• A Fringe Quickie (#320) with ‘2025 Last Chance Saloon’

    Questions answered by Vladimir McTavish.

    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?

    “Babylon’s Burning” by The Ruts. It’s my intro music and it’s stuck in my brain.

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

    Getting off early – or staying on too long

    Q3: If your show walked into a bar, what would it order?

    A 10-year-old Laphroaig. It’s Scottish, mature, punchy but with surprisingly sweet after-taste

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

    Mum, I’ve dropped my phone down the toilet. This is my new number

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    2025 Last Chance Saloon

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  • A Fringe Quickie (#319) with ‘La Clique’

    Questions answered by Tara Boom.

    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?

    The William Tell Overture- because it is the only record that can make a panic attack feel like a victorious cowboy escape. And if I am spiralling, I want it in 4/4 time with timpani.

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

    They won’t have to remember me — I’d still be there. Grinding on their face, prosecco in one hand, stick of butter in the other… breakfast and lube!

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

    A long list of offences: excessive talent, public indecency, and causing uncontrollable laughter. One cast member- name withheld to protect the guilty—was even bailed out of jail minutes before showtime, so don’t pretend that this is a hypothetical. Haha

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

    Are you the multi-award-winning show La Clique? Because honey, I’m ready to give you standing O’s all night long.

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    La Clique

    Date(s): Wed 30 Jul to Sun 24 Aug (32 shows)

    Time(s): Multiple show times, 6:30pm (100 mins) (20 shows), 9:00pm (80 mins) (12 shows)

    Location: Venue 333: The Famous Spiegeltent, St Andrew Square, EH2 2AD

  • A Fringe Quickie (#318) with ‘Sketch Show Bingo!’

    Questions answered by Quirks & Foibles.

    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?

    Fireball by Pitbull. Or any song that mentions the word BALL – that’s our hype trigger.

    Q2: What moment in your show would your grandma absolutely hate (or absolutely love)?

    We think your Grandma would fancy Doctor Cheesestring-Fingers. Want to know what the hell that means? Come see the show.

    Q3: What’s your trick for leaving your audience begging for more — or begging you to stop?

    The show is a game of bingo with sketches instead of numbers. So, If you came twice (please do) it’s statistically improbable that you’d see the same show twice. If you do, you’ve perhaps experienced a glitch in the simulation – please consult a Doctor.

    Q4: If your show had a safe word, what would it be? And would it use it?

    BINGO!

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    Sketch Show Bingo!

    Date(s): Fri 01 Aug to Sat 23 Aug (21 shows)

    Time(s): Multiple show times, 5:05pm (50 mins) (15 shows), 6:05pm (50 mins) (6 shows)

    Location: Venue 53: theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, Nicolson Street, EH8 9DW

  • A Fringe Quickie (#317) with ‘No Apologies’

    Questions answered by Emma Frankland.

    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?

    With this show?! It HAS to be Nirvana Unplugged – it’s the inspiration behind the whole thing.. I have been listening to it for 30 years and now we are radically misremembering it for this show (including two special gigs at the end of the festival with a live 5 piece band)!

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

    I think there will be images emblazoned in their mind, hopefully even their dreams! this show keeps changing and flexing, so I think the audience will wake with a sense of renewed hope and maybe the smell of fire lingering on their clothes!

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

    gender transgression – being gay and doing crimes

    Q4: What’s the temperature of your show?

    Well we build the show around the idea of the Sun as a trans symbol, and the show is full of fire, so it’s tempting to say hot, but perhaps (to quote Kurt Cobain) it is somewhere between Sun Burn and Freezer Burn?! Certainly it exists in extremes..

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    No Apologies

    Date(s): Thu 21 Aug to Sat 23 Aug (2 shows)

    Time(s): 5:30pm (80 mins)

    Location: Venue 26: Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, EH9 1PL

  • A Fringe Quickie (#316) with ‘All These Pretty Things’

    Questions answered by Tracey Yarad.

    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?

    Jon Scofield’s ‘Wabash.’ I can’t do a downward dog with it playing, but the grit, groove, and attitude are perfect for surviving a second Edinburgh run. Who needs calm when you’ve got chaos?

    Q2: What’s the temperature of your show?

    The temp? Scalding. This show brings all four seasons: the fall into love, the winter of marriage, the storm of betrayal, and the hot-girl summer of starting over. Bring sunscreen — and tissues.

