• A Fringe Quickie (#270) with ‘Unbelievable Magic for Non-Believers’

    Questions answered by Kevin Quantum.

    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?

    Pulp’s “Different Class” — it’s messy, magnetic, full of edge and electricity. Just like the show. Plus, if you’ve ever walked down the Royal Mile to “Sorted for E’s & Wizz,” you know exactly what surviving the Fringe feels like.

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

    Like a dream they’re not sure actually happened, but their watch is missing, their mind is blown, and there’s a playing card stuck to the ceiling.

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

    She’d hate the Tesla coil. Too loud. Too dangerous. She’d love that I wear a waistcoat and use good grammar throughout. Priorities.

    Q4: What’s your trick for leaving your audience begging for more — or begging you to stop?

    A million volts of lightning and one final twist they never saw coming. I don’t end the show — I detonate it.

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    Unbelievable Magic for Non-Believers

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  • A Fringe Quickie (#269) with ‘zhuangzi’s dream’

    Questions answered by geyuanliang.

    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?

    Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn — “Water is Wide.” Because it flows between cultures, ancient and modern — just like our show.

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

    “Ever wonder if you’re dreaming right now?”

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

    A cup of green tea served in a cracked porcelain cup — deceptively simple, deeply profound.

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

    Disturbing the peace — of mind.

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    zhuangzi’s dream

    Date(s): Mon 04 Aug to Mon 11 Aug (8 shows)

    Time(s): 2:50pm (50 mins)

    Location: Venue 6: C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, Lauriston Halls, 28 Lauriston Street, EH3 9DJ

  • A Fringe Quickie (#268) with ‘Boxed In’

    Questions answered by Rebecca Weston Wright.

    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?

    Somebody Else by The 1975, so that I can float around helplessly in my own reverb-tinged jealousy … given that my show is all about an OCD spike after heartbreak, why not wallow a bit to get myself in the zone?

    Q2: What’s the temperature of your show?

    Inexorably volcanic – prepare to be scorched.

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

    Every time the resident school bully (the Box) says literally anything.

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

    Public disturbance and disorderly behaviour

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    Boxed In

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

    Time(s): 9:55pm (50 mins)

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

  • A Fringe Quickie (#267) with ‘DOTS’

    Questions answered by Annie Cheung.

    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?

    Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now. Her voice reminds me of the inevitable ups and downs of chasing dreams, the resilience necessary for such a bumpy ride and how to stay hopeful in the darkest moments. This will help mange my pride when the house is full, or my pain when it’s empty.

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

    Do you want to see my naked show?…Noooooo, I mean do you want to see my naked SOUL? Oh, forgive me. English is my second language. What do you expect from me? HUMOUR?

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

    I make love with a chair with all kinds of sex poses, including the weirdest ones.

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

    I desperately want to lose my virginity. A millisecond later, I desperately want to keep it.

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    DOTS

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

    Time(s): 1:00pm (45 mins)

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

  • A Fringe Quickie (#266) with ‘Lost Girls / At Bus Stops’

    Questions answered by Róisín Sheridan-Bryson.

    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 big into Spring breakers by Charli XCX at the moment. It’s giving me just the right level of fuck off energy. “Hi, it’s me, you’re all in danger” – so true, Charli, so true. Come back to me mid-August though, could be a CMAT Stay for Something number by then.

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

    I’m gay and I’ve never gotten over anything ever.

    Q3: What’s the temperature of your show?

    For lesbians: hotter than the sun. For straight people: a pleasant 26 degrees.

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

    I’m completely in love with you. No worries if not ha ha. This show double texts.

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    Lost Girls / At Bus Stops

    Date(s): Fri 15 Aug to Sun 24 Aug (10 shows)

    Time(s): 2:20pm (60 mins)

    Location: Venue 8: Assembly George Square, George Square, EH8 9LH

  • A Fringe Quickie (#265) with ‘The World at 15mph… ish’

    Questions answered by Naomi Johnson.

