Theatre Shows

Theatre is at the core of our festival programme. We are proud to present an array of award winning shows as well as a feast of new, emerging and established performance.

"The Edge of Our Bodies" by Adam Rapp

In ‘The Edge of Our Bodies’, Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp brings you on a journey, pushing boundaries 'beyond the edge of what we know.' Bernad... View full show details »

Penknife Productions

4.48 Psychosis

Sarah Kane's poetic masterpiece that sparked controversy and debate. Performed intimately, using physicality alongside the dialogue to question clinic... View full show details »

City of London Academy

A Concrete Jungle Full of Wild Cars

Fleeing war-torn Sierra Leone, three teenagers arrive in 1990s London. As they attempt to fit into alien surroundings, an unexpected gift draws the tw... View full show details »

Trinity College London, Wac Arts

A Hundred Minus One Day

'If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you' (A.A. Milne). When Jen, a girl of 20,... View full show details »

Another Soup Productions

A Laughing Matter

Hush are on a mission ... a mission to deliver a comparable experience to both deaf and able hearing audiences without the use of one of those pesky s... View full show details »

Hush Theatre Company

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Gothic fairies ... enchanting forests ... Bottom the pizza delivery guy... Shakespeare's magical comedy is revitilised by Stratford-upon-Avon's award-... View full show details »

Tread the Boards Theatre Company

A Note of Dischord

Famously frenetic Fringe veterans Theatre Paradok bring the inventions and influential historical figures of the Victorian era to life in an absurd St... View full show details »

Theatre Paradok

A Reason to Smile

The production explores what happens after the adrenalin and intoxication of a newly formed relationship fades. A Reason to Smile centres on a contemp... View full show details »

Blue Tree Theatre Company

A Womb With a View

Sail back to the 1990s on the Pinkanoe to a comedy that might well make you lactate with laughter and giggle like you're on gas and air in an explorat... View full show details »

Pinkanoe Theatre

A Writer's Lot

William is a writer. He writes plays, and of course every play should end with a good death. However, this fixation with killing off all his character... View full show details »

intwothewings

After Ever Happily

Giant killer? Witch burner? Beast vanquisher? Doctor Piper is faced with the psychological fallout of these far-fetched experiences when challenged wi... View full show details »

Taking the Mick Theatre Company

All Or Nothing

This dynamic, innovative, all-male company presents a unique mix of theatrical genres. From Shakespeare to slapstick, with mime, song, hilarious dance... View full show details »

The Drama Boys

Baddies

A one-act tragicomedy about how absurdly moviemakers and the media represent good and evil, making light of a dark reality. The set of a movie in the ... View full show details »

Regent Rep

Bassett

A darkly comic, powerful look at young people questioning their country and beliefs. Students trapped in a schoolroom are desperate to escape to atte... View full show details »

Flatpacktheatre

Beijing Cake

Beijing Cake tells the story of Americans lost in China, international heartbreak, and an unpalatable slice of cake. Things quickly unravel when Lori,... View full show details »

Year of the Horse Theater

Best Kept Secrets

The park’s tranquil most of the time. Whatever goes on in the park, providing it's not on the same bench as your Sunday paper, is someone else's busi... View full show details »

Phrop Theatre

Between

'Between is a very engaging and insightful, fast paced, sexy piece of theatre that explores aspects of male sexuality rarely seen so honestly.' (Dubli... View full show details »

Fourword Productions

Beyond Therapy

This insane, farcical comedy presents a lonely woman (Prudence) who replies to a personal ad and meets an eccentric bisexual man (Bruce). After a few... View full show details »

ARTE - Birmingham Medics' Performing Arts Society

Black Rubix Theatre Presents: Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster

The hapless Black Rubix Theatre are thrilled to finally stage their play – a daring satire on the world of corrupt journalism and phone hacking. They... View full show details »

Queen Mary Theatre Company (QMTC)

Bluebeard

Marriage? Oh, yes. It's the most average thing you could have done with yourself. In 20 years time you'll vote Conservative, read nothing but Mrs Beet... View full show details »

Trinity Fringe Productions

Bobby Gould in Hell

Film-maker Bobby Gould comes face-to-face with the devil in this fast-talking comic duel of wits from David Mamet, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gl... View full show details »

New Celts Productions and Northern Spark Theatre Company

Bonk!

