Rebuilt Mon 10 Aug 2026, 05:00 BST · updated 09:15 from your calendar and your Fringe confirmation emails directly
Three things resolved this morning: Youth in Flames isn't yours (free morning), the Friday clash doesn't exist, and Wednesday's advice has flipped — keep both paid tickets. Today and tomorrow are the official Fringe 2-for-1 days.
Any underlined show title opens its edfringe page — full blurb, dates and booking. Every one was checked to load before it went on here.
Walking times are modelled, ±20%. Add 5 min for queues. Allocation figures were last refreshed by the box-office feed up to 4 days ago — directional, not live.
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Morning check — Fri 14 Aug 2026, 11:20 BST
Gone since yesterday:
2026-08-13 12:20 — Alan Bissett: The Red Hourglass
2026-08-13 14:45 — DARKFIELD: COMA
2026-08-13 18:25 — Sh!t Theatre: Evita Too
2026-08-13 20:00 — Reuben Kaye: Hard to Swallow
Shape of the day: morning free until SAND at 13:30, then you're at Summerhall for the rest of the day — SAND, Corpse, HAM, all in one building. Two gaps left to fill: a 3h15 afternoon and a 1h45 after HAM. No clash — nothing to decide today. 2-for-1 day.
Walking times modelled from venue postcodes (±20%). Allow = walk + 5 min for queues, rounded up to the next 5.
🍽 Food near by
Pleasance Courtyard
Mosque Kitchen
Nicolson Sq · very cheap, very fast · directly on the Pleasance → Summerhall line
The obvious one if you're taking SAND or Playback — eat en route, no detour.
Summerhall
Ting Thai Caravan · sit-down
Teviot Place · open evenings · ~13 min from Summerhall
Fast even when it's busy. Good if you want to be sat down by 18:00 and back at Summerhall by 19:15.
Paradise Palms · sit-down
41 Lothian St · all plant-based · kitchen to 22:00, bar to 01:00 · ~12 min from Summerhall
The proper option. With a 1h45 window after Julius Caesar this is comfortable, and it's on the line towards Assembly George Square for later.
Paradise Palms
41 Lothian St · kitchen to 22:00, bar to 01:00 · on the Summerhall → George Square line
If you skip a show in this gap, this is the late option that's actually still cooking. Everything else near Summerhall is winding down.
Assembly George Square Gardens
Uncle Tiger
3 Bristo Place (same address as Assembly Checkpoint) · quick
Best if you're going to Teviot for Wiesenthal — it's on the way.
on the walk
Ting Thai Caravan
Teviot Place · fast, cheap, reliably good
Same line as Uncle Tiger. Can be a queue at peak — allow the 5 min.
Civerinos
Pizza by the slice · quick
The 15-minute answer if you take I AM JOHNNY and only have a sliver.
Mosque Kitchen
Nicolson St · cheap, fast, open evenings · ~8 min
Closest cheap-and-fast to Summerhall. Under £10, under 20 minutes.
Oink
Hog roast rolls · shuts 17:00
Lunch only. Genuinely 10 minutes end to end if the gap is tight.
Morning free
★ BEST FIT
The Wreck
10:30 · Summerhall (26), Old Lab · 60 min · 2-for-1 today
No 2026 review found — listed on its programme details, not on the strength of a notice.
Multimedia and puppetry. Ends 11:30 and you're already at Summerhall, so 2 hours clear before SAND — the roomiest fit of the day. Confirmed on sale for today from the box-office feed.
Jitters
12:00 · Summerhall (26), Old Lab · 60 min · 2-for-1 today
No 2026 review. The ★★★★ Scotsman / Independent quotes are for the company's previous work, not this show. Contains distressing themes.
Ends 13:00, zero travel to SAND — 30 min slack. Worth knowing: this is the same show you have pencilled in as a Wednesday draft, and Wednesday is the day still hanging on the coach-tour question. Seeing it today takes it off that list entirely.