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

    I was in a cult—no sex, drugs, or garlic. Then Kevin Costner gave me the eye all gig long. I stroll over, full of swagger, and say: “Wait… aren’t you one of Dad’s fishing mates?”

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

    A stiff whisky for me, and a lemonade for the teenage goddaughter who ran off with my husband. Hold the ice — and if you’ve got a dash of arsenic back there, be generous.

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    All These Pretty Things

    Date(s): Sat 02 Aug to Fri 15 Aug (14 shows)

    Time(s): 4:20pm (60 mins)

    Location: Venue 221: PBH’s Free Fringe @ Fingers Piano Bar, 61a Frederick Street, EH2 1LH

  • A Fringe Quickie (#315) with ‘Suburbia’

    Questions answered by Jonny Woo.

    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?

    Passion (Naked Mix) – Gat Decor. It’s a euphoric classic dance track from the early 1990’s. My coming of age; late teens; discovering Ecstasy for the first time; living away from home, living for clubbing. It takes me right back and makes me go higher and higher.

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

    Wild, crazy, hot, sizzling, sexy, silly, vulnerable and probably naked and wondering ‘he lip-synched with what?’ ‘He stuck what, where?’ The main thing is that the audience will remember me the morning after at all. It would be awful if they forgot all about me. psst they won’t.

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

    Chiffon’ is the safe word, because everyone feels safe draped in pale blue chiffon. Of course it’d be used, what a lovely word to say, so elegant and evocative. I’m not sure it would achieve anything, I like to shock and push things, but naturally all things return to ‘chiffon’

    Q4: What’s something your show reveals about you that might surprise a date?

    That I’m completely obsessed with the Eurovision Song contest. I used to turn the TV off during the voting in the 80’s when the UK often had a chance of winning. The excitement was too much. I sing a Eurovision song in my show. Eurovision geeks will know it for sure.

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    Suburbia

    Date(s): Thu 31 Jul to Mon 25 Aug (24 shows)

    Time(s): 1:35pm (60 mins)

    Location: Venue 26: Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, EH9 1PL

  • A Fringe Quickie (#314) with ‘King Arthur’s Body’

    Questions answered by Mountaine Jonas.

    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?

    When Merlin was a bard, entertaining around the world, his most popular ditty was “To fuck or not to fuck.” When Shakespeare discovered this, he knew he had to use the lyric (with a minor change) in one of his tragedies. I’d bring Merlin’s ditty, with harp accompaniment !

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

    Ours would be a quote from Guinevere in our show, having just met Arthur: “I am yours, my King! Go on, plant your seed in me!”

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

    Seriously my grandma wouldn’t understand our show at all! But a different grandma would love it when Lancelot strips off his shirt during his Hamlet-like soliloquy. And she’d love his speaking all his lines in iambic pentameter.

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

    Some of them will remember our actors’ bodies, and fantasize about them the next morning with even less clothing than was removed onstage. This may lead to delicious acts of Healing and Blessing the world with Pleasure.

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    King Arthur’s Body

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

    Time(s): 10:05pm (60 mins)

    Location: Venue 16: Greenside @ Riddles Court, 322 Lawnmarket, EH1 2PG

  • A Fringe Quickie (#313) with ‘The Spanking Goddess and Other Discarded Tales’

    Questions answered by Clare Murphy.

    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?

    Love and Happines by Al Green, cause it makes you wanna do wrong and it makes you wanna do right

    Q2: If your show sent a drunk text at 3am, what would it say?

    It wasn’t me, it was the beserker frenzy.

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

    Safe word is HAZELNUTS. It has been used 17 times but only in extreme cases of deities going seriously off road.

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

    Because of the Otters. and the Mutual Orgasms.

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    The Spanking Goddess and Other Discarded Tales

    Date(s): Wed 20 Aug to Sun 24 Aug (5 shows)

    Time(s): 6:45pm (60 mins)

    Location: Venue 30a: Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, EH1 1SR

  • A Fringe Quickie (#312) with ‘Milk On The Side: A Barista Musical’

    Questions answered by Clare Roberts.

    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?

    Would it be biased to say our own because our comedy musical has a banger of a song which also doubles as an avocado mango smoothie recipe. Useful and poetic, that’s us. Where the food is, is where our hearts truly lie.

    Q2: What’s the temperature of your show?

