARTS | C venues | C alto, 19–30 Aug, not 24, 25 Aquarius Rising Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–29 Aug, not 23 AI Campfire [Return] Venue 13, 19–29 Aug, not 24 To My Wife’s Next Lover Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–29 Aug, not 23

22:20

The Only Man Who Won’t F*ck Me ZOO Playground, 19–30 Aug 2 Queers in Tears?

Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23

22:00

Punching Judy Greenside @ Riddles Court, 24–29 Aug Beth and Ben: Your Place in the Workplace Braw Venues @ Hill Street, 19–30 Aug I’m Still Not That Girl Braw Venues @ Hill Street, 19–30 Aug Momme Domme Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge, 20–30 Aug Sarah McGuinness: Grit, Glitter and Gaslight Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story Underbelly, Bristo Square, 24–30 Aug B*tch Eat Dog Greenside @ George Street, 19–29 Aug, not 23 Forest Fringe: 99 Plays Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 25 Aug Agent November’s Indoor Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Royal Scots Club Edinburgh, Various dates from 20 Aug to 29 Aug Forest Fringe: Vincent Gambini: This Is Not a Magic Show Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint, 26 Aug Dinosaurs Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–22 Aug

22:05

Padlocked! theSpaceTriplex, 24–29 Aug A Gay Masseur’s Guide to Happy Endings Greenside @ George Street, 19–22 Aug

22:10

Houdini Speaks to the Living theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug

Good Girl Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug Madame La Mort theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 24–29 Aug I Was Never Here theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–25 Aug Transmission: Into the Dark Traverse – Elsewhere, 19–23 Aug Lover on the Radio Paradise in The Vault, 19–30 Aug, not 23 INTRUSIVE theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 19–22 Aug

22:30

Thermodrama Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Couture C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 19–30 Aug Halfway Home theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug SQUAT! theSpace on the Mile, 24–29 Aug #Hysterical theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 19 Aug to 28 Aug

22:35

Padlocked! theSpaceTriplex, 19–22 Aug Eve and Adam theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug

22:40

Daddy Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 25 Bottoming for Jesus Zoo Southside, 19–30 Aug Habits Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–30 Aug Nude Parade (WIP) Summerhall, 19–24 Aug

22:45

WENCH Underbelly, George Square, 19–30 Aug

Sabotage theSpaceTriplex, 24–28 Aug Teen Spirit theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug

23:00

Dr Faustus theSpace @ Niddry St, 24–28 Aug Transmission: Into the Dark Traverse – Elsewhere, 19–23 Aug

23:05

Fool’s Gold theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 19–22 Aug MNÁ (women) Greenside @ George Street, 19–22 Aug

23:10

Lineage Greenside @ George Street, 19–22 Aug

23:20

A&E theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug Escape from Fairytale Land theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–28 Aug

23:35

What Happens in the Dark theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–22 Aug

23:40

Transmission: Into the Dark Traverse – Elsewhere, 19–23 Aug

23:55

Fires on the Plain C ARTS | C venues | C digital, 31 Aug–1 Sep Beyond Time – Othello Part II C ARTS | C venues | C digital, 31 Aug–1 Sep The Forever Wave C ARTS | C venues | C digital, 31 Aug–1 Sep

00:05

The Augur Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–31 Aug

Listings

Los Años Maravillosos: Archive, Image and Collapse Paradise in Augustines, 24–30 Aug Don’t Flush Me Yet theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 24–29 Aug How Not to Make it in America Summerhall, 19–31 Aug, not 24

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Kids Breakfast Klub (0+) Brewhemia, 23 Aug, 30 Aug

09:40

Once Upon a Tune (0+) theSpaceTriplex, 19–29 Aug

09:50

Improv Banana – Kids Comedy (8+) theSpace @ Niddry St, 24–29 Aug

10:00

Explosive Science Show! (5+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 19–31 Aug, not 24 My Princess Tea Party Singalong (3+) Stockbridge Church, 20–22 Aug Splash Test Dummies Circus (0+) Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 22 Aug, 29 Aug Piano Dismantling Action (8+) Pianodrome at St Oswald’s Centre, 19 Aug A History Mystery (5+) PASS Theatre, 27–29 Aug CeilidhKids at the Fringe (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Hello Birds (0+) Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug Dragon Tales (0+) LifeCare Centre, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 28 Aug, 29 Aug Monski Mouse’s Baby Cabaret (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 19–28 Aug, weekdays only

Family Films Sing-a-Long Encanto! (3+) Dynamic Earth, 22 Aug Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 29 Aug, 30 Aug, 31 Aug Mother Goose Shiva (0+) theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–20 Aug

10:15

Tweedy’s Massive Solo Show (0+) Underbelly, George Square, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Romeo and Juliet for Bairns (0+) Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20–23 Aug

10:20

Vasthy and Friends: Sing, Dance, Play! (0+) Gilded Balloon Patter House, 19–31 Aug, not 24

10:30

The Ultimate Bubble Show (0+) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–23 Aug Owl at Home – Theatr Iolo (5+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Showstopper! The Kids Show (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 29 Aug, 30 Aug Brrr (12+) Nicolson Square Venues, 19–22 Aug Bubba-Licious (0+) Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 20–30 Aug, not 26

10:45

Wow! The Amazing Family Magic Show (5+) Braw Venues @ Hill Street, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 29 Aug, 30 Aug Smashing Shakespeare: Brave Macbeth (5+) Assembly Rooms, Various dates from 21 Aug to 30 Aug Who Stole My Hammer?

