Edinburgh Festival

In October 2013, Bec Hill announced that she was going to write an award-winning comedy show. This is a show for anyone who's ever made a promise they might not be able to keep...

Sketch! Improv! In-jokes! You're either in or you're out. Or you're part of The Cleek. The most exciting collaboration to come out of Chicago's Second City Training Center since... well, the last one...

When employees Marlin and Josh discover their role in a corrupt corporate charity, can they reconcile their choices? This celebrity-backed charity wants you to 'give a piece of yourself' - literally. But how much is enough? A darkly comic satire examining the ethics of giving when we donate first and ask questions later.

Harriet is sangry (sad and angry) that her oddball escapades often end in folk trying to section her. Join this whimsy beast as she explores the thin line between being eccentric and 'mental'.

This charismatic comic performs in major comedy clubs across the UK and internationally where she is in as much demand for her compere abilities as she is for her comedy routine. Her natural stage presence alongside her healthy neglect attitude to children and life in general proves extremely popular amongst many and varied audiences including the armed forces where she remains as one of the few women to go to military bases to entertain the troops.

Award-winning sketch villains 'mix Game of Thrones, the League of Gentlemen and Roald Dahl' (Sunday Times) into a sinister tale of heartbreak, conjoined siblings and probable arson.

Familia de la Noche return with their five-star, darkly funny sequel to Pinocchio: a rollercoaster ride filled with song, puppetry, physical theatre and clowning. The Greatest Liar in All the World sends the audience careering through the real story behind his infamous origins. But be warned there's a twist and tear in this raucous cautionary tale.

Kirsty's mother is inappropriate, embarrassing and definitely unusual. For 25 years Kirsty accepted crazy as conventional. All mothers are slightly insane, right? But Kirsty's mother isn't like all mothers... If you're raised in madness who tells you what's normal?

Bright, young, surprising and surreal; Eleanor Morton presents a debut solo show. Morton explores anxiety, bravery, anthropomorphic alcoholic animals, the magic of motorway service food, good deeds and more. Expect musical comedy, limited free snacks, a fervent dislike of Jessie J and a guide to the birds of Britain which has been certified reliable by the RSPB (it hasn't).

Triple comedy award nominee and cult optimist is back with a new show about love and being outdoorsy as a bear.

Today, at a press conference in Edinburgh, Director Jonathan Mills revealed the artists, companies and work from around the world which will fill the stages of Edinburgh's annual cultural celebration. Over 2,400 artists from 43 nations have been invited to Edinburgh to perform in the annual showcase of the world's great performing artists.

Is it annoying if I? If my sentences never seem to? And for an hour, could you? Welcome to Show 6, a play in which no single sentence is allowed enough words for it to make sense, but which seems convinced of its importance, for one reason or another.

It gives me no pleasure whatsoever to write this but if you ask me, Theatre Ad Infinitum have dropped the ball. Their annual must-see status in the Pleasance Dome is completely justified, which makes it all the more baffling that their 2014 production is as leaden and, well, shonky as it is.

I'll admit it: I'm a fan of a theatrical gimmick. Generally speaking, a production that has a bit of a high-concept twist that can be summed up in ten words or less is in with a good shot at a positive review from me. And so, White Rabbit Red Rabbit, with its pitch of 'actor opens envelope and performs play without ever reading it' was already off to a good start.

Stars of Edinburgh Fringe show Divallusion Christina Bianco and Velma Celli speak to BWW:UK about their Fringe experience so far.

Ever imagined yourself in a zombie movie? Now's your chance to play it out for real. The Generation of Z is a fantastic immersive and interactive show, set after a zombie apocalypse.

In the Scottish independence referendum debate, the No campaign famously published 500 questions they felt had not been answered about independence, causing a twitter backlash as those favouring Yes suggested more than a few facetious questions of their own. But there was one question neither side tried to raise - what would the consequences of independence be on the fairies and mythological creatures of Scotland?

Hunt & Darton at Forest Fringe present: Hunt & Darton's Not Great British Bake Off! The award-winning Fringe Favourites return with 3-day prize baking bonanza.

Reverend Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping/Colchester Arts Centre/Escalator East To Edinburgh present: HONEYBEELUJAH! New York's favourite radical makes Edinburgh debut with their very special mixture of passion and politics and a celebration of International Honeybee Day, Forest Fringe, 16, 17 August 21.15 (70 mins).

David K O'Hara's lyrical dramatic monologue Now Until The Hour will play at the prestigious Summerhall (venue 26) at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. David K O'Hara may be based in New York but is no stranger to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His play Book Ends was performed at Summerhall in its inaugural year in 2011, and he has also had plays staged at London's King's Head Theatre and The Old Red Lion.

Award-winning comedian Vikki Stone has blagged, stolen and borrowed twenty musical instruments. Some she can play really quite well and others, at the time of writing, not so well. This collection of instruments, each with a story, will become the underscore for this tale of love, loss and music.

Abalone's a desperate man, he's taken a day of holiday to commit armed robbery and now there's a woman stuffed into the boot of his classic car. Join us at The Last Motel to see whether his chance encounter alters his perspective on life.

Good afternoon! I am a character comedian doing a comedy show. I have been in BBC Radio 4's 2525 and Mission Improbable, and on BBC1's Not Going Out, plus an advert for car rental. Some people have written nice things about me but why not come and see for yourself?

Cathy is having a crisis. And she's venting on YouTube. Through the medium of Kate Bush. Yep. It's really happening. Who knows, perhaps she'll get a million hits and become famous? Or not. Just thank God no one is watching. Yet...

Jack is a collector, but not of antiques, buttons or stamps... Jack is a collector of secrets. Fascinated by people's happiness, excitement, darkness and shame, Jack begins a journey to unlock strangers' hidden truths and set them free. But what really lies beneath this obsession and how far is he willing to go to make his collection complete?