Powered by a high-energy soundtrack, and with the simplest of sets, ‘How’s Your Father?’ will take you on a ‘surprisingly touching testosterone-flavoured tour of male experience.’ National Business Review.

Marilyn Monroe, from asylum to the White House: used, beaten and worshipped. Her life and loves explored in this exciting new play from a critically-acclaimed company (Fringe sell-outs, 2006/2007). ‘Excellent’(Scotsman). Meet Marilyn, her mother, Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller. Challenge your preconceptions and make your own mind up...

An intriguing collection of original short plays by students about their personal views of adolescence in America. Enlightened and fresh perspectives on the truths we learn as we grow up. This is a show you won’t forget!

A Vietnam allegory. Buffalo Bill’s ‘Wild West Show’ bends history to include ill-fated Senate hearings, the surrender of Chief Joseph as a sideshow, and the Wounded Knee massacre and aftermath, revisited by the ghost of Sitting Bull.

Communicating only through the poems from Edgar Lee Master’s ‘Spoon River Anthology’, can a young high school student and her friends come to grips with a disabling illness and find hope?

Lust! Love! Tragedy! New York ’s acclaimed, “dangerously stylish” Company XIV presents its contemporary, Baroque-inspired dance interpretation of the classic Greek myth of the world’s most beautiful woman, Helen of Troy. “Irresistible and compelling” - Voice of Dance NY. “The vision for the play displays nothing short of sheer brilliance... the entire company is superb!” - NYTheatre.Com; “Deliciously excessive!” - Backstage NY

Narcissus, Tantalus, and Sisyphus angered the gods. They were sent to the underworld and bound to endless torments devised to fit their particular offenses. Finally, the gods visit them with an offer: continue the eternal struggles, or end them by committing suicide. The offer is refused, and the gods suspect that the internment may have driven the tortured souls insane.

Townsville Comprehensive is a school like any other - until the day Peter falsely accuses his teacher, Arnold Finkler, of molesting him. Whipped up by Jean McDonald, local agony aunt and moral matriarch, the parents rally, resolving to clean up the neighbourhood, even if it means putting the ‘lynch’ back into ‘lynch-mob’. A musical satire on tabloid sensation and the power of the dreaded P-word.

Through her trial and her death, Joan of Arc stood alone. Her triumphant story begs the questions: is it the insignificance or the significance of the individual that can truly challenge corrupt orthodoxy and political injustice?

‘Have I mentioned today how lucky I am to be in love with you?’ From slow ballads to burning jazz piano numbers, Jason Robert Brown’s award-winning musical classic is constantly surprising. Witty and brilliant, tender and poignant. There are two sides to every love story.

Last night, an alarm clock was never wound up. Startling truths unwind ordered lives. A tale told with lyricism enchanting the physical, entwining dance and original text. Join us in our comedic visit into a tragic protagonist’s disrupted routine and untimely end. The lie-in is unavoidable.

In Yer Space, the award winning Blackpool based theatre company, returns to the Fringe with the world premiere of Like a Rolling Stone, the first play by emerging playwright Yasmin Shaw. Like a Rolling Stone is presented in association with Demarco Rocket Productions.

Christopher Pepe Auer, Newcomer of the Year 2007, and Manu Delago, one of the best known hang players in the world, created a new sound covering a wide range of musical styles. They discovered the great pairing of the bass clarinet with its huge tonal range and the enchanting sound of the hang - hip chamber music which you’ve never heard before!

It’s unseasonably cold for Edinburgh in May and as the nation’s holy men gather on the Mound for the Kirk’s General Assembly, local prostitutes look for business in Leith. In a catastrophic and sometimes comic confrontation, the world’s oldest professions collide, provoking a series of events which threaten the future of all concerned.

What was it like to love Robert Burns? Widow and lover share their memories of irresistible Rab in this tale of love, laughter and longing. Adapted from the 2003 sell-out ‘Burns Night’, ‘a warm and touching play’ **** Scotsman.

Anthony love Camilla, but what secret keeps them apart? And what will he sacrifice to save her? An original musical with all the appeal of the classics. Take a chance, see something new!

Fregoli presents Genet’s absurdist drama as a physical exploration of the power struggle between two sisters and their mistress. This unusual adaptation incorporates elements of colour and movement to convey the social and sexual ties that bind these three women in an internal role play.
“The last act is to be played, we’ll play it to the hilt.”

Shifting stilettos in 1985 Essex is no game for girls - it’s a savage, sharp and witty world in Romford Market; you’ve got to be ruthless to play. Shagging, ecstasy and new romantics carry this Thatcherite fairytale.

A poet dreams he has been put on trial by the women of Ireland for his sexual inadequacy. A potent musical adaptation presents this classic 18th century Irish poem in a contemporary setting. Heady mix of Celtic blues, melodious, hilarious, boisterous, risqué, irreverent. A litany of sexual scenarios sung in styles veering from traditional to calypso.

