What's On — Fringe 2023

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(James) Blunt Instrument

Parmiter’s Republic of Drama
21st-22nd Aug · 14:45 (50mins)

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A true story. Two strangers. A park bench. A chance meeting. A life story. A romance. Except none of this is true. A dark comedy about life, love and death. And James Blunt. New writing from young playwrights Elliot Bull and Isla Savern sees a chance meeting on a park | Read more...

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Cabaret and Variety

1 and Only Absolute Burlesque Cabaret

Sassy School of Burlesque
5th-27th Aug · 22:35 (1hr)

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Delighting audiences with sell-out shows since 2017 we are back! Experience our new glitter and glamour extravaganza from Edinburgh's only school of homegrown hotties. In another must-see show, celebrate with us the magic that is burlesque and cabaret. Returning will be some of your favourite performers as well as some | Read more...

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Musicals and Opera

35MM: A Musical Exhibition

Musicality
5th-12th Aug · 12:30 (1hr30)

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Love, death, dream, betrayal, angels, time This song cycle is eccentric, haunting and wonderfully curious. Each song springs from a photograph and the stories come alive in a mix of horror, comedy and an unmissable score. Hold still focus for there is life. At its heart, 35MM is a queer | Read more...

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Musicals and Opera

A Chorus Line

Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group
14th-19th Aug · 16:50 (2hrs30)

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'Well, it would be nice to be a star… But I’m not, I’m a dancer.' A Chorus Line is a concept musical that explores the bittersweet lives of Broadway performers through a gruelling audition process. The chorus of overly-devoted, under-paid dancers show the dedication it takes to keep going in | Read more...

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Music

AXIOM: Fundamentals of A Cappella

AXIOM
21st-26th Aug · 17:00 (50mins)

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There’s nothing like the power of unaccompanied human voices singing together. This year, AXIOM is debuting a brand-new a cappella experience which challenges conventions and expands your expectations of what’s possible in live singing. We guarantee that everything weird and wonderful you hear is created by the human voice alone. | Read more...

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Comedy

Accident Avoidance Training Workshop – Intermediate

Ian Crawford
14th-19th Aug · 19:25 (50mins)

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If you were under attack by a rampaging rhino, trapped upside down in a wheelie bin full of water, or under attack by an unidentified flying cutlery item (UFCI), could you survive? General health and safety expert and cutlery guru Ian Crawford is here in an all-new, deadly serious presentation, | Read more...

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Musicals and Opera

Alan Turing – A Musical Biography

Early Mornings Productions
5th-19th Aug · 10:50 (1hr5)

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This musical, composed by Joel Goodman and Jan Osborne, with a new script by Joan Greening is a journey through the extraordinary life of Alan Turing. Alan was a genius whose brilliant code breaking brain saved approximately fourteen million lives in WW2. It takes us on a journey through the | Read more...

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Dance, Physical Theatre, and Circus

An Act of Seven Ages

Klouns Theatre Company
21st-27th Aug · 18:35 (55mins)

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Klouns Theatre Company presents an intimate clowning escapade in one act. Inspired by the seven ages mentioned in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Starting with Which Came First? The Clown or the Egg? and resolving with The Mystical Ascension to Who-Knows-Where, each isolated vignette focuses on a multitude of attitudes, | Read more...

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Musicals and Opera

Apple of My Eye

Early Mornings Productions
5th-19th Aug · 15:35 (50mins)

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A one-man musical telling the story of the life of Steve Jobs. A divisive character, deemed a genius by some and hated by others. With a cultish following, in the eyes of his fans he could do no wrong whilst in private he could exhibit toxic traits. Notorious amongst colleagues | Read more...

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Comedy

Bipolar Badass

Mari Crawford
5th-27th Aug · 21:50 (30mins)

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Bipolar Badass is a one-woman show by Mari (like calamari) Crawford about the humour behind struggling with the illness. In between car crashes and apathetic psychiatrists lies an absurd perspective of “this thing called life.” From an initial diagnosis to family history to manic escapades to somewhat figuring it all | Read more...

