Come back for more? We knew we liked you. Feast all of your senses on these chuckle-chucking performers from across the globe and you’ll be able to tell your mates that you did more with your week than sit in your superhero pants and eat cereal.
REAGAN ALLEN: INTELLIGENT BISEXUAL WOMAN
Just the Tonic at The Caves (Just the Spare Room), 1st till 25th August (excluding 12th)
Following a successful Vail Comedy Festival run, Reagan Allen comes to the Fringe with original songs like ‘I Had Sex and Then I Found God’, and ‘The Catholic Church Is Rather Gay’. Touching on growing up in the American South and a stint in an all-girls Catholic school in rural Germany, audiences will be delighted by her unique take on her struggles, encompassing bisexuality, womanhood, and embarrassment at a lesbian bar.
Tickets available here.
PLOTTERS
Assembly Rooms, Front Room 1st till 25th August (excluding 7th and 19th)
Graverobbing is not everybody’s cup of tea, but for these four misfits it’s a way to pay the bills. This dark comedy follows along with the members of a firm that ventures into a city’s graveyards to disturb the not-so-eternal rest of those buried there – for clients with often unusual requests. Plotters chronicles the group’s newest and biggest job. Will they achieve infamy with it – or dig their own grave?
Tickets available here.
LOOK AFTER YOUR KNEES
Baby Grand, Pleasance Courtyard 31st July till 26th August (excluding 12th and 20th)
Funny Women finalist Natalie Bellingham brings to the stage a juxtaposition of joy and reflections on growing older. Making her Fringe debut, she performs as a clown and delves into the space inside us left behind by time. Comedy, storytelling, movement, and interaction combine to celebrate being human in all its banality.
Tickets available here.
DEE ALLUM: DEADNAME
Pleasance Courtyard, Below 1st till 12th, 14th till 25th Aug
Dee Allum returns to Edinburgh to launch her debut stand-up show, Deadname. An up-and-coming transgender comedian and BBC Comedy Finalist in 2022, hailing from Watford, Allum looks back at her past, her puberties, and her present in an hour of retrospective entertainment.
Tickets available here.
ALISON LARKIN: GRIEF… A COMEDY
Assembly George Square Gardens, Studio 2 31st July, 1st till 25th Aug (excluding 12th and 19th)
When she finally found love at fifty, with an Indian climate scientist, Alison thought she had found her happily ever after. Then, a week later – he died. Grief…A Comedy explores the love and life Alison has drawn from death, following the advice of Archbishop Desmond Tutu…
Tickets available here.
CHOKESLAM
Assembly George Square, The Crate 31st Jul, 1st till 25th Aug (excluding 11th)
How much do you love pro wrestling? Not as much as Tegan Verheul. Chokeslam is an hour-long love letter and comedy show exploring one woman’s experience in the ring. Autobiographical, unflinching, and raw – this show looks at some of life’s hard knocks and the lessons Verheul has learned the tough way.
Tickets available here.
VIR DAS: THE FOOL
Pleasance Dome, King Dome 8.00pm, 31st Jul, 1st till 25th Aug (excluding 12th)
Emmy award-winner Vir Das returns to Edinburgh with his international show The Fool. He looks at the hopelessness and confusion of adulthood and the way growing up makes fools of us all, in a side-splitting hour of entertainment you’d be silly to miss.
Tickets available here.
MASALA MIXTAPE: BOY IN DA KORMA
Pleasance Courtyard, Attic 31st July till 26th Aug
What if Tupac never died? What if he was merely reincarnated into the body of 17-year-old Liam from Cork? Boy in Da Korma takes us on a journey with Liam (half-Irish, half-Indian) and his relationship with the rapper, his music, and being ‘the only brown boy in Skibbereen’.
Tickets available here.
Main Photo Credit: Look After Your Knees, Matt Rogers