(5+) Rotunda Theatre, 22–23 Aug The Truth About Trees (5+) Assembly George Square, 19–30 Aug, not 24

11:00

Anatomy of the Piano (for beginners) (5+) Pianodrome at St Oswald’s Centre, 23 Aug, 30 Aug Singing Willows and the Magical Bed (5+) Scottish Storytelling Centre, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 29 Aug, 30 Aug Adventures! Journey Through Dungeons With Dragons (8+) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, Various dates from 20 Aug to 30 Aug Quentin Blake’s Mrs Armitage on Wheels (3+) Assembly George Square, 19–30 Aug, not 24 Science Circus (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, Various dates from 19 Aug to 29 Aug Mario the Maker Magician (3+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 28 Aug, 29 Aug, 30 Aug

Heimer (3+) theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 20–23 Aug The Science Storyteller (8+) Dynamic Earth, 19–21 Aug Tenement Jazz Band: Interactive Live Jazz for Kids (0+) The Jazz Bar, Various dates from 21 Aug to 30 Aug CATS – Young Actors Edition (3+) Greenside @ George Street, 19–21 Aug Don’t Wait For Me... – France Showcase (5+) French Institute in Scotland, 19–23 Aug

11:05

The Small Bright Things (0+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Central Youth Hostel, 19–21 Aug

11:10

Ted Hill Teaches You Science, Most of Which Is True (5+) Assembly Roxy, Various dates from 21 Aug to 30 Aug SeedHeart (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 20–31 Aug, not 24 Cricket & The Freebugs (5+) Assembly Rooms, 19–30 Aug, not 21

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11:15

Awesome Andy – The Show! (5+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 19–30 Aug Bubba-Licious (0+) Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 20–30 Aug, not 26

Piemaggedon (5+) Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 29 Aug, 30 Aug

11:20

Shhh! (A Wordless Comedy) (0+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug, not 25

11:30

Children’s Underground Ghost Show (8+) City of Edinburgh Tours @ Old Police Box, 19–29 Aug Olaf Falafel’s Stupidest Super Stupid Show: This Time It’s Stupider! (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–30 Aug, not 25, 26 Tongue Twister (5+) Pleasance at EICC, 19–22 Aug Hello Beach (0+) Assembly George Square, 20–30 Aug, not 25 Dragon Babies (0+) LifeCare Centre, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 28 Aug, 29 Aug

11:45

The SEND Bubble Show (0+) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–23 Aug The Letterman (5+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug, not 24 Romeo and Juliet for Bairns (0+) Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20–23 Aug The Greatest Magic Show (5+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 19–31 Aug, not 24

12:00

Frankie Monroe: A Show for Babies (0+) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 24 Aug

Serious Nonsense (8+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Greek Gyros Grill, 19–30 Aug, not 25 Hugo’s Rainbow Show (0+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–23 Aug All New Crazy Puppet Magic Show (3+) Frankenstein Pub, 19–23 Aug Bubba-Licious (0+) Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Amazing Bubble Man (0+) Underbelly, George Square, 19–31 Aug, not 24

12:05

Splash Test Dummies Circus (0+) Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, Various dates from 20 Aug to 29 Aug

12:10

Rock Paper Scissors: A Brief History and Tournament (5+) Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 19–22 Aug

12:15

Humdinger Words for Whippersnappers and Guttersnipes (8+) Rotunda Theatre, 22–23 Aug The Small Bright Things (0+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Central Youth Hostel, 19 Aug Magic Spectacular (5+) Hoots @ Potterrow, 19–31 Aug The Storymaster’s Tales Interactive Quest Show (8+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse Hotel, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 29 Aug, 30 Aug

12:20

Mama G: The Magic Bookmark (5+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–31 Aug

12:30

13:00

Float (0+) Pleasance at EICC, 19–22 Aug Brrr (12+) Nicolson Square Venues, 19–22 Aug

13:15

Boys Don’t Dance (8+) Assembly @ Dance Base, 19–23 Aug

13:20

Darryl J Carrington: Out of the Box (5+) Underbelly, George Square, 19–31 Aug

13:25

Circus The Show (3+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 19–31 Aug, not 24