    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?

    Reach for the Stars – S Club 7!

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

    I hope they will remember being inspired to live the dream/goal they want to do/achieve.

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

    Just do it – no risk…. no reward!

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

    I’m married and yes, there is a show reveal in that!

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    The World at 15mph… ish

    Date(s): Sat 02 Aug to Sun 24 Aug (23 shows)

    Time(s): 11:05am (50 mins)

    Location: Venue 102: PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 50 Lothian Rd, EH3 9BY

  • A Fringe Quickie (#264) with ‘2025 Salem Witch Trial’

    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

  • A Fringe Quickie (#263) with ‘Dance Dance Involution’

    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

  • A Fringe Quickie (#262) with ‘KINDER’

    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

  • A Fringe Quickie (#261) with ‘The Nature of Forgetting’

    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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  • A Fringe Quickie (#260) with ‘Two WEIRD Guys Who ARE Gay(!!!!)’

    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

  • A Fringe Quickie (#259) with ‘I’m Autistic – A New Musical’

    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

  • A Fringe Quickie (#258) with ‘Angela Bra: Secret Diary of a Bingo Call Girl’

    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

  • A Fringe Quickie (#257) with ‘Do You Accept These Charges?’

    Questions answered by Laurie Magers.

    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 would take Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple. It’s audacious, playful and confronts the issue of judgement and rejection head on, which like, let’s be honest is a BIG Fringe reality. And it throws me back to the mid 2000’s which I like to call my “first peak.”

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

    My grandma would absolutely hate the section where I stuff illegal substances up in my nether regions in an attempt to smuggle them into a prison for my locked up ex-boyfriend.

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

    Well I guess my show DOES have a criminal record, being that it’s all about dating an incarcerated criminal. So I guess assault with a deadly weapon for sure. Plus there are a couple other heinous charges sprinkled in, but you have to catch the show to learn which ones.

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

    Can you bail me out of jail? Got arrested for multiple felonies and engaging in toxic relationship patterns.

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    Do You Accept These Charges?

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

    Time(s): 3:10pm (60 mins)

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

  • A Fringe Quickie (#256) with ‘Raiders of the Local Adventure’

    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

  • A Fringe Quickie (#255) with ‘A Drag Is Born’

    Questions answered by Edu Díaz.

    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 Only Live Twice’ by Nancy Sinatra. I play it loud when I’m burned out to remind myself how lucky I am to be able to keep fighting for my dream, even with high heels on.

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

    In the past, I have already surprised a date with a huge spoiler: I-am-very-hairy.

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

    Initially, everything appears to be fun and silly. But A DRAG IS BORN has the record of unexpectedly breaking hearts 🙂

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    A Drag Is Born

    Date(s): Fri 01 Aug to Sun 24 Aug (23 shows)

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

    Location: Venue 186: ZOO Playground, High School Yards, EH1 1LZ

  • A Fringe Quickie (#254) with ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’

    Questions answered by Kevin Short.

    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?

    Have a Banana’ by The Jive Aces. Why? Because I wrote it, but The Jive Aces’ version puts a whole new swing to it. It’s fun, makes me smile, and also reminds me of the benefits of the banana. Keeps me in tune with Samuel Beckett’s ‘Krapp’ too!

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

    They’ll remember my insatiable appetite for bananas!

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

    ‘Would you like to share my banana? It’s like nirvana when you chew!”

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

    Grandma would love seeing me eat bananas. As the song goes: ”Don’t be a nana, have a banana, just like your nana used to do!”

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  • A Fringe Quickie (#253) with ‘Juliette Burton: Going Rogue’

    Questions answered by Juliette Burton.

    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 X Men theme tune – it reminds me we’re all heroes, connects me to that kid reading comic books dreaming of finding her team of fellow mutants like my Edfringe audiences and gets me ready to take on bad guys, supervillains and whatever else the Edinburgh Fringe has in store!