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Chance

Durham University represented by Sightline Productions
21st-27th Aug · 13:15 (1hr)

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Chance by Yolan Noszkay follows Aaron, who's just been excluded from mainstream school and is being sent back to Sunnyside Pupil Referral Unit, a school for kids who've been excluded for disruptive behaviour. He lives in a Northern working-class community, in a run-down estate surrounded by hills – they are | Read more...

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Children's Shows

Children of Eden Jr

Helena Academy of Drama and Expression (HADE)
8th-9th Aug · 15:10 (1hr30)

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From musical theatre greats, Stephen Schwartz and John Caird, comes a joyous and inspirational musical about parents, children and faith not to mention centuries of unresolved family business! An expansive musical, Children of Eden Jr has plenty of roles and life lessons for everyone. Adam, Eve, Noah and the 'Father' | Read more...

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Chokeslam

WWWC
5th-27th Aug · 22:50 (45mins)

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A knockout solo show about one woman’s love of pro wrestling. Part confessional, part exuberant oral history of sports entertainment’s greatest matches and most-loved characters. Acclaimed sketch comedian Tegan Verheul leaves no Stone (Cold) unturned in her unflinchingly raw autobiographical debut that grapples with heartbreak, friendship and the healing power | Read more...

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Cabaret and Variety

Dan Bastianelli: The Trick Is There

Dan Bastianelli Magician
14th-19th Aug · 19:15 (50mins)

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Drawing on inspirations from his Scottish-Italian heritage, Edinburgh magician Dan Bastianelli presents an incredible close-up magical experience that explains the difference between trickery and real magic, allowing you to witness both. A show that promises to provide a truly unique take on how magic is performed at the Edinburgh Festival | Read more...

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Musicals and Opera

Dogfight

Thistle N' Thorn Productions
5th-12th Aug · 17:30 (1hr30)

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1963: On the eve of their deployment to Vietnam, a group of young American Marines devise a cruel bet. The rules are simple: pay $50 to throw a party and the man with the ugliest date wins the pot! But when Eddie chooses Rose as his date she rewrites the | Read more...

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Elapsing

Empty Theater
5th-27th Aug · Various times (50mins)

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It is a time of great ups and downs, when wars of all kinds have filled our lives – wars between men, wars between nations, wars with guns, and wars without guns, and we lived in a world of smoke and mirrors – and a long-dead soul returns to tell | Read more...

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Comedy

Emma and Harry

Emma and Harry
21st-27th Aug · 17:15 (45mins)

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If you like it you really shouldn't put a ring on it because it turns out I actually hate you and want to get a divorce. Veterans of the student sketch comedy circuit Emma and Harry proudly present the ruins of their marriage in 45 minutes of uncoordinated, terrible, really | Read more...

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Exit 20:20

David Thill
14th-27th Aug · 14:15 (1hr)

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The Great Lakes High School board bans the graphic novel Maus. After discovering he’s Jewish, 16-year-old Moses – the adopted brother of the school board president, Brother Ray – receives the call to bring the holy rebuke. Can Moses make this story work in 21st century America? Can 21st century | Read more...

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Dance, Physical Theatre, and Circus

Floating Life – Untamed

The Spectator Concept Theatre
21st-27th Aug · 18:40 (55mins)

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The Floating Life is an award-winning, multi-sensory experience, created and directed by Yuyang Cheng in 2022 as her graduate work in Architecture Association School of Architecture AAIS Spacial Performance design, sound composed by Luba Hilman and featuring Sheng Wu Ai Yue's single Fei Sheng in 2023 new version, this dance | Read more...

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Comedy

French Bashing by a Frenchman!

Francis Renaud
4th-19th Aug · 21:00 (1hr)
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Fresh from Vietnam, a past colony of France for more than 100 years, comes an expat Parisian to give you a better perspective on the global epidemic: French Bashing. Monsieur Renaud has lived in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) for over 30 years and brings his unique perspective on not | Read more...

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Green Tea

Luke Townson
14th-27th Aug · 16:55 (1hr10)

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After years of torment from an evil spirit, the goodly Reverend Mister Jennings can take it no longer and takes the decision to confide in philosophic physician, Dr Martin Hesselius. Through their conversations, Jennings reveals the devious nature of his captor and how he has come to be its unwilling | Read more...

