Edinburgh 2018

Five-star Fringe shows

The Abode

Davey Anderson

Pepperdine Scotland

Underbelly, Cowgate

2–16 August 2018

Adam Kay: This Is Going to Hurt (Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor)

Adam Kay

James Seabright

Pleasance at EICC

14–18 August 2018

Ailsa Benson Is Missing

Samara MacLaren

Assembly Rooms

2–25 August 2018

Alba Flamenca

3–27 August 2018

The Aspirations of Daise Morrow

Patrick White

Brink

Assembly George Square Gardens

2–12 August 2018

Audacious Mr Astley

Chris Barltrop

Pleasance Courtyard

3–27 August 2018

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show: Menu 2

Stephanie Weston, William Knowleden, Dave Simpson, Ronan Colfer, James McLindon

Bite-Size Plays

Pleasance Dome

2–25 August 2018

Breakfast Plays : Youthquake - Squall and Fucking Millennials

Rebecca Sweeney and Kieran Hurley

Traverse Theatre Company

Traverse Theatre

15 August 2018

Brocade

Roberta Jean (choreographer)

Made in Scotland Showcase

Dance Base @ Edinburgh City Chambers

13–17 August 2018

City Love

Simon Vinnicombe

Old Joint Theatre in association with Illuminate

C cubed

2–27 August 2018

Confessions of a Cockney Temple Dancer

Shane Shambhu

Shane Shambhu and Moving Souls

Dance Base

22–26 August 2018

Dietrich: Natural Duty

Peter Groom and Oliver Gully

Jimmy Jewel Ltd

Pleasance Courtyard

1–27 August 2018

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek

Royal Conservatoire Of Scotland

Assembly Hall

3–26 August 2018

Drive-By Shooting

Dumb World

Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

Elvis McGonagall: Full Tartan Jacket

Elvis McGonagall

Voodoo Rooms

4–25 August 2018

Extinguished Things

Molly Taylor

Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

Extremism

Anders Lustgarten

Worlds End Productions

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court

8–12 August 2018

Famous Puppet Death Scenes

The Old Trout Puppet Workshop

Canadahub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

The Flop

Hijinx and Spymonkey

Summerhall

3–26 August 2018

Gamarjobat

Gilded Balloon and Komedia Entertainment

Gilded Balloon at the Museum

1–18 August 2018

Goodbye, I'm leaving

Claudio Del Toro and Armando Gonzalez

La Barca dei Soli

Just the Tonic

5–26 August 2018

Hamish Henderson: On the Radical Road

Raymond Raszkowski

Theatre Objektiv

Scottish Storytelling Centre

12–27 August 2018

The Hit

Strange Face

Summerhall

14–26 August 2018

How I Brought Peace to the Middle East: A Tragicomedy

David Kaye

Actor’s Collaborative Theatre of New England

theSpace on the Mile

8–12 August 2018

I Am Not Your Woman

Hannah Roze Lewis

The Moonlighters Collective

Greenside @ Infirmary Street

21–25 August 2018

In Loyal Company

David William Bryan and Sascha Moore

Lab Rats

Pleasance Courtyard

1–27 August 2018

John Bett/Sylverter McCoy/Robert Picardo

A Joke

Don Freeman

Universal Arts Production and Scene Change Productions

Assembly Rooms

13–26 August 2018

Kids Play

Glenn Chandler

Boys of the Empire Productions

theSpace @ Niddry St

13–25 August 2018

A Life on the Silk Road

Wang Jing/Zhao Miao

The National Theatre of China

ZOO Southside

12–26 August 2018

Mark Watson: The Infinite Show

Mark Watson

Pleasance Courtyard

2–27 August 2018

May I Speak About Dance?

