Guardian 4 and 5 star reviews
Shows given 4 or 5 stars in the Guardian’s festival coverage.
Updated 22 Aug.
Pleasance Dome
21.40
30 Jul–24 Aug (not 13 Aug)
Luke McQueen: Comedian's Comedian
United Agents
Usher Hall
14.30
2 Aug
Opening Concert: The Veil of The Temple
Summerhall
11.50, 16.00, 19.30 (depending)
31 Jul–25 Aug (not 5, 12, 18 Aug)
Ordinary Decent Criminal
Paines Plough
Edinburgh Playhouse
15.00, 20.00 (depending)
13–16 Aug (not 14 Aug)
Orpheus and Eurydice
Pleasance Courtyard
14.20
14–25 Aug (not 18 Aug)
Revolver
Emily Woof and Shared Experience
Pleasance Courtyard
21.30
21–23 Aug
Sam Nicoresti: Baby Doomer
Impatient Productions and Ebdon Management
Pleasance Courtyard
20.20
15 Aug
Sam Nicoresti: Baby Doomer
Impatient Productions and Ebdon Management
Traverse Theatre
10.30, 19.00, 21.30, 21.45 (depending)
1–3 Aug, 5–10 Aug, 12–17 Aug, 19–24 Aug
She's Behind You
Traverse Theatre in association with the National Theatre of Scotland
Assembly Hall
18.00
31 Jul–24 Aug (not 6, 11, 18 Aug)
Ten Thousand Hours
Gravity and Other Myths and House of Oz
The Georgian House
18.30
2–16 Aug (not 7, 14 Aug)
The Burns Project
James Clements
Pleasance at EICC
16.00
31 Jul–3 Aug, 7–10 Aug, 13–16 Aug
The Ode Islands
Ornagh
Pleasance at EICC
15.30
30 Jul–24 Aug (not 6, 13, 20 Aug)
Tom at the Farm
Pleasance and Cena Brasil Internacional
Underbelly, Cowgate
various
31 Jul–12 Aug (not 4, 7, 11 Aug)
Undersigned
Yannick Trapman-O'Brien
Pleasance Dome
11.20, 14.20 (depending)
30 Jul–25 Aug (not 9, 16, 19, 20 Aug)
The Horse of Jenin
Presented by Palestine Comedy Club/The Pleasance, produced by Troupe Courage
Pleasance Dome
14.30, 14.40, 17.30, 19.00 (depending)
30 Jul–24 Aug (not 13 Aug)
Josie Long: Now Is the Time of Monsters
IAM
Summerhall
21.15
31 Jul–25 Aug (not 11, 18 Aug)
SLUGS
Sam Kruger and S E Grummett
Pleasance Courtyard
15.30, 16.45, 19.25 (depending)
30 Jul–24 Aug (not 11 Aug)
Toussaint Douglass: Accessible Pigeon Material
Soho Theatre in association with UTC
Summerhall
17.45, 19.15, 22.15 (depending)
31 Jul–25 Aug (not 11, 18 Aug)
AETHER
TheatreGoose
@alan
Interested
1hr
Pleasance Courtyard
13.35
30 Jul–25 Aug (not 12 Aug)
The City for Incurable Women
fish in a dress
@alan
Interested
1hr