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A chilling new retelling of George Orwell's seminal novel. Live action and filmed image combine to reimagine 1984 as a ghost story as the feverish recollections of Comrade 6079 Winston Smith pl...

N.Ormes is a circus show where the duo Agathe and Adrien push the limits and expectations of their own bodies and gender norms. Provocative, dysfunctional and tender, the piece leads the viewer to ...

Newly promoted FID detective LaRhonda Parker is assigned to investigate the death of a Black motorist during a traffic stop involving her husband's ex-partner, Boyd Sully, a 29-year veteran. Hi...

World-renowned, multi award-winning magician and West End star Ben Hart returns with his most personal show yet. Drawn from his experience travelling India to discover lost, real magic, Hart sheds ...

Looking for candyfloss? This ain't it. If you're after a thrilling, boozy freak show, you've come to the right place! Exotic acts that connect alternative circus with the dark arts of u...

In 1941 a precocious young upstart of New York's glittering theatre scene tried his hand at making a movie and accidentally created the greatest motion picture of all time. His name was Orson W...

The best mixed-bill comedy night in Edinburgh, featuring your favourite comedians from around the Fringe. A perfect way to experience the festival! Previous guests include: David O'Doherty, Jas...

The 1930s star of musical comedy tells her story. Funny, revealing and bursting with songs from Noel Coward to Kurt Weill. Directed by award-winning cabaret artist Sarah-Louise Young. The superbly ...

A bin man swaps steel-toed boots for stilettos to chase his dream of becoming a drag queen. This raucous one-person comedy play combines monologue, song and (of course) drag in a love letter to har...

Step back in time to 1995 and come join a hilarious taster session of the Cliff Richard Fan Club! Our group of ladies will welcome you, make you laugh (and maybe cry too) and even surprise with som...

He's back – and unstoppable. Gyles Brandreth can't stop talking. The jumper-loving This Morning and Just A Minute star, who pops up on Pointless, QI, Would I Lie To You?, Sunday Brunc...

Join the world's only surreal, sketch, award-winning circus troupe on a wild ride as they bring people closer together, one olive at a time. Expect bizarre ideas, high-level circus and a bloody...

In Greek mythology, the Muses were the daughters of Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, by her nephew, Zeus. (Awks.) Ironically, there is no easy way to remember their names. Memory was thus regarded by ...

Did you just roll your eyes at me? Therapy methods as unconventional as her response "You get what you pay for". Childhood heartbreak and Bridget Jones movies in a busted macho world &nda...

As part of a continuing physical and mental tailspin, Frankie Boyle suppresses his overarching sense of futility and horror to tell jokes for an hour in the final days of organised human life. Note...

Cirque, theatre, death and drag come together in this exquisite macabre production. Expect to see a wild mix of dismembered limbs, ghosts and all sorts of outrageous and disturbing shenanigans. Fan...

Jazz Emu and The Cosmique Perfectión invite you to attend a live concert in their Pleasure Garden: a luscious, verdant Arcadia that veritably throbs with life. Each night they'll be performing...

Back for our 18th Fringe, we remain adamant that just because you're six, you shouldn't miss out on the festival's best stand-ups and sketch acts! And just because you're an adult a...

Monopoly is a terrible game. It ruins friendships and destroys families. This interactive extravaganza will update it for the modern world to make a game that's more competitive, more aggressiv...

Retired filmmaker George Lucas (as seen in the long-running cult comedy show, The George Lucas Talk Show) performs a partially interactive, fully improvised one-person theatrical experience using a...

Fringe fave Baby Wants Candy is back! Total Edinburgh Fringe sell-out 2015-2019. One of the world's most popular comedy ensembles. You shout out the title, BWC makes up the musical. Some favour...

After his execution, Walter Raleigh's widow carried his head around in a bag for 30 years. These days, that sort of thing is frowned upon. My Father's Nose is a new play about a recently be...

Watson is alone. His beloved wife, Mary, and the great Sherlock Holmes are gone. London seethes with false reports. It's time to set the record straight. So Watson tells his tale of long-buried...

Millions of years after Othello killed Desdemona, Othello and Iago are living an endless, repetitive life in Hell. Punished for the sin of the past with recurring, relentless nightmares whenever th...

A play that stimulates the imagination, The Maids is a bold story of domination through domestication. Using props on the stage to stir the imagination, chairs turn into windows or a whole differen...

World premiere of JaruJaru's original sketch format, Two-Person Ensemble Piece Seamlessly playing Different Characters, which they have been experimenting since 2018. JaruJaru presents a silly,...