Boaz Barkan

Wildtopia/Boaz Barkan

Summerhall

1–12 August 2018

Maz and Bricks

Eva O'Connor

Fishamble

Summerhall

2–26 August 2018

Messages Deleted

air field collective

Dance Base

18 August 2018

Mistero Buffo

Dario Fo

Rhum and Clay Theatre Company

Underbelly, Cowgate

2–26 August 2018

My Land

Bence Vagi

Recirquel

Assembly Roxy

1–29 August 2018

My Left Right Foot – The Musical

Robert Softly Gale with music by Scott Gilmour and Claire Mckenzie

National Theatre of Scotland in collaboration with Birds of Paradise

Assembly Roxy

1–27 August 2018

Orlando

Written and directed by Elton Townend Jones

Dyad Productions

Assembly Roxy

4–27 August 2018

Our Man in Havana

Spies Like Us in association with Pleasance

Pleasance Courtyard

21–27 August 2018

Out of the Blue

Assembly George Square Theatre

1–29 August 2018

Portraits in Motion

Volker Gerling

Aurora Nova

Summerhall

1–25 August 2018

Providence

Dominic Allen and Simon Maeder

Assembly Rooms

2–25 August 2018

The Red Shoes

Jo Billington and Will Feasey with Tim Norton, music by Ned Bennett

Young Pleasance

Pleasance Courtyard

3–18 August 2018

Réversible

The 7 Fingers

Assembly Rooms

2–26 August 2018

Shakespeare for Breakfast

C theatre

1–27 August 2018

The Spinners

Lina Limosani Projects and Al Seed Productions

Dance Base

3–19 August 2018

Taiwan Season: Varhung – Heart to Heart

Tjimur Dance Theatre

Dance Base

2–26 August 2018

This Is the Title

Ima Iduozee

Ima Iduozee in association with From Start to Finnish

Dance Base

3–19 August 2018

Tibetan Monks Sacred Dance

Tibetan Monks from Tashi Llunpo Monastry

Quaker Meeting House

6–22 August 2018

Tobacco Road

Incognito Theatre Company

Pleasance Courtyard

3–27 August 2018

Trojan Horse

Helen Monks and Matt Woodhead

Lung

Summerhall

1–27 August 2018

Urban Death

Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group

Sweet Grassmarket

2–26 August 2018

What Girls Are Made of

Cora Bissett

Traverse Theatre Company

Traverse Theatre

4–26 August 2018

Wired

Lesley Wilson

Army @ the Fringe in Association with Summerhall

10–25 August 2018

The Woman and the Canvas

Theatre Re and Fourth Monkey

theSpaceTriplex

3–11 August 2018

Woyzeck

Adapted from Georg Büchner by Ollie Norton-Smith and Hamish Lloyd Barnes

Spies Like Us

Pleasance Dome

1–27 August 2018

Your Alice

Billie Aken-Tyers

Ophelia Theatre Group and Pink House Productions

Greenside @ Nicolson Square

20–25 August 2018

Fringe news

Save the Children founder celebrated at Buxton Fringe

7 July 2018

A new play about founder of Save the Children Eglantyne Jebb is to be staged at Buxton Fringe before heading to Edinburgh.

Fundraiser and previews for South Shields Edfringe show

4 July 2018

A show from South Shields which is going to the Edinburgh Fringe is to have two local previews and a fundraiser.

A wee taste o’ Edinburgh at Alphabetti

7 June 2018

Newcastle’s Alphabetti Theatre previews some Edinburgh Fringe shows.

Nouveau Riche - Untapped Edinburgh competition award winner

Untapped Edinburgh competition award winners

18 March 2018

Three companies have been chosen from over three hundred submissions to perform at Underbelly during this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Search for partners to support through HighTide and Edinburgh Fringe

28 January 2018

HighTide is offering and financial and practical support to four independent producers or companies whose shows will go to the HighTide Festivals in Aldeburgh and Walthamstow and the Edinburgh Fringe.

ART Award welcomes Scottish submissions

14 January 2018

Assembly Roxy Theatre Award is looking to help Scottish companies at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

EIF news

Jackie Kay memoir for play première

2 December 2018

Scottish writer and poet Jackie Kay’s personal memoir, Red Dust Road, is to play at HOME Manchester in September.

Book Festival news

Edinburgh International Book Festival entrance

Theatrical performance returns to Edinburgh Book Festival

18 June 2018

Edinburgh International Book Festival will again include theatrical explorations of literature in a strand of its programme it calls "Playing With Books".

Fringe Features

Pip Hambly on her Edinburgh-bound The Kinkens

30 July 2018

Pip Hambly—writer, mime artist, clown, theatre-maker and actor—talks about her Edinburgh bound, one-woman show The Kinkens.

August can only mean one thing: all eyes turn to Edinburgh

30 July 2018

National reporter Sandra Giorgetti takes a look at the phenomenon that is Scotland's first city in August.

The North East in Edinburgh

4 July 2018

Peter Lathan looks at North East performers and companies going to the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe.

EIF Features

August can only mean one thing: all eyes turn to Edinburgh

30 July 2018

National reporter Sandra Giorgetti takes a look at the phenomenon that is Scotland's first city in August.

Ratings

***** You'll regret missing this one **** Definitely one to try to see *** Fine but doesn't set the world on fire ** There are better shows in Edinburgh * Best avoided

Book Festival reviews

Doctors of Philosophy by Muriel Spark: A Theatrical Performance

Muriel Spark, edited by David Greig and Marilyn Imrie

Edinburgh International Book Festival and Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Book Festival

19 August 2018

Edith Hall: Aristotle: Self Help Guru

Edith Hall

Edinburgh International Book Festival

19 August 2018

How to Be Both by Ali Smith: A Theatrical Exploration

Ali Smith, Julie Taudevin and Claire Duffy

Edinburgh International Book Festival and Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Book Festival

18 August 2018

Radio Spark: Memento Mori: Novel Performance

Gaynor Macfarlane and Robin Brooks

Edinburgh International Book Festival

21 August 2018

EIF reviews

The Beggar's Opera

John Gay and Johann Christoph Pepusch, in a new version by Ian Burton and Rob...

Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord

King's Theatre

16–19 August 2018

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Gioachino Rossini, libretto by Cesare Sterbini, based on the play by Pierre-A...

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Edinburgh Festival Theatre

5–8 August 2018

La Maladie de la Mort

Marguerite Duras, translated by Alice Birch

Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord

Royal Lyceum Theatre

16–19 August 2018

Midsummer

David Greig with music by Gordon McIntyre

National Theatre of Scotland

The Hub

2–26 August 2018

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

Druid

Royal Lyceum Theatre

3–12 August 2018

Fringe reviews

The Abode

Davey Anderson

Pepperdine Scotland

Underbelly, Cowgate

2–16 August 2018

About Lady White Fox With Nine Tales...

YVUA ARTS | Korean Season presented by AtoBiz Ltd

Assembly George Square Studios

2–27 August 2018

Achilles

Ewan Downie

Company of Wolves

Summerhall

3–26 August 2018

Adam Kay: This Is Going to Hurt (Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor)

Adam Kay

James Seabright

Pleasance at EICC

14–18 August 2018

After the Cuts

Gary McNair

Raw Material Arts Ltd In association with The Beacon

Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

Agenda

SAS Productions

theSpace on the Mile

9–11 August 2018

Ah Dinnae Ken

Student Theatre At Glasgow (STAG)

theSpace @ Niddry St

3–18 August 2018

Ailsa Benson Is Missing

Samara MacLaren

Assembly Rooms

2–25 August 2018

Alabama God Damn

Hippana Theatre

Pleasance Dome

3–26 August 2018

Alba Flamenca

3–27 August 2018

Alfred Hitchcock's Writers’ Room

Ades Singh and Cameron Gill

Reading University Drama Society

theSpace on North Bridge

6–11 August 2018

Alice

Tiffany King with Jamie Cottle and Deanna Mitchell

Theatretrain Reading

theSpaceTriplex

1–28 August 2018

All That Remains

Olesya Khromeychuk

Molodyi Teatr London

Greenside @ Infirmary Street

21–25 August 2018

Alma, a Human Voice

Dramaturgy and interpretation Lorenzo Piccolo

Nina’s Drag Queens

Summerhall

3–26 August 2018

And Before I Forget I Love You, I Love You

Pip Utton

Pleasance Courtyard

3–26 August 2018

Angry Alan

Penelope Skinner

Francesca Moody Productions in association with Underbelly

Underbelly, Cowgate

2–27 August 2018

The Antiscians

The Apricity Project

Greenside @ Royal Terrace

3–18 August 2018

The Aspirations of Daise Morrow

Patrick White

Brink

Assembly George Square Gardens

2–12 August 2018

Audacious Mr Astley

Chris Barltrop

Pleasance Courtyard

3–27 August 2018

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Jan Carey

Hint of Lime Productions

Pleasance Courtyard

1–27 August 2018

Baby Face

Kay Dye

Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

Baby Paradise: Part One

bambule.babys (Germany)

C royale

1–27 August 2018

Bad Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Oklahoma City University

OCS and Fringe University

Greenside @ Nicolson Square

1–28 August 2018

BaseCamp

Fever Dream Theatre

C south

2–27 August 2018

A Beginner's Guide to Populism

Andy Moseley

NoLogoProductions

theSpaceTriplex

13–25 August 2018

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show: Menu 1

Annette Storckman, James Hutchinson, Carey Crim, Thomas Willshire, Seamus Sul...

Bite-Size Plays

Pleasance Dome

1–27 August 2018

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show: Menu 2

Stephanie Weston, William Knowleden, Dave Simpson, Ronan Colfer, James McLindon

Bite-Size Plays

Pleasance Dome

2–25 August 2018

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show: Menu 3

Scott Mullen, Tom Hartwell, William Knowleden, Derek Webb, Greg Romero

Bite-Size Plays

Pleasance Dome

3–26 August 2018

Bite-Size Plays Presents: Neverwant

William Knowleden and Thomas Willshire

Bite-Size Plays

Pleasance Courtyard

3–26 August 2018

Black and White Tea Room – Counsellor

Cha Hyun Suk

Theatre Hooam, Korean Season presented by AtoBiz Ltd

Assembly Rooms

2–25 August 2018

Blackout

Mark Jeary

New Room Theatre

Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

Blackthorn

Charley Miles

InSite and West Yorkshire Playhouse

Roundabout @ Summerhall

3–26 August 2018

Brawn

Christopher Wollaton

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall

20–25 August 2018

Breakfast Plays : Youthquake - Squall and Fucking Millennials

Rebecca Sweeney and Kieran Hurley

Traverse Theatre Company

Traverse Theatre

15 August 2018

Breakfast Plays: Youthquake - Grout and Old Enough

Ella Hickson and Laurie Motherwell

Traverse Theatre Company

Traverse Theatre

14–24 August 2018

Breakfast Plays: Youthquake – The Things I would Tell You (By Some Young British Muslim Women) and Lurker