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Children's Shows

Here Be Dragons

Newbury Youth Theatre
7th-12th Aug · 14:45 (50mins)

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Join us on an adventure through fog, fables, bogs and bogles. Come seek out monsters in unchartered waters and discover mythical beasts lurking in the murky corners of the UK. Fringe veterans, NYT return with an odyssey through British folklore, told with their trademark playful, ensemble storytelling. They weave traditional | Read more...

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Hole

Erin Ross
21st-26th Aug · 11:15 (1hr)

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Hole by Drew Gill. Cassie crawled out of a hole in the ground and convinced the world she was human, deserving of life. But that hole just keeps following her. And as she approaches 25, she realises there’s one person she never convinced: herself. | Read more...

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If You Were to Die Tomorrow

Hive MCR
14th-19th Aug · 16:20 (1hr)

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Reconnected with each other at a funeral, Charlotte and Hope question what the meaning of life is. Are we predetermined to do everything we do or is there such a thing as free will? Centred around this debate the show uses meta and philosophical comedy to ask these big questions | Read more...

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Incidents in the Life of an Anglican Slave

Desirée Baptiste
14th-27th Aug · 15:05 (1hr)

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It’s 1723 and writing while Black could get a girl hanged in Virginia. But the Archbishop of Canterbury lives a very long way away, at Lambeth Palace. Could his Lordship be the man to free the British Empire’s enslaved? And is it worth the risk, dropping him a line? Enjoy | Read more...

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Is This the End of Edward J Payne?

Paul Richards
21st-27th Aug · 21:00 (1hr)

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His father died at 45. His grandfather died at 45. His great-grandfather died at 45. His great-great grandfather died at 45, and so on, for as many generations on record. We meet Edward on his 45th birthday but he is in no mood to celebrate. A fast, comedic romp, we | Read more...

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It's Magic, but is it Art?

Dimis Michaelides
14th-27th Aug · 12:20 (1hr)

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How would it feel to watch a conjuror perform in the Middle Ages, when suspected witches and sorcerers were cruelly tortured or burnt alive at the stake? What if you then travelled, via some shamanistic ritual and a shared dream through an imaginary plane… all the way to the conceptual | Read more...

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J.E.N.

Melancholics Anonymous (Jen)
14th-27th Aug · 16:15 (45mins)
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Jen’s Evolution is Nigh: One woman. One TikTok challenge. Seen through the millennia. Popularised by TikTok, “get ready with me” morning videos showcase people’s daily morning rituals through a quick-cut social media lens. But how would these routines differ for a medieval peasant, a Fifties housewife, or a CEO of | Read more...

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Journey to the West: In Search of the Way

Helena Academy of Drama and Expression (HADE)
4th-7th Aug · 15:10 (1hr30)
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Join the adventure as we bring to life the classic, Journey to the West, in an interactive children's show which is a part of Chinese Culture and Art Festival! With amazing visual effects, mesmerising music and captivating characters, this theatrical performance will transport you to a world of magic and | Read more...

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Musicals and Opera

Julius Caesar: The Musical

Bristol Shakespeare Festival
4th-12th Aug · 16:20 (1hr)
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'He was a traitor boy, he killed a dictator boy'. All roads lead to Rome with Bristol Shakespeare Festival's riotously daft take on the original political thriller! Find out if you're Team Brutus or Team Julius to the timeless tunes of The Beatles, the Bee Gees, Mary Poppins, My Chemical | Read more...

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Cabaret and Variety

King of More: Veza

King of More
4th-19th Aug · 18:40 (50mins)
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There is secret connection among all of us. What is it? Where is it? What colour is it? From the creator of the last year’s sold-out show, A Divination, comes a premiere show about connections. Humans are connected by invisible links, which might emit love, joy, solidarity, closeness. But these | Read more...

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Lights! Donkey! Action!

Babolin Theatre
5th-12th Aug · 12:00 (1hr)

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In a world of lies, big lies and total whoppers, one way is invent your own even bigger lies. Lies the size of giants’ underpants. And live them. Inspired by comic masterpiece Don Quixote, join the irrepressible Babolin for their 19th Fringe show, as they mount the Donkey of Dreams, | Read more...

