JUST THESE PLEASE: SUITABLE PIZZA SHOP HEROES SHIVER Just These Please Phosphoros Theatre Polly Waldron Gilded Balloon Teviot (Venue 14) Summerhall (Venue 26) theSpace on the Mile (Venue 39) 31 July, 1-11, 13-26 August, 12.15pm 3-11 August, 5.40pm 12-17, 19-24 August, 2.10pm You may be one of the 22 million people who watched their Dynamic, political theatre starring four refugee young Set in late Edwardian London, viral online sketch When You Order Coffee With An Irish Name, men who came to the UK on their own as children from this action packed one-woman or perhaps you caught their five-star Fringe debut in 2018. Afghanistan, Eritrea and Albania. Having told their stories monologue sees ambitiously Just These Please are back with 25 fresh new sketches repeatedly in the asylum system they are now reclaiming independent Alice forced into and will knock your socks them. A unique exploration of masculinity and forced domestic service. Her employers off. Then neatly fold them. migration. Powerful, funny, resistant, revealing. have strange habits and even stranger friends. As war explodes across the sea, rebels rise and Alice’s ambitions are thrown off course. With everything spiralling NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS out of control, the strength of her TESS Spare Tyre will is put to the test… Ondervinden Zoo Playground (Venue 186) theSpace@Surgeons Hall (Venue 53) 13-17, 19-24 August, 3.15pm 2-10, 12-17 August, 10.40pm Part mythical, part real, four characters emerge from darkness Told by an all-female cast and a live folk band, old West defining their own sense of sexuality and identity. Combining Country traditions meet a jolt of contemporary feminism in mythological with grotesque, funny with provocative, NIGHTS a production that breaks the bounds of Hardy’s original text. AT THE CIRCUS is a provocative performance created by award- This new production turns its eyes on both 2019 and 1890 winning learning disabled and non-disabled artists, which with equal scrutiny, asking how far we have truly come. enthrals and disrupts and tests the limits.

Central AT NOT QUITE RICKY RIDDLEGANG AND THE SMOKE Thick ‘n’ Fast RIDDLE GANG Bound By Theatre Gilded Balloon Patter Peracals Productions ZOO Playground (Venue 186) the fringe 2019 2-26 August, 1.35pm Hoose (Venue 24) Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre (Venue 76) 31 July, 1-12, 14-26 31 July, 1-14, 16-25 August, 3.15pm John meets Julie at a kink-play party in New York City. The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama is August, 1.30pm Join hip teen detective Ricky Riddlegang and his trusty She’s an aspiring college dropout living in the shadow of a world-leading conservatoire at the forefront of A fast-paced comedy Riddle Gang as they solve the mystery of the haunted manor her famous artist parents; he’s her father’s intern. The two training and research in the Dramatic Arts. Each exploring the interview and put the perpetrator to death. Spectres, suspects and instantly connect and, with sex an open question, tensions year our alumni, students and staff take a wide process and the struggle shenanigans abound as the Gang delve into an enigma run high as Julie and John teeter between pain and play. range of shows to Edinburgh, and included in this to prove one’s worth. that threatens to devour them all… but which previously publication is just a small selection of those that will Eager to impress, two introduced character could the culprit actually be? be there for you to enjoy this year. naïve young hopefuls are LOVE (WATCHING MADNESS) intent on making a good These shows include involvement from our SpeakUp Theatre in association with The Actors Centre first impression.NOT community in a variety of different roles, both on QUITE follows their trials TRYING IT ON Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) Warwick Arts Centre and China Plate stage and off, and we’re very proud to share and and tribulations through 31 July, 1-17, 19-26 August, 11.35am Traverse Theatre (Venue 15) promote their work. We’re also pleased once again the dreaded interview and ‘My mum threw a trifle at my best friend and that’s when to be hosting our annual Central Party in Edinburgh the seemingly impossible 3-4, 6-11, 13-18, 20-25 August, times vary I first thought something was probably wrong.’ A mother. in celebration of the festival. If you’re a Central feat of cracking the job It’s 1968, the height of the worldwide student revolt. A daughter. An hour. A bond. Questions. Answers. Trifle. graduate, student, or member of staff, we’d be market. David is 20. The Vietnam War rages. Martin Luther King delighted to see you at this event – please contact Tides. Refresh. Restore. Release. Critically acclaimed is assassinated. These events will define David’s politics, [email protected] for full details. SpeakUp Theatre present a searingly honest and personal his writing and his life. 50 years on, in his professional one-woman show investigating the complexities of loving performing debut, David is confronted by his 20 year-old someone with mental illness. self. Do they still share the same beliefs?