Scotland 2022, in a future we hope never to witness, but which is reality for too many young people all over the world. Civil war rages between the Monster’s militia and British Government Army. Stephen’s gang hides in a disused hall, while in the hills some child soldiers have escaped. All searching for freedom ... there’s no place for innocence.

‘I’ll tell you when you’re older’. You’ve heard a mother say that before, but is a mother’s opinion always right? This play explores the extraordinary bond of love and jealousy between four generations of women and demonstrates how mothers and daughters can sometimes cause conflicts in attempts to find peace. A heartwarming and heartbreaking show that everyone can relate to.

Two brand new works back to back, based around women and femininity. The Adoption Papers, by Jackie Kay, deals with the triangle between adopted mother, blood mother and daughter, as society struggles to accept any of them. The Other, explores a woman’s struggle for equality and empowerment in the aftermath of World War Two.

What makes a gay man and Jewish woman spend the night together? Forced to explore new terrain with Thermos and Tupperware, ‘Vagina Monologues’ meets ‘Brokeback Mountain’ in this new play tackling how the education system copes with homosexuality and how people cope with getting older and wiser--from fifteen to forty. From acclaimed company About Turn. ‘Brilliant’ (ScotsGay).

Imagine. A place where your boss equals your cleaner. A communist cancer hospital. Where hope dies. Where sex and politics run rampant. Where thoughts free and action shackled. Where you dance the Reconciliation Waltz with Death, padamme, padamme...

Philoctetes is based on the myth but tells a story about characters with a Balkans mentality. The contemporary performance uses rituals from the Balkans and poetics of poor and cruel theatre performed by the youngest Bosnian theatre company.

The pent up hatred and frustrations of a sixtysomething retired teacher are given full voice as Ringo gets his own back on pupils, parents, porridge and all other irritants. According to Ringo, the entire human race is best avoided. Come along and enjoy forty minutes of teacher revenge time as Ringo cleanses his angst ridden psyche

Robert has dedicated his life to finding ‘Hero und der trauernde Amor’ - a painting stolen from his family during WWII. His mother’s dearest wish was for the artwork to be restored, but has her hopeful quest become a dangerous obsession for her son? Emily Juniper’s spellbinding début paints a story of mystery and redemption. L=F . www.pinocchiosashes.com

It’s 1986, join our funny, outrageous trip down a dilapidated road in Northern England. Music, sex, skinheads, starvation, drinking, dancing and the dole. Robbery, cups o’ tea, the elderly and unemployment. Fucking long life innit! This is our road.

Second Person have featured on MTV, had over half a million hits on YouTube, sold out all their London gigs, and are here in Edinburgh for one night only. On August 13th, The Roxy Art House will host the luscious post trip hop piano riffs and the seductive, angelic vocals of Julia Johnson. You know when you see a band just before they make it big? Well this is that gig.
See them now, before they get even bigger. www.secondperson.net

A fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza that seamlessly brings to life all of our favourite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, the Cat in the Hat and the Whos of Whoville! Fun for children and adults!

When a power-cut results in murder, frustration turns to fear. In the confinement of a stalled elevator, two co-workers stand over a lifeless body. But who is the killer? Dark and engaging - a murder mystery with a psychological twist.

York’s premier improv troupe perform new and classic improv games in their high-energy Fringe debut.

An emotionally stark portrayal of the last days and memories of a young man on the brink of self-destruction, ‘Song’ is a fragmentary tale of seduction, manipulation, and revenge. No audience has left unaffected.

A small, powerhouse cast and a driving, exquisitely-crafted score bring the next generation into the theatre. Stunning voices, created staging and amazing multimedia effects create a theatrical performance of the highest calibre.

Realistic theatrical violence is a combination of acting and skilful illusion. Whether it is flamboyant swashbuckling swordplay, slapstick, punchup or domestic violence, these workshops reveal the tricks of the trade. You will learn the fundamental principles of safe and affective staged violence. Swords on Sunday 3rd, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Unarmed on other days.
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A respectable priest of the Anglican Church and an aggressive pro-feminist thrown together in a chance encounter visiting an art gallery. Confrontation is thick in the air as these two unlikely protagonists settle down to a game of chess...

A group of entertainers are trapped in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. With fire above and rubble below, they struggle to comfort each other in the last few hours they have to live.

‘It offends me fucking immensely.’
Set in real time in a seedy hotel room, Vince awaits a visit from an old school friend, Jon. What should be a happy reunion transpires into an hour of tough questions, some answers and an old flame of both whose appearance and attitude are not what one might expect.

Richard, struggling to become a struggling writer, discovers that he is turning into his own modernist novel. This impossible yet strangely actual state of affairs forces him to confront the point of his own existence. A maudlin chuckle in the face of life, death and our inability to do anything about either.

Non-stop laughter! This frolicking, comic adaptation of Henry Fielding’s classic satire of 17th-century English country life gallops through Tom’s romantic life at a breathtaking pace in a performance by a dynamic young cast.