Come see the sex talk your parents definitely didn't want to have with you. A fun-filled romp through the science of sex! Can a man really distance ej... View full show details »

Crowtown Theatre Company

Broken Holmes

A murdered Duke. A deadly snakebite. An illegitimate heiress returned from exotic shores. Decades of unlikely backstory effortlessly deduced from a si... View full show details »

Broken Holmes Productions

Cain

Municipal Theatre London presents an adaptation of Lord Byron's classic verse drama: in the dark wilderness beyond the gates of Eden, Cain, the first ... View full show details »

Municipal Theatre London

Captive Minds

Nine girls murdered, by Adam, their beauty captured in charcoal sketches. But this is a story about two sisters. Amy, 24, was in care with Adam.  Ch... View full show details »

Rummage Theatre

Chaos By Design

433,000 a year. 1,180 a day. 49 an hour. 1 a minute.The Democratic Republic of Congo: The worst place on Earth to be a woman. Two women in Eastern Con... View full show details »

The Rat's Nest Theatre Company

Chatroom

A young boy needs help. Strangers are coaxing him to commit suicide. Whose job is it to save him? The six teenagers in Chatroom never meet, they commu... View full show details »

Out of Town Productions

Chops

Chops, a new play written by Kirin McCrory and performed by members of the theatre department of Sweet Briar College, is set in the 19th century in a ... View full show details »

International Collegiate Theatre Festival

Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

An all-new adaption of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market told through expressive movement and original poetry. A dark twist on the classic fairy tale... View full show details »

Liverpool University Drama Society

Comedy, Evolved

Think Twilight Zone meets Monty Python with a dash of farce. Six comedians welcome you to a DWR show, mixing the familiar and unfamiliar to create a... View full show details »

DARWiN'S WAiTiNG ROOM

Concrete Duvet

Concrete Duvet: Thirty-four and still single. Will a one-night stand with his conscience reveal why it all went wrong? A fast-paced relationship Chris... View full show details »

Redlike Productions

Consequences

Following a successful debut run of A Dream Play at the 2010 Fringe, KinkyFish are thrilled to be returning to The Space to present two contemporary p... View full show details »

KinkyFish

Daughters

Harry, 19, living in London, lost and a little skint. All he really has is his best mate Joe. His sister turns up, forcing him to confront his family'... View full show details »

Hot Bear Productions

Death by Shakespeare

Revel in Shakespeare’s most macabre death scenes, from Macbeth to Mercutio. Your hosts are a chorus of gravediggers and ghouls who will expose you to... View full show details »

Hurly Burly

Deimos

Take a journey into fear. Ten performers. Three shows. One narrative. Dorian: a man fears the passing of his youth. In this new adaptation of Oscar Wi... View full show details »

White Ink Theatre

Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief

Filled with intrigue, innuendo, and indiscretions, Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief parodies societal expectations of women combined with the de... View full show details »

International Collegiate Theatre Festival

Dick Whittington

Follow the adventures of Dick and his disturbingly attractive feline companion, as they quest for fame, fortune and a shopkeeper's daughter. But Londo... View full show details »

University of Bristol Pantomime Society

Dirty Water

Dirty Water is a comedy set in the housing schemes of Glasgow. Jock, Crawford, Boab and Brian all work for the worst independent close cleaning servic... View full show details »

I Know a Guy Productions

Don't Disturb the Driver

Will is about to become the youngest coach driver in the UK to reach 1 million miles of service. Having spent his early life working and raising a fam... View full show details »

Velvet Trumpet

Duvet Dave

This is an original piece written by Will Richie a Psychology student from Bath University. The play tells the tale of a man who lies in a park wrappe... View full show details »

Bath University Student Theatre (BUST)

Easter Eggs

Sophia has just started university; Rory is making a living with his guitar. Both have returned to their parents’ house on Easter Sunday where the fa... View full show details »

BEDS

Eleemosynary

‘Never have a daughter. Never have a child, for that matter, but never have a daughter. She won't like you’. The Westbrook women are not what you wo... View full show details »

Papyngay Players

Engels! The Karl Marx Story

It’s the springtime of the people but you’ve never seen communists like these, hard-fighting, hard-drinking, mad, bad and dangerous to know. For Mar... View full show details »