MOUTHPIECE OH YES OH NO R’n’J: THE SOCIALLY AWKWARD PENGUIN WANNABE: THE SPICE GIRLS SHOW Traverse Theatre Company Louise Orwin UNTOLD STORY OF Emmy Fyles Red Entertainment Traverse Theatre (Venue 15) Summerhall (Venue 26) SHAKESPEARE’S Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys (Venue 289) Assembly Rooms (Venue 20) 1-4, 6-11, 13-25 August, times vary 31 July, 2-11, 13-18, 20-25 1-18, 20-25 August, 2.45pm 1-11, 13-18, 20-25 August, 10.35pm August, 7.20pm ROZ AND JULES After a critically acclaimed London run, this hit about class, Do you need help navigating awkward social situations? STOP right now! Stolen Cactus culture and appropriation returns. Salisbury Crags. Twilight. This is about having sexual Ever wished there was a guide to It’s time to Spice Up Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose A woman takes a step forward into the air. A teenage boy fantasies that don’t align help you navigate your way Your Life and party (Venue 24) pulls her back. Two lives are changed forever. MOUTHPIECE with your politics. About through life’s trickier like its 1996. understanding what you 31 July, 1-12, 14-26 interactions? Do you asks whether it’s possible to tell someone else’s story without Relive the 90s want and wondering how August, 12.45pm want a penguin? exploiting them along the way. through the hits to ask for it. Award-winning Juliet is double pregnant, This show guarantees at of the Spice Girls performance artist Louise Rosaline decides she does least one of these things. on this Spice World Orwin asks the difficult indeed want Romeo dick, ‘Clever, original writing. journey; all you have to questions, taking you on but Romeo is definitely dead. One to watch!’ do is ‘Say You’ll Be There.’ a surreal joyride through Join Roz and Jules on an ★★★★ Funny Women female sexuality and epic Thelma and Louise- violence. style multimedia Best Shows of the tragicomedy adventure Fringe 2018 (The Guardian) ★★★★ The Stage in clearing their good names, healing age-old family strife and safely delivering those babies!

MY MUM’S A TWAT ON THE OTHER HAND, WHAT GIRLS ARE MADE OF Anoushka Warden Raw Material and Traverse Theatre in association WE’RE HAPPY with Regular Music Summerhall (Venue 26) Paines Plough and Theatr Clwyd 31 July, 2-11, 13-18, 20-25 August, 5.30pm Assembly Hall (Venue 35) ROUNDABOUT @Summerhall 1-6, 8-11, 13-18, 20-25 August, 2.30pm ‘My mum wasn’t always a twat. But some (Venue 26) time after I turned 10, everything changed. 31 July, 1-2, 4-5, 7-10, 12, 14-16, The true story of Cora Bissett’s journey from 90s indie-kid to wised-up woman. Touring with Radiohead, partying She stopped taking me shopping. 18-19, 21-24 August, times vary @CSSDLondon #CSSDEdinburgh with Blur; she was living the dream. She regularly forgot my birthday. A single dad meets his adopted Until she wasn’t... Performing with For a full list of Edinburgh shows featuring our alumni, And she thought she daughter for the first time. Then a live band, Cora celebrates life’s students and staff see www.cssd.ac.uk/content/ could heal people.’ he agrees to meet her birth euphoric highs and epic lows, asking central-edinburgh-2019 Anoushka Warden mother. When their two worlds what wisdom we should pass to the performs her funny collide, will what they have in next generation and which and honest account common outweigh their glorious mistakes we should STUDY AT CENTRAL of losing her mum differences? Three lives ROUGE SUPERSTAR to a cult. Highwire Entertainment Nicola Wren and Something for the Weekend let them make. Central offers an extensive portfolio of undergraduate will be changed forever Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows (Venue 360) Underbelly, Cowgate (Venue 61) and postgraduate degrees, as well as short courses in this tender, funny, 3-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-24 August, times vary and Saturday Youth Theatre. Information can be found hopeful play about being 1-11, 13-25 August, 5.30pm on the website www.cssd.ac.uk. a mum when your name A decadent blend of sensational acrobatics, operatic The hilarious true story of Nicola’s journey from is Dad. cabaret and tongue in cheek burlesque, Rouge is circus incessantly seeking her siblings’ approval, to searching for This leaflet was printed in advance of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and for grown-ups. A non-stop celebration of the astonishing, ways to hide that her eldest brother is mega famous, to the content was accurate at the time. The show information, including surprising, subversive and the supremely sexy. Award- never quite finding her place in the world. Until now. An images, is the responsibility of the respective originators and not Central. winning Australian circus sensation Rouge is heading to autobiographical comedy, written and performed by Nicola Edinburgh with its outrageous brand of adult circus. Wren. ‘Sparkling writing’ ★★★★ Scotsman DEXTER AND WINTER’S DETECTIVE AGENCY Paines Plough and Theatr Clwyd ROUNDABOUT @Summerhall (Venue 26) 3-4, 10-11, 17-18, 24-25 August, 11.20am When Dexter’s mum is sent to jail for getting mixed-up in a jewellery robbery, it’s up to Dexter and his best friend, Winter, to get her out. On their journey to IMPROMPTU 00 uncover the truth and free FOX GREAT GRIMM TALES SHAKESPEARE mum, their detective work Argonaut CATHERINE BOHART: LEMON Becky Barber-Sharp and Something for the Weekend Box Tale Soup co-production with Everyman Theatre, Impromptu Shakespeare leads to some surprising Pleasance Dome (Venue 23) Chambers Touring Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) Cheltenham Gilded Balloon Teviot (Venue 14) discoveries. A madcap 31 July, 1-12, 14-25 August, 10.50am Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) 31 July, 1-12, 14-26 August, 11.30am Underbelly, Cowgate (Venue 61) 31 July, 1-12, 14-26 August, 1.30pm adventure story for 31 July, 1-12, 14-25 August, 6.00pm ‘I couldn’t imagine having a child. Not even when I was sat in 1-25 August, 11.00am An entirely improvised Shakespeare play based on audience The final hour of 1999. Two bickering sisters flee a party. all the family. Two outcasts prepare for the apocalypse. When their After 2018’s ‘funny, warm... perfectly structured debut’ my Primark bikini in a plastic hot tub at Homerton Hospital, ‘Three nights to save a soul… or the Devil gets his way.’ suggestions, to delight Shakespeare nerds and newbies paths cross, they are forced to make choices that will alter ★★★★ (Times), Catherine’s back to smash stereotypes sucking the shit out of the gas and air... There’s a man sitting A remarkable new adaptation from the creators of 2018 alike. ‘Side-splittingly hilarious’ ★★★★★ BroadwayBaby. their futures far beyond midnight. A new show about around sex, sexuality and relationships. As seen and heard on the wall outside the flat. He just sat down the other day Fringe sell-out Turn Of The Screw. Join us for the weird and com. ‘It’s intelligent, it’s funny, it’s all of the adjectives for optimism, fear and counting down to uncertainty from on BBC Two’s The Mash Report, Comedy Central’s Roast Battle, and never left.’ Inspired by true events, Katie Guicciardi wicked, horrible and hilarious…behind the wildest stories, brilliant.’ ★★★★★ PockeSizeTheatre.com. ‘Ingenious’ (Will award-winning company Argonaut. ITV2’s The Stand-Up Sketch Show and The Guilty Feminist. explores our complex relationship with ‘help’. hide the darkest truths. Gompertz, BBC Arts Editor).