Sabrina Mahfouz and Natalie Mackinnon

Traverse Theatre Company

Traverse Theatre

16–26 August 2018

Brexit

Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky

The Spontaneity Shop

Pleasance Courtyard

1–26 August 2018

Bride of the Gulf

John M Meyer

Thinkery and Verse

C cubed

2–27 August 2018

Brocade

Roberta Jean (choreographer)

Made in Scotland Showcase

Dance Base @ Edinburgh City Chambers

13–17 August 2018

Buried: A New Musical

Tom Williams and Cordelia O'Driscoll

Colla Voce

Underbelly, Bristo Square

1–27 August 2018

Busking It

Danusia Samal

Coin Drop in association with HighTide and Shoreditch Town Hall

Pleasance Courtyard

15–27 August 2018

Camilla Cleese and Steve Hofsetter: Produced by John Cleese

PME Edinburgh Live Limited

Assembly George Square Studios

14–26 August 2018

Century Song

Created by Neema Bickersteth, Kate Alton and Ross Manson

Volcano Theatre

ZOO Southside

2–18 August 2018

Chatroom

Enda Walsh

Raw Alchemy Theatre Company

theSpace on the Mile

1–28 August 2018

Chimes at Midnight

William Shakespeare

The Classic Rollercoaster Company

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall

15–25 August 2018

Choking to Death on a Currant Bun

Mr Brown presents

theSpace on North Bridge

3–25 August 2018

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens, adapted by Nick Hennegan

Theatre Tours International

Assembly George Square Studios

2–27 August 2018

Circolombia

Underbelly and Circolombia

Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows

3–27 August 2018

City Love

Simon Vinnicombe

Old Joint Theatre in association with Illuminate

C cubed

2–27 August 2018

Sarah Morris, Stephen Jones and Will O'Connell

Class

Iseult Golden and David Horan

Traverse Theatre

3–17 August 2018

Conchies!

Ian Sharp

A Certain Demographic

Quaker Meeting House

13–18 August 2018

Confessions of a Cockney Temple Dancer

Shane Shambhu

Shane Shambhu and Moving Souls

Dance Base

22–26 August 2018

Coriolanus Vanishes

David Leddy

Traverse Theatre

3–26 August 2018

Cry God for Harry, England and St George!

with Sam Maynard

Mulberry Theatre Company

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall

1–28 August 2018

Dance Japan

Yoshitaka Suzuki

Greenside @ Infirmary Street

21–25 August 2018

Dandy Darkly's All Aboard!

Dandy Darkly / Civil Disobedience

Underbelly, Bristo Square

3–27 August 2018

De Fuut

Bastiaan Vandendriessche

Big in Belgium

Summerhall

2–26 August 2018

Dear Lucy...

Carrie Bird

Flying High Theatre Company

theSpace @ Niddry St

3–11 August 2018

The Devil You Know: A Horror Play

The Nottingham New Theatre

Greenside @ Infirmary Street

3–25 August 2018

Di & Viv & Rose (In an Hour)

Amelia Bullmore

Handmade Theatre

C cubed

2–14 August 2018

Dickens For Dinner

C theatre

3–27 August 2018

Dietrich: Natural Duty

Peter Groom and Oliver Gully

Jimmy Jewel Ltd

Pleasance Courtyard

1–27 August 2018

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek

Royal Conservatoire Of Scotland

Assembly Hall

3–26 August 2018

Dominic Frisby's Financial Game Show

Dominic Frisby

Gilded Balloon Teviot

2–26 August 2018

Dominoes

Phoebe McIntosh

Phoebe McIntosh, Lighthouse Poole and Black Theatre Live

Assembly George Square Studios

1–27 August 2018

Drip Feed

Karen Cogan

Soho Theatre and Fishamble

Assembly George Square Theatre

2–26 August 2018

Drive-By Shooting

Dumb World

Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

Dulce et Decorum Est: The Unknown Soldiers

Jan van der Black

Polymorph Theatre with Jan van der Black and Penny Gkritzapi

theSpaceTriplex

6–11 August 2018

DUPed

John McCann

Ambergris

Sweet Grassmarket

3–26 August 2018

Dust

The Melomaniacs

Assembly Rooms

13–26 August 2018

Earnest & Wilde: Let’s Face the Music (and Franz)

