dundee fringe 2022

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Dundee Fringe brings comedy, theatre, music, workshops, events, cabaret and variety, and children's theatre to the heart of Dundee from 12th - 21st September 2025.
 

Launched in 2021, we're proud to present the fifth edition of our ten-day festival at our pop-up venues and bar as the city's most diverse arts festival returns this year!

 

Dundee Fringe 2024

  • COMEDY
    Fri 12 September 2025 - Sat 20 September 2025

    Imaginary Porno Charades

    22:00 (60mins)

    An hour of unstoppable panel show mayhem. You'll be glad they can last that long!

    Featuring teams of performers from across Dundee, all of them...

  • FAMILY
    Sat 13 September 2025 - Sat 20 September 2025

    Poppy’s Wonderful World of Bubbles

    13:00 (50mins)

    Join Poppy for a scientific adventure through the wonderful world of bubbles. With explosive experiments and messy marvels, you’ll encounter different types of bubbles and their many uses. Top it off by...
  • SPOKEN WORD
    Sun 14 September 2025 - Wed 17 September 2025

    Act My Age

    15:50 (40mins)

    Poetry performance celebrating and commenting on being the age I am (72) and the freedom to be me (at 72).
  • MUSICALS AND OPERA
    Tue 16 September 2025 - Thu 18 September 2025

    What The Brontës Did At The Fringe

    17:00 (60mins)

    The famous Bronte Sisters come to the Dundee Fringe! What would they make of it? What shows would they go to? Do they have their own Instagram account? Singer/songwriter Pauline Vallance presents this show and...
  • THEATRE
    Tue 16 September 2025 - Wed 17 September 2025

    Bothy Tales

    17:20 (50mins)

    Join John D. Burns in a remote Highland bothy and travel to a world where all you have is your rucksack, a pair of boots and a handful of dreams. With comedy and adventures in wild places, John takes his audience on...
  • THEATRE
    Wed 17 September 2025

    Nae Guid

    14:30 (60mins)

    Dylan is a troubled teen who keeps getting into trouble at school, Tasha is a PCS teacher who wants to help. But their relationship takes an unexpected turn.
  • THEATRE
    Wed 17 September 2025 - Fri 19 September 2025

    The Snow Dance

    16:00 (45mins)

    The Snow Dance is a heart felt drama, based around Christmas time in Dundee. It centres around a little boy named Jeremy who has to grow up fast, having lost his father and his mother having become a bed ridden...
  • WORKSHOPS
    Wed 17 September 2025 - Thu 18 September 2025

    Philosophy Playtime at the Fringe

    16:30 (60mins)

    Philosophy Playtime is where adults come to play with ideas. The workshop is a playful way to practice thinking and talking philosophically. Complimenting the show Philosophy Storytime, we shall play with the idea...
  • THEATRE
    Wed 17 September 2025

    Moonswing

    17:30 (60mins)

    Leanne, Lucy and Richard spent their childhoods wondering about the moon and promised to one day live there, together. As their lives play out before our eyes, we see them grow, always together and always under the...
  • THEATRE
    Wed 17 September 2025

    Dundee Playwrights Group Scratch Night

    18:00 (60mins)

    The amazing talent of Dundee's writing community bring their plays back with exciting local actors to show you the next stages of their work!

    A collection of work in progress and rehearsed readings from our...
  • THEATRE
    Wed 17 September 2025

    Ladies Who Lunch

    18:00 (60mins)

    Claire is fast approaching her 40th birthday and experiencing an existential crisis after the death of her mum. Lena is trying to navigate the dating scene while her son’s love life is looking was more positive...
  • SPOKEN WORD
    Wed 17 September 2025

    blood palace

    18:50 (60mins)

    A spoken word anthology of poetry and prose, written and performed by Irish poet Gabriel Magill, exploring the darkly shadows that hide out amongst our everyday lives. Expect the morose, the macabre, and, most of...
  • THEATRE
    Wed 17 September 2025 - Thu 18 September 2025

    read me

    19:00 (60mins)

    When three strangers attend a queer book club and find the leader absent, they decide to run it themselves. In their search for community, their assumptions of one another are challenged as they struggle with...
  • EVENT
    Wed 17 September 2025 - Thu 18 September 2025

    Philosophy Storytime: Erotic Tales of and for Lovers of Wisdom

    19:30 (60mins)

    True philosophers, lovers of wisdom, are guided by Eros. Come revel in these lovers’ erotic tales to learn if they will climax in truth or madness. Experimental performance philosophy that unites stories and...
  • THEATRE
    Wed 17 September 2025

    Upstaged

    19:30 (60mins)

    Royalty Green is running for Prom Queen.

    Like any sensible person, her campaign will include the murder of her competitors.

    However, in the...