300 TO 1 Love and War Theatre PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex (Venue 32) 3-12, 14-24 August, 3.00pm 15 year-old Elliott doesn’t want to do his war poetry homework and instead reenacts the movie 300 to the ghosts of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.

DIE OR RUN FRIENDSICAL: A PARODY MUSICAL HOW NOT TO DROWN THE INCIDENT ROOM ThickSkin, Traverse Theatre production with Tron COMA Glen Neath and Hannah Ringham, ABOUT FRIENDS New Diorama Theatre in co-production with Pleasance Theatre, Lawrence Batley Theatre Darkfield with Emma Blackman Productions Birdbrooke Entertainment Ltd and Greenwich Theatre Traverse Theatre (Venue 15) Summerhall (Venue 26) Greenside @Nicolson Square (Venue 209) Assembly Rooms (Venue 20) Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) 31 July, 1-25 August, times vary 19-24 August, 10.05pm 1-6, 8-11, 13-18, 20-25 August, 1.00pm 30 July, 3-4, 6-11, 13-18, 20-25 August, times vary 31 July, 1-12, 14-26 August, 4.30pm A painful, yet uplifting, true story of a child asylum seeker The moment of waking-up is actually the moment when The 1980s. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has FRIENDSICAL is an original and unique new parody musical It’s 1975. In Leeds, the Millgarth Incident Room is the arriving in the UK. At 11 years-old, Dritan is sent on the your dream begins. Please remember when you leave to pronounced that ‘there is no such thing as society’. DIE OR inspired by the gang in Friends. With original new songs epicentre of the biggest manhunt in British police notoriously perilous journey across the Adriatic to a new take your body with you. Coma takes place in a shipping RUN is about society and politics, self-help and anxiety, big such as ‘(He’s her) Lobster!’, ‘We Were On A Break’ and history. We follow Sergeant Megan Winterburn as she joins life in Europe, only to continue his fight for survival in the container in absolute darkness, lasting 30 minutes. Created hair and 80s disco, and looks at how our mental health has ‘Richard’s Moustache’, the gang take the stage in Edinburgh hundreds of officers working around the clock to find the British care system. by Darkfield, the creators of sell-out showsSéance and Flight. been influenced by political ideology. this Fringe Festival! man known as the Yorkshire Ripper.