RFT

Fast Film Noir

Fun, fast film noir! A crime drama inspired by Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall 's smouldering sexual chemistry in Hollywood classic movies. A privat... View full show details »

Braindead Theatre Company

Fault Lines

'Whether we like it or not, we are bound to one another.' Four lives blasted apart by tragedy in this European premiere - what happens when they reuni... View full show details »

New Celts Productions and For The Love of Theatre Company

Faustus and the Snakes

In a violent world where money is omnipotent and faith in anything is a distant memory, a back-street chemist sells his soul to the devil. The medieva... View full show details »

Act One

Find Me

An all female student group perform the true story of Verity Taylor, who suffered from mental health issues from an early age. The play explores her t... View full show details »

YNBA

Fourplay

Foreplay: sexual stimulation, usually a prelude to sexual intercourse ... usually. Alice is an actress-turned-careworker. Tom, her boyfriend, is still... View full show details »

New Celts Productions and Lady Muck Productions

FOX

Charlie Chaplin meets classic children’s literature in this anthropomorphic comedy. Featuring slapstick and Lecoq style physical theatre alongside a ... View full show details »

Scratchworks Theatre Collective

Gabe Day

A deranged US televangelist declares that there's only one night left before the world ends. Meanwhile, twentysomethings Charlie and Kate have one nig... View full show details »

Trinity Fringe Productions

Glory Days

Glory Days. The Bromley Contingent’s new play, written by Gemma Carmen in collaboration with the company, focuses on a group of school leavers in the... View full show details »

The Bromley Contingent

Going For Gold

It is now a year on from the London 2012 Olympics. For the months leading up to these games we were force-fed images of success, hope and glory. But t... View full show details »

Z Theatre Company

Gorbella

James took too much coke last night, and now his head, his body and his house are an absolute state. Now he has to clean up everything before his wife... View full show details »

Westerhall Theatre

Grated Expectations

An original new comedy based on a man's obsession with one of the greatest British novelists of all time. Actually, it's a bit more than just an obses... View full show details »

P&P Theatre Company

Growing Pains

At 14 you don't need sickness or death for tragedy. An emotional and comical roller coaster of teenage angst exploring growing up in today's modern so... View full show details »

Theatre Workshop

Harder Please

Life just isn’t hard enough for Lottie Dixon-Cox who is already struggling to make ends meet. She wants it harder. And she’s not the only one. There... View full show details »

Aimee Levey

Here's Connie

Confused and inquisitive, allow Connie to introduce the influencing figures to this highly amusing carry-on called her life. Meet Lizzy, the straight-... View full show details »

Carrie Anne Wilde

Honest Iago and Three Other Choice Villains from Shakespeare

Iago plots gleefully to enmesh his victims. Richard III plays a sinister seduction scene with Lady Anne, who cannot decide whether she is more attract... View full show details »

RHR PRODUCTIONS

How Hard Do You Hum When You Cum?

We’re airing out our dirty laundry, shattering social taboos and embracing our bodies through fun, vivid, and witty poetry. You’re invited to experi... View full show details »

Queen Mary Theatre Company (QMTC)

If You’re Glad, I’ll Be Frank By Tom Stoppard

'At the third stroke...' When Frank telephones the talking clock, he is amazed to hear the voice of his long-lost wife Gladys at the other end of the ... View full show details »

MCS Drama

In Holy Matri-moany

A dysfunctional family and meddlesome friends is all that is needed at a wedding to turn the big day into something far from the perfection originally... View full show details »

Z Theatre Company

In Real Life (IRL)

Alice and Jay are engaged in an online relationship, but who are they really? In Real Life (IRL) looks deep into the phenomena of the internet and how... View full show details »

Sheer Fiesty

In Tune With Dementia

My mother's forgetful and in her 90s. Sometimes we sing, then she talks: about my drag queen grandfather, my dead sister, who my father is - what!? Bu... View full show details »

Howard Timms

Internal Affairs

New writing! Internal Affairs is a black comedy/comic tragedy about a young ambitious politician and his wife who are in a loveless marriage but are s... View full show details »

Twenty Seven Productions

It's Not What You Know...