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Musicals and Opera

Little Women

Bare Productions
14th-19th Aug · 20:00 (2hrs15)

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Bare Productions return following a string of five-star, sell-out Fringe runs with the rousing and heartfelt musical, Little Women. Adapted from the classic American novel, Little Women tells the story of four sisters and their journey from adolescence to womanhood. Against a backdrop of the American Civil War, the March | Read more...

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Love, Monty

Archie Brookes
4th-12th Aug · 19:25 (30mins)
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London bachelor Monty Button-Purse spies Gracie at his friend's New Year Ball 1922, and is determined to woo her through the flourish of his penmanship. Unfortunately, even humorous letters are open to interpretation and, if misunderstood, can result in pangs of humiliation. Luckily, Monty's underlying mantra is 'forever subservient to | Read more...

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Macbeth

Gordonstoun Youth Theatre
5th-12th Aug · 13:00 (1hr15)

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Gordonstoun Youth Theatre brings a high-energy performance in this physical theatre and rock adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Crafted by Gordonstoun's Dance and Drama department, this piece amalgamates Shakespeare's prose with Biffy Clyro’s lyrics and music. Gordonstoun’s adaptation examines the complex layers of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's marriage, and takes | Read more...

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Mark Twain's The Stolen White Elephant

Stolen Elephant Theatre
14th-27th Aug · 20:00 (1hr)

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Mark Twain was a comic genius, the greatest American humorist of the 19th century, and (in literary terms) of all time. Best known for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, our company are instead showcasing one of his funniest short stories. This is The Stolen White Elephant. It’s an absurdist masterpiece, | Read more...

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Memento Mori Bitches

Leoni Amandin
14th-19th Aug · 10:30 (1hr)

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Come see a humorous solo with a TEDtalk-meets-Sesame-Street vibe about end of life planning, starring 'a hilarious puppet sidekick and wholesome audience interplay' (FringeBiscuit.co.uk). Expect ridiculous deathly shower thoughts, an introduction to the fascinating funeral industry's history and current developments, the complex poetry battling the simple biology of death and | Read more...

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Messhead

Kirby Lunn
21st-26th Aug · 19:00 (1hr)

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A strange and emotionally stunted young woman is on an all-consuming mission to be the most special person in every room. Trying to balance the glamorous life she leads in her mind with the one she’s actually living is driving her a little, well, mad. The growing hunger to impress | Read more...

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Mr Fox

Polis Loizou
5th-12th Aug · 16:55 (45mins)

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“Be bold, be bold / But not too bold / Lest that your heart’s blood should run cold.” Mr Fox is Polis Loizou’s award-winning retelling of the wicked old folktale. Fallen aristocrat Lord Leander is visited by a true-crime blogger who wants to discover the truth behind a horrific incident | Read more...

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Mustafa Algiyadi: A Little Killing Hurts No One (WIP)

Mustafa Algiyadi / Free Festival
15th-19th Aug · 11:10 (1hr)

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10 years after being refused entry to Edinburgh, Mustafa Algiyadi returns with a work-in-progress show. Mustafa manoeuvres through the European way of life from the lens of a Libyan Arab, longing so badly to be part of it, yet confronted with some cultural differences that make it confusing! If you're | Read more...

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Paddy Englishman, Paddy Irishman and Paddy...?

Scotia Theatre Company
4th-19th Aug · 22:30 (1hr15)

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In Declan Croghan's tense and hilarious black comedy, Anto and Kevin find their Irish past crashing in on their new and quiet London lives. Unfolding events force them to fight for their true allegiances, their futures and their lives! Under the relentless pressure of a fearless and flirtatious neighbour Una | Read more...

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Puppets

Pitch Productions
14th-19th Aug · 20:45 (55mins)

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Puppets is a new and exciting play, fresh from its debut at the Durham Drama Festival. It’s a show that follows two brothers who are unexpectedly reunited after three and a half years of silence. Lonny’s heartbroken and struggling to run an unsuccessful bar, while Connie is doing anything but | Read more...

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Musicals and Opera

RENT

Bare Productions
4th-12th Aug · 19:40 (2hrs15)
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Bare Productions return following a string of five-star, sell-out Fringe runs with the revolutionary rock-musical, RENT. RENT tells the story of a group of friends struggling to survive in ‘90s New York against the backdrop of the AIDS pandemic. Fighting battles of love and loss, the group's bohemian ideals are | Read more...

