Tag: Fringe 2026
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Amy Matthews: Definitions of Toast
Amy Matthews takes on heavy subjects with aplomb, in this tightly structured set
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Review: Lizzy Hoo – Says Hoo?
Lizzy Hoo delivers a polished hour with outstanding writing and delivery
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Review: Skank Sinatra: How to Succeed in Show Business Without Really Trying
Despite technical talent, Jens Radda could deliver something fresher in future
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Kids Review: The Mystery of Pleasance Two
Lyra, ten, enjoys the murder mystery show The Mystery of Pleasance Two
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Review: Salty Brine: HOW STRANGE IT IS (The Neutral Milk Hotel Show)
Cabaret artist Salty Brine takes audiences on a wild, sprawling and sometimes confusing journey
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Review: Dracula: Lucy’s Dream
Plexus Polaire’s moving Dracula adaptation perfectly combines past and present
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Review: Nate Kitch: Replica
Nate Kitch delivers an hour of jazz-inspired deconstructionist, experimental comedy
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Kids review: The Listies 110% Ready
We take Oran (8), Eric (8) and Jimmy (11) to The Listies: 110% Ready
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Review: Matthew Gallagher: Last Minute
Scattergun hour is delivered with commitment and energy but lacks focus
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Review: Patient 13
Gail Thomas’s charming autobiographical drama is a play of two rather disparate halves
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Review: Tamsyn Kelly: Rat’s Ass
Crucial, well observed and all-too contemporary stand-up hour hails Tamsyn Kelly as one to watch
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Kids Review: Madame Chandelier’s Grand Theft Opera
Alvie, aged five, is impressed with Delea Shand’s cool giant butterfly wings
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Review: Jennifer Jane: Happy Tea
Jennifer Jane is an extraordinary person telling an extraordinary story, in no-frills fashion
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Review: Joseph Morpurgo: Highlander 70
Joseph Morpurgo’s long-awaited Fringe return is a comedy masterclass
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Review: Metroland Live: As Seen On TV
Metroland start strong and fizzle out with the TV-themed follow-up to their debut
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Review: Man Sings Same Song Over and Over Again for an Hour
Man Sings Same Song Over and Over Again for an Hour does exactly what it says on the tin
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Review: Sapphire McIntosh: Squeaky Bum Time
Ex-footballer Sapphire McIntosh delivers a confident stand-up debut that nevertheless isn’t quite a clean strike
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Cover Story: Kemah Bob on Love Child
Comedian Kemah Bob on the trials of growing up, inheritance, and following up their hit debut hour
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Review: B48Y Crash Lands on Earth!
Lukas Meintjes’ camp clowning show sees an alien crash land into a gay nightclub
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Review: Sami Abu Wardeh Hates You
For his sophomore show, Sami Abu Wardeh offers a personal hour exploring his family and upbringing
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Review: Jess Fuchs: Feral
Jess Fuchs archly engages with the regressive impulses of the post-feminist moment
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Review: Rory Marshall: Thank You for the Opportunity
Rory Marshall goes broad with characters that lack a sharper, more defined edge
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Review: Boys Don’t Dance
Marc Brew’s Boys Don’t Dance approaches storytelling, movement and a vibrant 80s soundtrack with inclusivity
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Review: Ifrah Qureshi: 48 Flaws of Power
Ifrah Qureshi’s debut Fringe hour engages with one of the manosphere’s canonical texts
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Review: Amanda Dwyer: Better Than Revenge
Amanda Dwyer’s debut show flips easy survivor narratives on their head for a caustic, complicated hour
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Review: Eva Peroni: Jungled
Potently leftist yet politically incorrect, Eva Peroni’s gleeful bravado glosses over the young comic’s contradictions
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Review: Sophie Duker: Hot Beef Injection
Sophie Duker offers a fresh and charming voice to the discourse on male loneliness
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Review: Jonathan Oldfield: Exquisite Corpse
Jonathan Oldfield’s unpredictable debut show stitches together sketch comedy gold
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Review: UNDERGROUND MONK SHOW
Four monks discover the power of water in this miraculously silly cult favourite sketch show
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Review: Mrs Stern Wanders The Prussian State Library
A tense exploration of anti-Semitism in the totalitarian Nazi state is let down by the toothless characterisation of one of its villains
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Review: Kate Hammer: Government Approved Comedian
