Bedlam Late 2026

Soup or Sing

Saturday 8th August | 00:30

It’s a comedy sports game in which your Fringe favourites battle it out to see who can do what faster: sing a song, or eat a whole bowl of hot soup with a spoon.

Sean Morley’s Normal Game

Sunday 9th August | 00:30

Join Sean Morley (“one of our country’s greatest minds” – Chortle) as they unveil the most ambitious quiz-adjacent experiment of your lifetime.

Sean Morley’s Normal Game is part game show, part pub quiz, part dream. Big data meets big society meets big art. A spectacle to blast open to heavens, the lay bare the awful truth.

You’ll need a working smart phone with data to play the game. You’ll also benefit from having a good personality.

“Defies any sort of description … joyful, wonderful fun” The Guardian
“Delightfully ambitious, endlessly creative” The List

Karate Man: A Live-Action Video Game

Friday 14th August | 00:30

The world’s first playable comedy show. The audience holds a real video game controller and commands our hero through this anarchically funny choose-your-own-adventure.

Every button press shapes Karate Man’s story. PUNCH. KICK. JUMP. ETC. Whatever the audience chooses, Karate Man must obey.

In 198X, Karate Man defeated Ross Roundkick and saved Karatetown. Now it’s 20XX, and he faces his greatest enemy yet: ordinary life.

Winner, Best Interactive, Adelaide Fringe 2025. “The single greatest audience-controlled live stage show.”

The Review Review Revue

Saturday 15th August | 00:30

Back and better than ever with special guests and more hypotheses than sense, Dr Cerys Bradley and soon-to-be-Dr Ella Catherall present The Review Review (a review of comedy reviews) Revue. We’re asking the big and important questions like are 3 star reviews good (according to an algorithm) and is the length of a review correlated with how many tears the comedian cries?

Expect data analysis, expect powerpoint jokes, expect the worst Python code you’ve ever seen in your life. If you have ever been curious about who writes reviews and who receives them then come and peer review our brand new, never before seen research.

Conclave…LIVE!

Sunday 16th August | 00:30

The late-night alternative comedy show where YOU can become the Pope.

Have you always wanted to be elected Pope during a comedy show? Now you can!

Conclave… LIVE! is a one-to-one recreation of what I assume happens at a real Conclave: a series of games and challenges the Cardinals take part in with the hopes of becoming Pontifex Maximus.

We’ve got everything the “real” Conclave has: extreme baptism, breakdancing, special guests- you’ll think you’re really in the Vatican.

Join comedian and Conclave leader Max Prentice for an hour of holy comedy you will never forget.

It could be what really happens at a Conclave. They’re so secretive. They won’t tell me.

Cardboard Robot Wars

Friday 21st August | 00:30

Carnage! Destruction! Cardboard! Teams of fearless comedians create wonders of dangerously taped-together engineering to do battle in comedy’s most unforgiving tournament.

Watch out for obstacles, challenges and of course the deadly house robots.This show is a Weirdos Comedy production led by comedy’s King of Cardboard Adam Larter and featuring contributions from Bec Hill, Charlie Vero Martin, Ellen Turnill Montoya, Ali Brice, Nate Kitch, Sooz Kempner and Michael Balazo more guests to be announced.

The Drag Show

Saturday 22nd August | 00:30

Cabbage the Clown and Fabio Lezonli are both multi award winning alternative drag performers and professional mischief creators. Bringing together local legends from the Edinburgh drag scene and your favourite drag icons from across the uk, Cabbage and Fabio join forces to find out what happens when melt all of their awards into a shimmering, warped cabaret of chaotic delight for one night and one night only.

winning #bestdragshowatthefringe

Deere John

Sunday 23rd August | 00:30

DEERE JOHN is a stupid Western about the Old West’s finest celebrity inventor. The story of his greatest idea, his rise to fame, and how he almost lost everything (and then did). This is the tale of how a law-abiding, god-fearing, straw-chewing man who knew how to make mud softer than it used to be became the ultimate tractor boy boss. A man who ploughed a field so hard, that the field ploughed back. Uncompromising. Unbelievable. Untrue. The brainchild of comedians and (recent) tractor-historians Ben Goldsmith and Katie Davison.

Evensong with Lady Clementine

Friday 28th August | 00:30

Put your psalms together for award-winning comedy character Miss Lady Clementine and join her for an hyper-traditional, ultra-normal and not sacrilegious evensong service.

Confess your sins to hot priests as we read together from holy scripture (Trisha Paytas’s tell-all memoir). We’ll bring the hymns, you bring the wafers. Get in girls, we’re going to church.

Comedians Put On A Nativity (But In August)

Saturday 29th August | 00:30

Kathy Rivett “an explosion of mad energy” (Chortle) is getting a cast of some of the most exciting performers to reprise the biggest roles of their careers… that’s right: they’re putting on a nativity – but in August.
You might have seen Kathy star in various productions staged in schools and churches across the Midlands including “Innkeeper 3” in Christmas Rocks, “Michael” in Michael Mouse’s Christmas Story or in her debut as “Non-speaking Angel” in The Nativity. Expect low value costumes, low quality singing and even lower levels of enthusiasm from comedians she’s dragged along.

Right to Remain

Sunday 30th August | 00:30

Four Kiwi artists based in Edinburgh need to raise £23,200 for UK visas to keep making theatre here and they’ll do almost anything to make it happen. Expect dares, humiliations, head-shaving, revolting drinks, live challenges, personalised art, auctioning personal belongings and more, all decided by audience donations. One unforgettable night of comedy, desperation, and questionable decisions. Live streamed. Cash and card accepted. How far will Half Trick Theatre for their RIGHT TO REMAIN?