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Let Be, Hamlet
A 20-minute reimagining of Shakespeare's Hamlet, set within a Zoom audition. A young actor prepares for a callback while the boundaries between audition and reality begin to blur, as the pressure to perform becomes a voice of its own. Drawing from Hamlet's struggle with doubt...
Linus Karp Was Hit With An Umbrella
A solo show written and performed by Linus Karp, inspired by a real-life homophobic attack against him in Soho, London in July 2024, when he was struck across the head with an umbrella and subjected to homophobic slurs. The show follows the aftermath of the incident, including...
Linus Karp Was Hit With An Umbrella
Written and performed by Linus Karp, this solo show is presented by Awkward Prods, Eric Kuhn Productions, Side Hustle Productions, Daddy's Money and David Tao. Inspired by a homophobic attack Karp experienced in Soho, London in July 2024, the show explores the aftermath of hate...
Lions
Lions is a comedy clown show and deconstructed eulogy about the deaths of the fathers of its two co-writers and performers, Scott R. Sheppard and Alice Yorke, directed and developed by Sarah Blush. Both Sheppard and Yorke lost their fathers in sudden and unexpected ways within...
LITTLE ANIMALS
Little Animals is a world premiere one-man show conceived, written and performed by Paul Ready, directed by Caroline Steinbeis, produced by Fern Culture co-produced by Pentabus in association with Gulbenkian Arts Centre. The show follows a man attending his friend Richard's...
Little Pink Dress
Little Pink Dress is a solo country-rock musical memoir written and performed by Joey Jennings. The show blends an original country-rock score with theatrical storytelling to explore growing up LGBTQ+, addiction, family, and the journey towards self-acceptance. Joey spent six...
Lt Love Dr's Boot Camp for Lonely People Like You
Lt Love Dr's Boot Camp for Lonely People Like You follows Lt Love Dr Hotty McTotty, a futuristic soldier who has travelled back in time from 2075 on a mission to revive human connection. The show is an interactive, character-driven comedy in which audiences are guided through a...
Ludwig: Unfinished Business
Based on the available information, Ludwig: Unfinished Business is presented by Guy Masterson and Theatre Tours International at the Assembly Rooms Front Room on George Street, running August 6–30 as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The production runs 60 minutes and is...
M.I.S. – ALL NIGHT LONG
M.I.S. – ALL NIGHT LONG is a high-energy dance theatre show from Danish company DON GNU, founded by choreographers Jannik Elkær and Kristoffer Louis Andrup. A sold-out sensation on its original Edinburgh Fringe run, the show revisits modern masculinity through physical theatre...
Maia Tassalini: I Was 22 and Stunning
Maia Tassalini brings her debut hour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, using Monica Lewinsky as both muse and mirror to trace one woman's lifelong obsession with the most publicly humiliated woman of the 1990s. Blending stand-up, cultural criticism and theatrical confession, the...
Man or Bear
Man or Bear is a fast-moving, darkly comic new play about fear, friendship and survival inspired by the viral question: Would you rather be alone in the woods with a man or a bear? Blending kitchen sink realism, music and bold physical sequences, it follows three generations of...
Marc Burrows: The Ten Best Songs of All Time
Marc Burrows, music journalist, musician, and award-winning author, presents an updated version of his most personal show, counting down the ten greatest records in history authoritatively, definitively, and almost certainly incorrectly. The show sits between cultural commentary...
Mark Thomas: 40 In Stand Up Years
What?! Mark Thomas has been ‘standing up’ for 40 years? Impossible!! But how old does that make you…? Alas it is true; one of our oldest surviving alternative comics celebrates 40 years at the mic. So, here’s what he has done so far in numbers; performed comedy for 40 years, won...
Matt Forde's Political Party
Building on his acclaimed West End Political Party podcast residency, Matt Forde returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to record three live episodes of his podcast, with guests to be announced. With over 11 million downloads, Matt Forde's Political Party has earned multiple...
