Questions answered by Alayna Perry.

Q1: Aside from this Quickie, what is the most desperate marketing tactic you plan on using to get bums in seats this August? 280 chars

deploying the twenty other clowns in the show to introduce a new genre CLOWN PLAY this is a CLOWN PLAY have you ever heard of a CLOWN PLAY ?!?!?? they will also loot the city (flyer) and preach in the streets (promote alongside their own solo shows) about this wild new CLOWN PLAY

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

THAT IS LITERALLY WHAT THIS *CLOWN PLAY* IS ABOUT !!!!!!!!

Q3: The Fringe is horribly expensive. How are you financing this run? Did you remortgage your house, sell your granny, or start an illicit side hustle?

under the table speakeasy sales & streetwalking 😉

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

we are the morning after 🙂

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The Time of Your Life

Date(s): Limited run

Time(s): Late (After 10pm)

Ticket type: Free

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Questions answered by Jessie Ballard and Kiely Sugayan.

Q1: Aside from this Quickie, what is the most desperate marketing tactic you plan on using to get bums in seats this August? 280 chars

We plan to get arrested for performing our show, January 6th The Musical, on the Royal Mile amassing a crowd so large it becomes a historical event that we are in no way blamed for or associated with. Also begging.

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

Since it’s our birthday the show will be ordering a bottle of your best champagne and you’re getting this round right?

Q3: Cancel culture has finally come for your show. What sins has it committed?

Getting cancelled is the least of our worries. There is a 60% chance the FBI visits us after the run.

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

Did that ending mean what I think it does?

About the show

January 6th The Musical

Date(s): Week 1 (Fri 7th to Thurs 13th Aug) • Week 2 (Fri 14th to Thur 20th Aug) • Final week(s) (Fri 21st to Mon 31st Aug)

Time(s): Afternoon (Between 12-noon and 6pm)

Ticket type: Paid

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Questions answered by Noel Byrne from Box Tale Soup.

Q1: Aside from this Quickie, what is the most desperate marketing tactic you plan on using to get bums in seats this August? 280 chars

Sustainability and reuse is a big part of our approach to making shows, so we don’t do flyers for the Fringe. Instead we go and stand around somewhere busy wearing a big poster board with a sign that says ‘No flyers, please take a photo or scan the QR code’.

Q2: Cancel culture has finally come for your show. What sins has it committed?

Oh wow, all of them I think. This show is based on Edgar Allan Poe, so murder, necromancy, drug use, excessively complex prose, murder again, animal cruelty, burying alive, property damage, unlicensed butchery, perverting the course of justice, and a bunch more murders.

Q3: We all have weird pre-performance rituals. What is yours, and how confused would a normal person be if they walked in on you doing it?

We hold hands in a little circle and repeat, “Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Have one fun show..” followed by something specific depending what the show is – for this one it’s a kind of raven screech. Experience already confirms people think it’s a bit weird if they walk in!

Q4: If all the shows running right now were at a massive Fringe house party, what is your show doing?

It’s probably in the kitchen or the bathroom with a bunch of intense goths, doing opium and discussing which long black clothing would make it look the most like a tormenting raven.

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A Ghost Among the Living

Date(s): Previews week (Fri 31st July to Thurs 6th Aug) • Week 1 (Fri 7th to Thurs 13th Aug) • Week 2 (Fri 14th to Thur 20th Aug) • Final week(s) (Fri 21st to Mon 31st Aug)

Time(s): Afternoon (Between 12-noon and 6pm)

Ticket type: Paid

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Questions answered by Olivia Caw.

Q1: Aside from this Quickie, what is the most desperate marketing tactic you plan on using to get bums in seats this August? 280 chars

I plan on drawing on the sporan strings of the Tartan Army’s broken heart. We aw feel a bit scunnert that we didn’t get to celebrate who we are for longer at the World Cup, Common Tongue captures that reclamation of authentic national identity. Good c*nts, n pride. So ‘mon doon.

Q2: All shows will have their tough days. What sophisticated self-care strategies will you employ to survive?

Pints at The Waverly bar across the road.