It's not what you know, it's who you ... as the saying goes. After graduating from TADA, the most prestigious drama school around, surely the streets ... View full show details »

blotTHEATRE

Jack, Or the Submission

Aberdeen's Centre Stage brings to life a work by Eugene Ionesco, master of the absurd. Jack is the unfortunate son of a family who are forever beratin... View full show details »

Centre Stage Theatre Company

Jerry and Tom

Jerry and Tom are both professionals: one a master, the other a mere novice. They are hit men. But just because your business is death, doesn't mean i... View full show details »

Quids In Theatre Company with Kreestan Sennakie

Jewel

Jewel is entering a beauty pageant. If she doesn't win, she's gonna be upset... A grotesque and funny one-woman show, inspired by the absurdities of b... View full show details »

Claudia Jefferies

Journey to X

A group of friends have formed a new band. Now all they have to do is raise the money to get to London to audition for the world’s biggest talent con... View full show details »

TS Drama Theatre Company

Journos

Step inside the high-pressured, breakneck, time is money office of the Daily Parade, a painfully parochial small town newspaper in the north-east of E... View full show details »

Taking the Mick Theatre Company

Kaffa!

Set in Kaffa! Cafe, a series of multirole vignettes by four actors unfold modern day chain cafe culture and the problems that come with it, such as co... View full show details »

Porcelain Cat Theatre Company

Landfall

A modern fairy tale about how a young star is tricked out of the sky and how one little star can change a family's life forever. View full show details »

Unsolicited Artists Theatre Troupe

Laughing Wild

What happens when a New York woman attacks a man in a supermarket? What if both of them are crazy? This unique play charts the stresses of modern life... View full show details »

Funny You Should Ask

Let's Get Things Straight...

Coming out is a milestone in the life of a homosexual, it’s a point of self-discovery and tests their relationships with their nearest and dearest. S... View full show details »

Z Theatre Company

Life

Three sisters: one married with children, one married to her job, and one saddled with their aged mother. So are they happy, has life been all they ex... View full show details »

Grist to the Mill

Life Sentence

Life Sentence is an original comedy about Theo, a young hypochondriac who is diagnosed with immortality. Bound to a life everlasting, Theo immediately... View full show details »

Beyond the Bridge Productions

Lifting the Mask

Journalist Craig is due to interview Amy, a working escort. But Amy has much more of an identity beyond her employment. Meanwhile, British-born Farid ... View full show details »

New Celts Productions and Promiskus Theatre

Love in the Past Participle

Four separate lives become intertwined in this poignant, stripped-back look at love ... in the past participle. Winning play of the New Works Festival... View full show details »

STaG

Macbeth

The scorpions in Macbeth's mind are made terrifyingly real in this intimate production of Shakespeare's darkest, bloodiest tragedy. Driven by his remo... View full show details »

Thrust Stage

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

We hand picked Four of our best male actors to take on the challenge of playing every role in this exciting and visceral production of one of Shakespe... View full show details »

Cheshire Actors Studio Youth Theatre

Maddy's Many Mouths

Maddy’s Many Mouths is an outrageous one-woman show, written and performed by Maddy Anholt – a woman of many parts! This side-splitting, breathless ... View full show details »

Maddy Anholt

Magic Number Six

Magic Number Six is a one-act stage play that portrays the sometimes turbulent relationship between TV actor Patrick McGoohan and impresario Lew Grade... View full show details »

Crooked Hand Productions

Mejnun

Central Asia comes to Edinburgh for the first time with Orzu Art's exotic one-man show Mejnun in English and Uzbek. In the journey of the heart as it ... View full show details »

Yuldosh Juraboev / Orzu Arts

Melodic Dystrophy

Melodic Dystrophy is a puppet play that explores what happens to a person when their primary means of expression - the body - begins to fall apart, qu... View full show details »

Queen Mary Theatre Company (QMTC)

Midnight at the Rue Morgue: The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe

BaLaylah Productions welcomes you to the Rueful Morgana, a dilapidated music hall and vaudeville theatre in the heart of 19th-century Baltimore, known... View full show details »

BaLaylah Productions

Nothing to Be Done

We are born. We have time to waste doing nothing in particular for no reason and call it life. Then we're gone... Nothing To Be Done is an absurdist s... View full show details »

