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Past Productions

The Lindisfarne Story

Going Postal

Shellshocked

Flight

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

The Pleasance Comedy Reserve

Duck

I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life

For the Love of Spam

This Town

Scaffolding

Polly & Esther

Garry StarrClassic Penguins

Doktor Kaboom: Man of Science!

Janie DeeJanie Dee’s Beautiful World Cabaret

Mark BittlestoneI Need a Straight Guy

All the Fraudulent Horse Girls

Juniper & Jules

Seconds to Midnight

Gwyneth Goes Skiing

Michael Burdett: Before Fame

Willy’s Candy Spectacular: A Musical Parody

Cambridge FootlightsThis Time We Have A Dog

16 Postcodes

Moscow Love Story

In the Lady Garden

The Scot and the Showgirl

Look After Your Knees

Sue PerkinsA Piece of Work in Progress

Bebe CaveThe Screen Test

Monkeys Everywhere

Bella HullPiggie

Me For You

Crying Shame

Oran

The Daughters of Roisin

Zoe Brownstone

Catherine CohenCome For Me

Elf LyonsHorses and Friends

Sophie DukerBut Daddy I Love Her

Two Hearts: Till Death Us Do Part

Colin HoultColin

Charlie George

Lou Wall: The Bisexual’s Lament

Josh ThomasLet’s Tidy Up

Chloe PettsHow You See Me, How You Don’t

Dan Wye Am I Sam Smith?

Jake Roche: Neporrhoids

Tim KeyL**br* (Advanced Work-in-Progress)

Guy MontgomeryOver 50,000,000 Guy Fans Can’t Be Wrong

Damien PowerNot So Funny Now is It?

Josephine LaceyAutism Mama

The 30th Anniversary Edinburgh London Literary Pub Crawl

Sheeps: The Giggle Bunch (That’s Our Name For You)

Emma SidiEmma Sidi is Sue Gray

Runi TalwarRuni Talwar: The Runi Talwar Story

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

Nina ContiWhose Face Is It Anyway?

Ivo GrahamGrand Designs

EnowateHere & Now Showcase

Jazz Emu

Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story

Guy MontgomeryGuy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee

Stamptown Comedy Night

Ginger JohnsonGinger Johnson Blows Off!

Jack TuckerComedy Stand-Up Hour

Paul Merton and Suki Webster’s Improv Show

The Smeds and the Smoos

Rosie and Hugh’s Great Big Adventure

Emma SidiEmma Sidi is Sue Gray

Rosie JonesTriple Threat

Daniel FoxxVillain

Joe ThomasRule Breaker

Northern News: Live

Nabil AbdulrashidThe Purple Pill

Tartan RibbonComedy Benefit

Uh Oh Spaghetti-Oh!

Chloe RadcliffeProud Raccoon

Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants

Sumukhi SureshHoemonal

Failing in Love

Guys and Dolls

Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me

Choo Choo! (Or… Have You Ever Thought About *** * (Cos I Have))

The Half Moon

Chasing Butterflies

Edmonds

Scaredy Fat

Buff

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

Guffy

Public – The Musical

Blowhole

Blueprints

The Life Sporadic of Jess Wildgoose

Dough

Slapstick: Scherzo

The Ice Hole: A Cardboard Comedy

Wonder Drug

Pitch

The Birth of Frankenstein

Glass Ceiling Beneath the Stars

Tony! (The Tony Blair Rock Opera)

Liz GuterbockGeriatric Millennial

Catherine Cohen: Come For MeBerk’s Nest

Hello Kitty Must Die

Gillian CosgriffActually, Good

The Importance of Being…Earnest?

Nabil AbdulrashidThe Purple Pill

Four Felons and a Funeral

Matt FordeInside No. 10

Olaf FalafelOlaf Falafel’s Super Stupid Show

Zoe Coombs-MarrThe Opener

Myra DuboisBe Well

GraeaeSelf-Raising

Lorna Rose TreenSkin Pigeon

Moses StormPerfect Cult

Patti HarrisonMy Huge Tits Huge Because They Are Infected Not Fake!

