Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 | Assembly George Square Gardens After days of running around Edinburgh squeezing as many shows as humanly possible into a Fringe schedule, sometimes you just need someone to hand you some crayons and tell you everything is going to be okay. Enter The Bob Ross Effect. Written and performed by Sarah-Louise Young, this wonderfully warm show takes inspiration from Bob Ross — the softly spoken, spectacularly permed artist who convinced millions of p

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 | Assembly George Square Studios Medieval Bavaria. Witches. Sin. Sexual temptation. Roller-skating monks. Welcome to Nuns! Dog Complex Theatre's gloriously ridiculous comedy follows Sister Gertrude, a nun determined to be the holiest of the holy despite being slightly distracted by thoughts about what might be hiding underneath Monk Bertram's robes. When rumours of witches reach the convent, Gertrude teams up with mysterious witch-hunter Yarrow

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 | Summerhall Let's get one thing out of the way. Bigfoot Ripped My Dog in Half I Saw It wins my award for best show title at this year's Fringe. Thankfully, the show itself is every bit as bonkers. Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland play two teenagers in a struggling Appalachian town who crash their truck into a stop sign and decide upon the only sensible explanation: Bigfoot did it. One fake sighting leads to another, the lie spreads through the tow

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 | Pleasance Courtyard Comedy horror is a difficult thing to get right. Make it too funny and there's nothing remotely scary about it. Make it too creepy and suddenly everyone has forgotten they're supposed to be watching a comedy. Crybabies somehow manage both. Michael Clarke, James Gault and Ed Jones return to the Fringe with The Scaring, an hour-long horror comedy following former priest Arthur Holland, whose previous career in exorcism ended

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 | Underbelly Cowgate Only at the Edinburgh Fringe could you walk into a room to watch a romantic musical about a half-man, half-moth cryptid and emerge thinking: “You know what? That actually worked.” Mothman: A Romance Musical is exactly the sort of gloriously stupid, completely committed nonsense that makes the Fringe so much fun. Written by Alex Franklin and Nikola McMurtrie, who perform alongside Alex Prescot and Hudson Hughes, the story beg

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 | Monkey Barrel Comedy Cabaret Voltaire Sometimes at the Fringe you don't need an elaborate set, costumes, projections or someone dangling upside down from the ceiling. Sometimes you just need a very funny Scottish bloke with a microphone. Fresh from winning the Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award in 2025, Rosco McClelland returned to Edinburgh with The Bones, an hour covering everything from married life and his first brushes with fame t

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