Edinburgh Festival listings

Seven Dance Companies from the USA in One Show. A five-star dance festival within a festival! Extraordinary, captivating dance performed by awe-inspiring companies from the USA. From aerial to jazz to American great Bob Fosse! Be moved! Bite-sized festival format. 'Perfect for Fringe lovers!' (ThreeWeeks). All ages.

BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance and Synthesis Dance Project. Exquisite, enticing, exhilarating dance from two top USA companies. Synthesis Dance Project features groundbreaking jazz dance choreographed by internationally renowned Tracie Stanfield while BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance returns for an encore of their…

Sharon Burgess Productions / Mick n Boo. Hot from the oven comes the tastiest breakfast in town. Featuring only the best comedians and acts at the Fringe, this is a morning variety show for the early risers. Mums and Dads, sit back with a coffee and croissant. Kids, get ready to laugh until lunchtime. You just bought a…

The cult Australian comedian, not for the faint of heart, brings another show brimming in foul-mouthed rants and questionable taste to the Fringe.

Bridget Christie / The Stand Comedy Club. 'Most original act I've seen for years' (Harry Hill). Star of BBC Radio 4's Bridget Christie Minds the Gap, BBC2's It's Kevin, and Comedy Central's Alternative Comedy Experience, starts the day by eroticising waterproof jackets and roller coasters, ridiculing biro…

Dotted Line Productions. An informal audience with legendary Richard Burton as he chats about his famous friends, career, turbulent love life and his rise from the humblest of beginnings to worldwide superstardom. He even performs his party piece - a famous Shakespearian speech recited backwards! All with his customary…

Following countless sell-out runs, the Cambridge Footlights return to the Edinburgh Fringe as they celebrate the club's 130th anniversary. Many past Footlights have changed the face of British comedy, including Peter Cook, John Cleese, Hugh Laurie and Tim Key. Join 'the most renowned sketch troupe of them all…

ENLACE S.C. Cambuyón is an interdisciplinary show with the collaboration of different artists from tap, body percussion, hip hop, drumming, singing and other disciplines intimately related to the percussion, seven performers deliver a vision on how rhythm has been evolving through the different cultures that surround…

Les Petits Theatre Company, Greenwich Theatre and Underbelly Productions. Join Flinn as he discovers a Pirate hiding in a cupboard, hold on tight as the cupboard falls away and together we tumble into a real life adventure! All aboard for a non-stop action-packed theatrical experience with live music, puppetry…

Two actors. One musician. Forty-four characters. Captain Morgan and First Mate Hammond quest for secrets of time-travel in a rip-roaring adventure comedy with monsters, sword fights and shivered timbers. Featured on BBC Radio, Tap Tap Theatre presents a whirlwind of adventure and avarice, hilarity and heroics, as…

Casual Violence! Comedy. Award-winning sketch terrors 'creative, strange, brilliantly performed stuff' (Kate Copstick, Scotsman) and double Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality nominees (2011 and 2012) present the rise and fall and fall and fall and fall and fall and rise and fall of the most villainous bloodline…

Beckett on Film: Catastrophe: Directed by David Mamet and starring Harold Pinter, Rebecca Pidgeon and John Gielgud. Rough for Theatre II: Directed by Katie Mitchell and starring Jim Norton, Timothy Spall and Hugh B O’Brien. Breath: Directed by Damien †Hirst.

Go on a wild adventure with Charlie Chuck as he embarks on his new prehistoric show for kids and the young at heart. Journey into the past with Charlie and his crazy friends Judd (Booze for Baby) Jones, Cakey Pig, Edie Wakefield and his one-eyed dog. Join Charlie Chuck to journey back in time with Charlie’s trusty…

Strung Up Theatre Company. The Canterbury Tales as you've never seen them before! Take your seat at the ringside, where the performers of the Franklin's Circus are waiting for you. Using aerial acrobatics, puppetry, live music and dance, quirky but lovable characters invite you to become a part of a tale of lost…

Mustard Seed Productions (South Africa). A poignant and humorous story set in the South African Indian community. A man has had an affair and his wife and mistress meet for the first time when he dies. While both women are grieving, they go on a journey of shock, competitiveness, rage, connection and courage, all…

The professional chapel choir sings at the weekly interdenominational choral service in this extraordinary late Arts and Crafts building: truly one of Edinburgh's hidden gems. Guided tours after services. Music list and further details: www.robinchapel.org.uk.

This ‘very talented young company’ (Edinburgh Evening News), puts the traditional Cinderella story into ballet format, danced to Strauss music by students in glittering costumes inspired by Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies. The audience is drawn into a fantasy world filled with sibling rivalry, magic, and true…

Seven performers tantalisingly blending circus, cabaret and vaudeville as Circa come back to the Fringe for the first time in four years.

Everyone has a bad day at the office. Join Javier Jarquin as he hosts a wide range of guest comedians baring all and telling you about their worst gigs. Soul-destroying, agonizingly painful, make-you-want-to-throw-in-the-towel gigs. Call it what you will: bombing, tanking or dying - at Comedy Death we call it…