Rhymes With Purple in association with C theatre

C royale

2–27 August 2018

East Belfast Boy

Fintan Brady

Prime Cut Productions

Summerhall

16–26 August 2018

EH16: Pyre

Nevermore Theatre

theSpaceTriplex

3–11 August 2018

An Elephant in the Garden

Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Simon Reade

Poonamallee Productions / Exeter Northcott Theatre

Underbelly, Bristo Square

1–27 August 2018

Elvis McGonagall: Full Tartan Jacket

Elvis McGonagall

Voodoo Rooms

4–25 August 2018

Erewhon

Arthur Meek, music by Eve Prouse, based on the novel by Samuel Butler

Arthur Meek and Magnetic North

Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

An Evening With Miss Wong

Written and directed by Ross Ericson

Grist To The Mill Productions Ltd

Assembly Rooms

2–26 August 2018

Extinguished Things

Molly Taylor

Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

Extremism

Anders Lustgarten

Worlds End Productions

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court

8–12 August 2018

F**k You Pay Me

Joana Nastari

Assembly Rooms

2–26 August 2018

A Fair Tale About a Fairy Trade

Book by Maria Urian and Thea Pabainte, lyrics by Liya Li, music by Faidon Nal...

Human Rongs

theSpace @ Niddry St

13–25 August 2018

Falkland – The War the World Forgot

Heather Bagnall

Tasty Monster Productions

Greenside @ Nicolson Square

13–25 August 2018

Fallen Fruit

Katherina Radeva

Two Destination Language

Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

Famous Puppet Death Scenes

The Old Trout Puppet Workshop

Canadahub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

Feed

Theatre Témoin

Theatre Témion with The Lowry and Everyman Cheltenham

Pleasance Dome

1–27 August 2018

The Fetch Wilson

Stewart Roche

The Corps Ensemble

Pleasance Courtyard

1–27 August 2018

The Fishermen

Gbolahan Obisesan, based on the novel by Chigozie Obioma

New Perspectives Theatre Company

Assembly George Square Studios

2–27 August 2018

Flattered

Flattered Collective

Fireside

3–25 August 2018

Flies

Oliver Lansley

Les Enfants Terribles and Pins and Needles Productions

Pleasance Courtyard

1–27 August 2018

Flight

Darkfields

Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

The Flop

Hijinx and Spymonkey

Summerhall

3–26 August 2018

The Front Page

Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur

Edinburgh Theatre Arts

St Ninian's Hall

6–18 August 2018

A Gallant Life

Written and directed by Kate Stephenson

Not Cricket Productions

theSpace on North Bridge

3–18 August 2018

Gamarjobat

Gilded Balloon and Komedia Entertainment

Gilded Balloon at the Museum

1–18 August 2018

Games

Henry Naylor

Gilded Balloon and Redbeard Theatre

Gilded Balloon Teviot

1–27 August 2018

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

Le Broq Theatre Company

Sweet Grassmarket

15–19 August 2018

Goodbye, I'm leaving

Claudio Del Toro and Armando Gonzalez

La Barca dei Soli

Just the Tonic

5–26 August 2018

The Greatest Play in the History of the World…

Ian Kershaw

Traverse Theatre

3–26 August 2018

Greyhounds

Laura Crow / William Shakespeare

Time and Again Theatre Company

theSpace on the Mile

15–18 August 2018

Gulliver Returns

Dan Coleman

Dawn State Theatre Company

Underbelly, Cowgate

2–26 August 2018

The Half

Danielle Ward

Fabric Productions in association with Danielle Ward and Anna Crilly

Pleasance Courtyard

2–26 August 2018

Hamish Henderson: On the Radical Road

Raymond Raszkowski

Theatre Objektiv

Scottish Storytelling Centre

12–27 August 2018

Hamlet – Horatio's Tale

William Shakespeare, adapted by Nick Hennegan

Maverick Theatre

Assembly Rooms

2–26 August 2018

Hecate

Little Shakespeare Company

Paradise in the Vault