13:30

The Ultimate Bubble Show (0+) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–23 Aug Frogs in Bogs (0+) Pleasance Courtyard, 19–31 Aug

13:35

Bleep Bleep! (5+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–31 Aug, not 24, 25

13:50

Shakespeare for Kids (0+) C ARTS | C venues | C alto, 19–30 Aug Barry Potter and the Magic of Wizardry (8+) Just The Tonic at The Hive, 19–30 Aug, not 26

14:00

A History Mystery (5+) PASS Theatre, 30 Aug Dragon Tales (0+) LifeCare Centre, 23 Aug, 30 Aug

14:15

The Battle of Frogs and Mice (0+) Zoo Southside, 19–22 Aug

14:30

Flamenkids (0+) Edinburgh New Town Church, 23 Aug A History Mystery (5+) PASS Theatre, 26 Aug

14:35

Comedy Club 4 Kids (5+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 19–30 Aug, not 24, 25, 26, 27

15:00

My Princess Tea Party Singalong (3+) Stockbridge Church, 23 Aug Supervillain (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 29 Aug, 30 Aug

15:10

The Flying Bubble Show (3+) Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 19–29 Aug, not 24

19:30

Amazing Family Comedy Bingo: Prizes Galore! (8+) St Cuthbert’s Church, Various dates from 19 Aug to 27 Aug

15:20

123 RAP! All Ages Hip Hop Comedy (3+) Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street), 19–31 Aug

15:30

Dragon Tales (0+) LifeCare Centre, 23 Aug, 30 Aug A Picture Book Musical: Milly’s Musical Adventure (0+) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–30 Aug

16:30

101 Ways to Annoy Your Parents... and Other Really Old People! (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 20–30 Aug, not 26

Listings

Children’s Underground Ghost Show (8+) City of Edinburgh Tours @ Old Police Box, 19–29 Aug Scottish Family Panto Fun with Mr ButtonZ and The Buttons Show! (0+) Le Monde, 19–31 Aug Anime-Zing Kids! (3+) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–30 Aug, not 26 Abracadabra Family Friendly Magic Show (5+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 19–30 Aug Magic Maestros (5+) Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 29 Aug, 30 Aug Ian and His Talking Fingers Magic Show (5+) Just the Tonic Nucleus, 19–20 Aug

12:45

Billy Banana’s Brilliant Bingo (3+) Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records, 19–30 Aug

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Roger Prick interviews Typewronger Books ‘70s pornographer and erotic novelist Roger Prick (Han Whyte) interviews Typewronger’s Tee Hodges about their newly opened Bruntsfield premises

Who is the best erotic novelist in history and why is it Roger Prick?

One thinks first of Catullus, of course, perhaps more recently de Sade, but Prick has very much ploughed a furrow in the pornographic canon.

Joyce was more disgusting than erotic, Donleavy merely perverted – only Prick stands proud above the rest.

Can you smoke cigars in the shop and if not, please explain yourselves.

I can, you can’t, and I never apologise, never explain.

Photo: Rosen Stanley Greengrass

How many books by Roger Prick do you have in stock?

I am unable to answer that question without putting us at risk from prosecution under the 1959 Obscene Publications Act.

Roger Prick

Superhuman Strength. But if you just mean who’s hot then it’s Nan Shepherd – just look at the five pound note. That hair, that diadem, wow!

I’ve also been learning about zines. I’ve made one of my own full of erotic self-portraits. I imagine you will be interested in stocking it in the shop. I’ll have my people send I see recently you held an an invoice ASAP. all-night bookshop fundraiser. We’ll need to arrange terms What time would you say first, and disinfect the scanwas the best to read an ner on our risograph machine erotic novel? immediately after.

7am on the bus, in full view of the commuters.

As an independent bookshop, what would you recommend I’ve recently been getting authors do when they come acquainted with feminist litunder public scrutiny for erature. Which feminist writer being sexist, lewd and a little would you say is the fittest? over-promiscuous? Asking for Alison Bechdel is notoriously a friend. preoccupied with fitness, we Just double down. Everyone stock her book The Secret to loves it when authors do that.

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The Last Word

Do you stock any Jilly Cooper and if so please can you put a note by her books stating that whatever she wrote about me in her author’s foreword is absolutely NOT TRUE. You know fine well it’s ALL TRUE. Do you have CCTV footage of how I behaved at your last authors’ social and if so can you delete it?

We have it in our archives on 8mm film – thank god there’s no sound. We’ll be holding onto it for insurance.

SHOW: VENUE: TIME:

Roger Prick: Sexopolis Underbelly Cowgate until 30 Aug (not 25), 6.55pm

Typewronger Books 22 Bruntsfield Pl Edinburgh EH10 4HN, open 11am-9pm daily

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