Tag: Fringe
Festival collaboration
The book shop, Rare Birds Books, has collaborated with Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society to launch book bundles for sale, and the proceeds will help support Fringe artists.
The Stockbridge shop has bundled up three books...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson
For just three special shows, newly created for 2021, Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson come together at the Fringe.
Carol Ann is one of the most respected poets in the English language. John...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – shows can register soon
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society will open show registration for Fringe 2021 on Wednesday 5 May 2021.
Artists and venues will be able to register Fringe shows right up until the end of the festival. The Fringe’s...
Fringe on Friday – look out for the first broadcast this week
The new Fringe cabaret takes to the virtual world this Friday.
The hour long show will be livestreamed and tickets for the broadcast are available now.
The line up includes AJ Bell Fringe on...
Army@TheFringe regroups for three weeks of online arts events
Army@TheFringe has been transformed for 2020.
It will offer a richly varied three-week programme of online workshops, readings, performances and discussions for the arts community and the public.
Rebadged as Army@TheVirtualFringe its focus will shift from...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – PASSENGERS
Max wants to tell you a story. He’s not entirely sure why or even who he is. Is he savage, peacekeeper or critic… or all of these? He’s hoping you’ll be able to help....
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – Kill the Princess
Can you be feminine and still be a feminist? What does acting like a man really mean? Where does our identity come from? Bait Theatre’s Michelle Madsen and Lizzy Shakespeare are looking for some answers.
Kill...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – Footnotes & Phrases
Lewys Holt brings two companion shows, performed on alternate days, to Summerhall’s Anatomy Theatre for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019.
Footnotes is a dance/ theatre comedic parody of a lecture driven off course bythe repeated intervention...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – Children of the Quorn
Comedy sketch show with Andrew Shires and Ambika Mod performing a series of diverse comedy sketches as part of an overarching comedy/horror narrative. As they attempt to conduct a séance, their subversive and absurd...
Beach Body Ready
It’s August, the season of cutting carbs, hitting it hard at the gym and shaving everything from the chin down. Summer has rocked up and coerced us all into thinking about how awful our...
Can you help Creative Electric get to the Fringe?
Creative Electric are staging a fully accessible (socially, financially and physically) Edinburgh Fringe run of The Happiness Project which places disabled, queer, working class and female stories centre stage and engages with audiences of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Entropy
Entropy: (noun) lack of stability or predictability; gradual decline into disorder
Sam, 19, with a confidence that borders on arrogance, turns up unannounced and unwelcome at Barbara’s door after an absence of many years. Barbara, 36 and living...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Private Peaceful
Commemorating the 100th year anniversary of the end of World War I, Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful, directed by Simon Reade, returns to Edinburgh prior to a West End run and UK Tour.
Andy Daniel returns to the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – The Song of Lunch
Robert Bathurst (Cold Feet, ITV; Downton Abbey, ITV; Toast of London, Channel 4) and Rebecca Johnson (The Trip, BBC Two; The Flood, Megatopia Films) star in this hilarious and poignant drama of a disastrous attempt to rekindle lost...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Shift
The UK’s hottest circus company, award-winning,
Barely Methodical Troupe, return to Edinburgh following the success of their
international smash-hits Bromance and Kin with this exhilarating new
production.
Shift combines show-stopping acrobatics with the emotional punch of
theatre as four...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Little Death Club
The darkest, funniest and most debauched variety show this side of the Berlin wall now makes its much-anticipated Edinburgh debut! The multi-award-winning Queen of Weimar punk kabarett Bernie Dieter (star of La Clique, EastEnd Cabaret) and her...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – The Political History of Smack and Crack
The Political History of Smack and Crack is an angry, funny love-song to a lost generation annihilated by the heroin epidemic of Thatcher’s years, leaping from the 1981 riots to present day survival on the streets of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – My Kind of Michael
Very funny exploration of the rise and fall of Nick Cassenbaum’s hero, Michael Barrymore
Ever since his Nanna Sylvie bought him ‘Barrymore’s Best Bites’ on VHS when he was seven, Nick has loved Michael Barrymore. Now, in...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – The Journey
The exciting world premiere of The Journey, written and directed by critically acclaimed stand-up comedian Stuart Laws comes to Pleasance this summer.
Co-directed by Phoebe Ladenburg and starring Will Brown and Phoebe Sparrow, The Journey is a romantic comedy...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – NewsRevue
A Fringe institution, NewsRevue returns to Edinburgh with 100% new content and an exciting new cast in an entirely new show offering a round-up of this year’s news. Do you remember all those heinous headlines?!
With the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Paddington Bear’s First Concert
Join Paddington Bear on his adventures as he leaves home, meets his new family and enjoys his first concert - not without causing his fair share of mayhem, of course! The charming tales of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Drenched
Drenched is a one man comedy-theatre piece from Third Man Theatre inspired by ‘The Mermaid of Zennor’. Daniel Drench, Cornwall’s most prolific and unstable storyteller, presents his own bewildering and moving interpretation of this classic...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Diary of an Expat
Diary of an Expat is a relevant and thought-provoking one-woman show, directed by Katharina Reinthaller (Labels, Fringe First Winner 2015), telling the comic story of the encounter between modern migrant Cecilia and London - a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Angry Alan
Multi-award winning playwright Penelope Skinner (The Village Bike, Royal Court Theatre; Linda, Royal Court and Manhattan Theatre Club) returns to Edinburgh for the first time since 2009 with the world premiere of Angry Alan, her darkly comic and provocative new
play about...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Thor and Loki
In a society tearing itself apart through fear, greed and violence, the apocalypse approaches and unlikely friendships blossom.
Thor and Loki, the new fierce and fabulous comedy musical by Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer Harry Blake,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Baby Face
Hey Baby! Welcome to a world of knee socks, bunches, lollypops, bubble-gum and models adopting the childlike expressions of six-year-old girls.
In this brave and outlandish performance, Katy Dye questions if innocence is truly as...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – The Vanishing Man
Presenting two back-to-back productions, the pairing of director-performers Simon Evans (dir. Killer Joe, Trafalgar Studios; The Best Man, Playhouse Theatre; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Donmar Warehouse) and David Aula (Rain God, VAULT Festival; The Cement...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Very Blue Peter
Very Blue Peter gives you the chance to watch an episode of Blue Peter that was never aired! Anyone who is sentimental about the much-loved programmes of their youth, should come and experience kids’ TV for adults.
In...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – 3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle
Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle examines the relationship between two sisters and how their close bond was affected when one of them was diagnosed with a severe eating disorder as a teenager.
Recalling touching memories,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Feed
Welcome to the stimulating world of Feed where emotions are the currency and your passions and fantasies will be indulged… for a price. After the sell-out successes of The Marked and The Fantasist, Theatre Témoin return, bringing their vibrant visual...
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