1–18 August 2018

Henry

Blind Summit Theatre

Pleasance Dome

11–26 August 2018

Henry V – Lion of England

Nick Hennegan

Guy Masterson – TTI in association with Maverick Theatre Company

Assembly Rooms

6–25 August 2018

Hillary’s Kitchen

Emily McDermott

The Cambridge Road Players

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall

20–25 August 2018

The Hit

Strange Face

Summerhall

14–26 August 2018

The House

Brian Parks

Americana Absurdum Productions

Assembly George Square Studios

2–27 August 2018

How I Brought Peace to the Middle East: A Tragicomedy

David Kaye

Actor’s Collaborative Theatre of New England

theSpace on the Mile

8–12 August 2018

How to Spot an Alien

Paines Plough and Theatr Clwyd

Roundabout @ Summerhall

1–28 August 2018

I Am Not Your Woman

Hannah Roze Lewis

The Moonlighters Collective

Greenside @ Infirmary Street

21–25 August 2018

I, Sniper

Mark Westbrook

Acting Coach Scotland

theSpace on North Bridge

3–25 August 2018

In Loyal Company

David William Bryan and Sascha Moore

Lab Rats

Pleasance Courtyard

1–27 August 2018

In Pursuit of Andromeda

Jonathan Blakeley

The Apex

Greenside @ Nicolson Square

3–25 August 2018

India Flamenco

Alba Flamenca

3–26 August 2018

Infinita

Familie Flöz

Pleasance Courtyard

2–27 August 2018

Integrity

Vaughan Evans

Llamemadog Theatre Company

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall

20–25 August 2018

Island Town

Simon Longman

Paines Plough

Roundabout @ Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

It's True, It's True, It's True

Breach Theatre / Untapped by Underbelly and New Diorama Theatre

Underbelly, Cowgate

2–26 August 2018

Jericho

Devised by the company & writer Dylan Coburn Gray

MALAPROP Theatre

Underbelly, Cowgate

3–25 August 2018

A Joke

Don Freeman

Universal Arts Production and Scene Change Productions

Assembly Rooms

13–26 August 2018

Justin Moorhouse: Northern Joker

Justin Moorhouse

Gilded Balloon Teviot

1–26 August 2018

Kids Play

Glenn Chandler

Boys of the Empire Productions

theSpace @ Niddry St

13–25 August 2018

KillyMuck

Kat Woods

Underbelly, Bristo Square

1–27 August 2018

King John

William Shakespeare

American Performing Arts International

theSpace @ Niddry St

1–28 August 2018

King Lear (Alone)

William Shakespeare / Frank Bramwell

inamoment

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court

12–15 August 2018

The Ladies Loo Chronicles

Flora London

Cows and Kisses Theatre Company / Mind Out Theatre

theSpace on North Bridge and at Surgeons Hall

3–18 August 2018

Let's Inherit the Earth

Moran Pearson

Dogstar Theatre Company (Scotland) and Profilteatern (Sweden)

Pleasance Courtyard

10–26 August 2018

A Life on the Silk Road

Wang Jing/Zhao Miao

The National Theatre of China

ZOO Southside

12–26 August 2018

Lines

Arabella Warren

Greenside @ Infirmary Street

Greenside @ Infirmary Street - Ivy Studio

13–25 August 2018

Loop

Alexander Knott

Boxless Theatre in association with Eastlake Productions and Jack Maple

Underbelly, Cowgate

2–26 August 2018

Man Down

Hannah Trujillo

CalArts Festival Theater

Venue 13

4–25 August 2018

The March

Beth Pollard

Liminal Theatre Productions

theSpace on the Mile

20–25 August 2018

Marie

House of Mirth

Assembly Rooms

2–27 August 2018

The Marilyn Conspiracy

Vicki McKellar and Guy Masterson

Theatre Tours International

Assembly George Square Studios

2–27 August 2018

Mark Thomas – Check Up: Our NHS at 70

Mark Thomas

Traverse Theatre

4–26 August 2018

Mark Watson: The Infinite Show

Mark Watson

Pleasance Courtyard

2–27 August 2018

Maureen Lipman Is ‘Up for It’

Maureen Lipman

Assembly George Square Theatre

3–12 August 2018

May I Speak About Dance?

