Edinburgh Festival

I'm a Pheonix, Bitch is an autobiographical piece which chronicles a deeply horrendous time in Bryony Kimmings' life through the years 2015-16 with the loss of her relationship, her mental health, and, nearly, her child. 

Ray Badran has come up with the best ending to a comedy show, perhaps ever. Fight your way to get a seat on the front row. because you'll want to be a part of it.

Zoë Coombs Marr's 2016 show Trigger Warning was the bonkers brainchild of a comedian fed up with the tribulations of being a woman in comedy. She toured as a bloke called Dave for a few years which, as she puts it, 'did wonders' for her career.  This time around, she claims she will do 'a normal comedy show'.

Best known as the co-creator and co-star of hit podcast 2 Dope Queens, interviewing the likes of Jon Stewart, Tig Nataro and Michelle Obama to name just a few. Phoebe is also a New York Times best-selling author of You Can't Touch My Hair & Other Things I Still Have To Explain and her second book Everything's Trash, But it's Okay and stars in Netflix film Ibiza and Paramount's What Men Want. Sorry, Harriet Tubman marks her UK stand up debut.

Before the Revolution is a short piece from Egypt's Temple Independent Theatre Company, making their Fringe debut at Summerhall this year.  It aims to explore the varied elements that sparked the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, portraying the political upheaval as the inevitable result of two decades of build up.

Pro Helvetia conceived 8:8 as a piece in response to Swiss law on mandatory deportation for foreigners who have committed crimes, putting forward the idea that the more you know about someone, the harder it is to condemn them.  

Camille O'Sullivan dedicates her latest show entirely to the music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. She pours all of herself into this production. It pays off with spectacular success.

The mother of all confessional shows from the bestselling author and star of The Fast Show and Two Doors Down. Does My Mum Loom Big In This? is for everyone who's had a mother or been a mother, featuring hair-raising hilarious true stories from Arabella's dysfunctional childhood, her perilous career and her life as a single working mother. Devastatingly funny, excruciatingly honest and definitely embarrassing for all of Arabella's relatives, not to mention herself, this is a helter-skelter tour of appalling a?" and appallingly funny a?" maternal behaviour.

'When you leave here, everything else will be exactly the same. The only thing that's changed is you.' Based on personal experience, Rust follows Evie over the course of a month in a rehab centre as she starts to rebuild herself from rock bottom. The company behind SiX brings this moving and life-affirming original musical about addiction, mental health services and recovery to the Fringe.

Inspired by true events: a passionate Sue Perkins Superfan, sent to a therapist to deal with her drinking, relays her adventures pursuing Sue. Fleabag meets Miranda in this fierce, heartfelt new LGBT comedy/drama. Follow our heroines impressive swagger skills, drinking habits and coping mechanisms in an age of social media, #MeToo and Brexita?? In PurSUEt is a play with unexpected truth, nuance and hope.

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre, as the name would suggest, hold performances in a vehicle converted into a tiny four-seater performance space.  This August, they are offering up a rota of different bitesize plays at various times through the day, with a run time of around twenty minutes.

Confetti and Chaos is immersive theatre at its best, engaging with its audience from the very outset. As 'guests' gather outside, the 'venue staff' are mingling with the audience and starting the entertainment from the get-go.

Tom Crosbie has a very particular set of skills; skills he has acquired over a very long time as a proud nerd.  In Nerd World Problems, he showcases just what is  possible with enough time, practice and a desire to impress.

A woman returns to her childhood home to clear out family belongings found by the new owners in an air raid shelter long buried under the flower beds.  As the play continues, it becomes clear each of the three characters have buried things of their own that they have to deal with.

Bugsy Malone is an engaging, exciting and hilarious piece of theatre. Captivate Theatre has once again brought an old classic into the 21st Century with a simple yet effective production.

The Yorkshire Ripper was convicted of killing 13 women in the late 70s and early 80s. Olivia Hirst and David Byrne's The Incident Room opens the door to this five-year-long police investigation.

How To Be Brave, written by Siân Owen and performed with boundless energy by Laura Dalgleish, is the greatest bedtime story a scared little girl could hear.

Pauline stayed at home to care for Dad. Rachel went out into the world to advocate for him and others with his condition. When Rachel makes a surprise visit home, no return ticket booked, resentments and sacrifice bubble to the surface and the two sisters battle through their differences.  Though they may both feel duty to their Daughterhood, this play is all about sisters.

Mary Anning is just 12 years old when she finds an ichthyosaur skeleton on a Lyme Regis beach. It's the first find of its kind in the 1800s. Helen Eastman tells this forgotten story:

Daniel Ward's The Canary And The Crow narrates his experience of being a black boy in a white, middle class high school. But it's so much more than those teenage years.

Helen Bauer is being marketed as 'a self-confessed attention seeker', and she really wants you to watch. An inward look at all things Helen.

An intense, unnerving and magnetic performance by Richard Gadd, as Baby Reindeer takes the audience through a journey of Gadd's long-term stalker.

You may not always agree with Loyiso Gola, he's a pretty strongly opinionated kind of guy, but his arguments are always so logical and annoyingly backed by sound rationale that you've got to hear him out.

Ryan Calais Cameron's new play, Typical, is a monologue depicting an unthinkable, but depressingly fathomable, true story.

Lucy McCormick is back, inflicting her twisted brilliance on Edinburgh, following her last hit Triple Threat in 2016. A show with expertly deployed obscenity, with a smattering of absolute indecency.