FRINGE 2026
Select your show
KEVIN!!!!!
Pleasance Courtyard | 12:20
From the creators of smash hits Hold On To Your Butts and Fly, You Fools comes a new UK premiere!
Four actors and a Foley artist perform a live, shot-for-shot parody of the greatest Christmas film of all time. Recent Cutbacks returns with an astonishing blend of comedy, puppetry, live projections and Foley in this wildly inventive and hilarious homage to the 90s classic about leaving your kid alone... at home.
“LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY”
StageBuddy
NEW YORK TIMES
“ONE BREATHLESS HOUR”
“HILARIOUS AND FAST-PACED”
NUVO
“LOVING PARODY AT ITS FINEST”
MANHATTAN DIGEST
“YOU WON’T WANT TO STAY HOME ALONE FOR THIS ONE”
POP CITY LIFE
“A REMINDER OF THE JOY OF LIVE THEATER”
THEATRE IS EASY
Fly, You Fools!
Pleasance Courtyard | 15:00
★★★★★
The Fringe 2025 runaway hit is back for a second season!
Three actors and a Foley artist band together – in fellowship! – to perform a live, shot-for-shot parody of the most epic fantasy film of all time.
“GENIUS, SHEER GENIUS”
“IF I HAD A SIXTH STAR AT MY DISPOSAL, I’D GLADLY ADD IT TO THE RATING… ONE OF THE MOST INVENTIVE SHOWS I HAVE EVER SEEN IN EDINBURGH”
★★★★★
“LO-FI MAJESTY SOUNDS LIKE A CONTRADICTION, BUT… RECENT CUTBACKS CONJURE EXACTLY THAT WITH GLORIOUS THEATRICAL INVENTIVENESS”
★★★★
★★★★★
“SUPERB… THE NOSTALGIC LORD OF THE RINGS PARODY TO RULE THEM ALL”
THE QUINTESSENTIAL REVIEW
★★★★★
“HILARIOUSLY PERFECT AND PERFECTLY HILARIOUS”
THIS WEEK CULTURE
★★★★★
“FANTASY GENIUS… A MUST SEE”
STARBURST MAGAZINE
★★★★
“INVENTIVE, UNASHAMEDLY NERDY, AND ULTIMATELY AFFECTIONATE”
LONDONTHEATRE1
★★★★★
“GLORIOUSLY SILLY”
THE STAGE
★★★★
“MASTERFUL… STUNNING”
BROADWAY WORLD
Hold On To Your Butts
Pleasance Courtyard | 20:30
3 SHOWS ONLY: Aug 12, 19, 26
★★★★★
“Best Show at the Fringe”
Following its critically acclaimed Off Broadway and West End debuts, the Fringe favorite returns for three shows only!
Two actors and a Foley artist perform a live, shot-for-shot parody of the greatest dinosaur film of all time. A wildly inventive tour-de-force of comedy, physical theatre and live Foley.
EDINBURGH FESTIVALS MAGAZINE
CRITICS PICK
“Painfully funny... a pure joy from start to finish”
Time Out New York
★★★★★
“A chaotic masterpiece”
Stage to Page
★★★★★
“Hilarious and entertaining”
Edinburgh Reviews
★★★★★
“A gloriously visualized and executed piece of comedy”
Binge Fringe Magazine
★★★★★
“A non-stop laugh fest”
Theatre Weekly
★★★★
“Brilliant… a must see”
A Young(ish) Perspective
