The Georgian House, EdinburghDrawing on private letters and contemporary criticism, Cora Bissett's imaginative production offers a rounded picture of a complicated man with a colourful love …
Pleasance at EICC, EdinburghVisual artist Ornagh conjures a psychedelic, mixed-reality vision preoccupied with identity, sexuality and body image What happens when theatre meets film? It is …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghVictoria Melody's passion for other people's passions is in full bloom in a show that finds delight and inspiration in English civil war reenactments Victoria M…
Queen's Hall, EdinburghAn exquisite mix of song, poetry and spoken word, Karine Polwart's show about the Royal Botanic Garden's iconic palm tree stands tall If you thought there could not be…
Summerhall, EdinburghThomas jumps adeptly from terrorist to drug lord in writer Ed Edwards's gripping and subtle one-man show There is an alarming sense of cogs being wound in this prison dr…
A lively, wriggly tube creature, mesmerising birds for babies and a joyful take on Joyce's Ulysses will delight young audiences at this year's festival Assembly Rooms, 10.10am, until 24 Augu…
Traverse, EdinburghSibling envy, a stumbling acting career and addiction are covered in an indistinctive show by the sister of Carl There are many urgent topics demanding our attention on th…
Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Alan Bissett embodies both the expansive Big Yin and the detached author of Lanark in a thoughtful, entertaining search for their conn…
Traverse, EdinburghIn Dan Colley's evocative play, a retired actor with dementia loops through scenes from the classic tragedy A play remains a classic for as long as it continues to yield n…
Summerhall, EdinburghIn a poetic performance, former teenage grunge obsessive Emma Frankland takes heart from a fantasy about the Nirvana musician There is a fashionable theory among pop rev…
Summerhall, Edinburgh Polish company's musical take on Shakespeare's death-fixated drama is full of feeling, but its story never really sings It begins with lines from Under the Earth I Go, …
Assembly George Square Studios, EdinburghNina Khyzhna performs a collage of poetic dance-theatre that embodies the everyday trauma of life in Kharkiv In Pokémon lore, the distortion world i…
A tech twist on Hamlet, a glimpse into a catastrophic future and a uniquely personalised tale of societal breakdown immerse fringe audiences in the haunting uncertainty of artificial intelli…
Traverse theatre, EdinburghHumanity and understanding permeate Gabriel Jason Dean's play inspired by a real-life relationship but awkward questions remain unasked Families fell out over Brex…
Pleasance at EICC, EdinburghIn Michel Marc Bouchard's play, a young man travels to his boyfriend's rural funeral and finds his family are unaware of their relationship Socially, you know it …
Traverse theatre, EdinburghPanto dame Dorothy Blawna-Gale is sharp-tongued and lovable but the hilarity is underpinned by creator Johnny McKnight's personal story She stands before us in a b…
Summerhall, EdinburghIn Bed With My Brother's story of cult band the Shaggs is a furious and funny rallying cry against patriarchy and perfection If fringe favourites Sh!t Theatre had a mili…
'It's rare to really frighten a theatre audience. So it surprised us when people said, "I didn't sleep for three nights after seeing your show"' When my first daughter was five, I asked a fr…
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghMaking her fringe debut, the EastEnders star plays a tribute act to the Hollywood legend in this dreary drama Rarely has the cult of celebrity alighted on someone wi…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis tremendous solo show by Jade Franks uses deep rage and deadpan wit to skewer the ruling class She has glittery nail extensions and her hair scraped back. O…
Summerhall, EdinburghEmma Howlett's play spins several stories " including those of astronomer Vera Rubin and a PhD student " with a light touch There are known knowns, there are known unkno…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn a confident verbatim show, Priyanka Shetty snaps from voice to voice to create a rich vision of the social fabric torn by the 2017 Unite the Right rally atta…
Underbelly Bristo Square, EdinburghAlex Hill's boisterous one-man show teases a trade-off between the belonging and camaraderie of football fandom and personal stability Football is coming h…
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Niall Moorjani plays a storyteller facing public execution for joining an uprising against India's colonial rulers When it comes to c…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghHalf lecture, half nightmare, this high-precision performance blurs the line between medic and patient in a Victorian asylum for mentally ill women In 19th-cent…