Edinburgh Festival

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?'

After a successful London run, Aloff Theatre joins the Edinburgh Fringe with the British premiere of Elchin Afandiyev's play My Favourite Madman, which runs today, 2 - 10 August at the Gryphon Venues.

NoFit State Circus returns to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with two new shows this summer, BIANCO in the Big Top from today, 2nd - 26th August and NOODLES at New Town Theatre from 2nd - 25th August.

What is your ultimate dream? Take a risk and chase it! This July 21st sees the first full-length preview of 'Something There That's Missing' at London's critically acclaimed Theatre 503. This coming-of-age comedy blending multimedia, puppetry and music, debuts at the Edinburgh Festival this August, and will play at The Space, Jury's Inn (V260) from today, 2 - 24 August 2013.

Mention Jane Austen or period drama and many will think of lavish costumes adorned with frills, National Trust properties and sedate Sunday evening telly. It is a claim met with some scepticism then, when theatre company Box Tale Soup say they can conjure up the world of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey with just two performers, a vintage trunk and a troupe of puppets. However, after the first few minutes of this unique adaptation any scepticism quickly disappears as Noel Byrne and Antonia Christophers deliver a breath-taking version of this classic novel.

EugEnie Grandet, an adaptation of Balzac's classic story of love, greed and betrayal, will play the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2013, at Assembly One George Square from today, 2 - 26 August. This will be the first ever stage production in English of this French classic.

Dale has appeared in numerous National tours and films including Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The cast will also feature KIRSTY MARIE AYERS, who recently appeared in the West End production of Seussical, ROSIE WARD, BENJAMIN POWELL and NIALL ROONEY.

XY is a show with an intriguing concept - it comprises several short plays, all written without specifying gender. It's a great idea, and one that makes you consider just how many writers will default to stereotypes when creating characters. Each performance of XY comprises four short plays, and the opening four provided an interesting mix.

'It's not that I always dreamed of being onstage,' says Dallas, Texas, theater critic and playwright Elaine Liner. 'But I'm a storyteller and this is my story.' Liner's one-act solo comedy Sweater Curse: A Yarn about Love debuts at this summer's Edinburgh Festival Fringe at 1:15 p.m. daily, today, August 1-26, at Sweet/Grassmarket International 4 (Venue 18).

Chaz Royal & Edinburgh Burlesque Festival presents 'BEST OF BURLESQUE' at the ASSEMBLY GARDENS, BOSCO TENT, 11:59pm Nightly, today 1-25 AUGUST 2013.