Playchase Theatre Company

On Hold

Cutting-edge dark comedy set in a PR firm. A forensically funny exposé of the ridiculous, these grasping characters in a mundane office painfully att... View full show details »

Scratchworks Theatre Collective

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

‘A tour de force on the Fringe’ ***** (Remote Goat.co.uk). ‘Outstanding’ ***** (FringeGuru.com). ‘A magical experience’ ***** (AYoungerTheatre.c... View full show details »

Fourth Monkey

Our Friends, The Enemy

The Western Front, Christmas 1914: lights appear from the German trenches, ghosts rise behind the horizon, soldiers meet between the firing lines. The... View full show details »

Alex Gwyther

Penelope

A truly original adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses brought to life by three young women from Los Angeles. They perform Joyce's text verbatim, explor... View full show details »

Doghouse Theatre

Penny Dreadful

Let us take you on a journey through the murky streets of Victorian London. The talented young company use storytelling, puppetry and physical theatre... View full show details »

Green Stag Youth Theatre

Piracy! Comedy on the High C's

Hoist the mainsails and prepare for a thoroughly ridiculous adventure. Blackbeard meets Blackadder with villainous accents, absurdly catchy songs, dis... View full show details »

Questing Vole Productions

Pole Factor

Pole Factor. The beautiful Sameera Mohammed aka Coco is a reality celebrity on Pole Factor. Actively rejecting Islam, her controversial anti-mosque ca... View full show details »

Angry Bairds Productions

Project Lolita

It is 2020 and child pornography has become a widespread problem in Britain. When 14-year-old Katie meets Joe online, what starts out as an innocent f... View full show details »

Angry Bairds Productions

Punchline

Why do you want to be funny? That’s what they keep asking him. He thought he knew the answer, but now he’s not too sure. In fact he’s not sure abou... View full show details »

Grist to the Mill

Punk Rock

Do you think it'll be alright? Pressure gets to everyone and tensions are running high with A level mocks fast approaching. Seven students have more t... View full show details »

Hoghead Theatre Company

Puss-in-Boots

Have you never been addressed as an equal by a cat before? Well, I daresay you’ve never met a cat like Puss. Part cupid, part conman, and out to find... View full show details »

Big Shoes Theatre Company

Rabbitskin by Dominic Grace

‘Cal says everyone’s story’s the same. Get born, grow up, get a job, get wed, have kids, work, get sick, get better, get sick, die. I think he’s w... View full show details »

Milan Govedarica and Tullaroan Productions

Red Hanrahan

Red Hanrahan tells the story of an Irish poet touched by magic from his unexpected visit to fairyland. Based on stories by W. B. Yeats, this exciting ... View full show details »

Kennesaw State University

Red Noses

Peter Barnes’ utterly brilliant 1978 play, Red Noses, was first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1985. Spanning three ghastly years durin... View full show details »

Pacifica Christian High School

Rodney & Julie J

Rodney and Julie J: two household supermarkets, both alike in dignity and price, in fair common land where we lay our scene… Using physical theatre a... View full show details »

Two Thirds Theatre Company

Rough Magic

Transplanting characters from The Tempest to present day Manhattan, this Shakespearean fantasy in the tradition of Harry Potter and X-Men conjures a m... View full show details »

International Collegiate Theatre Festival

Rules of the Game

Rose Red Theatre Company in association with Woman's Aid present a new dark comedy: set in a modern day female prison, we follow three female inmates ... View full show details »

Rose Red Theatre Company

Safe

Set in the affluent reaches of Manhattan, Safe is about trying to find your way in a scary world, and the dangers of growing up with wealth but no sup... View full show details »

Ego Actus

Safe

Safe written and directed by Luke Coldham. Tom, Dick and Harry have decided to wing their last bank job, only to lock themselves in the vault. Tom wi... View full show details »

Thurrock Courts Players

Sandel

Angus Stewart's cult novel of forbidden love, now on stage for the first time. Set in 1960s Oxford, it tells the story of a romance between David, a 1... View full show details »

Boys of the Empire Productions

Sans Salomé

‘It was perfect' ***** (EdinburghGuide.com). ‘A tour de force on the Fringe’ ***** (RemoteGoat.co.uk). ‘Outstanding’ ***** (FringeGuru.com). Awar... View full show details »

