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53 of the most eye-catching names at this year's Edinburgh Fringe

Ever picked your Grand National horse just from its name? We apply the same logic to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe programme

Ben Hewis

12 June 2015

Cabaret

1. Christ on a Bike – The Voodoo Rooms
2. For Big Boys Only – just Festival at St John's
3. Mad Women in my Attic – just Festival at St John's
4. More C*nt Than Cant: The Scandolous Life and Fast Times of Lord Byron – Momentum Venues
5. Shit Girlfriend – Fingers Piano Bar
6. A Storm in a D Cup – Assembly Roxy

Children's Shows

7. Eejits and Hissy Fits – Scottish Storytelling Centre
8. Father Christmas Needs a Wee – theSpace @ Venue 45

Comedy

9. Abigoliah Schamaun: Post-Coital Confessions – Gilded Balloon
10. Alexander Bennett: I Can Make You a Moron – Cowgatehead
11. Ali Brice presents: Eric Meat Has No Proof, Only Memories of Pasta – Heroes @ The Hive
12. All Our Friends are Dead – Just the Tonic at The Caves
13. Boob-a-rang – Laughing Horse at Espionage
14. Christian Talbot is Shite at Being Irish – Underbelly Med Quad
15. Clusterf**k – Movement
16. Cocaine and Potatoes – Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
17. The Coin-Operated Girl – A Sex Worker's Real Life Revelations of Frivolous Fornications – Liquid Room Annexe
18. Eric Davidson: It's a Wrong Way to Ukelele – SpaceTriplex
19. Felicity Ward: What If There Is No Toilet – Pleasance Courtyard
20. Get Ready. Get Set. Ahhh F*%k It – C south
21. Honky Bonk History of The Beatles – Heroes @ Bob's Blundabus
22. Lou Sanders: Excuse Me, You're Sitting on My Penis Again – Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
23. Martin Croser is an Evil Robot Sent from the Future to Destory Us All – Dragonfly
24. Quiz in my Pants – Cabaret Votaire
25. Recovering Catholics Anonymous (and Other Crosses I've Had to Bear) – Black Medicine
26. Stewart Francis: Pun Gent – The Assembly Rooms
27. Tim Drain: I Know How to Make Women I Sleep with Laugh – theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
28. Tim Renkow: Kim Jong-Un, Muhammed, Jesus and Other Power Hungry Maniacs – Heroes @ The Hive

Dance, Physical Theatre and Circus

29. Absolutely Legless – Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's
30. Guru Dudu's Silent Disco Walking Tour – Grassmarket East
31. Ponies Don't Play Football – Dance Base
32. A Youn Man Dressed as a Gorilla Dressed as an Old Man Sits Rocking in a Rocking Chair for 56 Minutes and The Leaves… 7 – Voodoo Rooms

Musicals and Opera

33. UKIP! The Musical – theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
34. Willy's Bitches – Assembly Checkpoint

Theatre

35. Bette Davis Ain't for Sissies – The Assembly Rooms
36. Bismillah! An ISIS Tragicomedy – Just the Tonic at The Caves
37. Charlie and the Philosorappers – Just the Tonic at The Mash House
38. Edmund the Learned Pig – Summerhall
39. The Element in the Room: A Radioactive Musical Comedy about the Death and Life of Marie Curie – Pleasance Courtyard
40. 501 Things I Do in My Bedroom – Just the Tonic at The Caves
41. The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven – Summerhall
42. If Only Diana Were Queer – Greenside
43. Jurassic Park – Assembly Roxy
44. Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons – ZOO Southside
45. The Line That Picked Up 1000 Babes – Quaker Meeting House
46. The Litvinenko Project – Summerhall
47. Macaroni on a Hotdog – theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
48. Noel Coward and Friends Live in Las Vegas – Greenside @ Nicolson Square
49. 101 Reasons Why I #@&$ Katie Hopkins – Sweet Grassmarket
50. Ross & Rachel – Assembly George Square Theatre
51. Sexmaniac. Anarchist Theatre Only for the Mentally Unhinged – theSpace @ Jury's Inn
52. There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis – Momentum Venues
53. When Blair had Bush and Bunga – Pleasance Courtyard