Tag: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017

In 1997 Simon Morley created the global smash hit and Edinburgh Fringe favourite Puppetry of the Penis. Now he bares all in a slightly different way, in a show that looks back on twenty years' worth...

Brilliantly observed jokes and odd stories from a feral comedy mind. Simon Jablonski wades through the mundanity of Generation Hummus and grapples with everything from the death of God, losing a sock and what...

Underbelly at this year's Fringe have something for everyone at one of their  16 venues with more than 150 shows.2017 will be the most diverse programme that Underbelly has presented in their 17 years at...

In August 2015, Jordan's Nanna (Gwendoline Martha Brookes) passed away at the age of 95. She was the first person to spark Jordan’s imagination, who encouraged him to believe in magic and wonderment, and taught him...

The BAFTA-winning stand-up comedian Iain Stirling (voice of Love Island) has sold out his entire month-long run ahead of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe opening.Extra dates will be added soon. His brand-new hour U OK HUN?...

After winning BEST COMEDY AWARDS at Adelaide and Brighton Fringe along with an OFFICIAL SOLD OUT RUN at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe, award-winning, Norwegian-American comedy duo Zach & Viggo returns to Underbelly with a...

“A Strange New Space” by Tessa Bide at Cairns Lecture Theatre, Summerhall. 10:45am (45 mins) Shows = 4th - 27th Aug (except Mondays)Relaxed autism-friendly performances on Tuesdays Tickets: £8 (£6 concs/£20 fam)In person at Summerhall, Online at...

Eleanor Colville: Bigamous The Bottle Room @ Just the Tonic, 9:20pm From the SOHO THEATRE YOUNG COMPANY, Eleanor Colville’s début hour is a riot of high-energy character comedy. BIGAMOUS takes place in and around a wedding, using the...

The Mound Precinct was the first port of call for today's photo call with Canada's Cirque Eloize. The performers ran through a few 'exercises' for the cameras to give a flavour of what to...

The Assembly’s 37th Festival gets going this year with previews starting from today.This year’s programme of over 200 shows offers world-class theatre, indigenous dance, quick fire comedy, breath-taking circus skills, cabaret, accapella choirs and...

Mingle heartfelt Scottish songs with Cajun honky tonk and the result is what the Jennifer Ewan Band calls “Bonnie Bayou”. It’s an acoustic pop sound finely honed on the streets of the capital, where singer-songwriter Jennifer, accordionist Kim Tebble...

2016 Malcolm Hardee Award-winner for Comic Originality – dare you enter the Twonkeyverse?One of the Fringe’s most reliably unusual auteurs returns with a new adventure from the peculiar world of Mr Twonkey. Perfectly timed to cash...

Alice Fraser returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a brand new hour of reliably silly, unpredictably meaningful, narratively unorthodox art-comedy.Empire has played to five-star reviews at this year's Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth festivals. It explores good...

Forgive Us, Oh Father! is a brand new musical comedy about what it really means to be a man of God. Join us at theSpace@venue 45 this Edinburgh Fringe and meet Father Stephen-Peter as...

Original one-man show by a young French concert pianist Come along to Edinburgh Festival Fringe, at Palmerston Place Church (10 Palmerston Place), from 14 to 18 August at 6:00pm (see attached poster). Entry is free but...

The picture book that generations of parents and children still refer to as their all-time favourite, THE GIANT JAM SANDWICH, is coming to the Edinburgh Festival as a first ever British stage adaptation. After a hugely successful national tour...

Aspirational in entitlement and ambition an award-winning theatre company from Hull is preparing to bring the end of the world to Edinburgh Fringe in August with an unmissable piece of gig theatre.Written by Luke...

New Fringe psychological drama to explore schizophrenia and obsession, challenging preconceived ideas about mental illnessMoss Banks Productions presents: SCHIZ, new writing by Alexander Banks, an exciting psychological drama to debut at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017.With a minimalistic...

Death, torture (and a few laughs): Atwood’s ‘The Penelopiad’ performed by all-female cast The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood - Produced by Maiden Voyagers  A five day run of the reworking of Margaret Atwood’s 2005 work, The...

Three members of award winning Australian company, Head First Acrobats, performed some world-class circus and physical theatre skills, including mind boggling new school death defying acrobatics, all in one of Edinburgh’s most iconic and...

Welsh, working-class firebrands The Death Hilarious bring their debut hour to the Edinburgh Fringe. The Scum Always Rises houses a parade of otherworldly souls as daft as they are dark, portrayed by a duo whose references range...

Mies Julie by Yael FarberAssembly Rooms | 54 George Street | EH2 2LR | 3- 27 August 2017 14:30A frenetic, impulsive, energetic and brave production merging the best of physical theatre with traditional drama. Yael...

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Following an acclaimed 5-star reviewed production of Sondheim’s Assassins at The Chelsea Theatre and The Edinburgh Fringe in 2016, BB Theatre Productions is excited to present another Sondheim classic, Merrily We...

Prolific children’s author, conservationist and believer in fairies, Angela Brazil was a complicated and determined woman with a tendency to write her personal life into her books. Although she is now largely forgotten, she...

Tiernan Douieb transports his carefully-cultivated echo chamber to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, bringing with it a new hour of satirical gags and nonsense musings – if ignorance is bliss should we even know that? Can we...

Welcome to a vibrational revolution of being, channelled by a goddess. Part electro-ritual, part theremin-experiment, part light-fantastic. Lucy Hopkins embodies the Fringe’s most relentlessly in-touch-with-herself spirit guide – swinging raven hair, intense staring eyes, and physically retching with...

After years selling out shows in Australia’s biggest festivals, Sam Garlepp is probably still a comedian you haven't heard of. Until now.Sam is set to hit the international scene with his best hour of...

Edinburgh Renaissance Band’s Musical Migrants: shawm to serpent, cornett to crumhorn, rebec to recorder, this is the music of travelling composers and performers in Mediaeval and Renaissance Europe, brought to life by a dozen...

 HOT NEW SKETCH DUO SETS SAIL FOR EDINBURGH SHIPS: Dr Audrey's Fatal Mistake SHIP'S DEBUT COMBINES CALAMITOUS CHARACTERS, HILARIOUS SONGS AND DELIGHTFUL SURPRISES IN THIS MUSICAL STORY TELLING SKETCH SHOWEnglish National Opera star, Cathy Young, and Second City graduate,...

The Debut Solo Show Neighbours’ Pinhead Featuring real on-stage stunts – it’s totally bananas! Nathan Lang (Pinhead from Neighbours) brings his debut solo show to the Edinburgh Fringe: The absurd tale of The Stuntman, told through...