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Fringe by the Sea
With a spot of sea air and an entertaining line-up of music, comedy, theatre, film, authors and children’s events, North Berwick's multi-arts festival offers a respite from the madness of Edinburgh in festival season.
Various Venues, North Berwick
Mon 5 Aug
Times & prices vary / 01620 890787
Tue 6 Aug
Times & prices vary / 01620 890787
Wed 7 Aug
Times & prices vary / 01620 890787
Absolute Improv Stories!
Shout out your funniest ideas for the comedians onstage to turn into wacky stories – completely on the spot!
The Paupers Pit Theatre (Underground Venues), Buxton
Fri 12 Jul
£8 (£5) / 01298 73461
Part of Buxton Festival Fringe.
- 16:45 – 17:45
Sat 13 Jul
£8 (£5) / 01298 73461
Part of Buxton Festival Fringe.
- 11:30 – 12:30
Sun 14 Jul
£8 (£5) / 01298 73461
Part of Buxton Festival Fringe.
- 11:30 – 12:30
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh
Fri 2 Aug
Sat 3 Aug
Mon 5 Aug
Absolute Improv Workshop
To Be Continued. Learn improv comedy skills in this fun five-day intensive training course. Our tutors have performed and taught for years and have studied with Keith Johnston. Course includes performance opportunities during the Fringe. All levels of experienced are welcomed and catered for, from complete beginner to…
theSpace @ Jury's Inn, Edinburgh
Mon 5 Aug
Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
Milk Monitors / Laughing Horse Free Festival. Come see a new, hilarious, improvised Jane Austen novel every day - for free! Back after their smash 2012 debut, Austentatious cook up entire plays full of wit, flirtation and dastardly behaviour. You are cordially invited to see Austen's lost works (Pride and Predator…
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, Edinburgh
Thu 1 Aug
Fri 2 Aug
Sat 3 Aug
Bespoke Comedy for the Discerning Family
Foghorn's delicious blend of comedy is sure to leave the adults awestruck and the kids captivated. New stories are magically plucked out of Foghorn's expansive imagination and into existence from your suggestions. By the end of our one-act Pop-Tart, you'll be tweeting frantically to get the word out about this…
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, Edinburgh
Fri 2 Aug
Sat 3 Aug
Sun 4 Aug
Caddie Capers
A fun-filled session of storytelling which takes you back to Georgian Edinburgh. Ages 4-12.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Sat 13 Jul
Free / 0131 624 6200
In this session, subtitled How Edinburgh Changed the World, kids can learn that the Scottish Enlightenment was a lot more than people just opening curtains.
- 14:00 – 14:30
- 15:00 – 15:30
Children's Workshops
Kids can get into the spirit of the festival with some fun workshops.
The Mall Howgate, Falkirk
Fri 19 Jul
Times & prices to be confirmed / 01324 631 985
Part of Funny in Falkirk.
Sat 20 Jul
Times & prices to be confirmed / 01324 631 985
Part of Funny in Falkirk.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
Comedy Club 4 Kids Ltd. Otter-ly incredible! After almost a decade at the Edinburgh Fringe, we're still bringing families the greatest comedians doing what they do best… but without the rude bits! It's exactly like a normal comedy club, but on in daylight hours, and with higher chance of heckles like 'why is that your…
Underbelly Bristo Square, Edinburgh
Fri 2 Aug
Sat 3 Aug
Sun 4 Aug
ComedySportz @ Laughing Horse Free Festival
Comedysportz UK. ComedySportz takes two teams of the slickest, sharpest minds that comedy has to offer and pits them against each other. Armed with nothing more than the audience's suggestions and sharply contrasting uniforms, the Csz crew weave comedy gold before your very eyes. No scripts, no short cuts… Manchester's…
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, Edinburgh
Sun 18 Aug
Mon 19 Aug
Tue 20 Aug
Daily at the BBC
The BBC returns to bring the best of the Festivals to audiences at home and in Edinburgh. Come and find out what's going on from 9am daily. Visit bbc.co.uk/tickets for line-ups and tickets. Follow @BBCEdFest.
BBC @ Potterrow, Edinburgh
Fri 2 Aug
Sat 3 Aug
Sun 4 Aug
Ealing Comedy Festival
The five day Ealing Comedy Festival features 20 top comedians including Lee Mack, Ed Byrne and Andi Osho.