Closed today: Collective and VoxBox (Mon & Tue), Stills (Sun & Mon). Radical Road still closed. Edinburgh Art Festival doesn't open until 14 Aug — your last day.
Youth in Flames — Steve's
You have no ticket for this — confirmed, not assumed. Steve created the entry, there is no guest list, and it appears in none of your three Fringe orders. Publicly sold out. Also: the Fringe First billing is a 2025 award, not this year. Ignore it and enjoy a free morning.
Midday: anywhere → Summerhall
★ BOOKED — see the card below
SAND
13:30 · Summerhall (26), Main Hall · 60 min · £18
You booked this on the morning of Mon 10 Aug. It is no longer an option to weigh up — the other entries in this gap are listed only in case you want something before or after it.
13:15–14:25 · Gilded Balloon Teviot (14), Dining Room · 70 min · £16.50 · 23% left · 14+
No 2026 review. The ★★★★★ Scotsman / BroadwayBaby quotes on the poster are prior-run marketing.
Pleasance Courtyard → Teviot 9 min, arrive ~12:44, 30 min slack. Teviot → Summerhall 13 min, so you're at Corpse by ~14:40 — 35 min slack. Comfortable. Political theatre: Simon Wiesenthal's last day at work. Not 2-for-1 — I got that wrong yesterday.
Lunch Break Luxuriate Lit Salon
13:30 · Summerhall · 90 min · £25 · 88% left
No review yet.
Ends 15:00, zero travel to Corpse — 15 min slack. Longer and pricier than the others; only if the salon format appeals.
13:20 · Summerhall · 60 min · £17 · no central allocation — Summerhall box office in person
No review yet.
Ends 14:20, zero travel — 50 min slack. You'd be at the Summerhall box office anyway if you're chasing Bigfoot, so ask about both together.
14:15 · ZOO Southside (82), 117 Nicolson St · 45 min · £13 · 64% left
No review yet.
Ends 15:00, ZOO → Summerhall 7 min = 15:07 for a 15:15 start. 8 min slack — that's a brisk walk, not a stroll. Homeric mock-epic, physical.
Campitalism: Three Gays Try to Fix The Economy — DON'T
14:05 · Pleasance Courtyard · 55 min · £13 · 38% left
On your taste, but it ends 15:00 and Pleasance → Summerhall is 14 min. That's 15:14 for a 15:15 curtain. One minute. Listed only so you don't find it yourself and try it.
Booked this morning. Zero travel to Corpse afterwards — same building, 45 min slack. This also parks you at Summerhall for the whole afternoon and evening, which is the shape the day wanted anyway. → The Wiesenthal draft at 13:15 is now dead — it overlaps this and you can't do both. Ignore it; I've left it on your calendar rather than deleting something you might still want.
Real-life ghost story horror-comedy. Now at 1% allocation — you're fine, you hold tickets, but there'll be no spares at the door for anyone tagging along.
Afternoon: Summerhall → Summerhall
★ BEST FIT
JULIUS CAESAR VARIETY SHOW
16:45 · Summerhall (26), Red Lecture Theatre · 60 min · £17 · 61% left
No review yet.
You do not move — it's the same room Corpse finishes in. 30 min slack at the front, ends 17:45 leaving 1h 45m for dinner before HAM. Best-shaped option of the day.
Surreally Good — Scott Turnbull
17:20 · Summerhall · 60 min · £15 · 63% left
No 2026 review. The List covered the 2025 run and gave no star rating.
Zero travel. Ends 18:20, 70 min slack before HAM. Lets you eat first (16:15–17:10) rather than after.
17:45 · Summerhall · 60 min · £20 · no central allocation — box office in person
No review yet.
Immersive, on your taste. Ends 18:45, zero travel, 45 min slack. Ask at the Summerhall box office when you chase Bigfoot.
OUT THERE — Mark Vigeant
17:20 · Assembly Roxy (139), 2 Roxburgh Place · 60 min · £14 · 70% left
No review yet.