  • MUSIC
    Wed 17 September 2025 - Thu 18 September 2025

    Laurie Black: Deadly Synths

    20:30 (60mins)

    Part live gig, part TedTalk, “original and groundbreaking” award-winning synthstar Laurie Back tells the history of the sound of the future through 7 decades of synth...
  • THEATRE
    Wed 17 September 2025 - Thu 18 September 2025

    Hope You're Doing Well

    21:30 (45mins)

    Join Ellie and Sophia as they move with expression and discover words to explore a friendly, informal greeting. They like to keep things professional - but what happens when things get personal? This work invites you...
  • THEATRE
    Thu 18 September 2025

    Ladies Who Lunch

    14:30 (60mins)

    Claire is fast approaching her 40th birthday and experiencing an existential crisis after the death of her mum. Lena is trying to navigate the dating scene while her son’s love life is looking was more positive...
  • MUSIC
    Thu 18 September 2025

    Slow For A Poet

    15:55 (60mins)

    Live music performance by Dundee singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rhuari Campbell, Slow for a Poet. Honest, emotive songs meet high-energy performance, blending humour, raw vulnerability, and genre-hopping...
  • COMEDY
    Thu 18 September 2025

    Stevie Wicks and Toilet Turmoil

    16:20 (30mins)

    Musician and Comedian Stevie Wicks takes you on a journey through his medical history and his bowel (honestly, he talks a lot of ….. well, you know). There will be (bad) singing and talking about Crohn’s...
  • THEATRE
    Thu 18 September 2025 - Fri 19 September 2025

    Tay View

    17:20 (50mins)

    Jamie died only a few weeks ago. Taken by the Tay. He was 17. All that remains is the quiet madness if his Father, Des. With a view of the Tay always in sight, how does one grieve the loss of a son?
  • THEATRE
    Thu 18 September 2025

    Nae Guid

    18:00 (60mins)

    Dylan is a troubled teen who keeps getting into trouble at school, Tasha is a PCS teacher who wants to help. But their relationship takes an unexpected turn.
  • THEATRE
    Thu 18 September 2025 - Fri 19 September 2025

    Love Hurts

    18:30 (50mins)

    An ageing Dominatrix is visited by Death – but he’s had a rebranding. In spite of his purple suit, his customer satisfaction survey and his user-friendly vibe, she’s not going to be beaten into ...
  • COMEDY
    Thu 18 September 2025

    Richard Pulsford: Yorkshire Mum, Immigrant Dad

    18:50 (55mins)

    Multi-award-winning stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford takes a nostalgic tour into his parents’ past to try to understand how it made them who they were, and therefore the person who he is. With a dad from...
  • COMEDY
    Thu 18 September 2025 - Sun 21 September 2025

    Wildfire Comedy Present: The Highland Invasion

    20:00 (45mins)

    Starring three of the Highlands’ best up-and-coming comedians: Specialising in crowdwork, Stephen Clark is known for his quick wit and affable personality. Cheeky, candid and charmingly filthy, Cathy Cash has...
  • COMEDY
    Thu 18 September 2025

    Chris Beattie: Regeneration Game

    20:20 (45mins)

    Doctor Who looms large in Chris Beattie's life. More than he'd prefer, frankly. In this laugh-out-loud, and surprisingly intimate show, Chris unpacks tales of life, love, and loss through the lens of that gloriously...
  • COMEDY
    Fri 19 September 2025

    Judie Boom's LOOK BUSY

    15:50 (45mins)

    When the robots have taken our jobs, what on EARTH will we do with our time?

    In this solo interactive comedy, Judie fires her confetti-cannon of a brain at AI, automation, and the future of work. Through a...
  • THEATRE
    Fri 19 September 2025

    The Lonely Hearts Theatre Company

    16:30 (60mins)

    A hapless group of wannabe performers form a new theatre company. They soon learn that putting on a show is easier said than done. Battling egos, schedules & creative differences.

    Lonely Hearts Theatre...
  • FAMILY
    Fri 19 September 2025 - Sat 20 September 2025

    The Creative Martyrs: FEZvolution

    17:00 (60mins)

    The entire history of evolution from one big bang to another. See existence explode into being, sing with amoebas, swim and stroll with tiktaalik, dance like a dinosaur, march with some mammoths and much much more...
  • MUSICALS AND OPERA
    Fri 19 September 2025

    Helen Shapiro - Walkin' Back

    18:00 (55mins)

    Schoolgirl Helen Shapiro gets a record contract, tours with The Beatles as their support, and has three Top 5 singles aged 15 all in this smash hit musical following her rise and rise to stardom.

