Edinburgh Festival Guide

Listings: Before 12pm, Cabaret

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Flamboyant: Like a Flame, But Buoyant

Flamboyant: Like a Flame, But Buoyant is a whimsical, musical journey into the mind of Clara Bell. See the world through the eyes of an Aussie girl with a heart of gold, a love of potatoes and thinly veiled anger issues. Come with Clara as she escapes the clutches of creepy men, battles a zombie and searches for…

Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, Edinburgh

Thu 8 Aug

Top Deck on The Comedy Bus

Free / 0131 226 0000

Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Fri 9 Aug

Top Deck on The Comedy Bus

Free / 0131 226 0000

Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Sat 10 Aug

Top Deck on The Comedy Bus

Free / 0131 226 0000

Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

…and 14 more dates

Hendrick's Carnival of Knowledge

If knowledge is the food of the soul, then let us feast! This travelling parlour of enlightenment combines exceptional experts and erudite amateurs in a fiesta of learning and fine cocktails. Prepare to be delighted by unusual characters, exquisite libations, and wisdom of the most eye-opening variety in the decadent…

Hendrick's Carnival of Knowledge, Edinburgh

Thu 8 Aug

Carnival of Knowledge

Free / 0131 226 0000

Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Fri 9 Aug

Carnival of Knowledge

Free / 0131 226 0000

Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Sat 10 Aug

Carnival of Knowledge

Free / 0131 226 0000

Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

…and 1 more date

Kit Hesketh-Harvey and James McConnel

After sell-out shows in London's hottest cabaret venues, Kit Hesketh-Harvey and James McConnel return to the Fringe with their unique brand of sophisticated up to the minute humour. 'The wit, the elan and the musicality are still intact: James McConnel shines' (ThreeWeeks). With new songs, new hair, new shoes (by…

The Edinburgh Academy

Tue 20 Aug

James Clerk Maxwell Lecture Theatre

£10 (£8) / 0131 226 0000

Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Wed 21 Aug

James Clerk Maxwell Lecture Theatre

£10 (£8) / 0131 226 0000

Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Pandora's Box

The American High School Theatre Festival. In this tense, violent and fast-paced adaptation of the Greek myth, a group of travelling actors with questionable motives choose a famous family as their victims, including a young bride-to be in the role of Pandora and her politician brother-in-law as the Titan Prometheus.

Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh

Wed 7 Aug

Main Theatre

£5 / 0131 226 0000

Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.