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Rhubarb and Custard

Stupid and Brave
21st-27th Aug · 19:15 (1hr)

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Eloise’s Dad taught her to play the piano. But that wasn’t everything he taught her. Now, she’s running late for his funeral. Rhubarb and Custard is a one woman show about grief and jazz piano, with original music. Family is never simple. The play articulates the sweetness, and the sourness, | Read more...

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Rock Bottom

Fresh Life Theatre
21st-27th Aug · 22:05 (50mins)

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'You don’t know what to be, or not to be' – Shakespeare’s best loved clown, Bottom, is reimagined in Fresh Life Theatre’s one-person show. When Bottom arrives at the theatre, ready to perform, and finds the rest of his cast have left him, he needs to improvise. Dealing with the | Read more...

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Sheldrake on Shakespeare: Live!

James Sheldrake
4th-12th Aug · 20:00 (1hr)
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Much more a comedy gig than a lecture, James Sheldrake brings the spirit of his podcast (Sheldrake on Shakespeare) to Edinburgh for an hour of anecdote, insight, performance, analysis and laughter. A former English teacher, Sheldrake has had quite enough of the classroom and wants to share his love of | Read more...

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Sofar

Hive MCR
14th-19th Aug · 11:50 (1hr)

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Alma is a whale specialist on her final field mission before being forced into an early retirement. Accompanied by Sadie, fresh out of college and recovering from her first heartbreak, they pursue the crippled whale, Luna, on her final journey across the North Atlantic ocean to her birthplace. Alma and | Read more...

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Musicals and Opera

Songs for a New World

Thistle N' Thorn Productions
14th-19th Aug · 20:25 (1hr30)

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A stunning song cycle by Jason Robert Brown centring human relationships in all their messy beauty. With a small cast playing a wide range of characters, this moving collection of powerful songs examines life, love and the imprint one person can leave on the world. 'It’s about one moment. It’s | Read more...

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Spend the Night with Tiffany Black

Tiffany Black
4th-19th Aug · 17:15 (50mins)
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A WIP comedy-cabaret show, tracking one woman's life from the same night every year of her life, from childhood sleepovers to first sexual experiences and her changing relationship with her electric toothbrush. Featuring original songs. By writer/performer Tiffany Black. Audiences, wear whatever you wear to bed. | Read more...

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Square Peg

BeRuffled Productions
4th-27th Aug · Various times (50mins)
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Body Shop cucumber cleanser, satin bias-cut gowns, plucked eyebrows, muslin circular skirts, bleach-blonde hair, makeup and sex; the landscape of one man’s youth is a rich tapestry of beautifully wrought objects and less beautifully wrought relationships. Trauma, loneliness and craftsmanship form a constellation of a seemingly futile yearning for love | Read more...

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Musicals and Opera

Sunday in the Park with George

Edinburgh University Footlights
21st-26th Aug · 11:55 (2hrs30)

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Inspired by Georges Seurat's painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Sondheim’s classic follows George as he strives to finish his masterpiece while his neglected lover Dot ponders her decision for life over love. George is unaware of the impact of his choices and the legacy | Read more...

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The Burden of Truth

The Red River Theatre Co.
14th-19th Aug · 12:45 (1hr30)

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The Burden of Truth starts with a pizza and a painting and an art provocateur. It ends with the failure of the resurrection and the death of God. But culture and art, history and divinity, are all a bagatelle: until the research team begins to dig. And they’re full of | Read more...

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Comedy

The Crisp Review: Live

Adam Evans
14th-27th Aug · 17:50 (45mins)

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Comedian and crisp connoisseur Adam Evans presents The Crisp Review: Live, nominated for Best Theatre and Best Newcomer at the Greater Manchester Fringe 2022! The show documents the rise, fall and rise again of one of lockdown's most lingering cultural movements. With mixed-media comedy, a showcase of reviews old and | Read more...

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The Fruity Prince

The Pesky Players
5th-27th Aug · 23:05 (50mins)

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The Virgin Queen? I don't think so! Lizzy I has got a son and he might just be a little bit fruity. Henry IX has been lost in the mists of hetero history for too long. Finally, he's here to claim what is rightfully his (only took him 500 years!). | Read more...

