Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024
Edinburgh Festival Fringe started off in 1947, when a string of performers gate-crashed the Edinburgh International Festival. Eager to showcase their art, the theatre groups performed on the fringes of the festival, continuing year after year. In 1958, Festival Fringe Society was formed to celebrate and contribute to the growth of performing arts.
Back again for its usual three-week run, the Fringe boasts an amazing set of performers this year. United Voices have a great list of clients with their unique acts:
Date: 31St July – 11th August, 13th – 25th August
Time: 21:00
Venue: One - Pleasance Courtyard
The musical supernova is back with a brand-new show and a full live band – The Cosmique Perfection. The Royal Variety Show. The headline slot. At long last, a chance for Jazz Emu to secure his long-coveted knighthood. Let the majesty commence.
Max Fosh: Loophole (Work in Progress)
Date: 5th - 18th August
Time: 18:40
Venue: Ermine Trude - Monkey Barrel
This brand new show is set to take on a tour of the world (some parts of the world at least), at the end of this year. Watch Max perform a fresh new set!
Kieran Hodgson: Big in Scotland
Date: 25th August
Time: 18:30
Venue: Pleasance Courtyard - Beyond
For three performances only, Hodgson is back with 2023's critically-acclaimed, sell-out show. After extended tours ranging from Glasgow to London, and Skye to Exeter, Kieran returns to Edinburgh to prove for one final time that he is Big In Scotland.
Kieran Hodgson: Work In Progress
Date: 2nd – 8th August
Time: 17:30
Venue: Pleasance Courtyard – Forth
After running out of life story, the four-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee is after a new comedic muse. What obscure interest will he choose next? A lot of people hope he won't do 'trains', but it's likely.
Harriet Kemsley: Everything Always Works Out For Me
Date: 31st July, 1st – 12th August
Time: 18:10
Venue: MB1 - Monkey Barrel
The ridiculousness of things happening to Harriet is simply out of control this year. She must rebuild her whole life but she cannot work out which way the building-blocks should go. The multi-award winning comedian is back with a new take on break-ups, sloths and trying to think positively while everything descends into absolute chaos.
Date: 31st July, 1st – 11th August, 13th – 18th August, 20th – 26th August
Time: 15:40
Venue: Pleasance Courtyard – Beneath
It’s the summer of 2005, England prepares to win the Ashes and Ismail (Smiley to his friends), a British Indian schoolboy, is about to become the youngest ever player in his elite public school’s First XI cricket team. He sets his sights on immortality, breaking the school batting record and getting his name into Wisden. But things are about to heat up. From award-winning playwright maatin, Duck is about adolescence, the pressures of sporting competition and finding your identity in an environment that doesn’t cater for difference.
Date: 3rd – 12th August, 14th – 25th August
Time: 15:45
Venue: Liquid Rooms - Free Fringe
Live at the Apollo, a Roast Battle is on. Over a 100 million views. It’s all going perfectly until he gets fired for cracking a joke. A reeeeally bad one. Only joking.
Laura Smyth: Living My Best Life
Date: 22nd – 23rd August
Time: 22:30
Venue: One - Pleasance Courtyard
A new show exploring all aspects of modern life. Laura has fun mugging off all the madness of parenting, childhood, school, marriage, social media, work and chasing her dreams. In her inimitable style, she discovers the truth of the human experience, treading the line between bluntness and warmth throughout. Ultimately, she asks how ‘living your best life' is actually achieved - heads up: it don't involve Instagram!
Eric Sirakian: The Sound Inside
Date: 28th July - 25th August
Time:
Venue: Traverse Theatre 1
It’s the UK premiere a solitary Ivy League creative writing professor who is captivated by a brilliant, rebellious freshman student. Dedicated, provocative, bursting with wit – so begins the story of two outsiders on the threshold of breaking of an indelible taboo. And when the darkest of favours is requested, the stage is set: The Sound Inside drives inexorably towards a climax filled with mystery, beauty and the ultimate declaration of love
Tim Key: TIM KEY: L****B**R* (ADVANCED WORK-IN-PROGRESS)
Tim Key returns to stamp about and drink a pot of beer and bark reflectively and tighten the screws.
Andrew Maxwell: The Bare Maximum
Date: 1st – 11th August, 13th – 25th August
Time: 17:40
Venue: Just the Tonic Nucleus - Atomic Room
The double Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee is back! 'Furiously funny' (Times). 'One of the funniest men in Britain' (Telegraph). 'If you can only see one stand-up act, see Maxwell' (Mirror). He's the winner of the Time Out Award for Best Live Comic, Chortle's Best Live Comedian and Channel 4's King Of Comedy. As seen on Live at the Apollo, I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, Have I Got News For You, QI, Mock The Week and the winner of Celebrity Mastermind. Andrew is also the voice of MTV's Ex On The Beach.
Margolyes & Dickens: The Best Bits
Date: 7th – 15th August
Time: 16:00
Venue: Pleasance at EICC
Unstoppable 82-year-old Miriam Margolyes returns to the Fringe with her new show. Combining her infectious passion for Charles Dickens with her phenomenal versatility, Miriam brings to life the most colourful and iconic characters from his timeless novels. She then opens the floor to your unexpurgated burning questions, sharing the stories and life lessons that have made her a bestseller and undisputed queen of the chat show. Ask her anything: she'll tell the truth. Guaranteed to offend and delight!