Q3: We all have weird pre-performance rituals. What is yours, and how confused would a normal person be if they walked in on you doing it?

Tanning a two-litre bottle of Irn Bru; inhaling a watermelon vape and screaming Billy Connolly’s ‘I wish I was in Glasgow,’ at the top eh ma lungs. Hopefully they would join in!

Q4: If all the shows running right now were at a massive Fringe house party, what is your show doing?

Making everyone get up fur a boogie, chewin the ear aff folk aboot words and staying till the end, to lead a version of the closing time anthem ‘Loch Lomond’ that looks mer liht a mosh pit at Trsmt.

About the show

Common Tongue

Date(s): Week 1 (Fri 7th to Thurs 13th Aug) • Week 2 (Fri 14th to Thur 20th Aug) • Final week(s) (Fri 21st to Mon 31st Aug)

Time(s): Afternoon (Between 12-noon and 6pm)

Ticket type: Paid

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Questions answered by Frankie Hyde.

Q1: Aside from this Quickie, what is the most desperate marketing tactic you plan on using to get bums in seats this August? 280 chars

Blood, sweat, tears… deep embarrassment… foregoing all shame… You know, the usual…

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

A Bloody Mary (natch)… But she might throw it in your face…

Q3: Cancel culture has finally come for your show. What sins has it committed?

Treason against the crown, intrigue against the queen to prevent her accession to the throne, and heresy. A Holy Trinity of Crimes! (IYKYK)

Q4: All shows will have their tough days. What sophisticated self-care strategies will you employ to survive?

Tea (Lucy), coffee (Kirsty), alcohol (Frankie)… OUR Holy Trinity of Crimes

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BURN

Date(s): Week 1 (Fri 7th to Thurs 13th Aug)

Time(s): Afternoon (Between 12-noon and 6pm)

Ticket type: Paid

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Questions answered by Joey Jennings.

Q1: Aside from this Quickie, what is the most desperate marketing tactic you plan on using to get bums in seats this August? 280 chars

Honestly, I have no idea. I’m terrible at selling myself. I hate social media & find marketing the most painful part of this process. I just want the show & music to speak for themselves. But it’s 2026, so I know promoting your work gets people through the door.

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

A few soda waters with lime, but I’ll be sneaking in my own flask with shitty vodka and pouring doubles until I’m blackout.

Q3: The Fringe is horribly expensive. How are you financing this run? Did you remortgage your house, sell your granny, or start an illicit side hustle?

I’ve spent the last six years working in production for fashion advertising with this show in mind, saving every penny along the way. Between making the record and taking the show to Fringe, my bank account may be drained, but my spirits have never been higher.

Q4: All shows will have their tough days. What sophisticated self-care strategies will you employ to survive?

Long walks, vacant stares into the void, and silence.

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Little Pink Dress

Date(s): Previews week (Fri 31st July to Thurs 6th Aug) • Week 1 (Fri 7th to Thurs 13th Aug) • Week 2 (Fri 14th to Thur 20th Aug) • Final week(s) (Fri 21st to Mon 31st Aug)

Time(s): Afternoon (Between 12-noon and 6pm)

Ticket type: Paid

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Questions answered by Martin bearne.

Q1: Aside from this Quickie, what is the most desperate marketing tactic you plan on using to get bums in seats this August? 280 chars

My pet rats fraizer and niles I will have them at the venue and charge 3 shillings for a black and white photo

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

Just a glass of tap water if that’s ok

Q3: We all have weird pre-performance rituals. What is yours, and how confused would a normal person be if they walked in on you doing it?

Before my show I question all I have ever done and all I ever will do whilst drinking oysters in a bubble bath! Also like to go over my lines

Q4: If your show suddenly developed a massive ego and became the biggest diva in the 2026 Fringe, what absurd, hyper-specific item would be mandatory on its dressing room rider?

It would demand the film cars on a loop while drinking oysters in a bubble bath on a bed of rice with your mum!