    Featuring ...
  • SPOKEN WORD
    Fri 19 September 2025

    Scott Redmond: Comedic Poet

    18:50 (60mins)

    Scott Redmond is an internationally published poet, whose debut pamphlet was released by HybridDreich. He has competed in the Scottish National Poetry Slam, and his work has appeared on radio, television, and all...
  • EVENTS AND FILM
    Fri 19 September 2025 - Sun 21 September 2025

    Animals Drawn From Memory - the debut exhibition by the artist David Valentine (who can't remember what animals look like)

    19th September - 19:00 (80mins)
    20th/21st September - 14:00 (240 minutes)

    Join ground-breaking artist David Valentine as he shares artwork from his seminal debut series 'Animals Drawn From Memory'. David's affliction with ...
  • THEATRE
    Fri 19 September 2025 - Sat 20 September 2025

    Almost Famous

    19:00 (55mins)

    Emily Benton is back in the UK after a glittering career in Broadway and Hollywood. With her pedigree, she should be in Downton Abbey, not auditioning for a part in a devised play. What cruel fate has brought her to...
  • COMEDY
    Fri 19 September 2025 - Sat 20 September 2025

    Whit's Meh Line?

    19:30 (60mins)

    A completely unique experience every time—no two shows are ever the same. Four strangers take the stage to compete in a fast-paced, game show-style improv performance created entirely for your entertainment. In...
  • CABARET AND VARIETY
    Fri 19 September 2025 - Sat 20 September 2025

    The Creative Martyrs

    20:00 (60mins)

    Serious satirical silliness, songs, democratic participation, immersive existential doom feels in need of a Kabariot. Prescience is hindsight in this dystopian terror shite-show. Kabarett for curious times. Progress...
  • COMEDY
    Fri 19 September 2025 - Sat 20 September 2025

    Diceblitz: A Double D&D Adventure

    20:30 (60mins)

    In the city of Keiller's Rest, competition is fierce. When two parties take on the same quest, will they work together, or sabotage each other at every turn? One story, from different perspectives, across two live,...
  • CABARET AND VARIETY
    Fri 19 September 2025 - Sat 20 September 2025

    Fullfrontal Alchemist

    21:00 (50mins)

    Morgan B presents a strictly over-18s evening of adult-themed cabaret and performance, climaxing loudly and hysterically with the longest, dirtiest and craziest lip-sync mash-up you're ever likely to experience....
  • MUSIC
    Sat 20 September 2025 - Sun 21 September 2025

    Archie Dye

    13:20 (30mins)

    Hello my name's Archie Dye, I am a singer songwriter based in Dundee. I play piano and guitar, I started of with playing piano after growing up watching and hearing my brother play. I like to write about experiences...
  • FAMILY
    Sat 20 September 2025 - Sun 21 September 2025

    Valhalla Awaits – Viking Stories for Kids

    14:00 (60mins)

    With stories Gods, Ice Giants and Monsters fighting for power, join in with an interactive storytelling of a difference, will you play Thor and get to wield the mighty Mjölnir, or be Loki with cunning and guile....
  • CABARET AND VARIETY
    Sat 20 September 2025

    Four Magicians

    14:15 (80mins)

    Smith & Burns, Eoin Smith and James Dickson present jaw-dropping sleight of hand, incredible feats of illusion and a generous helping of comedy – minds will be read; laws of nature will be defied; dad jokes...
  • COMEDY
    Sat 20 September 2025

    Around The World In 80 Puns

    14:20 (60mins)

    Embrace the international aspect of comedy as Iain MacDonald takes you on a pun-venture around the world in which he has a joke for each and every country. You tell him the country – he'll tell you the joke!
  • FAMILY
    Sat 20 September 2025 - Sun 21 September 2025

    Grim Cutie

    20th - 14:50 (40mins)
    21st - 13:00 (40mins)

    Based on the stop motion animated series of the same name, Grim Cutie is a 2 inch tall grim reaper who is afraid of everything. The show encourages kids to share what makes them scared...
  • THEATRE
    Sat 20 September 2025 - Sun 21 September 2025

    The Masterplan

    16:00 (60mins)

    THE MASTERPLAN: Drugs, Sex, Theatre, Oasis, and how all of them got me to Edinburgh Fringe. This is the story of what happens when you try to fuse theatre with the rock 'n' roll life style. Will my ambition to be the...
  • THEATRE
    Sat 20 September 2025 - Sun 21 September 2025

    Uncle Vincent

    16:05 (70mins)

    When Vincent van Gogh dies at the age of 37, shortly followed by his brother Theo, it is left to Theo’s widow Jo to carry on his legacy. Thanks to Jo and her son Vincent Willem the painter of Sunflowers is one...
  • MUSIC
    Sat 20 September 2025 - Sun 21 September 2025

    Patchworks

    17:20 (40mins)

    A warm and distinctive mix of acoustic folk, blues and homespun originals from Dundee musician, Andrew Baird.
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