Kate Hammer’s frantic Fringe debut is themed around the bureaucratically taxing process of visa applications
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Review: Gareth Mutch Means Well
Even Gareth Mutch’s natural talent and likability can’t save a poorly defined and under-developed show
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Review: 11½ Angry Men
Despite a stacked comedic cast, a weak script leads to a lacklustre overall performance
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Review: Depths of Wikipedia
Annie Rauwerda turns her popular Instagram account @depthsofwikipedia into a fully-fledged comedy show
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Review: Sid Singh: Love Bombing
Sid Singh reflects on the role of political comedy amid global crisis in an earnest, likeable hour
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Review: How to Art
This absurdist art world satire riffs off of Maurizio Cattelan’s infamous banana stunt to mixed effect
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Review: Prophets
Prophets examines oppression and abuse of power within religious cults, but adds little to the conversation
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Review: Jack Brookmyre: Impressionable
Jack Brookmyre offers up whip-smart storytelling, savvy observations and caustic gags
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Review: PLASTIC
Minyoung Kim crafts a startlingly cinematic musical journey deep into ancient pasts and visionary futures
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Review: Chris Rutter: Ignorance Is Chris
Chris Rutter’s debut set is calmly delivered, full of solid gags with similar beats
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Review: Demi Adejuyigbe Sells Out
Demi Adejuyigbe delivers a skilful hour with super sharp comebacks and chaotic energy
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Review: Target Audience
A live wire cast does much of the heavy lifting in this tame critique of corporate interests and careerism
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Review: Harriet Richardson: Creep
The debut stand-up show from performance artist Harriet Richardson tackles parasocial relationships head-on
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Review: House Fly
An unstoppably silly, gleeful fly-drag show from clown Tess O’Shea
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Review: Emmeline Downie: Gail
An unsparing portrait of a certain kind of lost soul, which errs towards middle-class misery over mirth
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Review: Patrick Monahan: I’m Not A Terrorist – I’m Freddie Mercury
Patrick Monahan hints at a hard-hitting show with personal tales but ultimately keeps things light
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Review: Rob Preston: Amazing Global Solutions
Rob Preston offers up delightfully deranged musings on the sex recession and parodies of masculinity which push cliches to farcical limits
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Review: Susie McCabe: Coming of Rage
Susie McCabe’s stand-up hour Coming of Rage promises anger but delivers comfortable laughter
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Review: Kate Dolan: Trout
Kate Dolan yearns for devolution in a high-key stand-up hour with depth
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Interview: Madame Chandelier on Grand Theft Opera
Delea Shand on her new family show, a video-game styled spectacle featuring opera’s greatest heroines
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Interview: Fringe Comedians on Turning 30
Even at 30, many of us are wondering why we’re still waiting for our lives to start. We speak to five comedians about feeling priced out of growing up
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Interview: Michael Hockey and Yngvild Aspeli
Michael Hockey and Yngvild Aspeli on their respective shows that re-animate Gothic tales with the help of puppetry, and why Frankenstein and Dracula continue to fascinate us
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Interview: Minyoung Kim
Composer, vocalist and geomungo player Minyoung Kim on her solo show PLASTIC, which harnesses the material’s metaphorising potential
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Interview: Mari Moriarty on Fempaths
Mari Moriarty talks Fempaths: Transistor Radio Hour, her high frequency queer cabaret
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Interview: Lucy Buncombe, Tom O’Kelly, Alex Pritchett and Emma Howlett
Lucy Buncombe, Tom O’Kelly, Alex Pritchett and Emma Howlett discuss their shows Remember, Remember! and The Plot, which each take a different approach to the Gunpowder Plot
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Interview: Stand-up Comedians and their Directors
What exactly is a standup comedy director? Si Hawkins speaks to a trio of comedians and their directors to find out
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Interview: Madeleine Brettingham
After a successful career in writers’ rooms, Madeleine Brettingham prepares for her stand-up debut about being raised a geezer
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Interview: Sauna Theatre
Sauna Theatre co-founders James Grieve and Lucy Osborne on their Swedish-inspired experiment to blend sauna with live performance
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Interview: Kate Dolan
Following a Bestie win for last year’s The Critic, Kate Dolan is back with an altogether deeper stand-up hour