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The Grand Return of the Edinburgh Revue

Edinburgh University Comedy Society: The Revue
14th-27th Aug · 14:00 (1hr)

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Edinburgh’s best homegrown student comedy show is back! Featuring talent from the city’s finest up and coming student comics, witness the Edinburgh Revue’s triumphant return to the Fringe! Ever wanted to see what comedy is like in Edinburgh when the Fringe isn’t on? We’ve been selling out top venues in | Read more...

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The Grandmothers Grimm

Some Kind of Theatre
14th-19th Aug · 21:30 (1hr)

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Cannibalism, werewolf trials, deceit and murder: Marie Hassenpflug and the Brothers Grimm are editing the darkness out of old stories. Little by little, the voices of the storytellers who created the tales are eroded away. What will be saved and what will be forgotten? This critically acclaimed feminist drama explores | Read more...

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The Legends of Mountains and Seas

NTNUGIPA
14th-19th Aug · 12:55 (1hr10)

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The classic musical The Legends of Mountains and Seas is a representative work of the Graduate Institute of Performing Arts of National Taiwan Normal University. It premiered at Taiwan's National Theatre Concert Hall in 2013 and has toured in various cities in Taiwan over the past 10 years. In 2015, | Read more...

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The Madwoman

The Miles Sisters
5th-27th Aug · 14:00 (40mins)

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France 1817. The French Revolution is over for all except one. Théroigne de Méricourt has stepped out of the revolution and into the asylum. Left unsupervised, she spends her final days crafting her life's great work, an opera about the revolution she never left behind. As the self-cast leading lady | Read more...

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The Other

Azdora Theatre Company
21st-27th Aug · 15:20 (1hr)

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If your walls could talk, what would they say? This solo show dives into the history of an immigrant family, following their decision to move into a new house in the hope to mend their broken relationships. By evoking memories and languages trapped within her walls, Home – jilted house | Read more...

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The Pirates of Penzance

Cat-Like Tread
21st-26th Aug · 20:25 (1hr30)

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Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance, is a rollicking tale of pirates, policemen and poor young orphans. Misadventures in love, thrilling chases, devotion to the queen and, above all, a strong sense of duty make this an exciting show perfect for audiences of all ages. A musical | Read more...

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The Relationship Plays: Married Life and Sibling Rivalry

Cincinnati LAB Theatre
5th-12th Aug · 16:30 (2hrs)

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A double bill from Cincinnati LAB Theatre. Married Life: A couple attempts to revive their relationship by spicing up their sex life only to discover that nothing about their marriage is what it seems. Sibling Rivalry: Three estranged writers meet for one last time to settle their recently deceased mother’s | Read more...

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The Serpent's Tooth

Another Theatre Company
5th-19th Aug · 14:45 (1hr)
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A bloody war is brewing. Kate is forbidden from seeing her daughter and granddaughter with no legal access and she’s spiralling into madness. Liz is a wreck from caring for four grandchildren and her 96-year-old mother but raising objections is dangerous. Bev’s opted out. Entitlement and a treacherous form of | Read more...

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Musicals and Opera

The Sorcerer

University of St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society
21st-27th Aug · 20:45 (2hrs15)

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Full of music, mismatched lovers and magic, the University of St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society presents The Sorcerer. Join us for the story of a lovesick man whose misguided plots results in everyone falling in love with the wrong person! | Read more...

The Vault
Paradise in The Vault

Theatre

Victor, Vi and the Volvo

Northern Edge Theatre Company
6th-11th Aug · 12:15 (1hr10)

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When Victor drives into Vi's life in his dodgy Volvo, things change forever. And with the arrival of son Callum, there's never a dull moment! But events take a dark turn when Sid's damaging hold on Callum grows ever stronger. When life gets tough, will Victor be there for his | Read more...

The Annexe
Paradise in The Vault

Theatre

Who's Been a Naughty Chops?

Francesca Wentworth
5th-12th Aug · 20:30 (50mins)

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Conforming to unrealistic beauty standards, Francesca occupies an erosive industry that triggers a plethora of problems. One night, she discovers not only a new sense of purpose, but a path of empowerment and autonomy. Shedding the shackles of a toxic dwelling, she seeks refuge within the theatricality of an alternative | Read more...