Boaz Barkan

Wildtopia/Boaz Barkan

Summerhall

1–12 August 2018

Maz and Bricks

Eva O'Connor

Fishamble

Summerhall

2–26 August 2018

Meek

Penelope Skinner

Headlong

Traverse Theatre

4–26 August 2018

Mengele

Philip Wharam & Tim Marriott

Smokescreen Productions

Assembly George Square Theatre

2–26 August 2018

Messages Deleted

air field collective

Dance Base

18 August 2018

Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

Boxedin Productions

theSpace @ Symposium Hall

8–19 August 2018

Mindful Disco

Zen Gwen

Scottish Storytelling Centre

8–17 August 2018

Mistero Buffo

Dario Fo

Rhum and Clay Theatre Company

Underbelly, Cowgate

2–26 August 2018

The Moira Monologues

Alan Bissett

Bissett / Kyle Productions

Scottish Storytelling Centre

3–11 August 2018

More Moira Monologues

Alan Bissett

Bissett / Kyle Productions

Scottish Storytelling Centre

1–11 August 2018

Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare

Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company

theSpace @ Niddry St

20–26 August 2018

Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare

Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group

The Royal Scots Club

1–11 August 2018

My Kind of Michael

Nick Cassenbaum and Danny Braverman

Nick Cassenbaum and Sian Baxter

Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

My Land

Bence Vagi

Recirquel

Assembly Roxy

1–29 August 2018

My Left Right Foot – The Musical

Robert Softly Gale with music by Scott Gilmour and Claire Mckenzie

National Theatre of Scotland in collaboration with Birds of Paradise

Assembly Roxy

1–27 August 2018

The Myth of the Singular Moment

Jim Harbourne

Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

A Necessary Woman

Deborah Clair and Philippa Urquhart

Clair Obscur

Sweet Grassmarket

20–26 August 2018

Lizzie Muncey, Marie Lawrence, Jake Ferretti and Sam Newton

Nigel Slater's Toast

Henry Filloux-Bennett

The Lowry

Traverse Theatre

3–26 August 2018

Nina Conti is Monkey

Nina Conti

Underbelly, Bristo Square

2–27 August 2018

Jessica Clark as Nina and Rob Auton as Chris

Nina's Got News

Frank Skinner

Pleasance Dome

2–27 August 2018

No Kids

Nir Paldi and George Mann

Ad Infinitum

Pleasance Courtyard

1–27 August 2018

Not Yet Suffragette

Entreprenher in association with Eastlake Productions

Underbelly, Bristo Square

1–27 August 2018

Off-Kilter

Ramesh Meyyappan

Ramesh Mayyappan / Tron Theatre / Theatreworks

Dance Base

3–26 August 2018

On the Exhale

Martin Zimmerman

Traverse Theatre

3–26 August 2018

Onstage Dating

Bron Batten

Underbelly, Cowgate

6–26 August 2018

Orlando

Written and directed by Elton Townend Jones

Dyad Productions

Assembly Roxy

4–27 August 2018

Our Man in Havana

Spies Like Us in association with Pleasance

Pleasance Courtyard

21–27 August 2018

Out of the Blue

Assembly George Square Theatre

1–29 August 2018

Owen O'Neill: Ten Songs to Die For

Owen O'Neill

Assembly Rooms

2–25 August 2018

Paradiso

Our Theatre

ZOO Charteris

19–27 August 2018

The Penniless Optimist

Eliot Mann

theSpace on the Mile

13–25 August 2018

Picasso's Women

Brian McAvera

The Fruitmarket Gallery

13–26 August 2018

Pickle Jar

Maddie Rice

Underbelly, Cowgate

2–26 August 2018

The Political History of Smack and Crack

Ed Edwards

Most Wanted

Roundabout @ Summerhall

3–26 August 2018

Portraits in Motion

Volker Gerling

Aurora Nova

Summerhall

1–25 August 2018

Power Play: The Empty Chair

Polly Creed

Power Play Theatre

Pleasance Pop-Up: Power Play HQ

3–25 August 2018

Prehistoric

Marcel Dorney

Elbow Room

Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

Providence

Dominic Allen and Simon Maeder

Assembly Rooms

2–25 August 2018

Pussy Riot: Riot Days

Pussy Riot

Summerhall

10–19 August 2018

The Red Shoes

Jo Billington and Will Feasey with Tim Norton, music by Ned Bennett

Young Pleasance

Pleasance Courtyard

3–18 August 2018

Reginald D Hunter: An American Facing the Beast and Niggas

Reginald D Hunter

Pleasance at EICC

2–26 August 2018

Reigen

Arthur Schnitzler / Ada Gunther

Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club

theSpace @ Venue45

15–25 August 2018

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Adapted by Stephanie Street from Mohsin Hamid's novel

National Youth Theatre

Summerhall

14–26 August 2018

Revelations

James Rowland

Summerhall

14–26 August 2018

Ripper

Sean Climie

Z Theatre Company (Hull University)

