Summerhall adds shows to 2026 Edinburgh Fringe line-up – including hour-long show with one song sung on repeat

Summerhall Arts has announced a further 36 shows for its 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme.

The new batch includes the return of Xhloe and Natasha, who will present Bigfoot Ripped My Dog In Half I Saw It, alongside a new solo show from Adam Riches titled The Captain. Salty Brine will also appear with How Strange It Is (The Neutral Milk Hotel Show).

The programme features work across theatre, comedy, dance, cabaret, circus and performance, with artists and companies from the UK and internationally. More than half of the artists involved are international, with work coming from Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East and Australasia.

The line-up includes artists and companies such as The Creepy Boys, Adam Lenson, Magnetic North, Ballaro Dance, Lightning Rod Special, OPE‑N, Sadiq Ali Company, 81 Productions and Ballet National Folklorique du Luxembourg.

Summerhall has also announced the recipients of its three festival awards. The Mary Dick Award, in collaboration with Birds of Paradise, has been awarded to Patch of Blue and 3hc, who will premiere You and Me (and Whoever Comes Next). The Autopsy Award goes to Althea Young for The Dreaming, while the Meadows Award has been awarded to Fadi Murad for Come Back Home.

Returning productions include Slugs and Nude Parade from The Creepy Boys, Surreally Good by Scott Turnbull, Werewolf from Binge Culture and Pickering’s Gin’s Speakeasy Experience. New work will also be presented by artists including Nelly Kelly, Tamsin Shasha, Nathan Jonathan, Laurie Stevens, Tessa Parr and Martha Knight.

For 2026, Summerhall’s Main Hall will be reconfigured into a horseshoe layout, which will be used for selected productions including Ballet National Folklorique du Luxembourg’s The Great Chevalier.

Award-winning comedian Conk and Quiet Riot will bring a conceptually simple show: Man Sings The Same Song Over And Over Again For An Hour. The song in question has not been disclosed.

The 36 newly announced shows go on sale today and join seven productions already announced earlier in the year. A final programme announcement is due on 6 May, ahead of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe running from 6 to 31 August 2026.