Fourth Monkey

Sappho ... in 9 Fragments

‘The best theatrical experience I've had since New York 2011 and the Book of Mormon’ (Maureen Lipman). Better to name your daughter after a matricid... View full show details »

Tenth Muse Theatre

Sex, Drugs and Toilet Rolls

Have you ever stumbled into a bathroom in the midst of a party and realised just how wasted you actually are? Or had the deepest and most moving conve... View full show details »

Z Theatre Company

Shake the Dust

Cowboy costumes and Christmas tree fairies. Photographs and family films. Last year's computer. Bin bags brimming with god knows what: baby clothes, b... View full show details »

Somebody's Theatre

Signs of Our Occupy

A political play based on actual signs created in and for the Occupy Oakland movement. Riveting theatre from the voice of Oakland's youth, sharing the... View full show details »

Oakland School for the Arts

SingleMarriedGirl

What do you do when you’re 'happily' married...but completely alone? Anything you can think of! SingleMarriedGirl, an original adaptation of the blog... View full show details »

Heather Bagnall in association with Tasty Monster Productions

Snap

A young girl, an older man and a camera: a picture of perversity. Or is it? Max is spending time in his step-daughter Sarah's bedroom. She spends time... View full show details »

Bending Angels

Something There That's Missing

What would you risk to make your mark on the world? A girl moves to London to write her first play, a fantastical coming of age story about adventure-... View full show details »

We Flew Big

South Downs

David Hare's play is based on his own experience of being a scholarship boy at Lancing College in the 1960s. Blakemore simply does not get the rules b... View full show details »

St Edward's School

Splatter

Actor James Webb never liked horror films. Not even the classics. Frankly, he found them scary. So when James finds himself cast as the lead role in B... View full show details »

Newcastle University Theatre Society

Strangeways

Dot is moving into her new flat. It’s a wet Mancunian morning. A geriatric with her cat and memories for company. Until her dead husband pops by to s... View full show details »

University of Manchester Drama Society

Sugar Kane

This is a futuristic galvanized multi-purpose SK. In this world Sarah has a chance to speak her mind and answer back what was levelled at her. A contr... View full show details »

Naloxone Theatre Ensemble

Super Tuesday

This Tuesday is gonna be super... Fictional political drama about the controversial 1960 US election. Republican Senator Jack Cassidy's mob connection... View full show details »

Nightpiece Media

Synergy

A new hatchling fallen from the Crowded Nest, Synergy is: making eye contact across the room. Uttering your first words. Acclimation, escape, and two ... View full show details »

Crowded Nest

Take Care

Engaging the voices of private, NHS, family and informal carers of the elderly, Take Care is a beautiful, heartbreaking and comical piece of verbatim ... View full show details »

Écoute

Tea at Five

You're invited to the Hepburn family estate in Fenwick, Connecticut, where Katharine Hepburn is serving up tart-tongued fiery wit. Tea at Five is the ... View full show details »

Old Joint Stock Theatre Company

The Peculiar Tale of Pablo Picasso and the Mona Lisa

‘Outstanding’ ***** (FringeGuru.com). ‘Another triumph by Fourth Monkey’ ***** (StageWon.co.uk). ‘A magical experience’ ***** (AYoungerTheatre.c... View full show details »

Fourth Monkey

The Actor's Nightmare

The Actor’s Nightmare presents every actor’s greatest fear – George, an actor / accountant, doesn’t know his lines, doesn’t know what play he’s ... View full show details »

The Bancroft's Players

The Autumn of Han

The story of the beautiful concubine ZhaoJun, who was hidden away from the Emperor in a forgotten wing of the palace by the corrupt minister MaoYanSha... View full show details »

Red Dragonfly Productions / Grist To The Mill

The Butterfly Room

Two people. One room. See them unravel. New writing by Dilaila Colasuono and Louis Fox. An intriguing drama in an intimate venue. You will wonder, you... View full show details »

Feel Theatre

The Canterbury Tales

An engaging and vivid new dramatisation of Chaucer’s legendary masterpiece. Preserving the immensely insightful human warmth of the original text, jo... View full show details »