Welcome to the world of Quebec's circus clowns! Presented in 18 countries, winner of multiple awards, Brotipo is back this year! Before your eyes, a friendship will be put to the test to make y...

An impossible variety show created by John-Luke Roberts. Amazing acts attempt to perform while confronted by obstacles and increasingly difficult circumstances, randomly chosen by spinning wheels. ...

A play about six wildly different people, coping and connecting during one year on the Common, telling their unexpected tales of love, life, death and downright dottiness, while a seventh character...

A painfully funny improvised medical drama: St. Doctor's Hospital by The Free Association. For these brave frontline heroes, no procedure is too convoluted, no disease is too made-up, and no re...

Sold out on Broadway! Sold out at the Sydney Opera House! Seen by over one-million people worldwide! BMX, basketball, breakdancing, beatboxing, acrobatics, drumming and more, 360 ALLSTARS connects ...

Each human being is a galaxy. Have you ever wondered how many guests live inside you? Come as you are and join Monia's six guests on a cathartic and adventurous journey toward self-acceptance. ...

Late-night, done right. Queer, messy, and f*cking hilarious. The hottest late-night ticket in town where the riskiest and most diverse acts let loose, all backed by a live band. 'An outrageousl...

A magical fairy tale for young and old. La Petite Gerda (English version) is one girl's quest to save her best friend, Kay, from the clutches of the Snow Queen! Join Gerda on her epic journey w...

An annual work review that goes horribly wrong. Jo needs to appraise Nicky. Nicky just wants to keep working. A power play of manipulation, subtext and subterfuge, 'a tense relatable thriller&#...

'This is the show to see!' ***** (Entertainment-Now.com). This multi award-winning sell-out sensation of 2022 is headed back to Edinburgh Fringe with more whimsical wonders than ever before...

Where do you go when your role models let you down? Join award-winning comedian and jumped-up pantry boy Sian on a journey through masculinity and gender identity via Salford Lads Club (puncture re...

Join Mr Bubbles with his extraordinary soap bubbles in all shapes and sizes! Enjoy bouncy bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, smoke bubbles, square bubbles, giant bubbles and even fire bubbles! Intera...

Berlin's prince and princess of art rock and Europop, Otto and Astrid, spent years arguing about which songs should appear on their much-anticipated fifth Die Roten Punkte album. Unable to reac...

From the creators of The George Lucas Talk Show, an original play about two fugitives – a mysterious aristocrat and a paranoid junk merchant – stranded on a desolate planet, waiting to ...

In a kingdom where it is always night, the Owl had declared himself king and made sleeping forbidden. Can he be stopped before our undreamt dreams destroy the world? The creators of the smash-hit S...

Welcome to the comedy presser where you get to ask the questions! USA comedian Melissa McGlensey (The Onion, Reductress) will take you on a journey of absurd political theatre, partisan nonsense an...

In a basement office in Illinois, there's a job waiting for you. Sarah Jane is on vacation, and you've been hired to fill in. In this interactive show for one, you'll explore her cubicl...

Edinburgh Fringe 2022's best-reviewed and most in-demand debut show returns for a limited run. An absurd homage to migration, a hungry Eastern European clown voyages to America for a hot dog. &...

Baby Wants Candy's hip-hop Hamilton homage returns! Following sold-out runs in Chicago, NYC and LA. We improvise an epic musical based on historical figures/celebrities you choose (Genghis Khan...

Nominated: Best Kids Show Leicester Comedy Festival 2023. Do you have stupid, silly, weird dreams that don't make sense? Then come and join Mr Sleepybum on a sleep adventure. Mr Sleepybum will ...

Kokoon are a new kind of boy band, combining K-Pop with K-Comedy. After debuting with their TV comedy programme Comedy Big League, they released their successful first album What?!!. A Christmas di...

Multimedia comedian Ted Hill unsuccessfully tries in several silly ways to fix humanity's greatest problem: climate change. It was a tough ask, and he's failed at it. In fact he doesn't...

Award-winning actor/playwright John Jiler and clarinetist Sweet Lee Odom tell the remarkable story of the youngest child of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Orphaned at six following his parents' ex...

Viral sensation, maestro of musical mayhem and lord of lyrical miracles, Matt Storer presents an award-winning musical comedy concert. Audience members blindly choose each song from a range of cate...

The Rob Auton Show is a show about Rob Auton. Rob Auton has written nine hit Edinburgh Festival Fringe comedy/theatre/spoken-word shows on specific themes including yellow in The Yellow Show, and s...

Anuvab Pal returns on official business. Post-Brexit, the British government want to sell the idea of Britishness to India. It has been done before, with dubious results. Now, they've set up a ...