    Ours is a stolen lukewarm coffee which the barista never got to drink because the Karen in the audience keeps asking for extra hot skinny milk. The audience are the customers and our characters keep forgetting to make their orders but their verbal burns will leave a mark.

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

    I think if either of them were alive they’d look at the show’s contents then beg me to assure them that I at least married rich.

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

    Our Barista Amy would always fall for: “I’m from the HR department and I’ve got a job offer for you.” Casey would drop at any mention of a Theremin.

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    Milk On The Side: A Barista Musical

    Date(s): Mon 11 Aug to Sun 24 Aug (14 shows)

    Time(s): 3:00pm (60 mins)

    Location: Venue 241a: The Speakeasy at The Royal Scots Club, 29-31 Abercromby Place, EH3 6QE

  • A Fringe Quickie (#311) with ‘The Mermaid, the Otter and the Big Poo’

    Questions answered by Lindsey Cole.

    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?

    Groove Armada’s Superstylin’. I bloomin’ love it. As soon as I hear the trumpet at the top I think I’m She-Ra and start wielding my power of protection sword

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

    Punk Mermaid. Massive poo. Otter driving Barbie jeep.

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

    Oh, my show would leave a whole dump of brown, stinky mess on the bed.

    Q4: What’s something your show reveals about you that might surprise a date?

    That I swim with a giant poo across seas and down rivers, whilst in a mermaid tail

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    The Mermaid, the Otter and the Big Poo

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  • A Fringe Quickie (#310) with ‘The Mayor and His Daughter: A Genuine Appreciation of Comedy’

    Questions answered by The Mayor and His Daughter.

    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 the sake of my Daughter, I would take ‘Millenium’ by Robbie Williams. From time to time, her moods get rusty and only this track – combined with some Treat Dancing – will bring her back round to my cause.

    Q2: What moment in your show would your grandma absolutely hate (or absolutely love)?

    Both my grandmother and my daughter’s grandmother – aka my regular mother – would hate the bit where my Daughter tells audience members that she is, in fact, The Mayor and that I am The Daughter. Our grandmothers were very old fashioned.

    Q3: What’s your trick for leaving your audience begging for more — or begging you to stop?

    Our trick is to give the audience the sensation of being Possessed. They need to understand that Comedy is not to be trifled with: if a Demon were to come into the room and start performing comedy, it would be no laughing matter!!

    Q4: If your show had a safe word, what would it be? And would it use it?

    The safe word would be ‘Mayor’. Unfortunately, when people say ‘Mayor’, I take it as encouragement / vindication, so most likely the show would continue. My Daughter and I would only use it at the start of our Professional Comedy skits to establish our identities to the audience.

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    The Mayor and His Daughter: A Genuine Appreciation of Comedy

    Date(s): Wed 30 Jul to Sun 24 Aug (25 shows)

    Time(s): 4:10pm (60 mins)

    Location: Venue 139: Assembly Roxy, 2 Roxburgh Place, EH8 9SU

  • A Fringe Quickie (#309) with ‘Comedy 4 Kids: Redux’

    Questions answered by James Campbell.

    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?

    My record of achievement from school. Partly because it was completely inaccurate but mainly because I don’t know where it is.

    Q2: If your show walked into a bar, what would it order?

    Chocolate Oat milk. But then it would jump up and down and vomit on someone’s shoes.

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

    The bit about my mum arguing with Elkie Brooks over which is better: Devon or Cornwall. My mum got Elkie in a headlock and called her a “pastie-munching lilac-whining buggerlumps” but this probably won’t be in the show.

    Q4: If your show had a safe word, what would it be? And would it use it?

    It’s your own time your wasting.

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    Comedy 4 Kids: Redux

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  • A Fringe Quickie (#308) with ‘Love Me Like A Chai Tea Latte’

    Questions answered by Sanjay Lago.

    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?

    Break my Soul Beyonce because no matter what hits me, nothing would break my soul and I will keep rising and being me.

    Q2: What moment in your show would your grandma absolutely hate (or absolutely love)?

    She would hate me talking about what gay sex is like and the experiences of dating I’ve had. She would absolutely hate to hear about the racism I have faced, as she came here in the 60s and experienced in. She would love however the Bollywood section and me showing baby photos.

    Q3: If your show walked into a bar, what would it order?

    A nice cup of warm homemade chai. It can cool you down on the warm days or warm you up in those moments of need. Like a nice soothing yet sweet yet spicy cup of joy. YUM!

