Afternoon events, Comedy

Comedy about a group of female factory workers who all want different things and life and decide to visit Royal Ascot. Starring Roxanne Pallett and Angela Simms.

• Written by: Shakespeare

A production of Shakespeare's famous comedy about mistaken identity.

• Written by: Brendan O'Carroll

The story of Agnes Brown finding a date over the internet for Valentine's Day.

The socially awkward, perennially clumsy Miranda off the, what we call, telly embarks on her first ever live tour. Such fun!

Following her sell-out run in 2010 of At Home With Mrs Moneypenny which subsequently transferred to the 59E59th Street Theatre in New York, the Financial Times Weekend columnist of 13 years standing is reunited with her Aga. Provocative and hilarious tales of her life, loves and literary challenges will be helped…

*The UK premiere of a joyous, log-balancing, wood-chucking, axe-juggling spectacular from a family of lumberjack circus-performers. * Blending circus with theatre, dance, live traditional music and the folklore of their native Quebec, Cirque Alfonse take the audience on a wild ride of gravity-defying acrobatics and…

• Directed by: Nancy Meckler
• Written by: William Shakespeare

Nancy Meckler directs Greg Hicks, Jonathan Slinger and Charlotte Cornwell, in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Shakespeare's comic romance.

Bacon Face / The Stand Comedy Club. The cult 1980s Canadian stand-up comedian and inventor of Canadian stand-up comedy, comes to Edinburgh for his UK debut. See Canadian stand-up comedy's past, and perhaps its future. 'If he could expand his razor wit onto a global level I think he could be incredibly popular.' (Geddy…

• Written by: Tom Wells

Hull Truck Theatre presents Tom Wells's comedy drama about grassroots football, friendship and growing up. Created with the support of Paines Plough. Directed by James Grieve.

• Directed by: Toby Hulse
• Written by: Toby Hulse (adaptation)

Bristol Old Vic, in association with Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, presents a contemporary version of Karl Kraus's satirical masterpiece, a collage of short extracts from overheard conversations, newspaper columns, letters and speeches. Adapted and directed by John Retallack and Toby Hulse.

• Directed by: Jim Cartwright
• Written by: Jim Cartwright

You wouldn't notice Little Voice in a crowd, but when she starts to sing, the stars come out. Mari likes to be the centre of attention, so when her latest boyfriend – a would be Simon Cowell –decides to make her daughter Little Voice a star, the battlelines are drawn.

• Written by: Eric Chappell

ITV's top comedy of all time comes to the stage in a brand-new production from the Comedy Theatre Company.

• Directed by: Mike Mende
• Written by: Joseph Kesselring

Arsenic and Old Lace is a farcical comedy revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police in Brooklyn, NY, as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves. Written by Joseph Kesselring and directed by Mike Mende.

Award-winning comedians Darren Walsh, ‘relentlessly chirpy’ (Time Out, London,) and Leo Kearse, ‘very funny’ (List), host this hour of demented wordplay, ridiculous puns, audience inspired ad-libbing, special guests. You’ll laugh, you’ll groan, you’ll come back! A different show every day! Different guests…

Not Sir Alex Ferguson (no, we didn't know he was called that either), but our favourite mysterious cult 1980s Canadian stand-up who wears a Mexican wrestling mask instead.

This is a show on top of Arthur's seat, every day at 1pm. It is only a 45 minute walk from the Royal Mile (really!), a totally unique (and funny) event at the most spectacular venue in Edinburgh. You can't afford to miss it. ‘One of the friendliest, fun and memorable shows at the Fringe this year’ ★★★…

'I have two Oscars, not one but two'. Bdafs is a powerful one-woman show which takes place on the eve of the 1939 Academy Awards. Davis, upon finding out she will lose the Oscar to Vivien Leigh, leaves the ceremony and begins a journey through her memories. A piercing insight into the struggle of an actress who…

Foundry Group. 1976-1988. Two fat men pretend to fight each other. One hundred million watch. This multi award-winning comedy play brings back to grunting, grappling life two hugely popular behemoths and the bizarre world they bestrode. Herald Angel winner Ross Gurney (Follow Me, Mussolini) and Dave Mounfield (Count…