Questions answered by Alexandra Borghino.

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’ll be everywhere families are! Our colourful costumes were a big success on the Royal Mile before, so we’ll be back with even more magical ones, handing out flyers, visiting parks, playgrounds and community centres, and politely refusing to leave until people book tickets 🤣

Q2: 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?

It’s definitely a struggle! We’re currently running a crowdfunding campaign, and we’re hoping that by the time this article comes out we’ll have reached our target. Otherwise, it’ll be pasta with salt for the next few months!

Q3: All shows will have their tough days. What sophisticated self-care strategies will you employ to survive?

My self-care plan is highly sophisticated: find a quiet patch of grass in a park for an emergency power nap, survive on coffee and snacks, and spend five minutes pretending I don’t have anywhere to be.

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

We hope they’ll wake up humming the songs, smiling at the memory of our giant set, whimsical costumes and magical world, then immediately start asking for an encore. We accept no responsibility for any tunes that stay stuck in their heads for days.

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Singing Willows and the Magical Bed

Date(s): Final week(s) (Fri 21st to Mon 31st Aug) • Limited run • Weekend(s)

Time(s): Morning (Before 12-noon)

Ticket type: Paid

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Questions answered by Joe Sib.

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’ll be flyering my own show. If you see a grown man asking complete strangers, “Do you love your mom?”… that’s probably me.

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

An Old Fashioned. Strong, a little bittersweet, and proof that the classics never go out of style. Just like moms… although mine would’ve asked if they had coffee instead.

Q3: If you brought this show home for the holidays, how would your parents react to them?

My mom would’ve laughed the hardest because she’d recognize every story. Then she’d tell me which parts I got wrong

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

They’ll probably call their mom. Or at least think about her. Hopefully they’ll laugh again remembering the jokes… and maybe make that phone call they’ve been putting off.

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Aggie—A Comedy About Moms

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 Robyn Perkins.

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

Well it turns out my therapist disapproves of me loitering in the waiting room after my session to flyer her other clients.

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

The beauty of this show is that every day there’s a fully qualified psychologist backstage. NO ONE is more prepared for the emotional roller coaster of Fringe than us.

Q3: If you brought this show home for the holidays, how would your parents react to them?

It’s not important! I can’t control my parents and their emotions! That’s something I learnt in therapy!

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

Shrink Wrapped would be stone cold sober sitting in the corner consoling a very drunk friend who’s had a fight with her boyfriend… and confiscating her phone.

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Shrink Wrapped: A Psychologist Analyses Comedians

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: Pay what you can

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Questions answered by Frederik Bang.

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

The puppets have/will flirt with every/any person they come across. The puppets are all harlots deep down and will do whatever it takes. Don’t be shy, take that interspecies leap.

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

The most colourful, and disgusting, drink imaginable with a big squiggly straw. The drink also has a music accompaniment, like a little xylophone or a slide whistle when you slurp it. The more you slurp the higher the music goes.

Q3: All shows will have their tough days. What sophisticated self-care strategies will you employ to survive?

We will be crying and bleeding and dying for the entire run. What happens after is not our concern.

Q4: If you brought this show home for the holidays, how would your parents react to them?

They would invite it in and sit in politely, or impolitely, at a table of its own and ignore it as much as is possible* *It would not be very possible, the show is too insistent. Ignore it at your own peril.

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Glenn & Flenn

Date(s): 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 Frankie Regalia.

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

Using my skills as a spinster to spin flax into a giant butterfly net and catch audience members and drag them up stairs to the library of the Scottish Storytelling Centre. You can run, but I’ll getcha. With whimsy.

Q2: 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?

Being a spinster is actually quite lucrative (as is shown in the show!). The word Spinster originally meant a woman who could financially support herself through her craft. How did the meaning change? You’ll have to come to the show to find out.

Q3: All shows will have their tough days. What sophisticated self-care strategies will you employ to survive?

I live in Glasgow, so I’ll be commuting for show. On those days, I sit on the train, listen to some music, meditate, and look mysteriously cool. The other days I’ll be going to the community sauna and asking my cats why they won’t give me 5-star reviews.

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

Spinning is highly meditative. A drop spindle is like a hypnotists tool sometimes. That’s all I’ll say. You WILL remember me.

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Spinster

Date(s): Final week(s) (Fri 21st to Mon 31st Aug) • Limited run • Weekend(s)

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

Ticket type: Paid

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Questions answered by ABC test.

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

A

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

B

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

C

Q4: 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?

D

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Test

Date(s): Previews week (Fri 31st July to Thurs 6th Aug)

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

Ticket type: Pay what you can

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Questions answered by Alex Love.

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

Let’s just say, a lot of people are going to get letters for jury service and end up pretty confused by their surroundings.

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

A pint of pale ale, then send it back for not being served at the optimum temperature.

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?

A Thailand-based crypto billionaire has been very helpful and not asked for anything in return. I’ve used the money to buy Ferraris to drive up the cobbled streets. Or was it for my security? I am taking no further questions on this.

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

I used to eat a packet of biscuits and listen to Queen albums until I felt better. Unfortunately, I put on four stone during my first fringe. Now I do things more healthily. I go for a run, then sit in a darkened room, listening to My Chemical Romance. Thinking about biscuits.

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How To Win A Pub Quiz 2026

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 Burger and a Pint.

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 are desperately trying to get coupons for a small discount at the burger stand outside our room in the Pleasance Courtyard.

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

Probably a burger and a pint to be honest.

Q3: 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?

Crisp burger and juicy pint.

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

Stood in the corner eating a burger and drinking a pint.

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Treats For The Soul

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 Astrid Rot.

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

Otto is on the Royal Mile in a kitten costume handing out flyers whilst I am at The City Cafe having a beer. I told him it was an honour. He believed me. If that doesn’t work, we will fire him out of a cannon from Edinburgh Castle.

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

If Cancel Culture comes, I hope they bring lots of friends. We need the ticket sales.

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 every show, Otto and I hold hands and chant the names of our favourite rock stars. We call it Coming Together. Robert Smith. Patti Smith. Johnny Marr from The Smiths. A normal person would be very confused. We do not care.

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

Otto is in the kitchen making sandwiches. He is surprisingly good at it as long as all the fillings are pre-chopped. He is scared of sharp knives. I am dancing on the sofa. Everyone is talking to me. This is normal.

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Otto & Astrid: The Stages Tour

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 Maxx Eddy.

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

Free tickets if you can submit me in physical combat. 3 minutes. The arena is a chalk circle about 20 meters in diameter. I will be absolutely slathered in baby oil, but I’ll give you a back of rock climber’s chalk to help with grip.

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

The most bisexual drink of all time: Shirley Temple with three shots of scotch whiskey. I call it a Surly Shirley, and I DARE you to make fun of me for it.

Q3: 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 candle that smells like the Pacific Ocean. If it smells like the Atlantic, whoever’s responsible will find themselves hogtied and dumped in the drink off Portobello Beach.

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

Politely nodding at a woman telling the tale of her situationship breakup while it discretely checks its Grindr notifications.

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Bi Meets World

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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