Summerhall → Roxy 12 min. Ends 18:20, back by 18:32 — ~1 hour slack. Alt/experimental comedy. Comfortable.
16:40 · Assembly Roxy (139) · 60 min · £14.50 · 80% left
No review yet.
Summerhall → Roxy 12 min means leaving at 16:15 and arriving 16:27 — 13 min slack, fine. Ends 17:40, back 17:52. Works, but you're walking straight out of Corpse.
18:15 · Summerhall (26), Red Lecture Theatre · 60 min · £17 · 81% left
No review yet.
Ends 19:15, HAM is 19:30 in the same building — 15 min, no walk. Doable, but it means eating at 16:30 or not at all, and HAM is a no-latecomers-style show. Only if you want the day maximally full.
This is your one real dinner opportunity today. After HAM you have 1h45 but you'll want it for a show. Eat between 17:45 and 19:10.
Useless tonight: Oink, The Haggis Box, Union of Genius and Origin Coffee all shut at 17:00.
Trainspotting Live — Steve and Phil
On the shared calendar because Steve added it and Phil is going. You are not. I previously read this as a clash with your HAM at 19:30 and pushed a fix for it — that was my error, and it cost you a paragraph of worry this morning. Your evening runs straight to HAM as planned.
HAM
Kinky eco-hijacking of Hamlet (Hotter Project). Your calendar note says latecomers may not be admitted — I could not find that policy stated on Summerhall's page this morning, so treat it as true and be early. Nothing competes with it: the whole 16:15–19:30 window is yours.
Late: Summerhall → Assembly George Square Gardens
★ THE ONLY CLEAN FIT
PLASTIC
20:45 · Summerhall (26) · 60 min · £17 · 33% left
No review yet.
Zero travel out of HAM — 15 min slack at the front. Ends 21:45, then the 10 min walk gets you to the Piccolo at ~21:55 with 20 min in hand. This is the only option tonight that isn't a compromise.
Bigfoot Ripped My Dog In Half I Saw It · WON'T FIT TONIGHT
21:10 · Summerhall (26), Main Hall · 60 min · £17 · 0% central allocation — Summerhall box office in person
★★★★★ BroadwayWorld, 8 Aug — "Their idiosyncratic brand of absurdist physical theatre is what the Fringe should be. Experimental. Daring." (Cindy Marcolina)
The best-reviewed thing on your radar and squarely your taste — Xhloe & Natasha, absurdist physical theatre with clowning and puppetry. But it ends 22:10 and the Piccolo is 10 min away, so you'd arrive 22:20 for a 22:15 start. Taking this means giving up Underground Monk, which you've booked and which is itself at 1% allocation. Your call — but that's the actual trade, and it's the last chance you'll get at Bigfoot this week unless a slot opens.
Werewolf — Binge Culture
21:00 · Summerhall (26), TechCube 0 · 60 min · £17 · 66% left
Skip — you've already booked this for Wed 12 at 21:00. Listed so you don't accidentally buy it twice.
Puttana / SMUT — both miss
Puttana 21:15 Summerhall Red Lecture Theatre (ends 22:15 exactly) · SMUT 21:10 Assembly Roxy (ends 22:10, then a 10 min walk)
Both land you at the Piccolo late. Listed to save you the maths.
If you took PLASTIC you won't eat here — which is why the 17:45–19:10 dinner in the previous gap matters.
18+ · nudity, strobe, audience participation. 1% allocation left — no spares at the door.
Shape of the day: a New Town start at the Quaker Meeting House, then everything collapses into Pleasance Courtyard for the evening. Second and last 2-for-1 day. The one urgent thing is Morpurgo.
Walking times modelled from venue postcodes (±20%). Allow = walk + 5 min for queues, rounded up to the next 5.
🍽 Food near by
Quaker Meeting House
Oink
Victoria St — directly below the Quaker Meeting House · shuts 17:00
You come out onto Victoria Terrace and it's right there. Ten minutes, done, and you still have an hour.
