Gorebridge Events
Jerk Off!
Today to Mon 17 Aug, Wed 19 Aug to Mon 24 Aug, Wed 26 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Underbelly (Dairy Room), Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AG
After her mother's death, a British-Pakistani woman moves to Boston – where a 6'5 Puerto Rican hip hop dancer from the Bronx teaches her...
In the Black
Today to Mon 17 Aug, Wed 19 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Underbelly (Daisy), Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AG
The gripping dark comedy of an ambitious Black accountant fighting for a seat at the table in the high-stakes world of Wall Street...
Furniture Boys
Today to Mon 17 Aug, Wed 19 Aug to Mon 24 Aug, Wed 26 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Underbelly (Jersey), Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AG
Writer-performer Emily Weitzman’s riotous solo comedy turns boyfriends into futons and lampshades, and breakups into broken chairs...
Learning to Human
Today to Sun 30 Aug
Gilded Balloon Teviot (Wee Room), 13 Bristo Square EH8 9AJ
Award-winning solo show. Join US comic actor Sims Holland on her Edinburgh debut as she recounts her rollercoaster journey from the depths of...
Friendliest
Sat 8 Aug to Mon 17 Aug, Wed 19 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Gilded Balloon (The Nook), Teviot Row House, Edinburgh EH8 9AJ
Drew Lausch grew up gay in Fargo, North Dakota. So he did what any emotionally stable teenager would do: invented the world's first gay...
To Do Lists
Today to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (The Green), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
'No one is coming to save you. Except yourself.' Ever since she can remember, Amy has written a to do list...
Heart Beats Strong
Today to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Bunker 2), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
An antidote to the crisis of masculinity we're having in our culture, but make it funny and dance-y and a little bit silly...
NewsRevue
Today to Tue 18 Aug, Thu 20 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Pleasance One), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Guinness World Record-breaking NewsRevue (47 years!), makes its debut in Pleasance One. If the news has got you down, this is your antidote...
Forget About Me
Today to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Bunker 2), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
In a remote, north-east village, something lurks in the bathroom: something Dylan struggles to remember, which even his dad's deadly DIY skills...
Rockpools
Today to Sun 30 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Bunker 3), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Rockpools is a darkly funny, one-woman play about hoarding, loss and endometriosis. The Woman is unhappily married and harbouring a huge secret...
The Second Best School Shooting
Today to Tue 11 Aug, Thu 13 Aug to Tue 18 Aug, Thu 20 Aug to Tue 25 Aug, Thu 27 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Baby Grand), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Two best friends struggle to process surviving a school shooting that is overshadowed by a much worse school shooting on the same day...
Helen Bradley: Painter and Storyteller
Today to Tue 18 Aug, Thu 20 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Cellar), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
This is the sixth painter play that Kara Wilson has written, where she portrays the artist at work and completes an oil painting in her style during...
Giraffe
Today to Fri 14 Aug, Sun 16 Aug to Mon 24 Aug, Wed 26 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Cellar), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Eliana's always felt different – and not in a cute way. In fact, she's grown up with a dark secret: she's almost definitely a...
Reparations
Today to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Above), 60 The Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
After serving three years in prison, Aisha sets out on a journey of self-healing, determined to cure her shoplifting addiction and leave old habits...
The Librarians: A Very Serious Comedy!
Today to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Pleasance Two), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
The staff at Plumstanton Library are clinging to tradition as the shelves collapse around them. The roof leaks, the stacks are bare and they haven’t...
Target Audience
Today to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Above), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
A TV production company gets word from Whitehall that they must adapt their programming to align with the government's new policy to rapidly...
Overtone
Today to Tue 11 Aug, Thu 13 Aug to Tue 18 Aug, Thu 20 Aug to Tue 25 Aug, Thu 27 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Pleasance (Jack Dome), 1 Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AL
When two teenagers meet after choir practice, they begin the most important relationship of their lives...
Copycat
Today to Tue 11 Aug, Thu 13 Aug to Tue 18 Aug, Thu 20 Aug to Tue 25 Aug, Thu 27 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Dome (Jack Dome), 2 Bristo Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AL
'This technology is being pushed on us at a time when the world is moving towards authoritarianism' (Geoffrey Hinton)...
Tale of the Firebird
Today to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Assembly Roxy (Central), 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh EH8 9SU
Classical precision meets circus adrenaline in this genre-bending re-imagining of a violin concerto composed by Chloé Charody for The Freestyle...
Big Stuff
Today to Mon 10 Aug, Wed 12 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Assembly (Roxy Boxy), 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh EH8 9SU
Acclaimed Canadian Second City comedy duo, Matt Baram and Naomi Snieckus, directed by genius collaborator Kat Sandler, bring their signature mix of...
Edinburgh care home to host food festival for local community
Fri 7 Aug
Lauder Lodge
2 Wakefield Avenue
Edinburgh
Scotland EH7 6TL
With festival season officially under way, one care home in Edinburgh is welcoming the community for a fun-filled day of food and...
Georgina Thomas: Hysterical Soprano
Today to Mon 31 Aug
Underbelly Bristo Square (Dexter), Bristo Place, Edinburgh EH8 9YL
Some might say Georgina is a narcissist, but she prefers the term Soprano. Trapped in the echo chamber of her own vibrato, Georgina is forced to...
Operotica: Lovers in Every Lifetime
Today to Sun 30 Aug
Underbelly Bristo Square (Dairy Room), Bristo Place EH8 9YL
Operotica: The UK's premier kinky opera duo. Classically trained, fetish-approved and, as of yesterday, dead...
Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop
Today to Tue 15 Sep
Dovecot Studios, 10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh EH1 1LT
‘We entered Cosprop as ourselves and walked out as the person we were playing.’ – Helena Bonham Carter
Founded by Oscar and BAFTA-winning costume...
15 Minutes of Shame
Fri 7 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
ZOO (Playground 2), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
Why not do OnlyFans? Plunge into the desperate world of a young London couple facing the brutal reality of financial struggle...
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