Whatever else Edinburgh knows hows to do, it knows how to party and in August and September Edinburgh lets it hair down. The worlds biggest theatre and fringe festival take centre stage. Is it worth the effort should I make the trip www.edinburghfestivalfringe.com would suggest that whatever else you do this year try to come to Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Film Festival 18th -29th June
Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
25th July -3rd of August
Edinburgh Book Festival 9th-25th August
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
3rd-25th August - Booking Now
Edinburgh International Festival
8th August -31st August - Programme launch 2nd April - Bookings from 12th April
Edinburgh Military Tattoo
1st - 23rd August 2008 - SOLD OUT
Edinburgh Comedy Festival
30th July -25th of August
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The New York International Theatre Film and Arts Festival
www.NYITFest.com
will be held again in 2009 and shows and films will be selected again from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Dublin Fringe Festival, the New York Fringe Festival and all the other fringe festivals around the world. So if you want your show to be reviewed by the NYIT Fest, please email your interest as soon as possible so it can be arranged for a NYIT Fest Review Team to see and reveiw your show live at one of the fringe festivals around the world. Unfortunately there are not enough members of the review team world wide to see all fringe shows, so please get in earlly and show your interest. The review team are also looking for fringe plays that maybe suitable to be turned into films, so if your are keen about your show being selected to be turned into a film also please email your interest as soon as possible.
All enquires to be made to:
International Entertainment, Music, Theatre and Film Consultant
Email Address: info@nyitfest.org

Introduction
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FRINGE 2008 3 - 25 AUGUST
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is officially the largest arts festival in the world. In 2007 hundreds of groups participated putting on 2,050 different shows with a total of 31,000 performances in 250 venues.
WHERE TO START...
Anyone can perform at the Fringe as it's an open arts festival. The Festival Fringe Society (commonly known as the Fringe Office) does not produce any of the shows, does not invite anybody to perform and pays no fees to performers. We do, however, help you every step of the way. Click here to get started.
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FRINGE HANDBOOKS
If you've already subscribed you can download information packs via the performers area of the website (you may need to log in to access the following pages):
'Spaces' provides venue information
'How To Do a Show' helps you get your show to the festival
'How To Sell a Show' is a Fringe-specific press and marketing guide
If you have any more questions, give us call us on +44(0)131 226 0026 or email admin@edfringe.com
See below for more information
*How to take part in the FringeYou can also browse shows in these categories:
Theatre
Comedy
Childrens
Music
Musicals
Exhibition
Commedy
| Comedy | |
| Big Jessie's bag of drag | |
| Drags Aloud & Gilded Balloon Productions & | |
| TEVIOT - WINE BAR | |
| 00:30 - 02:00 | |
| Dip into Big Jessie's comedy-cabaret and experience a chorus line of divas and dancers, feathers, sequins and support hose.. and more costume changes than a Kylie concert. Featuring show stopping Broadway numbers, Disco Divas and irresistible mus... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Comedy | |
| Carnival des Phenomenes | |
| This Is Serious | |
| TEVIOT - NIGHT CLUB | |
| 00:30 - 04:00 | |
| To the ladies and gentlemen about town, for your amazement we present an extravagant and revelrous evening of improvised comedy spectacles, partying and entertainment. Following months of sell-out shows in London, the improv showcase and debauche... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Comedy | |
| Late 'n' Live | |
| GB Productions | |
| TEVIOT - DEBATING HALL | |
| 01:00 - 05:00 | |
| It’s late and it’s live. The Queen of the late night shows at the Fringe where comics live and die and the audience is King! Not for the fainthearted! The hottest late night compares, comedians and bands. 'The celebrated comedy abattoi... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Childrens | |
| ...Pat&Mat! | |
| Divadlo Neslysim | |
| TEVIOT - DEBATING HALL | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | |