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

    The crime of utter fandom obsession; owning too many cosplay outfits, too many comic books, and cramming too many easter eggs into one Edinburgh Fringe show.

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

    Dating me is like dating Rogue from the X Men because thanks to everyone who has touched me I’ve grown stronger. And dating me is like dating Rogue because my power is both a gift and a challenge!

    Q4: What’s your trick for leaving your audience begging for more — or begging you to stop?

    VIDEO GAMES and unbridled nerdy enthusiasm! The audience determines the outcome of the show via a video game – join with your own personalised avatar, play during the show then in the street-fighter style finale the climax is decided by the audience! Every show is unique!

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    Juliette Burton: Going Rogue

    Date(s): Mon 18 Aug to Sun 24 Aug (7 shows)

    Time(s): 1:15pm (60 mins)

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

  • A Fringe Quickie (#252) with ‘Juliette Burton: Best of Burton’

    Questions answered by Juliette Burton.

    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?

    David Bowie – Heroes because Bowie’s my idol, he’s featured in every single pre-show playlist or walk on/walk off track of mine for the past 10 years and he epitomises what I hope to bring to every show: energy, passion, refusal to adhere to status quo.

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

    10 years of Edinburgh Fringes, 5 sold out seasons, 1 passionate performer… and you. It’s all been for this moment of us together. Let’s make it count.

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

    The moment I went viral and what has happened since then that will shock, surprise and delight – let’s just say change doesn’t always happen instantly or in the way we imagine but whoa boy does karma come around.

    Q4: Is your show the type to leave a toothbrush — or just some wild memories and a dent in the pillow?

    After one night with Best of Burton you’ll be clearing out a drawer for them, giving them a door key and daydreaming while vacuuming the glitter they left on the floor.

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    Juliette Burton: Best of Burton

    Date(s): Wed 30 Jul to Fri 08 Aug (10 shows)

    Time(s): 7:00pm (60 mins)

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

  • A Fringe Quickie (#251) with ‘THISMOTHERPHUCKER’

    Questions answered by Su Mi.

    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?

    Le tigre – Deceptacon is the anthem to my soul. Whenever i’m sad, happy, angry , farty, cool , slimey , lethargic- anything. I just put this on and it immediately puts me into a great mood.

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

    HELO thIS iS THISMOTHERPHUCker HERE IBE LOST MY PANTS AND IM IN A DITCH NEAR lIVERPOOL STREet staiTION CAN YOU CALL Ur mom anD SEND £4 TO my ACCOUNT LAD DESPERATE FOR A subway bLT 4Lyfe LOVE YOU SOn XoXO ALSO BRing panTS.( I dEFInTeLy hAvEnT ShIT iN MiNE pRomiSe NeVa aGAin )

    Q3: What’s the temperature of your show?

    THIS SHOW IS REGISTERED UNSAFE. WAY PAST THE SCOVILLE CHART, WERE TALKING HOT MOTLEN LAVA DIARRHEA LEVELS OF DANGER. 3RD DEGREE BURNS OR YOUR MONEY BACK CAPSLOCK

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

    They will awake dishevelled, lost, confused and possibly in someone elses house, thinking what a wild sickkkk ride and good god, I’m going to climb to the highest of cliffs and scream about this show from the high heavens. or maybe do a tweet about it…either or.

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    THISMOTHERPHUCKER

    Date(s): Thu 31 Jul to Sun 24 Aug (23 shows)

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

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

  • A Fringe Quickie (#250) with ‘UNCLE TOM’S WAR: Haiti and the Whipping Machine’

    Questions answered by David Lee Morgan.

    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?

    A Day in the Life (Beatles). It’s a record of my first ever acid trip. Nothing – not even the Fringe – has ever been as crazy.

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

    DEATH, DEATH TO THE IDF

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

    Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now

    Q4: What’s the temperature of your show?

