07 Aug Edinburgh Fringe Festival | KSF Top Picks
We’ve selected our top picks from the offerings at this years Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Check out the shows that we think you need to see…
Education Education Education | The Wardrobe Ensemble
Pleasance Dome, 5.20pm
Education, Education, Education is The Wardrobe Ensemble’s love letter to the schools of the 90s and asks big questions about a country in special measures, exploring what we are taught and why, and where responsibility lies.
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Sexbox | Impermanence Dance Theatre
The Leith Volcano, 8.00pm
Looking at sex through the eyes and ears of private musician Ursula Bogner, you’ll be taken deep into stranger and stranger domains of liberation, perversion and sensuality.
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A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) | Silent Uproar
Pleasance Courtyard, 2.20pm
A fun, silly and sad show for anyone whose brain isn’t always on their side.
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All We Ever Wanted Was Everything | Middle Child
Roundabout @ Summerhall 8.45pm
Meet Leah and Chris; raised on Harry Potter, New Labour and a belief they would be special. But what happens when dreams don’t become reality?
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Don’t Worry, They’re Here | John Kerns
Heroes @ Monkey Barrel 17.00pm
The only winner of the Best Show and Best Newcomer Edinburgh Comedy Awards returns for the first time. ‘Now this is how you do absurd comedy… a bold, hilarious debut… he has forged comedy gold’ (Chortle.co.uk).
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Absolutely | Tom Allen
Pleasance Courtyard 8.00pm
As seen on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Live at the Apollo, The Great British Bake Off’s Extra Slice, The John Bishop Show, Virtually Famous, Channel 4’s Comedy Gala at the O2 and heard on Radio 4’s Just a Minute.
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Secret Life of Humans | New Diorama Theatre
Pleasance Courtyard 6.30pm
In 1949, Dr Jacob Bronowski installs a secret, alarmed room in his house. Fifty years later, his grandson discovers his secrets, unearthing echoes from across six million years of human history, told from the perspective of a century in which every year is a revolutionary year.
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Seanmhair | The Other Room
Bedlam Theatre 4.55pm
A chance meeting between two children on the streets of Edinburgh unleashes a terrible reckoning, leaving Jenny and Tommy forever bound together by blood and fate.
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Jihan’s Smile | Al-Harah
Summerhall 10.15am
Jihan is an ordinary child who woke up one day to discover that she had lost her smile. The sun set, the moon disappeared, everything lost its colour, cold spread throughout the town and the people got sick.
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When The Going Gets Duff | Helen Duff
Assembly Roxy 7.35pm
Helen Duff returns with a ‘bold, subversive and very funny’ show about life as a fully exposed idiot.
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Knock, Knock | Niv Patel
C Venues - C Primo 7.30pm
Humorously and poignantly, Niv Petel’s physical solo uses a unique point of view to draw back the thick curtain of politics in the Middle East.
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Summertime Love | Paul Williams
theSpace @Surgeons Hall 11.20pm
The summer is coming. You know what that means: beaches, bathing suits and boys (or girls depending on your sexual orientation. I personally prefer girls I just didn’t want to ruin the alliteration).
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Jessica Fostekew’s ‘The Silence of the Nans’ | Rabbit Rabbit in association with Troika
Just the Tonic at The Caves 4pm
Last summer, Jessica did two reasonably significant things. One brought pure joy. The other, a tale of entrapment, torture, shame and ice cream. This show tells the second story. The horrid one.
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Prom Kween | Aine Flanagan Productions
Underbelly, Cowgate 8.35pm
A musical for any kid who took their glasses off and still didn’t look pretty. Any kid who questioned what it meant to be beautiful. It’s a story of falling in love with who you are. Think Grease meets Drag Race meets a Trump rally with sequins. Lots of sequins.
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LadsLadsLads | Sara Pascoe
Pleasance Courtyard 5.40pm
Sara is enjoying a year-long, one-woman stag do. From spiritual retreats, city breaks, life drawing classes and football matches – she has been drunk and lonely everywhere.
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And Here I Am | Orient Productions / Salt ‘n’ Sauce Promotions
New Town Theatre 1.30pm
Based on the actor Ahmed Tobasi’s personal coming of age story; an epic voyage of identity and self-discovery.
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Love, Bombs and Apples | AIK Productions / Turtle Key Arts
Summerhall 1.30pm
This one-man play expertly highlights the problems in today’s global and multicultural landscape, using comedy to bravely tackle problems facing the Arab and Muslim communities across the world.
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