About the show

Fragments

Date(s): Week 1 (Fri 7th to Thurs 13th Aug) • Week 2 (Fri 14th to Thur 20th Aug) • Final week(s) (Fri 21st to Mon 31st Aug) • Weekend(s)

Time(s): Evening (Between 6pm and 10pm)

Ticket type: Paid

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Questions answered by Gerry Carroll.

Q1: Aside from this Quickie, what is the most desperate marketing tactic you plan on using to get bums in seats this August? 280 chars

My show appeals to all ages, so firstlyI’d flyer the maternoity unit at the Royal Infirmary to get the young crowd. Then I’d go around the care homes to get the older ones and have a right mixture in the audience.

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

I have a great shot-glasses gag in the show, so it would have to be two shots of tequila. One for each shot glass. And somone to help me pour them in. When you see the show, you’ll understand.

Q3: We all have weird pre-performance rituals. What is yours, and how confused would a normal person be if they walked in on you doing it?

There’s a bit about religion in the show, so I will probably say a lot of prayers. As there are ancient gods and heroes, this could involve sacrificing a goat. In the unlikely event of a normal ancient person coming in to the Attic, they would be very impressed with my piety.

Q4: If your show suddenly developed a massive ego and became the biggest diva in the 2026 Fringe, what absurd, hyper-specific item would be mandatory on its dressing room rider?

A white horse with a golden mane, wearing a crown, and trained to gallop across the waves of the Western Ocean. The horse to be looked after by a queen of the Land of the Young.

About the show

Gerry Carroll: Young

Date(s): Week 1 (Fri 7th to Thurs 13th Aug) • Week 2 (Fri 14th to Thur 20th Aug) • Final week(s) (Fri 21st to Mon 31st Aug)

Time(s): Afternoon (Between 12-noon and 6pm)

Ticket type: Paid

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Questions answered by Mary Higgins.

Q1: Aside from this Quickie, what is the most desperate marketing tactic you plan on using to get bums in seats this August? 280 chars

Sponsoring a rescue pig. And the terrifying heat waves 🙂

Q2: All shows will have their tough days. What sophisticated self-care strategies will you employ to survive?

Soaking our trotters in the bath while drinking Prosecco from the bottle. This is what we plan to do if Lyn Gardner gives us 2 stars again. Love you Lyn!

Q3: If all the shows running right now were at a massive Fringe house party, what is your show doing?

Bending a well-known meat-eating comedy bro over the dining table and spanking his bare arse with a packet of honey-glazed ham.

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

For the aggressive love-bites, sore nipples and melodramatic role-play.

About the show

HAM

Date(s): Week 1 (Fri 7th to Thurs 13th Aug) • Week 2 (Fri 14th to Thur 20th Aug) • Final week(s) (Fri 21st to Mon 31st Aug)

Time(s): Evening (Between 6pm and 10pm)

Ticket type: Paid

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Questions answered by Genevieve Goodman.

Q1: Aside from this Quickie, what is the most desperate marketing tactic you plan on using to get bums in seats this August? 280 chars

3 key things: FLYERING! We have a phenomenal poster. Even my straight boyfriend with zero taste looked at it and said, “Damn, I know ai didn’t do that.” SOCIAL MEDIA! Self-explanatory. The power of social rivals the power of God. & PUTTING MY 20-YEAR OLD SISTER TO WORK.

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

Obviously an Appletini…But just to throw it in your face. No real reason, you just looked a little snakey.

Q3: Cancel culture has finally come for your show. What sins has it committed?

Baby, we invented cancel culture. We’re sacrilegious, pro-Original sin, and feminists-since some men consider that a cancellable offense. We convinced Adam to eat the Apple, questioned authority, and spoke to God to say, “the Bible is REALLY poorly written. Rewrites needed.”

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

It’s like going to Catholic school for the most formative years of your life, then returning to normal schooling. You’ll think, “Huh, that was weird.” But ultimately, it’ll set thoughts in motion like, “Maybe Eve was misunderstood, like Katherine Heigl.”

About the show

Eve & Adam

Date(s): Final week(s) (Fri 21st to Mon 31st Aug)

Time(s): Late (After 10pm)

Ticket type: Paid

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