Lancaster Offshoots

The Canterbury Tales

Storytelling at its most bizarre: with shower curtains, kazoos, party blowers and even a cactus! Join this energetic troupe as they regale you with st... View full show details »

Running Torch Theatre Company

The Company of Wolves

Now is the season of the wolf. Red Riding Hood is not afraid of anything, but in the trackless forest amongst the wild beasts, she may learn that the ... View full show details »

Big Shoes Theatre Company

The Diary of Anne Frank

Join BA2 Theatre Company as they dramatically and musically explore the secret world of an ordinary girl living through an extraordinary and terrifyin... View full show details »

BA2 Theatre Company

The Dragon and George

A man there was, Dra'gon by name, by all his peers a beast became. A family curse and bygone ways condemned him to a hard-fought grave. A tale retold ... View full show details »

New Barn Theatre Company

The Exception and the Rule

Oil or water, which is worth more? Unicycle Theatre Company brings to life the despairing, deserted, musical world of The Exception and the Rule. Wher... View full show details »

Unicycle Theatre Company

The Givers

The Givers tells the intertwined stories of an abortion provider and her hairdresser, a devout pro-life advocate, both living in the American south. I... View full show details »

Year of the Horse Theater

The Graveyard Slot

A spooky, silly radio play performed live onstage! All-female Hecate Theatre return to the Fringe with a feast of fun and fright, featuring six actors... View full show details »

Hecate Theatre Co.

The Laramie Project

On 6th October 1998 Matthew Shepard was beaten and left to die tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. He died six days later. His tortu... View full show details »

Italia Conti Ensemble

The Last Picasso

A musical black comedy staged as an interaction between actor and screen projection with live musical performance. It is a radio play put into a 21st ... View full show details »

John Watts

The Librarians

After the success of Oedipus: The Hour, Minotaur Theatre Company returns with a new dark comedy. The Librarians, trapped in an endless maze of bookcas... View full show details »

Minotaur Theatre Company

The Liz and Dick Show

The battling Burtons, referred to as The Liz and Dick Show by their friends, put each other to the test on the film set of Who’s Afraid of Virginia W... View full show details »

Cheshire Actors Studio

The Lost Gatsby

Some stories transcend the sum of their parts and the best stories consume them. In 1926 a silent movie adaptation of The Great Gatsby was produced by... View full show details »

8pB Theatre Company

The Mad Hatter Bum Party

A short, vibrant, bittersweet comedy that follows the adventures of a homeless performance troupe as they relive their tales of destitution. After pla... View full show details »

Queen Mary Theatre Company (QMTC)

The Major

An absurd tale with traditional Russian folk music, masks and puppetry. Major Kovalyov awakes one morning to discover his nose has vanished. While his... View full show details »

Oriel Theatre Company

The Morning After Season: The Pink Bedroom

‘The Pink Bedroom ... worse than drink or drugs.’ (Tennessee Williams) Tennessee Williams’s rarely performed one-act play of a man and mistress’s... View full show details »

3BUGS Fringe Theatre

The Morning After Season: Wuthering Heights

‘I am Heathcliff! He's always ... in my mind: Not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.’ (Catherine,W... View full show details »

3BUGS Fringe Theatre

The Scarlet Letter and Other Betrayals

In Salem the woods are deep, dim and dangerous. The Black Man walks the woods at night - so do lovers. Hester Prynne has beauty, courage, a husband ab... View full show details »

Livewire Theatre

The Secret Garden

Mary Lennox is a selfish, sour-faced girl who is sent to England to live with her hunchback uncle at Misselthwaite Manor. The manor is huge and myster... View full show details »

3Bugs

The Shape of Things

First performed by the Almeida Theatre Company. Would you be seduced by a beautiful ideal? Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Boy changes. Will love b... View full show details »

The Impossible Dream Theatre Company

The Sugar and Honey Cook-Along!