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Interview: Rickerby Hinds on Blackbox
Rickerby Hinds tells us about his new play, disguised as a magic show, about the life of Henry ‘Box’ Brown
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Interview: The Stand Five Comedians Prepare to Debut
Chris Rutter, Ifrah Qureshi, Matthew Gallagher, Amanda Dwyer and Jack Brookmyre on being the inaugural recipients of The Stand’s new sponsorship scheme
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Interview: Andrew O’Hagan and Ben Harrison on Mayflies
Author Andrew O’Hagan and theatre director Ben Harrison on staging their Mayflies adaptation inside a former Leith metalworks
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Edinburgh fringe 2026 – Top Picks: Kids
Whatever the family favours, there’s something for everyone at this year’s Fringe
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Interview: Catherine Taaffe and Harriet Richardson on Limerence
Catherine Taaffe and Harriet Richardson discuss their Fringe shows dealing with the dizzying heights and crushing lows of romantic infatuation
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: Emanuele Aldrovandi
Italian playwright, screenwriter and director Emanuele Aldrovandi discusses his new participatory theatre work coming to the Fringe
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: Sid Singh
Comedian Sid Singh discusses his new show Love Bombing, about his date with a stalker
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: Mark McAuley
As he brings a new adaptation of Gogol’s Diary of a Mad Man to the Fringe, Mark McAuley discusses mental health and modern loneliness
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Callum Patrick Hughes’ Day of the Locust Mixtape
Multi-instrumentalist Callum Patrick Hughes’ Fringe show reimagines Nathanael West’s 1930 novel for a musical reflection on contemporary America
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Opinion: Give us a fair cut
Writer, producer and clown Lukas Meintjes advocates for establishing a practical standard for venue deals in independent performing arts
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Yoz Mensch’s Queer Roadtrip Mixtape
Yoz Mensch selects The Muppets and SOPHIE for the unofficial soundtrack of My Grandpa Doesn’t Follow Me On Instagram
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Flo & Joan’s Andrew Lloyd Webber Mixtape
Ahead of their Andrew Lloyd Webber-themed Fringe show ‘One Man Musical’, Flo & Joan curate a Fest mixtape
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: Mario Adrion
Comedian, content creator and former model Mario Adrion discusses his Zoolander-meets-Baby-Reindeer debut show
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‘Margaret Thatcher’s’ Hollywood Mixtape
Matt Tedford, in character as Margaret Thatcher, picks tracks featured in major motion pictures.
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: Mike Wozniak
Mike Wozniak, the comedian seen on Taskmaster and heard on the Three Bean Salad podcast, answers our Fringe Q&A
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John-Luke Roberts Existential Crisis Mixtape
Returning to the Fringe with his first new show in four years, JLR picks songs for stewing on mortality.
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: Charlotte Merriam
Charlotte Merriam discusses her new show Sad Bride, the wedding industrial complex, and comphet
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Lil Wenker’s BOYKING Mixtape
American clown Lil Wenker curates a power-hungry playlist
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: Li Jin Hao
After his breakthrough hour Swimming In A Submarine debuted in 2024, the comedian returns with Falling From a Moon
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Andrew Doherty’s Underrated Bangers Mixtape
Andrew Doherty selects underrated bangers from Fleur East and Sugababes ahead of his 2026 Fringe show
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: Molly-Rose Treves and Gabriel Fogarty-Graveson
The Dream Machine cast members Molly-Rose Treves and Gabriel Fogarty-Graveson talk improv and their picks of the Fringe
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Brit Barron’s CHURCH Mixtape
Brit Barron compiles the tracks which inspired her gospel-comedy crossover CHURCH.
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: Hadsan Mohamud
Writer and performer Hadsan Mohamud discusses her play CRUSH: a teen love story set in an eating disorder clinic
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Hannah Byczkowski’s Killer Mixtape
‘The Traitors’ winner Hannah Byczkowski provides an unofficial soundtrack to her death-themed debut
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: Maria Bartholdi
Ahead of Endometriosis: The Musical’s Fringe run, co-creator Maria Bartholdi discusses women’s health and the US political landscape
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Conk’s Constant Repeat Mixtape
Conk’s 2026 Fringe show is titled “Man Sings the Same Song Over and Over Again for an Hour”. To celebrate, he picks a song to put on constant repeat.
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Jack J and John’s Geordie Icons: A Metroland Mixtape
Jack J and John from comedy group Metroland curate a playlist of Geordie legends, from Mark Knopfler to Sam Fender
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Cheeyang Ng’s Legendary Mixtape
Cheeyang Ng selects Sara Bareilles, Lady Gaga, and themself.