| ‘...Pat&Mat!’ (‘...and that's it’) is a popular children's TV program in Europe, and our theatre performs it onstage! We use live actors, not puppets, and is hysterically entertaining. Children have responded to this performance very positively since... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Childrens | |
| Ian Billings Out Of His Mind | |
| TEVIOT - WEE ROOM | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | |
| Enter the wonky bonkers world of kid’s comedian and author, Ian Billings, for a tickle-filled hour of chuckle puns and giggle gags. Do dinner ladies come from outer space? Be prepared for belly laughs – remember to bring your belly. ‘Ian... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Childrens | |
| Silly Billy Bum Breath Strikes Back | |
| Black Can Productions | |
| TEVIOT - DINING ROOM | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | |
| The 2006/2007 sell-out kids' comedy sketch show is back for five days only so catch it while you can. The most fun you can have in one hour with your kids. Mess and mayhem guaranteed! 'The most enjoyable children's show on the fringe.' TH... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Childrens | |
| The Just In Case | |
| Ambidextrous | |
| TEVIOT - BILLIARD ROOM | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | |
| WHAT's in your case.. just in case? Just in case of WHAT? A host of weird, wonderful and wacky WHATs are brought to life by dance, physical theatre, puppetry and object animation! Come and join Ambidextrous and The Just In Case on an adve... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Childrens | |
| Apple Tree Maiden | |
| Divadlo Neslysim | |
| TEVIOT - WINE BAR | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | |
| With a gentle humour, and a Gothic style, from a beautiful poem, a beautiful performance. For the little kids, and the big kids too! Come in and lose yourself in a great story. Everything expected from a fairytale: a fearless prince, an enchan... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Theatre | |
| Bully | |
| Richard Fry | |
| TEVIOT - THE TURRET | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | |
| ‘Bully’ is a gripping tour-de-verse about one man’s struggle against a life of violence and oppression. Dealing with dark subject matters ranging from homophobia and domestic violence to death and Su Pollard, Richard Fry's punchy script unfolds a... | |
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| Comedy | |
| Rule of Three - Sketchual Healing | |
| Rule of Three | |
| TEVIOT - BALCONY | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | |
| Straight from their sell-out West End hit, Brooks Livermore (one for the ladies), Roisin Rae (one for the dads) and James Card (one for the road) bring you some sketchual healing to cure the Edinburgh hangover. 'Fast-paced, anarchic fun.' Reco... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Comedy | |
| The Guardian at the Gilded Balloon | |
| TEVIOT - NIGHTCLUB | |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | |
| You can get the best of the festival, free all week! Join The Guardian At The Gilded Balloon for the recording of our podcast - the perfect way to start your day. Comedian Miles Jupp is your host for a fast paced show featuring some great acts, re... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Theatre | |
| DIRT | |
| Dreck Productions | |
| TEVIOT - SPORTSMANS | |
| 12:15 - 13:25 | |
| An Iraqi immigrant tells his story. His name is Sad. He lives in your city. He sells roses and loves to speak English. But nobody listens. Will you? The most powerful play about racism currently on stage. Sold out: New York/Vienna/Hamburg. ... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Comedy | |
| It Is Rocket Science! | |
| Helen Keen | |
| TEVIOT - WEE ROOM | |
| 12:30 - 13:25 | |
| Helen Keen (winner of Channel 4’s New Comedy Writing Award, ‘highly amusing’ Time Out) loves space rockets. She brings their story to life with a meteor shower of jokes, a cosmos of costumes and approximately 99 feet of tinfoil. Space-based silli... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Theatre | |
| Love labours Won | |
| Rogue Shakespeare Company | |
| TEVIOT - DINING ROOM | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | |
| Now in its third successive year! The critically acclaimed, multi award-winning original verse comedy returns by popular demand. Pick of the Fringe 2006 & 2007! ‘This is unmissable.’*****‘funny, brilliantly acted’*... THREE WEEKS | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Theatre | |
| The Patriot Act | |
| The Green Room Presents | |
| TEVIOT - BILLIARD ROOM | |
| 12:45 - 14:30 | |
