Questions answered by Gretchen Wylder.

Q1: If you could take just one record with you to survive the Fringe — your ultimate comfort, hype, or grounding track — what would it be, and why?

Stevie Nicks: “Stand Back” – WHY!? Because my show is about my lived experience of being a queer witch forced to escape a culty Christian commune. Stevie – and this song – is a perfect witch-escaping-persecution battle cry.

Q2: If your show had a pick-up line, what would it be?

“Wanna heal some religious trauma and have a gay makeout after?”

Q3: If your show had a criminal record, what would it be for?

I was accused of committing fraud after I made up my own church in order to meet the community requirements to buy a cottage in a Christian commune. Sooooo… this question is not too far fetched. (True story. Which I explain in detail in my show.)

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2025 Salem Witch Trial

Date(s): Fri 01 Aug to Sat 23 Aug (20 shows)

Time(s): 10:00pm (55 mins)

Location: Venue 236: Greenside @ George Street, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George Street, EH2 2PQ

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Questions answered by Eugene Ma.

Q1: If you could take just one record with you to survive the Fringe — your ultimate comfort, hype, or grounding track — what would it be, and why?

Femininomenon by Chappell Roan! We, GenZ-ers, have a lot of pent up frustrations that you can sense lurking underneath, but we also keep this upbeat exterior just like the track, to hype us up pre-performance. We keep dancing as we burn out in the Involution culture!

Q2: How will the audience remember you the morning after?

Finally understanding details about last night. You think it was a fever dream but you actually got a thoughtful tattoo with us that you don’t regret. And it’s a distilled theme of our super speedy intellectual debate that washed over you! At 150 wpm! A spicy sound bath of words!

Q3: What’s the temperature of your show?

A deep fried tempura ice cream (rocky road flavor)! Looks bubbly on the menu, can scorch your tongue at first, but the chocolate ice cream creates a thrill and comfort from heat, then with an aggressive almond, before the soft room-temp marshmallow brings you back to homeostasis.

Q4: What’s the moment in your show that makes people laugh when they’re not sure they’re supposed to?

In our first room run, at the end of Ash’s cathartic monologue, it got so shockingly intense that all three cast members were shell shocked, and in tears… but there was also this surprising WTF impulse bubbling up that the whole room started giggling. That one stuck out!

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Dance Dance Involution

Date(s): Fri 01 Aug to Tue 19 Aug (18 shows)

Time(s): 12:00pm (40 mins)

Location: Venue 9: theSpace @ Niddry St, Niddry Street, EH1 1TH

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Questions answered by Ryan Stewart.

Q1: If you could take just one record with you to survive the Fringe — your ultimate comfort, hype, or grounding track — what would it be, and why?

Just one?! Ok. Let’s see. I think I’m going to have to go with In the Image from the incredible artist Beverly Glenn-Copeland. It consistently appears on my ‘top songs’ of the year playlists; and for good reason – I dare you to listen to the song and not feel utterly elated.

Q2: If your show had a pick-up line, what would it be?

Well, KINDER is very centred on the world of stories, books, and reading (each other) – and Goody Prostate is not one to shy from a situation that calls for audacity. So how about we go with; ‘I may not have read our story yet, but I know for sure there’ll be a happy ending.’

Q3: What moment in your show would your grandma absolutely hate (or absolutely love)?

Goody out-swears a Gordon Ramsay kitchen, which would have both my grandmas rolling out their graves. But we do share a story from my childhood about blurting out a few choice words on a car trip with mum and grandma, and honestly? I think both would get a good kick out of that.

Q4: How will the audience remember you the morning after?

KINDER is like being fisted by a handful of glitter, that one giraffe toy that everyone gets for newborns, and a copy of Marx’s Communist Manifesto. So you’re going to wake up the next morning feeling red (from glitter), raw (baby toys have some edges), and revolutionary.

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KINDER

Date(s): Thu 31 Jul to Sun 24 Aug (22 shows)

Time(s): 6:40pm (60 mins)

Location: Venue 61: Underbelly, Cowgate, 66 Cowgate, EH1 1JX

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Questions answered by Guillaume Pigé .

Q1: If you could take just one record with you to survive the Fringe — your ultimate comfort, hype, or grounding track — what would it be, and why?

Without hesitation ‘Let it go’ from Frozen! My wife and I are both doing shows at The Fringe this year. We’re taking the whole family with us (3 kids!), and it’s fair to say that our daughter is having her Elsa moment so to keep everyone sane, it will have to be that.

Q2: What’s your trick for leaving your audience begging for more — or begging you to stop?

We get Henry Webster and Percussionist Nathan Gregory to play Alex Judd’s phenomenal score. One of the strengths of the piece is that all the music is original and played live with the action. The piece is altogether and simultaneously a concert, play and dance.

Q3: How will the audience remember you the morning after?

Beautiful, magical and very sweaty. ‘The Nature of Forgetting’ is a fast pace high intensity piece a physical and visual theatre.

Q4: If your show sent a drunk text at 3am, what would it say?

I love you. Let’s spend more time together.

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The Nature of Forgetting

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Questions answered by James Murphy & Dick Denham .

