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How To Live To 100
David Hoare, a one-liner musical stand-up comedian and Musical Comedy Awards Audience Favourite 2021, brings his latest Edinburgh Fringe show to Nicolson Square. Having missed the previous year's Fringe to attend his partner's grandfather's 100th birthday party, David explores...
How's Your Head?
How's Your Head? is a debut stand-up show written and performed by Aarian Mehrabani, co-writer and performer of the theatre production IT'S A MOTHERF**KING PLEASURE. Drawing on his experiences as a Brown, Blind, and Bi performer and his 2024 diagnosis of aggressive brain cancer...
Hysterical Soprano
Hysterical Soprano is a solo operatic comedy show written and performed by Georgina Thomas, one half of sketch duo Thick 'n' Fast, in her solo debut. Thomas, a classically trained coloratura soprano with credits including the BBC Proms and Alban the Opera, plays a character...
I AM JOHNNY
I AM JOHNNY is the debut solo theatre show from acclaimed actor and theatremaker Tessa Parr, who creates and performs the character of Johnny the Biblical Rapper, a white male 30-something poet-manchild navigating the world from a place of vulnerability. The show is a comedic...
In a Bad Way
Gr is sick. With what, she's not sure. Blood clots, maybe? Foreign Accent Syndrome, possibly? Bum cancer most definitely; the ginger one from Desperate Housewives has it, like. In a GP in Dublin, she's with the Doctor (for the fifth time this month) and she won't rest until she...
In A Bad Way
In A Bad Way is a fast-paced, darkly comedic one-woman show written and performed by Irish playwright Isolde Fenton, exploring health anxiety and the lengths people go to in search of certainty. The play follows Grá, a young Limerick woman, who returns to a GP surgery on Dame...
In the Black
The gripping dark comedy of an ambitious Black accountant fighting for a seat at the table in the high-stakes world of Wall Street. Shortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award, the show follows a man torn between love, family expectations, and the relentless pursuit of success, as...
Is it too late now to say sorry?
Award-winning theatremaker Adam Lenson presents a solo show fusing storytelling, music, memoir, and journalistic exposé, exploring the way we apologise, the pain we carry, and the opportunities for healing. Moving from synagogue to school playground, social media spats to family...
It's The Economy, Stupid!
It's The Economy, Stupid! is a critically acclaimed political comedy performed by Joe Sellman-Leava, returning to Pleasance for a run in 2026.
Jack Rooke: Good Grief
BAFTA winner Jack Rooke, creator of Hulu/C4's Big Boys, revives and updates his debut show a decade on from its first Fringe run. The show is part of Underbelly's 2026 Edinburgh Fringe comedy programme.
Jake Baker: The Gentle Men's Club
Comedian Jake Baker returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a show examining masculinity and offering a gentler approach to modern manhood. Prompted by the rise of hyper-masculine influencers, the show tackles the flawed logic of tech billionaires, debunked wolf pack...
Jellyfish
Jellyfish is a hilarious yet deeply disturbing dystopian disco two-hander that explores society's growing obsession with anti-ageing, longevity, and the impossible promise of eternal youth. The show runs daily except the 18th at 12:15pm.
JULIUS CAESAR VARIETY SHOW
Writer-director Joy Nesbitt presents the UK premiere of her multi-award-nominated play at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026. Set during the 2023 Dublin riot, a Black actor, a woman actor, and a straight white male actor audition for a part in Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius...
KEVIN!!!!!
Recent Cutbacks presents the UK premiere of KEVIN!!!!!, a live, shot-for-shot parody of the greatest Christmas movie of all time. The show is part of Recent Cutbacks' triple bill feature at Pleasance in August 2026. Recent Cutbacks is a creative ensemble known for their live...
Kirsty Mann: Corpse
Corpse is a one-woman show blending comedy, campfire-style storytelling and horror, based on a true story of a haunting experienced by writer and performer Kirsty Mann. A young couple buy their dream home at a suspiciously low price, only for strange occurrences to escalate...
Kobold Show!
Kobold Show! is a five-clown physical theatre comedy about community, collaboration, and being a weird little freak, created and directed by David Andrew Laws. A troupe of kobolds — small, lizard-like creatures from myth and tabletop gaming lore — stumble through a world of...
LANDSFRAU هموطن
LANDSFRAU هموطن is an autofictional performance blending music, choreography and poetry, created and performed by German-Afghan actress Mariann Yar. The piece follows Ariana, a woman in the diaspora grappling with the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, tracing her reckoning...
LAUGHING OUT LONELY (LOL)
Laughing Out Lonely (LOL) is a genre-defying opera created by Copenhagen-based company OPE-N that transforms real social media posts into an immersive live experience. Performed by countertenor Morten Grove Frandsen, the work explores modern isolation in a hyperconnected world...
Legend
Legend is the debut stand-up comedy show from Madeleine Brettingham, winner of So You Think You're Funny? 2025 and silver medallist at Funny Women in the same year. Fuelled by pork scratchings and a lust for glory, Brettingham explores what growing up in a world of booze-soaked...
Letters to Joan – A Lovely New Play
Letters to Joan is a new play written and performed by Samantha Streit, with Kevin Cahill, directed by Jessica Whiley. When a granddaughter uncovers a box of forgotten love letters, she finds herself slipping between a 1956 Brooklyn summer and a present-day American diner...
Long Way Home
Layla, an Iranian refugee, escapes war and rebuilds herself in American television. But when her dream begins to fracture, the past she once fled quietly returns. Long Way Home is a solo performance blending humour, storytelling and cultural insight. Tracing the distance between...
MAN!FEST: THE DRAG BOYBAND MUSICAL
MAN!FEST: THE DRAG BOYBAND MUSICAL is a riotous drag musical presented by OnTheNose Productions, Chichester Festival Theatre and Pleasance, following the world's biggest boyband whose members are played entirely by women. The show follows Ash, Ewan, Cody, and Ruben as the cracks...
Max Fulham: Memory Foam
Memory Foam is a new hour of comedy, chaos and ventriloquism from Max Fulham, blending stand-up, sketches, audience interaction and a cast of puppet characters. Fulham rummages through memories, family history and forgotten objects, featuring eccentric characters including a...
Meet Mayor Max
Meet Mayor Max is the extraordinary true story of a small-town American mayor who happens to be a golden retriever. Part documentary theatre, part heartfelt road trip, the production follows a British playwright travelling to Idyllwild, California, to meet the world-famous...
Meteors
Meteors is a one-woman autobiographical show written and performed by Melissa Pullinger, tracing the messy, non-linear aftermath of losing her mother at age 20 to a rare and aggressive melanoma. The show spans the full spectrum of grief, from diagnosis to funeral to the...
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Antigone 1989: A Town Hall Musical Gilded Balloon Patter House (8/05-8/29) |
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Overtone Pleasance (Jack Dome) (8/05-8/30) |
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It Couldn’t Get Worse; or, The Margarita Boat Tour Incident Venue 45 at theSpace (8/24-8/29) |
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Giraffe Pleasance Courtyard (Cellar) (8/05-8/31) |
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Tale of the Firebird Assembly Roxy (Central) (8/06-8/30) |
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Chris Grace: 88% Assembly George Square (8/05-8/31) |
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Spin Cycle Underbelly (Clover) (8/05-8/31) |
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Richard Ashcroft Revived My Libido Gilded Balloon Teviot (8/05-8/30) |
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Disney''s Muppet Christmas Carol in Concert Usher Hall (12/03-12/03) |
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Woodcutter Triplex Studio @theSpaceUK (Venue 38) (8/07-8/29) |