Having gone back to work as an electrician, Chris found himself with two jobs and the ridiculous notion of buying a house... he didn't have enough jobs. Something had to give, and shur there...

The ultimate international burlesque extravaganza has arrived! A celebration of bodies, tradition and inclusivity by award-winning world-class artists and rising stars on the scene. Appearing in th...

The skill level in this sophisticated, alluring performance by the innovative, female-led Eye Catching Circus is sky-high, but spectacle isn't the top priority. Expect instead a questioning, st...

From touring internationally, Il Wol Dang has a wide-reaching reputation as an artistic music group. They are an ambient-house music team, using traditional Korean music as a base to tell stories a...

Epic scale stunts and mind-blowing magic in a spectacle that swings from edge-of-your-seat astonishment to belly laughs. Illusionist and inventor Kevin was trained by Penn & Teller, has had sel...

YUCK are back with their sell-out show. High-flying acrobatics, absurd confessions and groovy dancing – all smashed together with their trademark ripper comedy. Winners of top-tier Fringe Wor...

The country's best (not most popular) musical comedians present their greatest hits, from a decade of being wildly under appreciated. 'An hour of glorious chaos. A must-see' ***** (Sund...

USA, 1985: Rookie Police Cop Jimmy Johnson joined the force to protect and serve... But now Jimmy's in deep, partnered up with a renegade Police Cop and leaned on by a racist Chief. With guns l...

The best place in town to catch rising comedy stars and your Fringe favourites. A different show every night, featuring new faces and festival stalwarts! The perfect start (or end) to your festival...

Join the winner of Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Best Show Award – Geraldine Hickey as she shares stories about acknowledging and enjoying new-found privileges, like getting m...

Following their five-star, fan-favourite run at the Fringe last year, the boys are back again for their 19th year with tighter harmonies, crazier choreography and enough high-notes to reach the str...

Viral Nurse Georgie Carroll's gloves are off for this award-winning power hour. Hospital-grade humour from everyone's favourite nurse-turned-comedian. This is going to hurt, but it will mak...

In these supercharged socio-political times the challenge is more and more becoming separating what's true and what's real. Lucille Hunter proudly proclaimed: 'It's easy to see thro...

After thrilling the world, with more than 500,000 spectators and astonishing appearances at the Royal Variety Performance and Montecarlo Circus Festival, 'best circus show 2022' (TheatreWee...

Straight outta Wagga Wagga, Australia – the star of hit show Aborigi-LOL makes his Fringe debut with a swag of gut-bustingly funny stories, fun facts and big laughs. Bonus didgeridoo content....

On the back of her TV debuts (Have I Got News for You, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order), Susie also supported Kevin Bridges, Frankie Boyle and Jason Manford on their tours. Susie's last s...

'Best magic show' (HELLO! Magazine). The only act to win the Edfest Bouquet four times! A unique blend of magic and mind control unleashed to influence your mind! The results are indisputab...

Join Odin and Loki in their struggle to overcome primeval giants, rival gods and goddesses, and each other's ambitions in this hard-hitting, dark comic adaption of Norse mythology. Weaving anci...

Attributed to Mark Twain, humour is defined as tragedy plus time. Join Ed as he tests that formula by mining the most tragic event in his life for laughs. Praise for Ed's previous Edinburgh sol...

'My name is Amanda. I have a nice life. Close to perfect. I have a great job. A house in a safe neighbourhood. A loving family. A dog. Westie. Furry little fellow. But in two hours, none of tha...

Dom Chambers' unconventional magic has made him an online sensation, garnered fans around the world and landed him on a Broadway stage. This is his coming-of-age story. Playing cards, a mysteri...

Matt is an NHS doctor – what a hero! Also a fast-rising comedian, finalist in the Leicester Square New Comedian and Hackney Empire New Act competition. The son of Jamaican and English parents...

I want you to think of the person you are most jealous of. This is a show about them. Well it's also about me. And murder and the internet. Comedian Lou Wall brings you their most ambitious com...

Hey kids and kidults, cool cats and dancing dogs, Jarred and Hobbit are back with an all-new action-packed hoopla! Guaranteed LOLs and interactive fun for the entire family (OK, maybe not the cats ...

'Winningly hilarious and visually enthralling, Faber fuses naked-body projection mapping, cabaret and stand-up to look at society’s expectations and options for women. A cleverly rendered...

A highly anticipated brand-new hour from comic legend Frank Skinner ('King of stand-up' (Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard)), following his sell-out hit Showbiz. 'Frank Skinner has funny b...

Two enemy novelists duel for the ultimate prize in a fast-paced, war-of-the-words comedy. Multiple Fringe First-winning playwright Brian Parks plunges into the writing world with a Withnail-esque j...

