What's On In and Around Alford
Today to Wed 14 Sep, by distance closest first.
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Love, Loss & Chianti
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Much-loved TV star Robert Bathurst returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with Love, Loss & Chianti, an exciting double-bill intertwined with glorious animations from celebrated cartoonist Charles Peattie.
Assembly Rooms (Music Hall), 54 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2LR
Today to Mon 22 Aug, Wed 24 Aug to Sun 28 Aug
The Black Blues Brothers
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Having thrilled audiences at the Fringe in 2019 with a sell-out, five-star run, The Black Blues Brothers returns to Assembly this summer.
Assembly Rooms (Music Hall), 54 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2LR
Today to Sun 28 Aug
KIN
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Not seen in Edinburgh since 2017 and fresh from a run in London’s West End, BMT (Bromance) return with their biggest show yet KIN, an innovative and exhilarating five-star show about camaraderie now
Assembly Rooms (Music Hall), 54 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2LR
Today to Sun 21 Aug, Tue 23 Aug to Sun 28 Aug
Laughing Horse Presents: Bex's Chainsaw Moussaka
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There’ll be no storytelling, no deep meaning about relationships, no moral messages near the end... but there might just be quick-fire jokes, dark wordplay, oddball characters, off-the-wall...
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe (Nineties Room).
19 Blair Street,
Venue 85 EH1 1QR
Sat 20 Aug to Sun 28 Aug
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Block'd Off
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Recipient of the Pleasance Theatre’s Generate Fund for UK-based Black, Asian and Global Majority Artists, Block’d Off is a hard-hitting one-woman play that follows five characters living in the cycle
Pleasance Courtyard (Upstairs), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Today to Mon 22 Aug, Wed 24 Aug to Mon 29 Aug
PUSH
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Award-winning Popelei celebrates their 10th anniversary by returning to Edinburgh with the world premiere of PUSH – a darkly comic and provocative show performed by one increasingly knocked-up
Pleasance Courtyard (Baby Grand), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Today to Mon 29 Aug
Rapsody
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2022 recipient of the Pleasance’s Charlie Hartill Theatre Reserve, Vision Production Company take a raw look at inner-city life in Britain today in their debut show Rapsody.
Pleasance Courtyard (Above), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Today to Mon 29 Aug
Oedipus Electronica
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An electrifying reimagining of the ultimate love triangle – mother, father, son – Oedipus Electronica is the eagerly awaited new show from Pecho Mama.
Pleasance Courtyard (Forth), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Today to Fri 26 Aug
Made In India/ Britain
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Supported by the Pleasance’s Generate Fund for UK-based Black, Asian and Global Majority Artists, Rinkoo Barpaga sets out to tell the story of South Asian Deaf people living in Britain.
Pleasance Courtyard (Two), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Today to Mon 22 Aug, Wed 24 Aug to Mon 29 Aug
Please, Feel Free To Share
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Please, Feel Free to Share is a dynamic, darkly comic, one-woman show about our personal addictions, the never-ending pursuit of likes, and our growing desire to share all.
Pleasance Courtyard (The Attic), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Today to Mon 29 Aug
Let's Talk About Philip About Philip
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Many of us can relate to the concept of families not talking about things – but Helen Wood (The Usherettes,) shows us the extreme in Let’s Talk About Philip, a fast-paced, candid, darkly comic and
Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Today to Sun 28 Aug
Today I Killed My Very First Bird
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Pacey, powerful, and heartbreakingly authentic, Today I Killed My Very First Bird explores hope and despair, combining immersive sound and bold storytelling to create a vivid and visceral theatrical
Pleasance Courtyard (Beside), 60 Pleasance EH8 9TJ
Today to Mon 29 Aug
Mervyn Stutter's 'Pick of the Fringe'
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WHAT IS THIS SHOW?
The Edinburgh Fringe can be a daunting place. So many shows available but how do you know which ones are good and which ones are bad?
60 The Pleasance EH8 9TJ
Today, Fri 19 Aug to Wed 24 Aug, Fri 26 Aug to Sun 28 Aug
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Madam Good Tit
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Helen Bauer is basic, well, basic-plus, because she is aware of it. 2019’s Best Newcomer nominee has announced her first UK tour starting on Wednesday 28th September at the Edinburgh Stand...
Pleasance Courtyard Bunker Two Edinburgh Fringe: 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Today to Sun 28 Aug
Tiger Lady
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Welcome to a tale of love, excitement, danger and very sharp claws. Mabel Stark, the queen of the circus, was one of the first ever female tiger tamers, and the only woman to step into the ring with...
Pleasance Courtyard (Above), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Thu 18 Aug to Sun 21 Aug, Tue 23 Aug to Mon 29 Aug
I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical
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From voice-straining high notes to limb-spraining high kicks, via on-stage smooches and off-stage feuds, award-winning musical revue I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical reveals everything that you
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose (The Other Yin), 3 Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HT
Today to Sun 28 Aug
Will Tell and the Big Bad Baron
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Fringe favourites Theatre Fideri Fidera are back with a hilarious comic reimagining of the tale of Wilhelm Tell.
Gilded Balloon (Patter Hoose), 3 Chambers Street EH1 1HT
Today to Sun 21 Aug
Hotel Paradiso
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Irresistibly colourful, loud and fun, Hotel Paradiso returns as an unmissable show for the whole family.
Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, (The Beauty), Edinburgh EH1 1EG
Today to Sat 27 Aug
(le) Pain
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As the smell of baking bread wafts around the audience, Jean-Daniel (JD) Broussé’s first solo show offers a similar tantalising temptation.
Assembly Roxy (Upstairs), 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh EH8 9SU
Today to Sun 28 Aug
Chansons – Songs and Stories from Piaf, Brel and Me
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The in-person version of “Chansons” plays for a limited run from 5-21 August 2002 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the C ARTS season at C aquila.
C ARTS | C venues | C aquila Venue (Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace, Edinburgh (venue 21) EH1 2PW
Sun 21 Aug