Tag: Fringe
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Hunch
Written and performed by Kate Kennedy (BBC One’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Channel 4’s Catastrophe and The Win Bin, The Old Red Lion Theatre), produced by Edinburgh Fringe favourites DugOut Theatre (Replay, Swansong, The Sunset Five and Inheritance Blues) and directed by Old Vic...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Laura Lexx: Trying
The Turret, Gilded BalloonTeviot |3 -26 August (not 15) @ 17:15
Recently, Laura has been busy hosting on BBC Radio 4 Extra’s Comedy Club, winning the UK Comedy Award and being nominated for a Chortle Award… for the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Killymuck
Inspired by real events, Killymuck tells of a housing estate built on a paupers graveyard in 1970s’ Ireland.
From Kat Woods, award-winning writer of Belfast Boy, Wasted, and Mule comes a powerful exploration of survival - about those who strive to...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Tobacco Road
Incognito Theatre Company, winners of the Les Enfants Terribles’ 2018 Greenwich Partnership Award, return to the Edinburgh Fringe with their explosive physical style to tell the story of five resourceful young men and women...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Ken
Following highly successful runs at Hampstead Downstairs and The Bunker, Terry Johnson’s Ken now comes to its spiritual home in Edinburgh. Marking the ten year anniversary of the death of Ken Campbell, Ken pays tribute to the maverick...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Nick Hall: Spencer
A one-man comedy play about the British Prime Minister that history forgot.
Underbelly (Clover), Bristo Square @ 13:30 August 1 - 27 (not 13)
‘I am murdered!’
It’s May 11th, 1812. The Prime Minister has just been shot dead in the lobby of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Harpy
A razor-sharp drama from Fringe First award-winner Philip Meeks, Harpy is directed by Hannah Chissick, and stars national treasure Su Pollard in her Edinburgh Fringe debut.
For Birdie, saving what others regard as the junk from her...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Tamar Broadbent : Best Best
Award-winning songwriter Tamar Broadbent is back and this time she’s asking – how do you know if you’re living your best life? If you’re not, how do you go about changing it? This exciting...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Sid Singh: American Bot
Just the Tonic at The Mash House (Cask House)
2 - 26 (not 13) August @ 18:25
Following his first solo stand-up album, Amazing, Probably, which went to number 3 in the iTunes Comedy Chart, Sid Singh returns to the Edinburgh...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Alex Kealy: A Kealy’s Heel
Political comedian & ball of anxiety Alex Kealy trains his sights on love and politics. II’s territory already covered by War & Peace, Life & Fate and Ant & Dec.
Politically everything is on fire...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Dominic Frisby’s Financial Game Show
Gilded Balloon Teviot, Billiard Room 1 - 26 August 2018 (except 15) @ 17:00
Kerr-ching!
For his much anticipated return to Edinburgh, following his widely-acclaimed show, Let’s Talk About Tax, the world’s only financial expert and comedian, Dominic Frisby has devised a...
Architecture Fringe 2018
Scotland may appear to have a quiet architectural history, but with the ancient castles, haunted townhouses, and unique parliament (whether you like it or not, it is definitely unique) how could this country not...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Gent
Part ghost, part protector “The Gent” is 221 years old and has been assigned to the other side
of the planet to minister to Morgan, a young modern Sydneysider living with Schizophrenia.
Shifting between families, centuries and hemispheres,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Scots Plus Cajun – Discover Bonnie Bayou
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...
Just Festival 2017
Just Festival 2017: Press Release
The world is in a difficult place at the moment. From the domestic to the global, the personal to the political, for those who wish to make the world a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – THE DEATH HILARIOUS: THE SCUM ALWAYS RISES
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...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Second Coming by Simply Surreal
The Second Coming is a farcical, contemporary retelling of the Nativity story.
This debut performance of The Second Coming by Dougal Thomson is a thoroughly humorous and modern examination of faith and miracle in the 21st century. The play...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Establishment: Eton Mess
After their critically acclaimed debut in 2016, comedians Dan Lees and Neil Frost return to Edinburgh with The Establishment: Eton Mess at the Assembly George Square Theatre.
The one hour show combines the best of clowning, satirical wit and...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Agony and the Ivories
Bill Larkin (Comedy Central's "Premium Blend") stands behind his keyboard for an evening of original comedy songs. The Los Angeles Times calls him “bitingly satirical”. Weird Al Yankovic himself says he’s “a big fan”. Intended for...
Best Wedding Magician in the UK is right here in Edinburgh
Edinburgh magician, Chris Cook has been named the best Wedding Magician in the UK in the Bridebook Wedding Awards 2017.
As well as being crowned the UK’s best Wedding Magician, Chris was also awarded the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Condemned at Mary King’s Close
"Perhaps the fear of the unknown comes from the assumption that anything new and strange must be dangerous."
Visitors to Edinburgh during this year's Festival Fringe may not realise it but as they walk through...
Urbane Art Gallery – ‘Absolute Contemporaries’
News from Urbane Art Gallery
Showcasing some of our best known, and most successful artists, our new exhibition 'Absolute Contemporaries' will run for the month of August alongside the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Located on Jeffrey Street,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – [title of show]
Four chairs. Three weeks. Two bickering writers. One award-winning original musical.
Follow the challenges and triumphs of four nobodies in New York on their hilarious quest for Broadway, acceptance and a spot on Ellen DeGeneres’...
Five Edinburgh Festival Fringe Questions with… Robert Shaw
Director and Offie Award finalist Robert
Shaw is bringing the play Poena 5X1 (Or How I Came To Agree With Right Wing Thinking) to
this year's Fringe. Starring Cathy Conneff (above, with Pob – all will...
Cameo Cinema announce special “Curated By” Fringe shows
The Cameo cinema in Tollcross has just released details of this year’s “Curated By” season; a series of one-off events during the Fringe that will include a selection of films presented by high-profile comics and...
Gilded Balloon / Portable Union present One Day Moko
One Day Moko, devised and performed by Tim Carlsen, is a one-man show about a cheeky, charming and churlish ‘urban cowboy’ Moko, who lives on the city streets.
The city is Moko’s turf, with its strip clubs, karaoke...
Avalon Promotions Ltd presents Alistair McGowan: 12th Impressions
One of Britain’s most celebrated impressionists (The Big Impression, Live at the Apollo, Tonight at the Palladium) returns to Edinburgh for a 12th year, with an hour of unfeasibly accurate impersonations.
Alistair McGowan will cover some of the biggest names...
Gilded Balloon / Mid-Brow present Mid-Brow: The Live Show
The winners of Best New Sketch Act 2015 return with their highly anticipated new show. Expect their trademark easy charm and fast-paced humour, now layered with a multimedia barrage of the senses which feels...
Gilded Balloon presents Night at the Museum
Gilded Balloon presents Night at the Museum
Join the greats of comedy from across the globe as they strive to blur the lines between arteFACT and arteFICTION in a wholly improvised set, prompted by the historical artefacts housed in the...
Gilded Balloon / Lisa Richards / Off The Kerb present Neil Delamere: Ctrl Alt...
One of Ireland’s top comedians is back in Edinburgh. After a couple of years away, Neil returns with show packed with more hilarious tall tales.
Includes tips on how to survive a bobsled ride and how to pretend...
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