Pleasance Courtyard
Ting Thai Caravan / Uncle Tiger
Teviot Place / 3 Bristo Place · both on the line to Pleasance
Sit-down-ish and still comfortable inside 70 minutes.
Ting Thai Caravan · sit-down
Teviot Place · ~8 min from Pleasance Courtyard
If you take Morpurgo, eat in the 20:00–21:10 window after it — that's the roomier one.
Union of Genius
Forrest Rd · soup · shuts 17:00 · on the walk to Pleasance
Directly en route. Fast.
on the walk
Civerinos / Uncle Tiger
Bristo/George Square cluster · 7–8 min · fast
The 30-minute answer either side of Morpurgo.
Paradise Palms
41 Lothian St · kitchen to 22:00 · ~8 min
Works for a late supper between Morpurgo and Garry Starr.
Van Gogh meets Lennon. Steve's addition, Phil attending.
Quaker Meeting House → Pleasance Courtyard (12 min)
Venue confirmed: Upstairs at Pleasance Courtyard — from your booking confirmation, so no need to check your ticket. Queer character comedy. You hold 2 tickets — one is spare.
Resolved, and it's good news: this is the same room as Lover Girl — Upstairs at Pleasance Courtyard. The worry that these two might be in different venues 30 minutes apart is gone: zero travel, you don't even leave the room. Queer/trans alt comedy. 2 tickets — one spare.
Joseph Morpurgo: Highlander 70
Tomorrow is the last date of his first window. The run goes dark after Tue 11 and doesn't return until 20 Aug, six days after you fly. First new show in nine years. This is genuinely now or never.
Sits inside your 4h 10m evening gap and it's in the same building as Garry Starr later — zero travel either side. Ends 20:00, leaving 80 min to eat before 21:20.
Evening at Pleasance Courtyard
Collective and VoxBox are closed Tue as well as Mon. Stills is open today.
With your hosts Nick and Alexander. Clown/physical, dead centre of your taste. Correction: I previously said you had a spare ticket for this to offer Steve or Phil. That was wrong — Garry Starr appears in none of your three Fringe orders, so the booking is presumably Nick and Alexander's rather than yours. Don't offer a seat you may not hold. Your real spares are listed in the alert box.
Shape of the day: the one open question left on the trip — but it has moved in your favour. Both Summerhall tickets are confirmed yours; the coach tour looks like Steve's entry. One message to Steve settles the day.
Walking times modelled from venue postcodes (±20%). Allow = walk + 5 min for queues, rounded up to the next 5.
🍽 Food near by
Summerhall
Paradise Palms
41 Lothian St · kitchen to 22:00 · ~12 min from Summerhall
The 19:00–19:40 window between Roleplay and the Conk draft is tight for this. The 20:45–21:00 slot is not enough. Eat at 16:00–17:30 before Roleplay or you won't eat.
on the walk
Mosque Kitchen
Nicolson St · ~8 min · cheap and fast
The realistic option if you're eating between shows.
Loch Lomond / Stirling / Kelpies tour vs two paid Summerhall shows
If you are on the coach it swallows both. Roleplay's real start time is 17:50, not the 17:45 your calendar originally had — even a tour that ran early wouldn't rescue it, because you'd be getting off a coach at 18:30.
Changed since yesterday: the tour looks like Steve's entry, not a commitment of yours. It was created by Steve, has no guest list, no location and no description, and there is nothing matching it on your own calendar — the same pattern as Trainspotting Live, Youth in Flames and Behind Closed Doors, all three of which turned out not to be yours. Meanwhile both Summerhall shows are confirmed paid tickets of yours (I have both confirmation emails).
So the advice inverts: don't write anything off. Keep As Far As We Know and Roleplay, and send Steve one message asking whether you were ever booked on the coach. A tour is a group booking rather than a numbered seat, so this is the one thing on the trip I genuinely cannot settle from the record — but the burden of proof has moved. Do not cancel two paid tickets for a day out you may not be on.