Mayflies
Grid Iron Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of Mayflies, an adaptation of Andrew O'Hagan's novel of the same title, staged at Brown's of Leith, a former metal works, as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The play is a tale of 80s youth and facing mortality in...
MCU: Musical Comedians Unite!
MCU: Musical Comedians Unite! is Edinburgh's first musical comedy line-up night, hosted by Alexis Sakellaris and running throughout the Fringe. The night showcases the Fringe's most exciting musical comedians, featuring original songs, parodies, rap, and more from a rotating mix...
Megasquirt: Fully Loaded
Megasquirt: Fully Loaded is an experimental comedy concert show blending original songs, audience interaction, and sketch comedy, created and performed by Ashley Blair and Drew Reilly. Inspired by hardcore punk, hyperpop, and dubstep, the show explores the modern existential...
Milo Edwards: Catamaran
Milo Edwards brings his latest stand-up hour, Catamaran, to the Edinburgh Fringe. In 2025, Milo found a box of letters from the 1980s in the back of his late mother's wardrobe, and the show explores love, death, and what a human life leaves behind. Edwards, a critically...
Most of My Moms Are Gay
Most of My Moms Are Gay is an original comedy musical written and performed by Abby Goldfarb, a native New Yorker and self-proclaimed ingéjew who is the daughter of five mothers, mostly lesbians. The show blends storytelling and 13 original songs to explore identity, family...
Mother Succubus
Katie Norris returns to the Fringe following her Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination for Best Show, delivering her signature style of chaotic comedy, delightfully silly songs and pitch perfect vocals. A previous winner of Best Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival Awards 2025 and...
Mother, Superior
Mother, Superior combines stand-up, storytelling, and interactive game show as NYC comedian Michael John Ciszewski petitions the Vatican to make his living mother an immortal saint in exactly one hour. Performed in Edinburgh's Bedlam Theatre, the show sees Ciszewski plead his...
Mothman: A Romance Musical
Mothman: A Romance Musical is a collaborative debut from alternative comedians Alex Franklin and Nikola McMurtrie, set in a world where a super soldier experiment goes awry and a moth mutates into a Mothman. The story follows a trio of monster-hunting friends stumbling through...
MRS. STERN WANDERS THE PRUSSIAN STATE LIBRARY
Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library is the European premiere of a play by Jenny Lyn Bader, directed by Ari Laura Kreith, presented by Luna Stage and Richard Jordan Productions with Traverse Theatre. Set in 1933 Berlin, the play is inspired by the real-life arrest of...
My Grandpa Doesn't Follow Me On Instagram: A Guide To Trans-generational Road-Tripping
Trans storyteller Yoz Mensch combines heartwarming bonding experiences and clowning to immortalise a personal road trip from Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands taken with her grandfather, featuring real footage of the Instagram stories she posted along the way. Multi-rolling as...
Nesting
In a darkly comic and absurd exploration of love, death and duty, a seagull attempts to coax a man diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease to relinquish his body and grant him eternal peace. This four-hander follows Francis, a man caged in his home with a devastating diagnosis, as...
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Antigone 1989: A Town Hall Musical Gilded Balloon Patter House (8/05-8/29) |
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Mark Thomas: 40 In Stand Up Years The Stand 1 (9/23-9/23) |
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Spin Cycle Underbelly (Clover) (8/05-8/31) |
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A Costume Drama ZOO (Playground 3) (8/07-8/30) |
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A Better Memory The Green at Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) (8/05-8/30) |
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Argonauts ZOO (Playground 2) (8/07-8/30) |
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Learning to Human Gilded Balloon Teviot (8/05-8/30) |
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Roomies Underbelly (Jersey) (8/05-8/31) |
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Operotica: Lovers in Every Lifetime Underbelly Bristo Square (8/05-8/30) |
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Target Audience Pleasance Courtyard (Above) (8/05-8/30) |