Courtney PaurosoVanessa 5000

String V SPITTA

Sea Dragon for Under 5s

Showgirls and Spies

Nick HelmNick Helm’s Hot ‘N’ Heavy Weekend

Rosie JonesTriple Threat

Bitter Lemons

The Cabeytu Brothers

Mary Gauthier

Trash Salad

Man Shed

Daddy Issues

Headcase

Bogeyman

Eh Up, Me Old Flowers!

Fiji

Speed Dial

Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World

Second Summer of Love

Boris the Third

Breathless

The Unicorn

Pauline

An Audience with Milly Liu

The Land of Lost Content

Luke Wright – The Remains of Logan Dankworth

Charlotte Johnson – My Dad and other Lies

Luke Wright – Luke Wright’s Late Night Dance Floor Fillers

Today I Killed My Very First Bird

Blodlina: The Viking Musical

Rapsody

Made in <strike>India</strike> Britain

The Comedy Reserve

Irving Welsh’s Porno

Colin Hoult – The Death of Anna Mann

Victoria Melody – Head Set

The Importance of Being…Earnest?

Nick Helm – What Have We Become?

Sex With Friends (and Other Tiny Catastrophies)

Classic!

Morgan Rees – Bi and Large

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

The Greatest Hits of Lily and John

Block’d Off

Charlie Russell – Aims to Please

Mischief Movie Night

Mind Mangler – Member of the Tragic Circle

Movin’ Melvin Brown – A Man, A Magic, A Music!

Payday Party – (political, true life)

Adam Kay – This is Going to Hurt… More – Work in Progress

Period Dramas

The MP, Aunty Mandy and Me

Lucy Porter – Wake Up Call

The Trial

Marcus Brigstocke – Absolute Shower

Graham Gouldman – & Heart Full of Songs

Seann Walsh – Back from the Bed (formerly Same Again?)

A Rubbish Midsummer Night’s Dream

Skank

Tom Lucy – Work in Progress

Mark Watson

Ivo Graham

Josh Jones & Louise Young – Work in Progress

Brennan Reece

Jake Lambert

Sam Lake

Aurie Styla – Live

Adam Rowe

Njambi McGrath

Eshaan Akbar

Joe Thomas

Shelf

Hal Cruttenden

Rachel Fairburn – Maniac

Jake Farrell

Tessa Coates

Rajiv Karia

Graham Gouldman

Ben Hart – Wonder

Murder, She Didn’t Write

Wireless Operator

Kiri Pritchard-McLean – Empathy Pains

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Dane Baptiste – The Chocolate Chip

Hawk

Aaron Simmonds – Hot Wheels

In Loyal Company

The Secret Garden

All Killa No Filla

Paul Merton’s Impro Chums

Graham Gouldman

Into the Woods

Mary Gauthier

The Incident Room

#HonestAmy

Madame Ovary

Ginger Johnson’s Happy Place

Mara

Give Me One Moment in Time

Phoenix

Nearly Human

Confirmation

Murder on the Dancefloor

Love (Watching Madness)

The Land of My Fathers and Mothers and Some Other People

The Archive of Educated Hearts

A Womb of One’s Own

Such Filthy F*cks

The War of The Worlds

Trump Lear

Beat

George

Getting to Know Katie

I, AmDram

Orlando

It’ll Be Alt-Right on the Night

Swim

Wild Swimming

Sexy Lamp

In Loyal Company

The Rebirth of Meadow Rain

Ladybones

Mighty

I Run

A Holy Show

Medea Electronica

Bobby & Amy

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du The

The Burning

Fox

Endless Second

Bible John

Fishbowl

Adam Riches – The Beakington Town Hall Murders

Beach Body Ready

Witch Hunt

A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego

I Lost My Virginity to Chopin’s Nocturne in B-Flat Minor

Comrade Egg and The Chicken of Tomorrow

Blodeuwedd Untold

The Archive of Educated Hearts

Fatty Fat Fat

Electrolyte

The Accident Did Not Take Place

Daisy MacDade: Sugarbaby

Best Girl

Drowning

Anna and Helen – Stuck in a Rat

Stiff & Kitsch – Bricking It

Jordan Brookes – I’ve Got Nothing

Fragility of Man

Wireless Operator

The Red

Alexander Fox – Snare

I’ll Take You to Mrs Cole!