Work call
Still sitting on your personal calendar. A previous draft of mine assumed this was cancelled for the holiday — it isn't, or it was never removed. If you're on a coach at Stirling Castle at 13:00 this is a problem too.
YESYESNONO (Sam Ward) — hallucinogenic road-trip through a world of anomalies. Experimental, your kind of thing.
JITTERS (Charly Clive & Ellen Robertson)
Two-hander set in the hour before a wedding that may not go ahead. ★★★★ Scotsman and ★★★★ Independent quotes are for previous work, not this show. Contains distressing themes.
Only viable if the tour goes. Pairs with As Far As We Know for a zero-travel Summerhall morning — but it also runs straight into the 13:00 work call.
Corrected time: 17:50, not 17:45. Same room as Werewolf later, so zero travel between them. Price corrected: £18, not the £22 shown here previously — I have the confirmation email, booked 7 June under a separate order from your other two. This is definitely a paid ticket of yours.
Man Sings the Same Song Over and Over Again for an Hour
No review. Durational comedy/live-art experiment — Conk sings one song for an hour.
Roleplay ends 19:00 in the same building — 45 min slack, zero travel. Ends 20:45, leaving 15 min before Werewolf at 21:00.
Binge Culture's immersive Traitors-style horror-comedy — lycanthropy outbreak, a safehouse, a circle of strangers. Same room as Roleplay, zero travel.
Creepy Boys — SLUGS
The ★★★★ Guardian / Scotsman / Chortle / FT quotes are all from the 2025 run. No 2026 review exists.
Run ends 17 August — this week or never. Techno-punk concert / clown show / basement puppet nightmare. Zero travel: Werewolf is in this exact room. 8% left, so book rather than chance the door.
If you're in Edinburgh
Shape of the day: free until 14:45, then a tight, well-packed evening entirely within the George Square cluster. The turnaround between Evita Too and Reuben Kaye is the thing to plan around.
Walking times modelled from venue postcodes (±20%). Allow = walk + 5 min for queues, rounded up to the next 5.
🍽 Food near by
Assembly George Square
Paradise Palms · sit-down, 16:00–17:00
41 Lothian St · ~6 min from George Square · kitchen to 22:00
If you take Fuccbois at 17:05, eat here at 16:00 and walk over. That's the clean version of the evening.
on the walk
Uncle Tiger / Civerinos
Bristo Place cluster · 3–5 min · fast
The 25-minute version if you'd rather do something else with the afternoon.
Oink / Union of Genius / The Haggis Box
All open at lunch, all shut 17:00
Lunch is the easy meal today. Dinner is the hard one — see below.
Paradise Palms again — after 21:00
Kitchen to 22:00, bar to 01:00
Reuben Kaye ends 21:00. If you skip the Stamptown draft, this is a real late dinner. If you take Stamptown at 21:50 you have 50 min — enough here, nowhere else.
Free morning
★ BEST FIT
Alan Bissett: The Red Hourglass
12:20 · The Stand Comedy Club 2 (5b), 16 North St Andrew St EH2 1HJ · 60 min
The five-star quotes are from 2012. Fest, BroadwayBaby and ThreeWeeks ★★★★★ and the Independent ★★★★ all date from the original run — Bissett's own site files this as a 2012 play. No 2026 review found. A well-regarded revival, not a show carrying current notices.
Solo show: he plays five characters, none of them human, trapped in a research facility. Surreal and dark. Tickets available for Thursday (Tuesday has no central allocation, and it's dark Mon and Wed — Thursday and Friday are your only clean shots).
Ends 13:20. The Stand → Assembly George Square is 24 min, allow 30, so you're at COMA by ~13:50 with 55 min in hand. It also sits in the New Town, 10 min from Collective on Calton Hill and 8 min from Stills — so it turns the morning into one coherent trip north rather than a special journey.