Q1: If you could take just one record with you to survive the Fringe — your ultimate comfort, hype, or grounding track — what would it be, and why?

DD: How I Feel by 1-800 Girls – it’s a very chill and grounding track with a nice emotional lilt that always lifts my mood. JM: It would have to be the Eurovision hit ‘Serving Kant’ by Miriana Conte as inspiration to serve kant day after day and celebrate standing out.

Q2: If your show had a safe word, what would it be? And would it use it?

DD. Easy, in line with our title, our safe word would be “(!!!!)”. JM: Which we do use repeatedly throughout the show.

Q3: Is your show the type to leave a toothbrush — or just some wild memories and a dent in the pillow?

JM: Our show would leave a big paper mâché version of 2 weird guys who are gay so they can attempt to relive it over and over but never quite get the real thing DD: Yes, to-scale paper mâché models of us that we will leave in your airing cupboard so they can stay warm 🙂

Q4: If your show sent a drunk text at 3am, what would it say?

JM: It would just be the words ‘tickets are free’ with an aubergine emoji. And a wasp emoji. DD: And an eye emoji then a mouth emoji then another eye emoji (to make a face).

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Two WEIRD Guys Who ARE Gay(!!!!)

Date(s): Sat 02 Aug to Sun 24 Aug (20 shows)

Time(s): 5:40pm (60 mins)

Location: Venue 324a: PBH’s Free Fringe @ Leith Arches, 6 Manderston Street, EH6 8LY

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Questions answered by Leonora Brooks.

Q1: If you could take just one record with you to survive the Fringe — your ultimate comfort, hype, or grounding track — what would it be, and why?

I’M FINE by Dodie, the ultimate grounding track with juicy harmonies! Her voice is like ASMR

Q2: What’s your trick for leaving your audience begging for more — or begging you to stop?

Definitely the incredible harmonies in our original score, they always scratch that musical itch in your brain! From beautiful love duets to full ensemble numbers with our 12-person cast, there’s so many different musical moments to enjoy. Think Waitress or Dear Evan Hansen.

Q3: What’s something your show reveals about you that might surprise a date?

This might seem somewhat obvious, but I’m Autistic! I’m high-masking so it’s something I’d have to ‘come out’ to a date about. I discovered my autism at age 22, so it was a surprise to me too!

Q4: What moment in your show would your grandma absolutely hate (or absolutely love)?

My grandma is coming to see the show, but she can’t stand swearing, so I’m sure she’s dreading the song called What The Fuck Was That, though it’s a personal favourite of mine and always gets me laughing

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I’m Autistic – A New Musical

Date(s): Fri 08 Aug to Sat 23 Aug (14 shows)

Time(s): Multiple show times, 3:30pm (75 mins) (8 shows), 3:20pm (75 mins) (6 shows)

Location: Venue 45: theSpace @ Venue 45, 63 Jeffrey Street, EH1 1DH

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Questions answered by Angela Bra.

Q1: If you could take just one record with you to survive the Fringe — your ultimate comfort, hype, or grounding track — what would it be, and why?

You Can’t Hurry Love by The Supremes because the title makes me picture an elderly couple from Yorkshire out walking and the husband telling his wife to slow down.

Q2: If your show had a criminal record, what would it be for?

Crimes against profanity due to its pun-based swearing.

Q3: If your show had a safe word, what would it be? And would it use it?

It would have to be a creative, which is ironic because when it comes to safes you usual just dial them in.

Q4: If your show had a pick-up line, what would it be?

I’m not here for a long time, I’m here for precisely 50 minutes.

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Angela Bra: Secret Diary of a Bingo Call Girl

Date(s): Thu 31 Jul to Tue 12 Aug (13 shows)

Time(s): 9:35pm (50 mins)

Location: Venue 85: Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19 Blair Street, EH1 1QR

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Questions answered by Andrew Agress.

Q1: If you could take just one record with you to survive the Fringe — your ultimate comfort, hype, or grounding track — what would it be, and why?

For better or for worse it has to be the theme music that plays when we travel from New York to Edinburgh through a montage of various modes of transportation set against a red line crossing the globe. But we wish it was The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.

Q2: Is your show the type to leave a toothbrush — or just some wild memories and a dent in the pillow?

Our show would leave a toothbrush by mistake, and then suddenly a door starts closing. “There’s no way they’ll get that toothbrush in time!” you think. But then suddenly a hand shoots out and grabs it JUST before the door shuts. We forgot our khaki trousers though.

Q3: If your show had a criminal record, what would it be for?

Putting the artifacts from the British Museum back where we found them.

Q4: If your show walked into a bar, what would it order?

Nothing fancy, just a Guinn- oh, don’t look now but some bad guys just walked in. They have thick accents and an even thicker desire for rare antiquities. Good thing we have our wits and a trusty… pint of Guinness? Yeah, that’ll do.

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Raiders of the Local Adventure

Date(s): Mon 11 Aug to Mon 18 Aug (16 shows)

Time(s): Multiple show times, 1:00pm (60 mins) (8 shows), 3:30pm (60 mins) (8 shows)

Location: Venue 92: Holyrood Park, Holyrood, EH8 8AZ

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