| A world-famous, playwright runs afoul of US anti-terror laws and is given a stark choice: write a government-approved, anti-terror play or be imprisoned for the rest of his life. A drama by Lydia Bruce and Sandy Burns about how America faces dan... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Comedy | |
| Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe | |
| TEVIOT - DEBATING HALL | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | |
| So many shows! How do you choose? Why not watch and enjoy this 90 minute show of carefully researched live extracts from 8 of the best shows in town and then go and see the ones you like? Simple! Brilliant! 17th Year ‘A vibrant and stimulat... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Theatre | |
| Beyonce - Stop Punching Robbie! | |
| Cecilia Delatori | |
| TEVIOT - BALCONY | |
| 13:15 - 14:15 | |
| Divorcing teacher struggles at George Galloway Nursery, Bethnal Green. B*LLOCKS sprayed on sandpit covers. Christmas party clown pissed. Staffroom Bullying. Defiant little Beyonce Dimmock and mother Sade. Yet special needs teacher resembles Bollywoo... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Theatre | |
| Which to Burn? | |
| Seafar Productions | |
| TEVIOT - THE TURRET | |
| 13:15 - 14:15 | |
| Obsessed with a man is one thing. Obsessed with a bridge, quite another. A chance discovery in a second-hand bookshop forces a choice between a safe, imagined relationship and a terrifying real one. Rachel Ogilvy (High Road) returns to the Fring... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Theatre | |
| British Ambassador's Belly Dancer | |
| Nadira Murray | |
| TEVIOT - WINE BAR | |
| 13:30 - 14:40 | |
| The extraordinary true story of Nadira Murray, the British Ambassador's Bellydancer. Dismissed in the press as a dumb bimbo, she faught tooth and nail to survive an undemocratic regime that practices systematic torture of its citizens, Scraping a ... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Comedy | |
| Dan March-My Myspace Baby | |
| Unexpected Productions | |
| TEVIOT - WEE ROOM | |
| 13:45 - 14:45 | |
| Award nominated Dan March discovered he was a father...a year AFTER the birth of his daughter. The surprising, hilarious and heart-warming true tale of the one night stand, the Myspace message and the patter of tiny feet...oh and the DNA test! ... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
You can also browse shows in these categories:
Theatre
Comedy
Childrens
Music
Musicals
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Commedy
| Theatre | |
| In A Thousand Pieces | |
| The Paper Birds Theatre Company | |
| TEVIOT - DINING ROOM | |
| 13:45 - 14:45 | |
| Jig-saws, bus tickets and buttons tell the physically and visually breathtaking tale of an Eastern European girl on her journey to England. A delicate depiction of an isolated world home to thousands of women forced into today’s sex industry beautifu... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Theatre | |
| Table 23 | |
| Hot Tubs and Trampolines | |
| TEVIOT - SPORTSMANS | |
| 13:45 - 14:45 | |
| Timmy Mallett once used the toilets of the mermaid cafe! But empty seats attract empty people, in a city where somebody is constantly searching for their someone. What is it to be lonely? What's behind the pasta promises and facebook facade? ... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Theatre | |
| Torn Out Pages | |
| Reduced Circumstances | |
| TEVIOT - NIGHT CLUB | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | |
| With her pants round her ankles and about to lose her virginity at the grand old age of 39, Elaine Reid has a flashback. What the hell happened during that blistering 60s summer? Her mother holds the answer, but should this secret stay buried? ... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Theatre | |
| Attack Of The Soccer Moms | |
| Green Room Presents | |
| TEVIOT - THE TURRET | |
| 14:30 - 15:45 | |
| Satan cuts a deal with a pair of back-stabbing American mothers who will stop at nothing to make sure their little princesses succeed on the soccer field in a satire that mocks America's desperate lust to succeed and "win" at all costs. Written ... | |
| click here for show info and booking | |
| Comedy | |
| Dermot McMorrow: 13 Black Cats in the shape of a Magpie | |
| EdCom8 presents | |
| TEVIOT - BALCONY | |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | |
| What would you do if cornered in an alleyway by algebraic equations? What would you find if you stopped to look under some fresh road-kill? Of course you know speed-dating, but what in the world is magic-mushroom-dating? Only Dermot McMorrow knows th... | |
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| Theatre | |
| Like A Virgin | |
| Bubblebum Theatre | |