    Farenheit 451

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    UNCLE TOM’S WAR: Haiti and the Whipping Machine

    Date(s): Mon 11 Aug to Sat 16 Aug (6 shows)

    Time(s): 2:05pm (50 mins)

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

  • A Fringe Quickie (#249) with ‘SUGAR’

    Questions answered by Tomáš Kantor aka SUGAR.

    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?

    “4ever” The Veronicas. A perfect criteria satisfier. It’s giving comfort childhood nostalgia and tether to home. It’s giving undeniable pump-up get-glam shake-my-bussy bop. It’s giving “ground me in the fact that fringe will not, in fact, go 4ever, please, 4 the love of gawd.”

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

    SUGAR follows an undercover overconfident genderqueer twink sugarbaby (me) going “full method” for their confessional art. Suprise daddy! This date is for the tea as well as the D! No holds barred or rather no HOLES barred: see it all hang out! Talking bout my soul obvi, or am I?

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

    Sexy & funny & educational & raw? How?! Those moo-cow eyes, the voice, rippling abs, tight toosh like eugh I’m kinda horny. Wait he totally rubbed his junk on my thigh on purpose. Why do I wanna sniff & lick his pits but also swaddle him in a blanky? Help, do I dm them? (Do it!)

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

    Well, my Nonna LOVES it when I jack off my cello, tongue the hell out of a plastic male inflatable doll, lead the audience in an orgasmic moaning orgy, lap dance on a daddy in the front row and pound my puss into the plush pink carpet. She’s a passionate Italian woman after all!

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    SUGAR

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

    Time(s): 4:20pm (70 mins)

    Location: Venue 322: Assembly Checkpoint, 3 Bristo Place, EH1 1EY

  • A Fringe Quickie (#248) with ‘THE FORUM’

    Questions answered by Desmond Devenish.

    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?

    ‘Open Passageways’ by All Them Witches transports me to that space where I reconnect with the core of my cause — and with it, the full state I need to stay sharp and on my game.

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

    Ideological Trespass

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

    It’s a reckoning with my darkest dark.

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

    I want to stir what you think you already know. This isn’t just a story — it’s a challenge. If you walk away the same, I haven’t done my job.

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    THE FORUM

    Date(s): Wed 30 Jul to Sun 24 Aug (26 shows)

    Time(s): 5:30pm (50 mins)

    Location: Venue 21: C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace, EH1 2PW

  • A Fringe Quickie (#247) with ‘medium dead’

    Questions answered by Eleanor Shaw.

    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?

    In Rainbows by Radiohead. The most astonishing album ever made, made like a human body – vocals like skin, percussion like bones, this constant thumping heart of it, this vibration that translates the human experience of feeling. I want my show to feel like Video Tape.

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

    How you’d kill yourself if you had the chance or inclination. The best meal deal. The best way to kill yourself.

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

    The whole show is. That’s my MO. It’s a show about suicide notes and meal deals – then the audience remembers what they’re laughing at. I don’t want them to feel ashamed. It’s funny to be uncomfortable.

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

    A cyanide pill. Or an ice cold beer at 11am (a la Anthony Bourdain).

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    medium dead

    Date(s): Fri 01 Aug to Sun 24 Aug (21 shows)

    Time(s): 4:50pm (60 mins)

    Location: Venue 186: ZOO Playground, High School Yards, EH1 1LZ

  • A Fringe Quickie (#246) with ‘VENUS 2.0’

    Questions answered by IMPERMANENCE .

    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 hype… Work It by Marie Davidson – getting those high kicks ready!

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

    6 dancers, 50 costumes and a thousand images… not a bad night out.

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

    Bbz, I slashed a painting…

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    VENUS 2.0

    Date(s): Tue 19 Aug to Sun 24 Aug (6 shows)

    Time(s): 7:25pm (75 mins)

    Location: Venue 82: ZOO Southside, 117 Nicolson Street, EH8 9ER