Heroin(e) for Breakfast

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

Happy Hour

Algorithms

Pete Firman & The Amazing

Paolo Nani – The Letter

Typical

My Love Lies Frozen in the Ice

E8

Lucy McCormick – Post Popular

Sold

The Wild Unfeeling World

With Child

Tarot

Birth

Dressed

Don’t Be Terrible

Colin Cloud – Sinful

Bryony Kimmings – I’m a Phoenix, Bitch

Vikki Stone – Song Bird

Einstein

Adam Hess – My Grandad Has a Fringe

Catching Comets

Boar

Michael Odewale – Black Bears Matter

Camille O’Sullivan – Cave

Micky Overman Presents – Presenting Miss Micky Overman

Mervyn Stutter – Pick of the Fringe

Colin Cloud – Sinful

Heidi Regan – Heidi Kills Time

Chris Washington – Raconteur

Catherine Bohart – Lemon

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Jack Gleadow – Mr Saturday Night

John Robins – Hot Shame

Alun Cochrane

Ed Night – Jokes of Love and Hate

Darren Harriott – Good Heart Yute

Anna Drezen – Okay Get Home Safe!

The Last of the Pelican Daughters

Audacious Mr Astley

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Kieran Hodgson – The Tales of Kieran Hodgson

Cam Spence – The Sunshine Clinic

Alice Snedden – Absolute Monster

Catherine Cohen – The Twist…? She’s Gorgeous

The Noise Next Door – The Noise Next Door’s Comedy Lock-In!

You’re Safe ‘Til 2024

Tricky Second Album

David Benson – Cato Street 1820

Boulder

Lucy Porter – Pass It On

21 Futures

A Grave Situation

Joan as Police Woman – Joanthology Tour

The Unthanks – Unaccompanied, as we are

Sam and Melody: Record Breakers

The Mother

Hazel O’Connor – & Breaking Glass

Peggy Seeger

Mull Historical Society

Secret Life of Humans

Poll Function

No One is Coming to Save You

Freeman

Tobacco Road

Freeman

Electrolyte

Narcissist in the Mirror

Stardust

No Kids

In Loyal Company

When You Fall Down – The Buster Keaton Story

Ken

The Song of Lunch

Kensuke’s Kingdom

Luke Kempner – House of Faces

George Rigden – George-ous

Mark Watson – The Infinite Show

Brennan Reece – Evermore

Kiri Pritchard-McLean – Victim, Complex

The Raymond and Mr Timpkins Revue – Ham

Reverend Richard Coles: Confessions

Mawaan Rizwan – Juice

Adam Riches – Adam Riches Is Coach Coach 2: Coach Harder

Weird

Enter the Dragons

Elf Lyons – ChiffChaff

Stevie Martin – Vol 1

Short & Curly – Young at Start

John Hastings – Float Like a Butterfy, John Hastings Like a Bee

Familie Floez (Germany) – Infinita

Ben Hanlin – 50

Velvet

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

The Archive of Educated Hearts

The Extinction Event

Everything Is Going to be KO

Build A Rocket

The Fetch Wilson

Trump Lear

Lights Over Tesco Carpark

Unspoken

Elise

Finding Fassbender

…and this is my friend Mr Laurel

Drenched

Dracula

Dietrich: Natural Duty

Busking It

How to Be Amazingly Happy!

Flies

Neverwant

Ad Libido

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

Sirens

Unconditional

The Rockford File – Badback Mountain

Nina’s Got News

Ed Night – An Aesthetic

Ruby Wax – Frazzled

The Noise Next Door – The Noise Next Door’s Comedy Lock-In!

Adam Riches – Adam Riches Is The Lone Dueller

Mr. Swallow and the Vanishing Elephant

Chris Turner – We’re Where We Were

Catherine Bohart – Immaculate

Mr. Swallow and the Vanishing Elephant

Wilde Creatures

The Tape Face Show

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Heidi Regan – Heidi vs Sharks

Tim Key – Megadate

And Before I Forget I Love You, I Love You

Alabama God Damn

Sparks

Brexit

Power Play: The Empty Chair

The Empty Chair

Rob Kemp – The Elvis Dead

The Canterville Ghost

Fast Fringe

Amusical

Paul Merton’s Impro Chums

The Tartan Ribbon Comedy Benefit

Kika’s Birthday – `

The Duke

Gary Delaney – Gagster’s Paradise

Kieran Hodgson – ’75

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