Captivate Theatre's five-star, vibrant, energetic, emotional, sell-out production is back. Sunshine on Leith by Stephen Greenhorn follows the highs and lows of Ally and Davy as they negotiate f...

'A funny, powerful and poignant tribute to the full dignity and humanity of women whose way of life is still often stigmatised and "othered", 40 years on' (Joyce McMillan, Scotsma...

Chris Grace, Chinese-American character best known for playing Jerry on Superstore, portrays the greatest living Asian actor Scarlett Johansson through comedy, theatre, stand-up and the music of To...

The dishevelled prince of £10 eBay keyboards tries to make you feel alive with a new pageant of laughter, song and occasionally getting up from a chair. It's gonna be a big one. Star of 8...

Afrique en Cirque – a show by Yamoussa Bangoura, inspired by daily life in Guinea. This performance shares the beauty, youth and artistry of African culture. A colourful show beyond its scene...

The host of Whose Line Is It Anyway, Talks Back and Loose Ends returns to Edinburgh with a live version of his hit podcast format in which he invites different guests daily to choose their own pers...

Layers is an innovative one-man play depicting 10 minutes of a day in the life of the performer, Yuuya, and his family. Projection onto layers of fabric help to depict the recorded voices of the ch...

Visionary theatre director and designer, Thaddeus McWhinnie Phillips, reimagines his classic work about a Wyoming tap dancer that's stranded in Cuba. Lost Soles dives spectators into a surreal ...

50% Bristolian. 50% Iranian. 100% stupid. A provocative story about the complexity of Kamali's dual heritage mixed with the absurdities of love and parenting, using physical comedy, clowning an...

We can rebuild him! Jason is officially Bionic – ironically of course – as Jason, the accident prone, general unfortunate gobshite (to no want of his own) is now half man, half machine....

Family comic theatre and circus show... for humans. Mark and Loz are circus performers. But circus is really hard. FailFailFailFailWin is about not hiding all the "try"s you did that didn...

A Bee Story is a uniquely Australian physical theatre show for children and families incorporating a kaleidoscope of circus, acrobatics, dance and live music. It tells the story of Queen Bee and Wo...

The sequel to their award-winning debut! Traverse the perils of employment, friendship and love; be dazzled with ear splitting music; try not to be sick if you see too much flesh. The normal rules ...

TikTok sensation Dahn Rozario brings his very first full hour of stand-up to Edinburgh. He's breaking down the stereotypes and showing people just how loud Indians can be and highlights what it...

Sequins, reality television and the complete works of Oscar Wilde: not much else survives in a secret bunker far in the fascist future. Conceived by Neon Coven, a growing non-traditional creative c...

'An absolute riot!' ***** (TheatreWeekly.com). Prepare to be wowed out of your comfy red seats in this absolute jam-packed adults only spectacular! Magic duo Sam and Justin have toured acro...

A searing, Kafkaesque drama about the criminalization of abortion. After her transcontinental flight is diverted to Dallas, Nessa inexplicably finds herself trapped in a room with Val, a lawyer for...

Comedian Connor Ratliff (Dead Eyes, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel) appears as George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, and interviews guests like a "normal talk show". He is joined by sidekick ...

Bite-size tasters of the best comedy, cabaret, family entertainment and circus, all prepared for you in our glorious Spiegeltent. With line-ups changing daily, we have something for everyone, so le...

Move over Dame Jude – there's a new national treasure in town! This bold piece of theatre pierces to the heart of love, life and grief. It is a truly unique theatrical experience. The sel...

Winner: Best Kids Show 2022 – UK Kids Comedy Festival. Top 10 Children's Fringe Shows (Scotsman). The wild interactive game show returns, where kids get to be pests, politicians and petom...

Drag Queen Story Hour: the theatrical experience is here! (Oh no they aren't?) Oh yes they are! What do you get when you cross fabulously inclusive stories and fabulously dressed drag queens? L...

The legendary live band, late-night party is back for a spandex-clad showdown between the greatest smash hits of the 80s and the biggest hairbrush anthems of the 90s. Are you team Toto or a Destiny...

National broadcaster Television 1 has been a proud British institution for 100 years and has played a prominent role in British life and culture. Join Joe and Rory in celebrating its centenary with...

The Baxter (two-time Scotsman Fringe First winners) in collaboration with Tony Award-winning Handspring Puppet Company (of War Horse and Little Amal fame) are at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at th...

Breaking up with a beloved one is always heartbreaking. However, at one point we all face the moment of separation. Such is life. This beautiful play depicts the break-up of an old couple in a humo...