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

    When a guy’s first thing said to me was “Oh hey you don’t have that curry smell your people usually have” as he shook my hand. It still shocks me that this was said to me as a first thing as we had just met. Even I didn’t know how to react.

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    Love Me Like A Chai Tea Latte

    Date(s): Wed 30 Jul to Mon 25 Aug (25 shows)

    Time(s): 4:20pm (60 mins)

    Location: Venue 139: Assembly Roxy, 2 Roxburgh Place, EH8 9SU

  • A Fringe Quickie (#307) with ‘Odds Are’

    Questions answered by Smita Russell.

    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?

    “Shake if Out” Florence + The Machine. It’s comfort, hype, and grounding all in one! The perfect track to keep us going through the month of (delightful) madness.

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

    Like they stayed up all night laughing and crying and making a new best friend.

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

    RECKLESS AUDIENCE ENJOYMENT, DUH

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    Odds Are

    Date(s): Wed 30 Jul to Mon 25 Aug (26 shows)

    Time(s): 2:55pm (60 mins)

    Location: Venue 139: Assembly Roxy, 2 Roxburgh Place, EH8 9SU

  • A Fringe Quickie (#306) with ‘Split Ends’

    Questions answered by Claudia Shnier.

    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?

    Light House by Future Islands! Hits me right in the chest and it played during my favourite scene in the movie ‘Titane’, and I had a spiritual experience watching that scene (NO JOKE), so every time I listen to it, it reminds me of that.

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

    Hi, just a quick question, do you have a crush on me? If not, that’s totally fine I was just wondering and I hope you have a great day and are genuinely happy like with your job and social life and stuff. If yes, pls don’t play games with me I’m quite anxious in a sexy way.

    Q3: If your show sent a drunk text at 3am, what would it say?

    A man just offered me $50 to play Uno with him in a bar? Dodgy but I trust him and it’s in a public place. Also I met this witch in the bathroom and she’s coming for dinner with us tomorrow. Sending you my live location, if you don’t hear from me in five hours, call the police x

    Q4: What’s something your show reveals about you that might surprise a date?

    My mum said that it would take a very special guy to want to be with me after seeing my show and I was like thnx so much mum xx I do have sex with a vacuum on stage which prompts a lot of “HAHA I bet you love a vibrator then,” which is very original, very funny, very creative.

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    Split Ends

    Date(s): Wed 30 Jul to Sun 17 Aug (19 shows)

    Time(s): 12:30pm (60 mins)

    Location: Venue 33: Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance, EH8 9TJ

  • A Fringe Quickie (#305) with ‘Tales From Your Queer Elder’

    Questions answered by Lucia August/Everybody Can Dance.

    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 Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor. At 70+, I’ve survived being “too fat to dance” and divorce from a woman I was bonded to for 16 lifetimes in an extraterrestrial ceremony. Gloria gets it – we’re fierce and not going anywhere!

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

    Hey gorgeous, Let’s talk aging, death, and those secrets you thought were buried. I’m 70+, fearless, and brought snacks for after the existential makeover.

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

    Breaking and entering people’s emotional walls, grand theft of family secrets, and aggravated assault on comfort zones. Multiple counts of forcing feelings about mortality while wearing sequins.

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

    hey u up?? that weird thing u do that u think no one sees?? WE ALL SEE IT AND ITS ADORABLE also ur grandma just texted me from heaven she says hi and she’s proud ok don’t ignore this 💕✨

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    Tales From Your Queer Elder

    Date(s): Fri 01 Aug to Sat 16 Aug (10 shows)

    Time(s): 4:10pm (50 mins)

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

  • A Fringe Quickie (#304) with ‘moving on…really really slowly’

    Questions answered by stephen catling .

    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?

    Undercover: complete by dead on a sunday. it is a comfort as the tone is heavy but strangely comforting with it’s morose tone (to give an idea it sounds like Bob’s Burger doing goth/emo music) , it’s cover of dammit (after dark) which is a fusion of dammit by blink 182 & Mr.Kitty

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

    wild memories and a pleasing but strong scent and probably a toothbrush and maybe some flowers that you like.

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

    arson because it is never an answer but question and the answer is yes

    Q4: What’s the temperature of your show?

    hot and cold, yes and no, it’s in and it’s out, it’s up and then it’s down. Expect moments on poignance and clarity followed by madness and then back like a bipolar swing. Its basically sweet and sour chicken.

