Edinburgh Festival

As an actor and a comedian Chris Mayo spends most of his time pretending to be other people. In his stand up show he aims to find his true identity.

On paper, a one-man show on the subject of disabilities doesn't really sound like a comedy. Very touching, utterly fascinating and surprisingly hilarious.

With dreams of Vegas in tatters, Heffernan & Fletcher find a way to deal with the post-sequin blues.

After the sudden departure of the head of news at the BBC, Rachel Clarke finds herself promoted on a temporary basis. Six hours into her first day as acting Head Of News she uncovers potentially the biggest conspiracy in the history of the corporation. She is faced with the decision to either try and bury the story or expose it and implicate the Director General of the BBC.

The Elsewhere Ensemble and 59E59 Theaters present His Majesty, the Devil - a play with music by Alexandra Devon, inspired by Dostoyevsky - at this year's East to Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Fringe.

Based around mid 1990's dance culture it tells the story of 15 year old Johno's first rave.

Andrew Lawrence is obnoxious, sarcastic and utterly hilarious. As a seemingly completely miserable person, he states that when he is writing material for his show he thinks 'what would I say if I rang Samaritans?'.

Made For Each Other is a novel and touching approach to Alzheimer's. Gerry has just proposed to Vincent and Vincent is faced with the decision whether to tell his groom-to-be about his illness.

The Year I Was Gifted tells the true story of how a woman lied her way into the most prestigious performing arts school in America.

After becoming disenchanted with her responsible grown-up jobs (well, that and being fired) Juliette Burton decided to take a look at what she wanted to be as a child and make it happen.

Many people in their late twenties and thirties will remember the CITV cult classic Knightmare. Part game show, part fantasy adventure, it kept an adoring audience glued to their televisions every week to watch teams of children guiding a sightless dungeoneer around evil monsters and fiendish puzzles. The show went off the air in the mid-nineties, but lingered in the fond memories of a generation, and now lives on in this new show from Objective talent.

Doctor Who remains one of the UK's most popular television shows, with the BBC planning to broadcast a show during primetime this weekend just to announce the casting of the twelfth incumbent of the title role. So it's no surprise that the Time Lord has found himself the subject of a new musical, in the form of 'I Need A Doctor: The Unauthorised Whosical Adventure'.

DC Jackson's latest work is a well-written and witty bodyswap comedy.

Performer Aisling Kiely brings Cinderella Lives! - her sexily-skewed solo retelling of the Cinderella story - to The Edinburgh Festival Fringe from today, 3rd - 24th August.

Female double-act Wilkinson Ford bring their new full-length show 'Wilkinson Ford: Webmasters' to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013. The show runs today, 3rd - 24th August inclusive (exc. Wednesdays) at 8.45pm at Base (Venue 56), 69 Cowgate, EH1 1JW. FREE!

A brilliant concept for a show, Howard Read uses interactive animations to perform stand up comedy. A series of different characters take to the stage to perform and connect with the audience.

With what must be the most elaborate comedy opening of any show at the Fringe this year (think smoke machine, audience participation and a camel) Vikki Stone has the audience hooked from the very beginning.

Stuart: A Life Backwards is a play based on the life of Stuart Shorter. An unlikely hero, Stuart is a homeless man who forms an unexpected friendship with middle class charity worker Alexander.

Best classed as a western, the story is told through beautiful use of light, shadows, puppetry and music. An elderly man finds himself in a surreal world where he is a wanted criminal.

The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea explorer is a play which is set in the future. After global warming has completely taken its toll on the earth, Alvin Sputnik heads to the depths of the ocean to find a solution.

Uncensored, explicit and frequently out of control - this is Shakespeare as the Bard himself would recognise it. Probably. Shit-faced Shakespeare by Magnificent Bastard Productions is an entirely serious production of Much Ado about Nothing with the addition of an entirely shit-faced cast member. Broadway World has a sneak peek at the cast below!

Rave Generation has been nominated for the National Students Drama Award for new writing. It is a black comedy based around 4 fictional characters who inadvertently take Class A drugs. They experience a unifying and liberating journey and are united in an unlikely setting, a primary school classroom.

Since its foundation in 2010, critically acclaimed theatre company Fourth Monkey has established a reputation for productions that are as entertaining as they are challenging. Having previously secured two Edinburgh Fringe sell-out laurels (for its adaptation of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE in 2010 and Sarah Kane's 4.48 PSYCHOSIS last year), it returns to theSpace on Niddry St. this year, today, 2-24 August, with three productions.

BONK! will be performing each night (except for Sundays) at 21:20 hrs in TheSpace @ Jury's Inn throughout the Edinburgh Festival and we would very much love for you to pop along and see us in action.

MoCKeD HArts presents a happy side (as well) by Niall Wilson. 'Anna? Anna, anything to say?'