Listings: Kids

Cadies and Witchery Tours and LRStageworks / Assembly Rooms. She's a princess and she farts. What more do you need to know? Can Princess Pumpalot protect Wiffyville Castle from the invasion of low-flying gnomes? Will she win her battle with the nasty prince? Who will take her to the Royal Birthday Ball? Based on the…

Zurriola Antzerki Eskola. Middle June. A flat in Bilbao. Four students facing the exam period. A hard study night ahead amongst notes, coffee and cigarettes. These are the ingredients of the story of the four young girls that will discover each other in a night full of conflicts, confessions and emotions. Friendship…

Thirty years of children, young people and Circus. Join A & FIC as it celebrates its 30th anniversary and 18 years at the Fringe with a magnificent cavalcade of circus. A cracking cornucopia of music, magic and mayhem performed by the talented young people of A & FIC, driven by the ghosts of members past - those…

Kids can have a go too – shout out your funniest ideas for the comedians onstage to turn into wacky stories – completely on the spot!

Bad Physics / Mercury Colchester / Escalator East to Edinburgh / Richard Jordan. When a famous scientist is abducted, it takes his two children, their best friend, an incompetent storyteller, and you to rescue him. Join an intrepid gang of young detectives to explore a dark and exciting disused building - discover…

Gilded Balloon. Join Caroline Rhea of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Phineas and Ferb and her new best friend, Mr Clown, an adorable, quick-witted puppet, as they sing, play and joke their way through basic language skills, manners, and other exciting life lessons in this playful interactive multi-media show. 'My kids…

An impending winter storm and freezing of the Bering Sea threatens the fall / winter arrival of a supply ship to King Island, Alaska. The villagers - all of them - carry an oomiak (walrus skin boat) over the island’s mountain. They meet the ship on the leeward side where the calm waters enable them to bring all…

A cross-cultural collaboration between Scottish-based community arts group Alchemy Arts and Chinese community theatre group Hua Dan. The bringing together of diverse communities through the sharing of art, stories and culture. A series of interactive creative arts workshops, using the arts to respond to and…

Ali McGregor / The Famous Spiegeltent. An afternoon of jumping, jiving jazz for 0-10 year olds. Led by the insanely talented (and mother of a toddler) Ali McGregor, these jazzy beats and trashy pop references will get your kids singing and prancing, twisting and dancing. Parents, grandparents and friends can join in or…

The American High School Theatre Festival. Robert Fulghum's classic life instruction book comes to life on stage as he gently reminds us of what is truly important in life: to play, laugh, love, and live life to its fullest. Through a series of vignettes and songs we celebrate our humanity, from the whimsy of…

Louis Pearl / The Assembly Rooms. Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences around the world for nearly 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles. A Fringe favourite, he has sold out every year for the last six years. Louis explores the breath-taking dynamics of bubbles, combining comedy and artistry with…

Hi, I'm Bubbles. And I'm Bermooda. We have lost our circus and need your help to make a new one! We promise there will be laughing bananas, impromptu songs, a sad lion, puppets, and lots of stupid fun. Are you Serious? Well don't be. We're just a ridiculous, playful circus in an igloo.

The American High School Theatre Festival. Goddesses. Heroes. A young sorceress. A journey into the unknown. Good, evil, and magic. San Domenico School proudly presents an all-female cast in this ingenious telling of Jason and the Argonauts. On a quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason is befriended by the goddesses Hera…

Augment Productions. Augment Productions present the premiere of Arthur's Quest - a fantastic new musical based upon the medieval legend of King Arthur. With dragons, daring swordfights and a touch of magic there really is something for everyone! This vibrant, British musical features actor-musicians playing a unique…

Freshly back from taking on the best of the best at the East Coast Derby Extravaganza in the USA, Edinburgh’s own Auld Reekie Roller Girls are ready to take it to the track in two full-contact special Fringe bouts. Come and watch the all-star team, the Twisted Thistles, battle it out on a flat track against…

Milk Monitors / Laughing Horse Free Festival. Come see a new, hilarious, improvised Jane Austen novel every day - for free! Back after their smash 2012 debut, Austentatious cook up entire plays full of wit, flirtation and dastardly behaviour. You are cordially invited to see Austen's lost works (Pride and Predator…

Enter a secret garden full of busy bees, ducks and splashing fish where you’ll meet our singers and begin your adventure. BabyO is a multi-sensory experience full of song, music, sight, touch and texture for babies aged between 6 and 18 months. Created for babies and their carers to enjoy together, this interactive show…

Toby Mitchell. A time traveller from the year 2042 has come to Edinburgh on a mission. He needs your help to change the future. But time is running out… From the creator of the Fringe 2012 sell-out success Monsters Got Talent ('a standout show' ★★★★ BroadwayBaby.com). 'Toby Mitchell has a natural ease and rapport with…

Paper Finch Theatre. The enduring French fairy tale exploring devotion, beauty, and love, reimagined with puppetry and live music. Beauty, our bookish but sweet-natured heroine, much-abused by her narcissistic siblings, nobly steps into a life of captivity at the hands of a terrible beast to save her father's life. But…

Bec Hill & Tom Goodliffe. Oh pants! It's laundry day! But Bec ('side-splittingly funny' ThreeWeeks) and Tom ('clever gags and bumbling charm' Scotsman) have other ideas*. Join the puerile pair in a world of silliness, make-believe and bad celebrity impersonations. A sketch show for cool kids by childish adults.