theSpace @ Venue45

9–18 August 2018

A Romantic's Guide to the Apocalypse: A New Musical

Huw Smallwood

Reading University Dramatic Society

theSpace on North Bridge

13–18 August 2018

Rootless

The Rootless Company

LifeCare Edinburgh

18–25 August 2018

Réversible

The 7 Fingers

Assembly Rooms

2–26 August 2018

The Sauna

Teatteri Metamorfoosi

Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

The Sensemaker and Drop the Gogo

Elsa Couvreur

Woman's Move

ZOO Charteris

3–11 August 2018

Shakespeare for Breakfast

C theatre

1–27 August 2018

Shakespeare in the Garden: As You Like It

William Shakespeare

C theatre

C south

1–27 August 2018

Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Hamlet

William Shakespeare

Magnificent Bastard Productions Ltd

Underbelly, Bristo Square

6–27 August 2018

Silence

Teatr Biuro Podrozy

Pleasance at EICC

3–26 August 2018

Simon Callow in De Profundis

Oscar Wilde

Assembly Rooms

3–26 August 2018

Sirens

Zoo Co

Pleasance Courtyard

2–26 August 2018

Sitting

Katherine Parkinson

Gilded Balloon Teviot

2–26 August 2018

The Song of Lunch

Christopher Reid

Pleasance Courtyard

1–26 August 2018

South Bend

Martin McCormick

Grid Iron

Gilded Balloon at the Museum

1–27 August 2018

The Spider Glass

Craig Malpass

The Big I Am

theSpaceTriplex

3–25 August 2018

The Spinners

Lina Limosani Projects and Al Seed Productions

Dance Base

3–19 August 2018

Square Go

Kieran Hurley and Gary McNair

Roundabout @ Summerhall

3–26 August 2018

Status

Chris Thorpe

Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

Sticks and Stones

Vinay Patel

Paines Plough & Theatr Clwyd

Roundabout @ Summerhall

9–24 August 2018

The Straw Man

Ross Ericson

Grist To The Mill Productions Ltd

Assembly Rooms

2–25 August 2018

A Substitute for Life

Simon Brett

Assembly Hall

2–27 August 2018

Taiwan Season: Varhung – Heart to Heart

Tjimur Dance Theatre

Dance Base

2–26 August 2018

That Bastard Brecht

David Dunn

Nuworks: Theatre Made in Australia

Paradise in Augustines

13–25 August 2018

That Woman! Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

Scott Smith

Fringe Management, Howard Gluss and Sharon Morrill

Gilded Balloon Teviot

1–27 August 2018

Thin Air

Temenos Theatre

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court

3–9 August 2018

This Is the Title

Ima Iduozee

Ima Iduozee in association with From Start to Finnish

Dance Base

3–19 August 2018

Tibetan Monks Sacred Dance

Tibetan Monks from Tashi Llunpo Monastry

Quaker Meeting House

6–22 August 2018

The Time Machine

The Scientific Romance Theatre Company

Scottish Storytelling Centre

2–19 August 2018

To Have Done With the Judgement of God

Antonin Artaud

Fear No Colours

C too

2–27 August 2018

Tobacco Road

Incognito Theatre Company

Pleasance Courtyard

3–27 August 2018

Toujours et Près de Moi

Patrick Eakin Young

Erratica

Assembly Roxy

2–27 August 2018

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

Cheam Drama Company

6–11 August 2018

Tremor

Brad Birch

Sherman Cymru

Roundabout @ Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

Trojan Horse

Helen Monks and Matt Woodhead

Lung

Summerhall

1–27 August 2018

Trump Lear

David Carl

Project Y Theatre Company / Richard Jordan Productions in association with The Pleasance

Pleasance Courtyard

3–27 August 2018

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

Box Tale Soup

Underbelly, Cowgate

2–26 August 2018

Darrell D’Silva, Lucianne McEvoy, Robert Jack

Ulster American

David Ireland

Traverse Theatre Company

Traverse Theatre

3–26 August 2018

The Unbinding

Wrong Shoes Theatre Company

C cubed

4–11 August 2018

Underground Railroad Game

Jennifer Kidwell, Lightning Rod Special and Scott Sheppard

Curious Theatre Company

Traverse Theatre

4–26 August 2018

Unsung

Valentijn Dhaenens

Big in Belgium

Summerhall

2–26 August 2018

Until You Hear That Bell

Sean Mahoney

Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

Urban Death

Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group

Sweet Grassmarket

2–26 August 2018

Vivian’s Music, 1969

Monica Bauer

Good Works Productions

Sweet Grassmarket

2–25 August 2018

Void

Mele Broomes

MHz and V/DA with Feral

Summerhall

14–26 August 2018

War With The Newts

Karel Čapek

Knaïve Theatre

Summerhall

1–26 August 2018

The Wardrobe

Sam Holcroft

Wellington Theatre Company

theSpace on the Mile

2–7 August 2018

What Girls Are Made of

Cora Bissett

Traverse Theatre Company

Traverse Theatre

4–26 August 2018

Where the Hell is Bernard?

Haste Theatre

Assembly George Square Studios

3–27 August 2018

Wired

Lesley Wilson

Army @ the Fringe in Association with Summerhall

10–25 August 2018

The Woman and the Canvas

Theatre Re and Fourth Monkey

theSpaceTriplex

3–11 August 2018

Women Aren't Funny

Joey Fitzpatrick

Z Theatre Company (Hull University)

theSpace @ Venue45

9–18 August 2018

Woodbine Willie: Poet and Padre

David Robinson

Searchlight Theatre

Greenside @ Nicolson Square

3–16 August 2018

Woyzeck

Adapted from Georg Büchner by Ollie Norton-Smith and Hamish Lloyd Barnes

Spies Like Us

Pleasance Dome

1–27 August 2018

Your Alice

Billie Aken-Tyers

Ophelia Theatre Group and Pink House Productions

Greenside @ Nicolson Square

20–25 August 2018

Your Bard

Nicholas Collett

Assembly Hall

2–27 August 2018

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