Edinburgh Festival

The Grandees present The Wrong Side of the Door, three short plays taking the imagination on a roller coaster adventure of bizarre and wonderful character comedy.

With brand new tricks and a mind-reading fish, Edinburgh's favourite magical dragon returns.

Trapped in a mundane existence, Kenneth Grahame longed to write wild adventure tales and pursue his love of nature and literature. Then one day a stranger tried to put a bullet through his head and he was never the same again.

Minnie and Mona are best friends who are destined to end up apart. Minnie wants to play cheeky unicorns. Mona wants to be dead. Real dead. Forever. This show is about suicide.

Sam Rose has been carrying a box with him for five years. His box is filled with sadness and he has to take it with him everywhere he goes.

Despite having never passed a BBC recruitment board in his life, John Lloyd has none-the-less been responsible for some of the greatest TV and Radio comedies broadcast in the UK over the last 40 years. From JUST A MINUTE to QI, via BLACKADDER, SPITTING IMAGE and of course NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS - Lloyd uses his fringe debut to share the stories behind these great shows, as he details his life in broadcasting.

The topical story of Bradley Manning, the young US soldier responsible for leaking millions of military documents and now facing a lifetime in prison, is brought to the stage in a new production by the National Theatre of Wales, which examines what brought an American teenager at school in Wales to become the key figure in one of the most controversial stories in the world today.

The 2013 Edinburgh International Festival invites you to embark upon a journey inspired by the way technology seizes and shifts our perceptions of a world, translated by such visionaries as J S Bach, Samuel Beckett or Richard Burton, John Cage, Jean Cocteau or Francois Couperin, Leonardo da Vinci or Allen Ginsberg, Sergei Prokofiev or Nam June Paik, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis or Frank Zappa. Click below to watch a trailer for this year's festival!

The 2013 Edinburgh International Festival invites you to embark upon a journey inspired by the way technology seizes and shifts our perceptions of a world, translated by such visionaries as J S Bach, Samuel Beckett or Richard Burton, John Cage, Jean Cocteau or Francois Couperin, Leonardo da Vinci or Allen Ginsberg, Sergei Prokofiev or Nam June Paik, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis or Frank Zappa. Scroll down for a sneak peek at some of the shows and artists that are a part of the 2013 festival!

Teatro Luna is the USA's ONLY All-Latina theatre company dedicated to creating a full season of original devised and single-author work that honors Latina lives and showcases the talents of Latina/Hispana artists. Based in Chicago, Teatro Luna is an award-winning theatre company whose work has been featured in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, American Theatre Magazine, NBC, Univision, and NPR. Immediately after a rollicking eight week summer tour across the USA, they are appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the first time in their thirteen year history with three different shows!

Vain actors and productions in the process of going wrong are popular, if tedious, topics for Fringe plays, perhaps in an attempt to acquire an audience of theatrical types who will recognise themselves on stage. "God Bless Liz Lochhead" bucks the trend of such shows, not least by having more to talk about than deluded quirky performers, but also by being a sharp and genuinely funny production.

Caroline Rhea, stand-up comedian and actress brings her fresh, funny and spontaneous show to Edinburgh.

National Theatre Wales' award-winning political production, The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, is to be staged at a school in Edinburgh this summer, as part of both the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the British Council Showcase. It will be staged simultaneously on stage, and in a live stream via an interactive website.

It was with a weary sigh that I read Rupert Christiansen's Telegraph piece on 'Why I won't be going anywhere near the Edinburgh Festival', complaining about the Dionysian mayhem that the Edinburgh Festival Fringe brings to the city every August.

Alan Bissett has been making a name for himself in recent years through novels, plays and insightful contributions to the Scottish independence debate, including his fantastic poem "Vote Britain". He tackles a different contentious issue at this year's festival - pornography. In a spoken word performance at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, he weaves together his own present thoughts with past experiences and the writings of radical feminist Andrea Dworkin to tell the story of how he came to a feminist viewpoint, the development of his thoughts on pornography and the complications that being a man bring to consideration of that topic.

'I'm With The Band' is a topical play with an interesting concept. It is a musical drama about successful indie rock band The Union, who comprise an English lead singer, a Welsh bassist, a Northern Irish drummer and a Scottish lead guitarist, the last of whom has decided he wants to leave the group. It's a cute metaphor for the independence referendum, written by Welshman Tim Price and featuring Gordon McIntyre's catchy score of original songs, all played live on stage by the performers.

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.