Edinburgh Festival

James Barr has had a glittering career on the airwaves for the past few years on stations such as Heat and Hits Radio, plus working for MTV. He has taken his fame and following to dip into the stand-up comedy pool, and this guy can truly swim.

After winning the esteemed French theatre award, the Moliére, for Best Comedy Play, Fishbowl brings its slapstick physical comedy to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time.

Through the planned anarchy, Field considers the unicorn phenomenon as appropriation of queer culture, and persuasively traces the evolution through the centuries of both unicorns and sugar back to the idea of purity, with each of these elements being shown to be symbolic of power.

Coming to Edinburgh with awards from both Brighton and Manchester Fringes, Standard:Elite from Hidden Track Theatre Company is an interactive piece of political theatre on the theme of social class. 

Ever feel like your body takes up too much space in a world that doesn't want to make any room? Katie is fat. Pretty much always been fat, and will be fat forever. Join her in the Cha Cha Slide, munch on some crisps, and have a listen to what it's like to live in a body that people can't help have an opinion on. Fatty Fat Fat is a funny, frank and provocative solo show about living in a body the world tells you to hate. Leave your diet books at the door.

Best-selling author, actress and activist Rose McGowan makes her debut at the Fringe. Through memoir, music, storytelling, projections and performance Rose creates a new world of possibilities: Planet 9. She invites the audience on a healing journey of discovery to this new planet. The antidote to all that is earthbound, from here we can see Earth from a new perspective and learn how to create a liberated, fairer society for ourselves. Like moon dust, Rose hopes you will take a little piece of Planet 9 with you wherever you go.

Douglas Adams, beloved writer of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, was notoriously terrible at sticking to deadlines.  Perennially quotable, he claimed to love 'the whooshing sound they make as they go by'.  The premise of Room 5064's short play, We Apologise For The Inconvenience, imagines Adams, late once again in submitting a manuscript, locked in a hotel room by his publisher until he finishes the series' fourth outing; the book that would be released as So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish.

Deadly: Excellent/amazing/really good to Aboriginal people. MC Kevin Kropinyeri explains this definition at the top of the show. It's important to know for the rest of the hour.

This show has everything - big Broadway tunes, wigs, exceptional childhood haircuts and enough energy from Parker to power the whole of Edinburgh.

A manic mash-up of memories from his career, Tony Slattery is asked questions by his good friend Robert Ross.

I'm a Pheonix, Bitch is an autobiographical piece which chronicles a deeply horrendous time in Bryony Kimmings' life through the years 2015-16 with the loss of her relationship, her mental health, and, nearly, her child. 

Ray Badran has come up with the best ending to a comedy show, perhaps ever. Fight your way to get a seat on the front row. because you'll want to be a part of it.

Zoë Coombs Marr's 2016 show Trigger Warning was the bonkers brainchild of a comedian fed up with the tribulations of being a woman in comedy. She toured as a bloke called Dave for a few years which, as she puts it, 'did wonders' for her career.  This time around, she claims she will do 'a normal comedy show'.

Best known as the co-creator and co-star of hit podcast 2 Dope Queens, interviewing the likes of Jon Stewart, Tig Nataro and Michelle Obama to name just a few. Phoebe is also a New York Times best-selling author of You Can't Touch My Hair & Other Things I Still Have To Explain and her second book Everything's Trash, But it's Okay and stars in Netflix film Ibiza and Paramount's What Men Want. Sorry, Harriet Tubman marks her UK stand up debut.

Before the Revolution is a short piece from Egypt's Temple Independent Theatre Company, making their Fringe debut at Summerhall this year.  It aims to explore the varied elements that sparked the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, portraying the political upheaval as the inevitable result of two decades of build up.

Pro Helvetia conceived 8:8 as a piece in response to Swiss law on mandatory deportation for foreigners who have committed crimes, putting forward the idea that the more you know about someone, the harder it is to condemn them.  

Camille O'Sullivan dedicates her latest show entirely to the music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. She pours all of herself into this production. It pays off with spectacular success.

The mother of all confessional shows from the bestselling author and star of The Fast Show and Two Doors Down. Does My Mum Loom Big In This? is for everyone who's had a mother or been a mother, featuring hair-raising hilarious true stories from Arabella's dysfunctional childhood, her perilous career and her life as a single working mother. Devastatingly funny, excruciatingly honest and definitely embarrassing for all of Arabella's relatives, not to mention herself, this is a helter-skelter tour of appalling a?" and appallingly funny a?" maternal behaviour.

'When you leave here, everything else will be exactly the same. The only thing that's changed is you.' Based on personal experience, Rust follows Evie over the course of a month in a rehab centre as she starts to rebuild herself from rock bottom. The company behind SiX brings this moving and life-affirming original musical about addiction, mental health services and recovery to the Fringe.

Inspired by true events: a passionate Sue Perkins Superfan, sent to a therapist to deal with her drinking, relays her adventures pursuing Sue. Fleabag meets Miranda in this fierce, heartfelt new LGBT comedy/drama. Follow our heroines impressive swagger skills, drinking habits and coping mechanisms in an age of social media, #MeToo and Brexita?? In PurSUEt is a play with unexpected truth, nuance and hope.

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre, as the name would suggest, hold performances in a vehicle converted into a tiny four-seater performance space.  This August, they are offering up a rota of different bitesize plays at various times through the day, with a run time of around twenty minutes.

Confetti and Chaos is immersive theatre at its best, engaging with its audience from the very outset. As 'guests' gather outside, the 'venue staff' are mingling with the audience and starting the entertainment from the get-go.

Tom Crosbie has a very particular set of skills; skills he has acquired over a very long time as a proud nerd.  In Nerd World Problems, he showcases just what is  possible with enough time, practice and a desire to impress.

A woman returns to her childhood home to clear out family belongings found by the new owners in an air raid shelter long buried under the flower beds.  As the play continues, it becomes clear each of the three characters have buried things of their own that they have to deal with.

Bugsy Malone is an engaging, exciting and hilarious piece of theatre. Captivate Theatre has once again brought an old classic into the 21st Century with a simple yet effective production.