★★★★ Binge Fringe, 9 Aug (Finlay Clench) — "There is no denying something magical takes place when you place yourself in the hands of master experience-makers and performers such as these."
Fresh review, landed yesterday. Immersive shipping-container piece — exactly your territory.
Afternoon in George Square
Fuccbois
17:05–18:05 · Assembly George Square Studios (17) · £16.50 · queer
No review yet.
1 min from the COMA container. Ends 18:05 and ZOO Southside is ~5 min — 15 min slack for Evita Too. Fits, but see the eating warning.
Evita Too ends 19:40 and Reuben Kaye starts 20:00 six minutes away. That is a 20-minute turnaround with no slack. You will not eat between them. Either eat in the 16:00–17:00 window, or you're not eating until 21:00.
Evita Too → Reuben Kaye
Not a clash, but there is nothing in it. Don't linger, don't queue for a drink, and don't plan to eat.
Venue confirmed: Palais du Variété, Assembly George Square Gardens. My guess of "the George Square cluster" was right and the ~6 min walk from ZOO Southside holds. Explosive queer cabaret. The ★★★★ Chortle review often cited for this is dated 19 April 2026 — Melbourne, not Edinburgh. No 2026 Edinburgh notice yet.
Stamptown (Zach Zucker)
No 2026 review. Billed as a chaotic sell-out variety show.
Confirmed same venue as Reuben Kaye (Assembly George Square Gardens) — a real 50 min changeover with no walk at all. Cleanest late fit of the week. Historically sells out; book in advance rather than chancing the door. Clown/variety, right in your lane.
Shape of the day: last day, and now completely clean — the 15:00 clash was never yours. Bi-Curious George, then a run through Underbelly Cowgate, then a wide-open last night from 19:50.
Walking times modelled from venue postcodes (±20%). Allow = walk + 5 min for queues, rounded up to the next 5.
🍽 Food near by
Pleasance Courtyard
Ting Thai Caravan / Civerinos
Teviot Place / Bristo cluster · 7–8 min from Pleasance, then ~10 min down to Cowgate
Eat at 16:15, be at Underbelly by 17:35. Comfortable.
Paradise Palms · last-night sit-down
41 Lothian St · kitchen to 22:00, bar to 01:00 · ~10 min from Cowgate, ~5 from Pleasance
With Elf Lyons at 21:30 you have 19:50–21:15 — a real dinner, not a scramble. Best last-night shape on offer.
on the walk
Mosque Kitchen
Nicolson St · cheap, fast
The under-30-minute version.
Civerinos / Ting Thai Caravan
Bristo cluster · fast
If you take the 21:10 SMUT or chase Bigfoot instead, the window shrinks to ~65 min — go quick.
Paradise Palms · if you skip the 17:45 draft
41 Lothian St · kitchen to 22:00
With no 17:45 show you have 2h50 — that's a proper last-night sit-down before Mothman.
Last free morning
Bi-Curious George: Snail Trail
The clash that was flagged here for two days does not exist. Nothing competes with this — just go.
Behind Closed Doors — Steve's
Created by Steve with Phil as the sole invitee and you not on the guest list, Meet link attached, no ticket in any of your orders. Same fingerprint as Trainspotting Live. Listed only so you know why it's on the shared calendar.
Pleasance Courtyard → Underbelly Cowgate
17:45–18:45 · Underbelly Cowgate (61), 66 Cowgate · £13
No review yet.
Same building as Mothman at 18:50 — a five-minute changeover with no walk. Zero-travel last-day filler.
If you take the 17:45 draft, dinner has to happen 16:15–17:30. Ondine's pre-theatre (17:30–18:30, George IV Bridge) is too late to work.
Last night, wide open
★ BEST FIT
Elf Lyons is The Woman on the Edge
21:30 · Pleasance Courtyard (33), Beyond · 60 min · £18 · 53% left · 16+
★★★★★ The Quinntessential Review (Will Quinn), 9 Aug 2026 — a review from this run, not recycled marketing.
