Let your host Khadijeh take you on a journey to a mystical place where truths, half-truths and un-truths circulate.
Leaping between playful myths and dark realities this extraordinary, intimate one-woman show bears witness to the painful but exhilarating struggle to understand and to be understood.

'a blazingly vivid encounter – complete with carpets, cushions and tea ****' SCOTSMAN
'a magic carpet ride into hand-me-down mythology ****' HERALD

Please note: the show is suitable for over 14s only

Pleasance Hut and Baby Grand are located a short walk from the main courtyard on Drummond Street.

Writers’ Guild Award winner Colin Hoult (Zimbani, Colin and Fergus, Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder ITV1) invites you to a truly original tragi-comic character show that will shock, tickle and appall.

'Sheer comic gold' METRO

Pleasance Hut and Baby Grand are located a short walk from the main courtyard on Drummond Street.

Comedian Andrea Donovan’s brilliantly inspired characters have regrets. (She does not) Why didn’t Ms. Warner pursue her modeling career? What can Kathleen teach us that we don’t already know? Regret Me Not will leave you shedding your own regrets and prove that everything really does happen for a reason

'Excellent' TIME OUT

Pleasance Hut and Baby Grand are located a short walk from the main courtyard on Drummond Street.

E4 and BBC3’s dark musical duo tell a tale about what a boy did when Hitler was around. It will be done using jokes, songs, and some enchanted props.

Fest ****
ThreeWeeks****
'Dissolved me into giggles' SCOTSMAN 'Summon shrieks of laughter' LIST

Please note: this show is suitable for over 14s only.

Pleasance Hut and Baby Grand are located a short walk from the main courtyard on Drummond Street.

God, this brochure is massive isn’t it? The choice is bewildering. All you want is a brilliant comedy show from “definitely one to watch” (Guardian), with “regular laughs pulled together to form a charming whole” (Chortle) which will leave you with a massive grin on your face! Wait a minute...

'Matt Green is one of those clever comedians that manage to fool other comics into thinking stand-up is easy...his anecdotal, observational humour is intelligent, well constructed and, crucially, funny' THREEWEEKS

Please note: this show is suitable for over 16s only.

Pleasance Hut and Baby Grand are located a short walk from the main courtyard on Drummond Street.

if.comedy Newcomer Nominee 2007, DaveTV joke of the Fringe winner 2008. Lyons returns with a new hour of punchy comedy and according to Germaine Greer’ she can be astonishingly vicious, which can only be a good thing.

'Charming and honest' Chortle.

'A natural talent' ***** THREEWEEKS

'Zingy one liners' INDEPENDENT

Pleasance Hut and Baby Grand are located a short walk from the main courtyard on Drummond Street.

Dead chickens, fake suicide, roller-blades and Angelica Houston are just some of
the words that might be appearing in the new stand-up show from the multi awardwinning
writer and star of cult hits Take-a-Break Tales and Psister Psycho.

'Like a Nick Cave album recited by a cheerful would be Dorothy Parker'
SUNDAY TIMES

'One of my favourite female stand-ups' RUSSELL BRAND

Pleasance Hut and Baby Grand are located a short walk from the main courtyard on Drummond Street.

The world’s first gimp-based sketch comedy group brings their Time Out Recommended
show to Edinburgh this summer with whips and tassels swinging! Come and see why
2009 has been described as The Year of the Gimp. Uproarious sketches, hilarious
songs and of course... gimps. Everyone loves gimps, right?

'We definitely recommend their general gimping around if you fancy a laugh' LONDON LITE

Pleasance Hut and Baby Grand are located a short walk from the main courtyard on Drummond Street.