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Shows

Have a look through our selection of Shows! We are sure To have something you'll want to see in Edinburgh this August - from children's shows to cabaret; standup comedy to tragic drama. There's something for everyone at the Free Festival!


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About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Course

About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Course

Courses

About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Course

Courses

Bar 50 / Upstairs
AUG 2-3, 5-6, 9-10, 12-13, 16-17 at 10:00 (0 min) - Buy Tickets from £109

Learn the skills and art of performing stand-up comedy on this two-day intensive comedy course. Including: joke-writing skills, generating material, comedy deconstruction, finding material, lively interactive performance practice sessions, history of comedy, technical skills and industry tips. Plus a graduation show performance in a Fringe show. Our tutors are professional comedians, comedy writers and experienced teachers. Courses run over two days, with two four-and-a-half hour sessions on each day, followed by the graduation show. 'This course has to be one of the best o...


Funny Women: The Glitter Project - Mentoring Meet-Ups

Funny Women: The Glitter Project - Mentoring Meet-Ups

Courses

Funny Women: The Glitter Project - Mentoring Meet-Ups

Courses

Bar 50 / The Garden Room
AUG 11, 18 at 10:00 (60 min) - Free & Unticketed

Just turn up at the venue, entry is first-come, first-served for everyone. Donations at the end of the show

Funny Women The Glitter Project is offering open sessions with our mentors at the Fringe. Expect an hour of networking, fun and games, plus first-hand advice from visiting comedy experts who’ve all ‘been there, done that’ in some capacity. These events are designed to take out the overwhelm and connect you with other likeminded female and non-binary comedy performers, writers and creators. We piloted this initiative at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe thanks to being awarded a BBC Comedy Grant and some extra support from Russells, with its proud 50-year history of advising clients in the entertain...