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Gilded Balloon Teviot
- Telephone 0131 622 6552
- Website www.gildedballoon.co.uk
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The Gilded Balloon is one of the largest and most well-known venues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Gilded Balloon has experienced a dramatic evolution from its modest origins of one studio theatre with seven shows per day in 1986, to operating nine venues with over 130 shows per day featuring performers from across the globe in 2015! The Gilded Balloon’s position as a premier venue is based on intriguing, imaginative, adventurous and international programming covering exciting dance and physical theatre, spine-chilling plays and challenging drama and children’s shows. The venue’s reputation, however, comes from promoting, supporting and nurturing comedy, presenting the cream of stand-up, improvisation and character comedy.
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Events at this venue
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Alice Fraser: Chronos
Lee Martin for Gag Reflex in association with TGA Everything’s a matter of time, one way or another. Come see Australian comedian Alice Fraser (The Bugle) use her hour to turn time inside out and back to front. It’ll be fun! It’s a comedy show! No-one’s going to die, except you know… we’re all going to die. As heard…
Wed 5 Aug
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The Dark Room (For Kids!)
Lee Martin for Gag Reflex You and your family are stuck inside a live-action video game! How will you escape?! Will you: a) Find the light switch? b) Go north? c) Explode in a shower of stinking guts? An interactive adventure featuring terrible prizes and total mayhem! For parents only: this show is recommended for 11…
Wed 5 Aug
Thu 6 Aug
Fri 7 Aug
Impromptu Shakespeare
Bursting with love, poetry, comedy, tragedy, mistaken identity and everything in between, Impromptu Shakespeare brings you an entirely new and unique "Shakespeare" play inspired by audience suggestions to delight Shakespeare nerds and newbies alike. Featuring a cast of leading theatrical and comedic improvisers, they've…
Wed 5 Aug
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Fri 7 Aug
Jamie MacDonald: 2020 Vision
Jamie MacDonald Attitudes towards disability have changed since Jamie's school made him the first blind hurdler in Glasgow and – let's face it – the world. Blindingly funny jokes aren't enough these days – comedians must have a personal struggle now. Jamie wants some of that action! Irritatingly he can't see anything…
Wed 5 Aug
Thu 6 Aug
Fri 7 Aug
John Robertson: The Dark Room
Lee Martin for Gag Reflex 'Watching audiences tackle the challenge and fail is one of the funniest sights around, don't miss it' (Daily Telegraph). The audience is trapped in a retro video game with a sadistic, end-of-level boss. Escape and win £1,000 or be brutally murdered by the rest of the crowd! Will you: a) Find…
Wed 5 Aug
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Fri 7 Aug
Justin Moorhouse: Things
Blue Book Artist Management Brand-new show from star of Live At The Apollo, 8 Out of 10 cats, Celebrity Mastermind and regular on The News Quiz and Fighting Talk. This show is being written and changed but it is planned that it will contain these things: a Paloma Faith story (she won't be there), some reminiscing (not…
Tue 11 Aug
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Thu 13 Aug
Spontaneous Potter
The Spontaneous Players An entirely improvised Harry Potter comedy play, based on an audience suggestion of a fan-fiction title. With live musical accompaniment! Previous titles performed include Harry Potter and the Chamber of Commerce, Harry Potter and the Neville Wears Prada, and Harry Potter and the Struggle for a…
Wed 5 Aug
Fri 7 Aug
Sat 8 Aug
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1 Aug 2018
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