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Monkey Barrel

John Kearns: Tilting at Windmills

Meandering but mesmerising hour from one of the finest comedians of recent years

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As fast and furious as any comedy show featuring poetry has any right to be

ZOO Southside

Evita Too

Irreverent, high-energy musical about the third wife of Juan Perón

Royal Lyceum Theatre

Little Animals

A quietly disarming call to arms

ZOO Southside

EXIT

Sparky, mischievous, thrilling circus

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Monkey Barrel

John Kearns: Tilting at Windmills

Meandering but mesmerising hour from one of the finest comedians of recent years

Pleasance Courtyard

Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin: Good News! It’s Been Destroyed

As fast and furious as any comedy show featuring poetry has any right to be

ZOO Southside

Evita Too

Irreverent, high-energy musical about the third wife of Juan Perón

Royal Lyceum Theatre

Little Animals

A quietly disarming call to arms

ZOO Southside

EXIT

Sparky, mischievous, thrilling circus

Pleasance Courtyard

Ele McKenzie: Bringing It All Back Home

Gloriously grotesque soul-baring from an unconventional star in the making

Lambchop
Punching the Clown

Kurt Wagner makes a stylistic leap to unadorned simplicity

Sweeping Promises
You Say I Romanticize

New album mines post-punk

Margaret Glaspy
I Am Both

Fourth album is raw, hushed and beautiful

Joyeria
Decay Decay Decay

A debut album that’s fully formed

Wild Gods
The Glorious Abysmal

An eerie reckoning of an album

Richard Ayoade
Afterthoughts

Comedy star’s latest philosophical musings are nutty and pithy

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Greenside @ Riddle's Court

One-Man Poe

Less means more in a characterful interpretation of much-loved gothic tales

theSpace on Niddry Street

A Letter to Lyndon B Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First

Boyish exuberance belies a wistful study of innocence lost

Assembly Roxy

Rory Cargill: Television 1

Loving TV parody elicits mixed reception

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ZOO Southside

Evita Too

Irreverent, high-energy musical about the third wife of Juan Perón

Royal Lyceum Theatre

Little Animals

A quietly disarming call to arms

ZOO Southside

EXIT

Sparky, mischievous, thrilling circus

Monkey Barrel

John Kearns: Tilting at Windmills

Meandering but mesmerising hour from one of the finest comedians of recent years

Pleasance Courtyard

Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin: Good News! It’s Been Destroyed

As fast and furious as any comedy show featuring poetry has any right to be

Pleasance Courtyard

Ele McKenzie: Bringing It All Back Home

Gloriously grotesque soul-baring from an unconventional star in the making

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Piano Afternoons: Susan Tomes plays Nocturnes

Sublime recitals lead the laudiences through a crepuscular ‘ballet of the moths’

St Vincent’s Chapel

Hans Zimmer’s Hollywood

When cinematic nostalgia doesn’t quite click

The Garrison

Jim E. Brown

Anything but bucolic

Summerhall

Good Enough?

Astonishing emotional, confessional dance is more than good enough

Assembly Roxy

Dusk/ Night/ Dawn

Visually stunning performance art

Summerhall

Glass Child

Wonderfully moving dance theatre that shines a light on the often excluded

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theSpace @ Surgeon's Hall

ADEY

Touching poetic thank-you note to a mother and a community

theSpace @ Symposium Hall

Lawrence of Arabia and ME

Fascinating insight into one of the world’s most famous Arabists

artSpace@StMarks

The Song of the Ice

A stunning audio-visial experience and a meaningful opportunity to slow down during Fringe

First Zone

Environmental drama suffers a little from a lack of narrative context

Out There

The Truth is in here. A quintessentially Welsh film that’s conceptually all over the place

Skintown

Masterful adaption from page to screen fuels this wonderful blast of ’90s nostalgia

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Lambchop
Punching the Clown

Sweeping Promises
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Margaret Glaspy
I Am Both

Joyeria
Decay Decay Decay

Wild Gods
The Glorious Abysmal

Panda Bear & Sonic Boom
A ? of WHEN

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Afterthoughts

John Robb
Punk Rock Ruined My Life & Other Stories

Byeong-mo
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Merryn Glover
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James Canton
Grounded

Renato Cisneros
You Shall Leave Your Land

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London Symphony deliver a magnificent rendition of Puccini’s one-act opera

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The Song of the Ice

A stunning audio-visial experience and a meaningful opportunity to slow down during Fringe

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Good Enough?

Astonishing emotional, confessional dance is more than good enough

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