Listings: Fringe

Remember all those times you said, I’ll go see Nan tomorrow? Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow… Just one more episode of The Big Bang Theory… Then she was dead! Don’t do that with this show, go see it today. Matthew Highton is a sublime stand-up and masterful storyteller who will take you through imaginative and memorable…

Mick Perrin Worldwide in association with Dawn Sedgwick Management. Class of 2003, assemble! Fresh from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival - and their Barry Award 2013 nomination - Foster's Award-winners Max and Ivan (BBC Radio 4, BBC3) spin a bewitching narrative sketch comedy tale of love, loss and…

Are you a university student at the Fringe? Network with your tech, acting, management, producing peers - make connections! Come meet other university students at this meet and greet sponsored by Fringe University.

‘I wasn’t made to click. But with you I click. We. Click. Like a clique, a trio, a Ménage à Trois.’ Hauntingly beautiful study of love, obsession, loneliness and manipulation, Ménage à Trois is a visually stunning piece of dance theatre from award-winning performer Claire Cunningham and choreographer/video artist Gail…

Enjoy Scotland's finest emerging professionals from the RCS, Scotland's national conservatoire. A different combination of instruments or voices every day with varied classical programmes. Full programmes: www.stmaryscathedral.co.uk.

The cathedral organ has nearly 4000 pipes, up to 32 feet long. Hear (and see!) fine musicians in three informal concerts, with full programmes at www.stmaryscathedral.co.uk.

Jazz inflected klezmer and Balkan dance music.

Lakin McCarthy Entertainment Ltd / The Assembly Rooms. Renowned gardening writer and BBC television presenter, and one of the UK's favourites and most respected gardeners speaks about his life, travels, and how gardening has been woven through it all, and what he has learnt. Monty's TV credits include Gardeners' World…

P45 Popes. Gun-toting Paralympians. Nick Clegg. We live in ethically uncertain times. Not to worry, though, critically acclaimed comic poets Gary From Leeds and Richard Purnell are here to settle your moral quandaries through the only means necessary: Moraletry. What, you may ask, is Moraletry? Like a cross between…

Andy Hinds with Louise Chantal Productions - Festival Highlights. In these recently acclaimed, subtly interlocking new plays, the lives of two very different men fatefully reconnect… The problematic birth of a child may create new possibilities for love, yet this fragile opportunity may just as easily slip through…

Buzztones. A cappella just grew some balls! Singing sensations The Buzztones bring you their first ever Edinburgh show as they embark on their mission to bring you popular music in a way you've never heard before. Join them for an hour of harmony, comedy and downright entertainment featuring tracks by Guetta, Gaga…

Invisible Dot Ltd. The New Wave, a cross section of the most exciting and innovative new acts in the country - 'this century's Comic Strip' (Sunday Times). A limited nine-show run following a sold out London residency, ahead of an Autumn nationwide tour. 'If you like your comedy daring, clever and with a pinch of…

2010 Theatre UK. A group of thirty-something Dungeons & Dragons players are thrown into disarray when one enlists in the Marine Reserves bound for Iraq. At the play's 2010 PAX World Premiere 550 queued for hours and staff turned 250 latecomers away - it caught the mood. For the first time US playwright Cameron…

Allographic’s Other Voices brings you open-hearted open mic, feature sets from a magnificent all-female cast of spoken word stars, and different special guests every day, all with a sumptuous cabaret vibe, hosted by Fay Roberts. We’ll showcase a whirlwind of wit, verve, passion and panache – so if you want to laugh…

What would you do if a stranger asked you to father her child? If your dad thought dance school turned you gay? If you'd never seen the man behind the mask? A moving and unforgiving tribute by three performers whose faraway fathers might just make an appearance. International company Babakas take inspiration from…

For the past two years Dan Canham (DV8 / Kneehigh / Punchdrunk) has been capturing conversations with people of the Fens, East Anglia. Eel-catchers, farmers, parish councillors, conservationists have all been interviewed. In this ethereal piece of documentary dance/theatre, Dan and his ensemble fuse movement and sound…

Four good friends. One last party. One last chance to get more f*cked than the time before! A dangerous, funny, tragic, and honest look beneath the surface as they realise it’s time to get out and grow up. Produced by the New Wolsey Theatre, written by Rob Salmon and performed by the New Wolsey Young Associates, Party…

John Rivers. John Rivers. For 30 years I have exhibited my pots at the West End Fair. And for 20 taught poems to adults. This year I offer both for one week with the emphasis on poems. A wide daily menu of poems chosen for their subject matter, ambiguities and forms: including one each day by Auden and Anne Stevenson…

Baby Loves Disco UK. Friday afternoons just got funky! The team behind Baby Loves Disco (Fringe sell-out 2009/10/11/12) introduce alternative entertainment for primary school children and their families. An afternoon lock-in at Edinburgh's coolest nightclub… Our resident DJ spins the latest chart tunes and street dance…

Svenska Teatern coordinated by Ace-Production. The year is 2108. World War Seven has laid waste to the entire planet. The nation states of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and Australasia have all been totally destroyed. And yet, miraculously, one small, insignificant country on the outermost fringes of the British…