Sugar and Honey are a delectable duo with a mission to help us reclaim the kitchen! With the modern world concerned with convenience, they are anxious... View full show details »

The Sugar and Honey Theatre Company

The Suicidal Tendencies of Sheep and a Dog Called the Hoff

The Suicidal Tendencies of Sheep and a Dog Called the Hoff is a brand new comedy drama from Scottish based Theatre company Just Like The Precipitation... View full show details »

Just Like The Precipitation Theatre Company

The TEAM Makes a Play

They’re young! They're talented! They're broke! An exciting new documentary film that captures the inside story behind the making of Mission Drift, ... View full show details »

Red Paw Productions

The Tempest

n6 productions returns to the Fringe with their stripped back, claustrophobic production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Featuring live music, singing ... View full show details »

n6 Productions

The True Story of Ah Q (Physical Theatre)

Physical theatre traces the adventures of Ah Q, a man from the peasant class with little education and no definite work and famous for spiritual victo... View full show details »

Shanghai Normal University

The University of Westminster Presents... Body Odours

Body Odours, written by the award-winning playwright Evelina Anissimova and presented by University of Westminster, makes its international premier at... View full show details »

University of Westminster Centre for Performing Arts

The Vacuum Cleaner

View full show details »

Ferodo Bridges

The Violinist

Following a successful debut run of A Dream Play at the 2010 Fringe, KinkyFish are thrilled to be returning to The Space to present two contemporary p... View full show details »

KinkyFish

The Walls

How do we know what is normal? Carrie is writing her PhD on female mental illness, but the more she researches the more trapped she becomes, as the ch... View full show details »

UCLU Runaground

The Way of the World

Widely regarded as one of the best Restoration comedies, this sharply written play entwines lovers in a tangled web of plotting, fortune and honour. Y... View full show details »

YAT

The Winter's Tale

Returning to the Fringe, TFI present their new ensemble of young performers from Barrow Sixth Form College in one of Shakespeare’s final plays. Leont... View full show details »

Furness Influence

The Winter's Tale

Leontes devastates lives when jealous paranoia means he declares his wife and best friend betrayed him. Redemption is within reach. Tread the Boards e... View full show details »

Tread the Boards Theatre Company

Three to Four Days

As we enter the unknown future of the UK Health Service, we investigate all angles in this piece of new verbatim theatre that examines the potential d... View full show details »

Foul Cry

Titus Andronicus

This Is England meets Shakespeare in Hiraeth’s gritty and aggressive take on one of his bloodiest plays. Shakespeare’s classic tale of war, revenge,... View full show details »

Hiraeth Artistic Productions

Under Milk Wood

An ICTF / John Abbott College / Jac‘N’burgh 2013 production. Originally written to be performed as a radio broadcast, our stage version of Under Mil... View full show details »

International Collegiate Theatre Festival

University of Westminster Presents... Body Odours

Body Odours, written by the award-winning playwright Evelina Anissimova and presented by University of Westminster, makes its international premier at... View full show details »

University of Westminster Centre for Performing Arts

Vernon God Little

Vernon God Little (adapted from the award winning Novel by DBC Pierre) follows the journey of Vernon, an intelligent teenager from the small town of M... View full show details »

Italia Conti Ensemble

Vessel

Vessel is a bittersweet comedy about five siblings building a boat. Several years ago, their brother John went out to sea in a storm and was never see... View full show details »

Fine Frenzy Theatre

War of the Waleses

A stylish and highly acclaimed reimagining of the split of Charles and Diana, the fall of the Conservatives amidst allegations of sleaze and the rise ... View full show details »

Asterion Theatre

We'll Stuff You Once You're Dead

It's New Year's Eve in the household of Bill Ding and Anne Arky. The wine is flowing and the guests are buzzing, all unaware as to what is about to ha... View full show details »

Z Theatre Company

We, Object

Figs in Wigs have been taking objects for granted, exploiting their physical forms by placing them onstage and manipulating them for our own selfish a... View full show details »

Figs in Wigs

Whodidit

First performed in Edinburgh in 1989, Whodidit is making a welcome return to its birthplace to capivate, amuse and titillate. Absurd and zany, full of... View full show details »

Ham-a-Lot

Wing It, Dusty

Deirdre and Roni make the perfect couple. Maybe. Deirdre wishes Roni was Julie Andrews; Roni wishes Marni Nixon had dubbed Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mi... View full show details »

Drama Queens

You All Know Me - I'm Jack Ruby!

November 24th 1963. 11:21am. Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, is gunned down in the Dallas Police Depar... View full show details »

Clifford Barry