Walpole Park, London W5
Fri 12 Jul
£18.50 per day / 0871 620 4016
Sat 13 Jul
£18.50 per day / 0871 620 4016
Wed 17 Jul
£18.50 per day / 0871 620 4016
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The largest arts festival in the world and the greatest show on earth. Every year thousands of performers take to a multitude of stages all over Edinburgh to present shows for every taste. From big names in the world of entertainment to unknown artists looking to build their careers, the festival caters for everyone and…
Edinburgh: various venues
Fri 2 Aug
Times & prices vary / 0131 226 2000
Sat 3 Aug
Times & prices vary / 0131 226 2000
Sun 4 Aug
Times & prices vary / 0131 226 2000
Gobsmell: The Musical
A new family musical spaghetti western: part fairy tale and part love story. Welcome to Gobsmell - a small Yorkshire hamlet where the secrets are as deep as the cavities. One day a stranger arrives: a wily American dentist who's burnt all his bridges. He's been lured by a cryptic invitation: if he can keep the…
theSpace on Niddry Street, Edinburgh
Mon 12 Aug
Tue 13 Aug
Wed 14 Aug
Huggers - Free Festival
Nik Coppin. The international hit show returns for its third season, with a revolving line-up of various performers, ranging from comedians and magicians to musical theatre and street performers, for all the family to enjoy together. 'Great show. Go and see it' (Scotsman, Edinburgh, 2011). 'Mums and dads will be on to…
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, Edinburgh
Fri 2 Aug
Sat 3 Aug
Sun 4 Aug
I Hate Children Children's Show
Unusual Productions. Magic for teens, tweens and hot soccer moms. 'Best Children's Show' (ThreeWeeks). For parents who love kids but hate bad magic. Bad Magician, Paul Nathan (HBO, MTV, Star Trek Voyager) lost a bet and had to do a children's show. Surprisingly it was a hit. So now Paul's back to ride that…
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
Wed 31 Jul
Thu 1 Aug
Fri 2 Aug
Jack and The Beanstalk
A fun and festive panto for the whole family.
Princess Theatre, Torquay
Sun 15 Dec
£20–£24 / 0870 847 2315
James Campbell's Comedy 4 Kids
IMWP. Imagine you're a sausage. You are in a frying pan, happily sizzling away with other, like-minded sausages. Then one of them starts to tell you about tomato ketchup. You refuse to believe your friend's stories but later you find yourself being dipped head first into that tangy, tomatoey joy. And then you realise…
The Famous Spiegeltent, Edinburgh
Thu 8 Aug
Fri 9 Aug
Sat 10 Aug
Sun 11 Aug
Leaving Iowa
The American High School Theatre Festival. This comedy about family and family vacations is a show suitable for ages 10 to 110! The story centres on Don Browning, a middle-aged writer who returns home and decides to finally take his father's ashes to his childhood home, as requested. But when Don discovers Grandma's…
Pilrig Studio, Edinburgh
Mon 5 Aug
Tue 6 Aug
Wed 7 Aug
Thu 8 Aug
Little Howard and The Magic Pencil of Life and Death
Little Howard (he's a cartoon) and his sidekick Big Howard's (he's a real person) comedy double act.
The Stand, Glasgow
Sun 7 Jul
£4 / 0844 335 8879
- 15:00
Nairn Book and Arts Festival
A range of musical, literary and artistic events with a fringe drawing on the talents of the local creative community. This year's programme features BBC Radio 4's James Naughtie, comedian Sara Pascoe, Edinburgh Makar Ron Butlin and fiddle player Duncan Chisholm. There's also introduces a few firsts for 2013, with the…
Various Venues, Nairn
Tue 3 Sep
Times & prices vary (£7–£15) / 01667 453476
Wed 4 Sep
Times & prices vary (£7–£15) / 01667 453476
Thu 5 Sep
Times & prices vary (£7–£15) / 01667 453476
Oxford Imps
Acclaimed Fringe veterans The Oxford Imps return one again to fill your afternoon with hilarious Whose Line Is It Anyway? style comedy. The Imps perform a huge variety of spontaneous games and sketches based entirely on audience suggestions. From Shakespeare to Broadway musical, the show delivers exciting new experiences…
Gilded Balloon Teviot, Edinburgh
Wed 31 Jul
Thu 1 Aug
Fri 2 Aug
Slava's Snow Show
A cast of clowns use water, cobwebs, bubbles and dry ice to create a world of wonder in which a bed becomes a boat, a web of cotton envelops the audience and one tiny piece of paper begins a blinding snowstorm.
Bristol Hippodrome
Thu 31 Oct
£10–£29.50 / 0844 847 2325
Stay at Home Dad
Hazard! Man doing woman's work! Mr Eden Rivers got together with a successful career chick, got her up the duff and married her. Bosh! Job done! A surprise second baby means Eden is to be a full time parent. Obviously, there is nothing more tedious than listening to someone waffle on about their own offspring. It's…
Citrus Club, Edinburgh
Sat 3 Aug
Sun 4 Aug
Mon 5 Aug
This Is Soap: the Improvised Soap Opera
C theatre. Making a return in C theatre's 22nd year - the comedy soap that you control. We'll fantasise, dramatise and improvise your very own Soap Opera. Improvised Edinburgh Festival Fringe Soap returns for a brand new series. Olympic storylines inspired by your suggestions will unfold before your eyes. Inspired by…
C, Edinburgh
Wed 31 Jul
+1
£6.50 (£5.50; Children £4.50; Seniors £5.50; Students £5.50) / 0131 226 0000
Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Thu 1 Aug
+1
£6.50 (£5.50; Children £4.50; Seniors £5.50; Students £5.50) / 0131 226 0000
Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Fri 2 Aug
+1
£6.50 (£5.50; Children £4.50; Seniors £5.50; Students £5.50) / 0131 226 0000
Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Three Half Pints
The Three Half Pints are a family friendly slapstick comedy group. Expect a high energy foray into the lives of three shorter than average brothers, Dick, Derek and Ernie as they slip, trip and tumble through a world that's just too big for them. Suitable for ages 5+. 'The Three Half Pints dazzle with well executed Monty…