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    moving on…really really slowly

    Date(s): Thu 31 Jul to Sun 24 Aug (25 shows)

    Time(s): 7:30pm (60 mins)

    Location: Venue 170: Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 38 W Nicolson St, EH8 9DD

  • A Fringe Quickie (#303) with ‘Jess Robinson: Your Song – Elton Reimagined’

    Questions answered by Jess Robinson.

    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?

    It would be my version of “I’m Still Standing” as Barbra Streisand. It’s defiant, fabulous, and slightly ridiculous — which is also how I plan to get through August. Plus, if I hear it, it means I’ve made it to my show on time.

    Q2: If your show sent a drunk text at 3am, what would it say?

    “WHY ARE ELTON AND DAVID REFUSING TO ADOPT ME???” I’m in a sequin cape on Cowgate eating cheesy chips and crying. COME TO MY SHOW TOMORROW. It’s at 6.05. Bring Strepsils. BTW who is this?

    Q3: If your show walked into a bar, what would it order?

    A Rocket Man: rainbow layers, a glitter rim, lemon, honey, and a dash of coconut for the vocal cords. Served warm and steaming, like a camp medicinal potion. Tastes like joy, leaves you slightly dizzy, and might make you cry.

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

    As the woman who made Elton As the woman who made Elton sing like Britney, Billie Eilish and Kate Bush — all in one breath. Also possibly as the person who high-kicked their pint over during The Bitch Is Back. Sorry in advance.

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    Jess Robinson: Your Song – Elton Reimagined

    Date(s): Wed 30 Jul to Sun 24 Aug (25 shows)

    Time(s): 6:05pm (60 mins)

    Location: Venue 3: Assembly George Square Gardens, George Square, EH8 9LH

  • A Fringe Quickie (#302) with ‘The Creative Martyrs’

    Questions answered by The Creative Martyrs.

    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?

    4’33” by John Cage, it is a piece of music that always seems to capture its environment wherever that may be.

    Q2: If your show walked into a bar, what would it order?

    Coffee. Lots of coffee. Espresso in quadruples. Extra variations (milk, ice, alcohol, more coffee, dispair) welcome but not required.

    Q3: What’s your trick for leaving your audience begging for more — or begging you to stop?

    Bumming

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

    Bumming

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    The Creative Martyrs

    Date(s): Sat 02 Aug to Sun 24 Aug (21 shows)

    Time(s): 9:05pm (60 mins)

    Location: Venue 68b: PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, West Register Street, EH2 2AA

  • A Fringe Quickie (#301) with ‘Michael Elsener: How to Live in Paradise’

    Questions answered by Michael Elsener.

    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’d take “Royal Highness” by Tom Grennan. It’s an energetic, soul-pop anthem about an extraordinary encounter with an extraordinary being. The song celebrates uniqueness, being real. I think being truly real lights a fire inside you. This track gives me a huge boost.

    Q2: What’s the temperature of your show?

    I like comedians who make you feel you’re in their living room. So I’d say: a cool breeze you’d like to enjoy for longer than you expected.

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

    I think she’d love the moment I talk about liking guys. I never told her directly, but I’m sure she knew. She always gave me that special smile when we walked past a handsome man.

    Q4: If your show had a criminal record, what would it be for?

    I think you get some great laughs seeing my show. So definitely for making people pee in public spaces.

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    Michael Elsener: How to Live in Paradise

    Date(s): Fri 01 Aug to Thu 21 Aug (20 shows)

    Time(s): 8:20pm (60 mins)

    Location: Venue 140: Gilded Balloon at Appleton Tower, 11 Crichton Street, EH8 9LE

  • A Fringe Quickie (#300) with ‘Josh Elton: Away With the Fairies’

    Questions answered by Josh Elton .

    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?

    Mate, I have Spotify. I don’t mean to brag but I have premium and everything. If I could only listen to one song for the whole fringe? I would blow my brains out by day 10.

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

    Excuse me, my show is a professional, okay. My show wouldn’t leave a toothbrush, meds, clothes or ANYTHING at the crime scene.

    Q3: If your show had a pick-up line, what would it be?

    If I could rearrange the alphabet I’d put U and I together – in Room 4 at Hoots on Grassmarket at 8PM to watch Josh Elton: Away with Faires. Oh you like that? You little minx. Wanna get a room? Specifically Room 4 at Hoots on… where are you going?!

