Edinburgh Previews 2025

A man told Alison to sit down and now she’s doing a whole stand up show about it. Alison has appeared on House of Games, Celebrity Gogglebox and Pointless Celebrities.

 After Nüwa created humanity and mended the sky, she vanished—believing her work was complete. However, BOOM! Humanity destroyed itself. Now, her three minions, the Muddy Lolos, experiment to rebuild mankind and wonder: does humanity have a future?

“I think pregnant woman are ugly. Well not ugly, that sounds bad. I just hate it when they’re really proud of their belly and they rub this swollen distended abdomen. And all I can think is. That looks grim. Properly grim.”

Sophie’s abducted a baby… She doesn’t even want a baby… but she knows that this baby deserves a good life and a good mother that doesn’t deep throat fags and voddy-cokes.

 Comedian’s Choice Award winner, cult clown, and five-star Fringe IT Girl brings back her critically acclaimed clown shows Swan and Chiffchaff. Packed with clowning, chaos, ketchup and a live birth on stage performed by a lion.

 Comedian’s Choice Award winner, cult clown, and five-star Fringe IT Girl brings back her critically acclaimed clown shows Swan and Chiffchaff. Packed with clowning, chaos, ketchup and a live birth on stage performed by a lion.

The much-anticipated debut show about suffering (and smiling) from Nigerian stand-up Ayoade Bamgboye. Burdened by the gift of sight, a primeval awareness that something is not quite right, and almost three accents, she’ll ask life’s big questions and provide absolutely no answers. 

Hamlet, stripped to the nerve. An elastic bodied re-imagining of the Bard’s most puzzling play that fuses Shakespeare’s words with clown, physical theatre and illusions. “Doesn’t put a foot wrong…Raw, relevant, freshly made. In other words, a triumph.

A surreal new audio play, written and performed live by Inge-Vera Lipsius. It takes place in darkness and asks audiences to visualise a series of images in two different, but interconnected cities—one made of glass, another of sand. (Coming up at Assembly Front Room at the Edinburgh Fringe, July 31-Aug 17 [not Aug 12] at 11:25.)

Enter the wickedly enchanted, suburban world of Elysium Court, where a new mother’s plans of an instagrammable vegetable patch, become her unearthly undoing.   

Imagine the movie Cast Away but instead Narin Oz is stranded inside her bathroom; with an inflatable emoji named Dr Fecal Matter. Will she face her inner child and find joy in reality, or draw all over it in crayon? 

Debut show from Pedro Leandro, a comedian who has famously been described as ‘magnetic’ (Guardian) and ‘a beautiful bright-eyed joy’ (Everything-Theatre.co.uk)

Armed with nothing but a little red loop pedal and her ever-growing rage, Holly Spillar is looking for the catharsis only art (made by low-income people, working sh*t jobs on minimum wage) can provide. 

Sophie has a choice: remove her remaining eye containing a tumour, or risk cancer. Again. No brainer, right? But her parents have done everything to save this eye. Can she do what she wants this time?  

A brand new hour of comedy from Tamsyn Kelly. As seen/heard on ITV2, Comedy Central, BBC One, BBC Three, BBC Radio 4. Winner: Comedy Awards Panel Prize, Best in Class, 2022. ‘Magnetic from the off’ (TheReviewsHub.com). ***** (EdFringeReview.com). ***** (LostInTheatreLand.co.uk)

Alaska, 1964. The largest earthquake in US history. Live on air, part-time radio reporter Genie Chance must take unimaginable risks to save her community from chaos. A frenetic and madcap retelling of this incredible true story.

A torture survivor, Julia, returns to her interrogator, Thought Police officer O’Brien, only to trigger a cruel cat-and-mouse game that will endanger them both.

You are invited to the premiere of the world’s newest musical!  

Every line of dialogue, note on the piano and catchy chorus is fully improvised. Will our hero save the day? Find true love? Face their fears? Run away to join the circus? We don’t know either. Join us on the last Saturday of every month to find out!  

It’s 2013. Cara and Kelly are 14 and in the prime of their lives! Most importantly, they know they’ll be best friends forever. For life. But when things start to go wrong, they know exactly who to blame: a new face who changes everything. 

Her and Grandpa are different and not the same. She’s got MySpace, he’s got his bench by the back gate. When Grandpa asks to go home, he doesn’t mean his semi-detached down the road. Albania is far and he can’t venture there alone.

Chaos. Rebellion. A city on the brink. But Millie’s focused on living life to the full – who wouldn’t? Amid the 2019 Hong Kong protests, one girl searches for her sense of home whilst a city fights for its own identity.