A COMPLICATED MAN GETHIN ALDERMAN IS: SUBLIME The Big Mammal Project Gethin Alderman Bedlam Theatre (Venue 49) Just the Tonic at The Charteris 16-20 August, 3.30pm Centre (Venue 393) An odd king sails the waves of the wine dark sea in a bathtub. 1-11, 13-25 August, 12.00pm Featuring water and wigs, Big Mammal reimagines The Daft and silly in equal measure, Odyssey as a queer epic of becoming. This new work by Emma this anarchic mash-up of clown Henry and Evan Silver refigures the Homeric text to explore and character comedy will leave the fluidity of identity. you unable to look at limes the same way again. A relentlessly energetic and playful debut from this exciting emerging comic. THE ACCIDENT DID NOT TAKE PLACE I’LL TAKE YOU TO MRS COLE! YESYESNONO in association with the Pleasance A Complicité and Polka Theatre Co-Production Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) I WISH MY LIFE WERE LIKE A MUSICAL ENOUGH Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) Alexander S. Bermange 31 July, 1-12, 14-26 August, 1.00pm 31 July, 1-11, 13-26 August, 1.45pm Traverse Theatre Company Underbelly, Bristo Square (Venue 302) Somewhere on the other side of the world a Traverse Theatre (Venue 15) The 1980s! Ska music pulses and young Ashley creates 31 July, 1-26 August, 8.45pm plane is falling from the sky. You can see it on 1-4, 6-11, 13-25 August, times vary havoc by getting lost in a wild, imaginative world. When Covering the journey from wide-eyed drama student to your laptop. You can watch it happening on Jedi battles and forest adventures go too far, will their Jane and Toni are immaculate, iconic, accommodating flight brattish diva, or past-it chorus member, or bitter has-been YouTube. You can watch it burning on repeat. hard-working mum resort to the scariest threat of all? attendants. Or so you think. But 30,000 feet below them their (or never-was), this show lifts the lid on awful auditions, From award-winning YESYESNONO comes a Accompanied by an original ska soundtrack and stunning seemingly perfect lives are rapidly unravelling. Beneath them debilitating dance routines, mid-performance mishaps and summoning of hyperreality. A frenzy of video animation. Directed by Complicité Associate, they feel the ground shake. Something is rising up, something backstage backstabbing – plus those magical moments that post-truth news. 2019 Pleasance Edinburgh Catherine Alexander. Associate Artist. which cannot be ignored. And it’s calling out for them. make it all worthwhile.

BULLDOGS THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH GLITTER BUSINESS I’M NON-TYPICAL, TYPICAL JOYCE Lil’ Sister Productions The Listening Hare Louise Bastock and Liz Guterbock Bedazzle Inclusive Theatre Turtle Company Paradise in The Vault (Venue 29) theSpace @Surgeons Hall (Venue 53) Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre (Venue 393) Greenside @Nicolson Square (Venue 209) Assembly Roxy (Venue 139) 3-9 August, 2.30pm 20-24 August, 9.55am 1-11, 13-19, 21-25 August, 3.20pm 3-10 August, 6.40pm 31 July, 1-26 August, 11.25am It’s the most pressing question of our time: what’s it like to be One actor (in 45 minutes) performs In their second split-hour of stand-up comedy, Louise An impactful piece of theatre incorporating monologues, In this heart-warming tale, a father and pet hamster white and male in #MeToo America? Luckily for you, Kurt and the first story ever written down: Bastock (‘confident, articulate and utterly shameless’, dance and film sequence to highlight the personal stories venture into bizarre lands inside a storybook, meeting zany Bradley have answers! A gender bending comedy about toxic an epic Babylonian poem based DailyInfo.co.uk) and Liz Guterbock (BBC Radio 4 New and experiences of people living with disability, autism and characters along the way. With puppetry, music and magic masculinity, ability and disability, and growing-up. on the mythical adventures Comedy Award nominee) unpack the big data around sex, mental health issues, co-created by the cast. from an international team, this imaginative play will of the King of Uruk who lived power and identity. dazzle the whole family! and ruled around 2750 BC. It charts Gilgamesh’s journey from tyranny to friendship, CONVERSATIONS from love to loss, from WITH MYSELF despair to wisdom. Cambridge Mask Collective C venues – C cubed (Venue 50) 1-17 August, 7.50pm Inspired by Lecoq and Commedia dell’arte, and set during the 1969 Stonewall Riots, the play uses mask and physical theatre to explore Nicholas/Nikki’s struggle to come to terms with being transgender. Best friend, Gino, throws a party to lighten the mood, but the guests turn out to be demons of the mind.