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    Josh Elton: Away With the Fairies

    Date(s): Thu 31 Jul to Mon 25 Aug (26 shows)

    Time(s): 8:00pm (60 mins)

    Location: Venue 108: Hoots @ The Apex, 31-35 Grassmarket, EH1 2HS

  • A Fringe Quickie (#299) with ‘Adult Panto [Unscripted]’

    Questions answered by Matty Hurst.

    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?

    Bat Out Of Hell! Because I know every lyric and it’s a 10 minute masterpiece with so many waves of emotion musically and lyrically!

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

    With sore cheeks from laughing, glitter in places they don’t remember visiting, and absolutely no idea how Dick Whittington ended up in a threesome with the Genie and the Big Bad Wolf.

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

    Safe word: “He’s behind you!” Would you use it? Absolutely not.

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

    Oi babe… what if Snow White was a dominatrix and Buttons ran a kebab van? 🫣 Anyway, I’m outside. Let me in x

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    Adult Panto [Unscripted]

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

    Time(s): 8:15pm (55 mins)

    Location: Venue 219: PBH’s Free Fringe @ Uno Mas, 4 Picardy Place, EH1 3JT

  • A Fringe Quickie (#298) with ‘Furniture Boys’

    Questions answered by Emily Weitzman.

    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?

    Édith Piaf’s “Non, je ne regrette rien.” I don’t speak French, but I believe she’s saying that no, she regrets nothing. Well, I hope to survive the Fringe regretting nothing, too. (Plus, another Édith Piaf song plays in FURNITURE BOYS, during which I go on a date with a chair.)

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

    “You just might go home and hug your favorite ottoman,” one critic wrote. You’ll wake up cuddling your couch – perhaps, even, a velour-gasm. You’ll look around at this place you’ve always lived in and see it anew. You’ll hope that your furniture does not let you down.

    Q3: If your show sent a drunk text at 3am, what would it say?

    Boys and furniture are more similar than you think. Boys and chairs have arms and legs and backs! You can turn on a lamp and you can turn on a boy! You can go to bed with a boy and you can go to bed with a bed! (Except I may or may not be texting a futon.)

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

    “What makes you tick?” – to the grandfather clock in my show that I found on the street. But it doesn’t work out – he’s a bit too old for me. (He’s a grandfather!)

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    Furniture Boys

    Date(s): Wed 30 Jul to Mon 25 Aug (26 shows)

    Time(s): 12:45pm (60 mins)

    Location: Venue 300: Underbelly, George Square, George Square, EH8 9LH

  • A Fringe Quickie (#297) with ‘Shake It Away: The Ann Miller Story’

    Questions answered by Kayla Boye.

    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?

    Irving Berlin’s “Shaking the Blues Away” – That’s the theme of the show, and a great mindset to have as we try to entertain Fringe audiences amidst the craziness of this world!

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

    A burst of joy!

    Q3: If your show walked into a bar, what would it order?

    Champagne – sparkly and bubbly

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

    When the tap dancing starts – she’d love it.

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    Shake It Away: The Ann Miller Story

    Date(s): Fri 01 Aug to Sat 09 Aug (9 shows)

    Time(s): 1:50pm (50 mins)

    Location: Venue 53: theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, Nicolson Street, EH8 9DW

  • A Fringe Quickie (#296) with ‘JELLO BRAIN’

    Questions answered by Natalie Grove.

    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?

    ROCKY: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SCORE 1976…. Specifically “Gonna Fly Now.” This movie and the music get me so hype. I really relate to Rocky’s journey with taking my show to the Fringe, and the music reminds me about the joy of the fight.

    Q2: What’s something your show reveals about you that might surprise a date?

    that I am obsessed with the brain and know exactly how an orgasm affects it like more than your typical neurologist.

    Q3: What’s the moment in your show that makes people laugh when they’re not sure they’re supposed to?

    When I say that my mom sounded like she was a child telling me how sad Finding Nemo was when I told her she was diagnosed with Early on-set Alzheimer’s.

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

    As a total freak possibly doomed with Early on-set Alzheimer’s genes who just wants a big person to lay on top of her.

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    JELLO BRAIN

    Date(s): Fri 01 Aug to Sat 23 Aug (21 shows)

    Time(s): Multiple show times, 11:20am (60 mins) (9 shows), 11:00pm (60 mins) (12 shows)

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