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Bilal Zafar: Rubicon

Aug 5 – Aug 30, 2026

Bilal Zafar, Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer Nominee and winner of The Hackney Empire Competition, brings their latest Edinburgh Fringe show Rubicon to the stage. Part stand-up, part gameshow, the show draws inspiration from the popular drink Rubicon while exploring issues...

Linus Karp Was Hit With An Umbrella

Aug 5 – Aug 30, 2026

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...

Operotica: Lovers in Every Lifetime

Operotica: Lovers in Every Lifetime

Aug 5 – Aug 30, 2026

Operotica: The UK's premier kinky opera duo. Classically trained, fetish-approved and, as of yesterday, dead. Their bodies are cold, but their spirits are restless. Join psychic extraordinaire Sayonc for a journey through Operotica's many past lives. From star-crossed nuns to...

Georgina Thomas: Hysterical Soprano

Aug 5 – Aug 31, 2026

Some might say Georgina is a narcissist, but she prefers the term Soprano. Trapped in the echo chamber of her own vibrato, Georgina is forced to confront her greatest obstacle: herself. 'Satirical gold' **** (Spectator). 'Effortless comedy timing' ****...

Saving Britney

Aug 5 – Aug 31, 2026

Saving Britney is a WhatsOnStage Award-nominated solo show about celebrity worship and the #FreeBritney movement. The production is part of Fake Escape's Decade of Fringe season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2026.

Stand Up If You're Here Tonight

Aug 5 – Aug 31, 2026

Olivier Award-nominated playwright John Kolvenbach brings the UK Premiere of Stand Up If You're Here Tonight, a funny, poignant, and intimate solo play about a man desperately seeking connection in his audience. Inspired by the pandemic and universal isolation, the show features...

EDINBURGH 2026: Review: ROCKPOOLS, Bunker Three At Pleasance Courtyard

EDINBURGH 2026: Review: ROCKPOOLS, Bunker Three At Pleasance Courtyard

by Clementine Scott · August 15, 2026

Unless one happens to have read the programme notes beforehand, it’s not immediately obvious that Rockpools is a play about endometriosis. For the first half, the only hint we get is the protagonist’s bloody sheets. Instead, debut writer-performer Molly Windust has created a character rich in od…

EDINBURGH 2026: Review: BERNIE DIETER'S CLUB KABARETT, Underbelly

EDINBURGH 2026: Review: BERNIE DIETER'S CLUB KABARETT, Underbelly

by Natalie O'Donoghue · August 15, 2026

Join kabarett provocateur Bernie Dieter as her gin-soaked haus band soundtracks a debauched night of breathtaking circus, gender-bending aerial and fire-breathing sideshow at its most rebellious and hilarious best. Club Kabarett is more than just a show; 'it's an exuberant, juicy, guns-blazing perfo…

EDINBURGH 2026: Review: CHIP AND GUS: A COMEDY WITH BALLS, Venue 45 at TheSpace

EDINBURGH 2026: Review: CHIP AND GUS: A COMEDY WITH BALLS, Venue 45 at TheSpace

by Clementine Scott · August 14, 2026

Earlier this year, Marty Supreme made a case for ping pong as a metaphor for life’s constant ebbs and flows, and an outlet for a particular type of obsessive striver. In New York-based Fat Knight Theatre’s two-hander Chip and Gus: A Comedy with Balls, we hardly need the sport to be there at all,…

EDINBURGH 2026: Review: LEGENDARY, Friesian At Underbelly, Bristo Square

EDINBURGH 2026: Review: LEGENDARY, Friesian At Underbelly, Bristo Square

by Clementine Scott · August 14, 2026

“I’ve been thinking about my childhood” is how the Singaporean performer Cheeyang Ng begins Legendary, a show preoccupied with the idea of childhood, and particularly with queer Asian childhood. This overarching theme involves both the messages we learn as a child, and what we pass on to our f…

Past Shows

Ten Ways to Die Happy

Aug 5 – Aug 31, 2025

Ten Ways to Die Happy is a participatory quiz theatre show in which ten audience members embark on a new life symbolised by a bouquet of flowers, spending each flower on love, ambition, risk, and security in pursuit of happiness before time runs out. Guided by performer Perla...

Del Valle: A True Tale of Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll... and Redemption

Del Valle: A True Tale of Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll... and Redemption

Aug 6 – Aug 25, 2025

A drug-addled actor finds himself locked up in Del Valle – a Texas state prison – where the junior Grand Dragon of the Aryan Brotherhood recognizes him from his appearances on All My Children and offers him protection in exchange for acting lessons... A journey of survival...

Bryony Twydle: Flamingo

Bryony Twydle: Flamingo

Aug 4 – Aug 26, 2018

Introducing character comedian Bryony Twydle who makes her Edinburgh Festival debut with her show ‘Flamingo’ at the Underbelly for the month of August. She has performed on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Sketchorama’ and ‘Sketchorama Extra’ and was a cast member on the E! sitcom ‘The Royals’...

Dick and Dom: Dick V Dom

Dick and Dom: Dick V Dom

Aug 4 – Aug 26, 2018

After 20 years on our screens the legendary kids presenters and quadruple BAFTA winning comedy duo Dick & Dom, debut at the Edinburgh Festival at the massive Underbelly McEwan Hall for 12 nights from 1st – 12th August. Their show ‘Dick V Dom’ is everything we love and expect...

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