Clowning, opera and mime; a breakup as surrealist physical comedy. Gaulier lineage, dead centre of your taste. 12 min walk, so you are there by ~20:05 with 85 min in hand — room for a proper last supper first.
21:10 · Assembly Roxy (139), The Snug Bar · 60 min · £13 · 86% left
★★★★ Corr Blimey (Hunter King), 7 Aug 2026; positive unrated notice from Entertainment Now, 6 Aug.
Queer burlesque-character cabaret — a fictional burlesque legend launching her filthy memoir. 12 min walk, ~65 min slack. Cheapest and emptiest here.
Lou Wall: Where Are All The Tall Grandmas?
21:15 · Monkey Barrel (515), Room 4 · 60 min · £15 · 28% left — scarcest here · 16+
No Edinburgh 2026 review. Only rating is ★★★½ Chortle, 3 Apr 2026 — that was Melbourne, and the reviewer found it "weighed down by its own sincerity".
Queer anarchic multimedia musical comedy. 3 min walk — shortest hop of the week. But a 100-seat room at 28% is the one that goes first: book now or let it go.
21:45 · Underbelly George Square, Buttercup · 60 min · £15.50 · 68% left · 16+
★★★½ Chortle (Steve Bennett), 9 Aug 2026 — and he explicitly calls it suited to a late-night slot.
High-glamour drag, wildly interactive, deliberately low-fi. 12 min walk, 100+ min slack.
Lil Wenker: BOYKING · CRITICS SPLIT
21:45 · Pleasance Courtyard (33), Bunker 1 · 60 min · £14 · 37% left
★★ Fest (Louis Cammell), 7 Aug 2026 — "an hour of shouting". vs 4.3/5 Edinburgh Reviews (Andrew Girdwood), 9 Aug 2026 — "a masterclass in subversive clowning".
Billed as clown horror comedy: a power-mad eight-year-old prince, aggressive audience work, tap-dancing. Genuinely high variance — the two current reviews could not disagree more. If being menaced by a clown is the point, this is your show.
Bigfoot Ripped My Dog In Half I Saw It · THE CHASE
21:10 · Summerhall (26), Main Hall · 60 min · £17 · central allocation still exhausted
★★★★★ BroadwayWorld, 8 Aug 2026 — "Experimental. Daring."
It does play Friday and the walk works: 18 min from Cowgate, 60 min slack. But Summerhall shows "not available" on every date and points you at the venue, so this is a box-office-in-person gamble, not a plan. One aggregator claims tickets are buyable; it contradicts both the venue and the live feed, so do not trust it. Runs to 30 Aug — the scarcity is demand, not a closing run.
Not listed: Garry Starr: Classic Penguins also plays Friday at 21:20 — but you see it Tuesday with Nick and Alexander.
23:55 · Gilded Balloon Teviot (14) · 80% left
The classic anarchic late-night bill. Elf Lyons ends 22:30, which rolls into this with time to spare — the obvious last-night finish if you can face a 2am bedtime. Running time, price and reviews unverified — a lead, not a booking.
23:20 · Underbelly Bristo Square (302) · 91% left
Late-night variety, almost empty. Same caveat: unverified on running time and price.
Sources this morning: edfringeguide.com (allocation %), pleasance.co.uk, festival.summerhallarts.co.uk, tickets.gildedballoon.co.uk, edfringe.com, BroadwayWorld Scotland, Binge Fringe, Chortle, The Reviews Hub.
Awards status as of today: no 2026 Fringe Firsts announced (ceremony Fri 28 Aug). The Popcorn Writing Award is paused for 2026 and Total Theatre Awards remain on pause — edfringe.com's awards page still lists Popcorn and is stale. No (ISH) Comedy Award longlist yet; the only award news in the last 48h is that the Edinburgh Comedy Awards appointed a new executive director (9 Aug). Beware search results for an "(ISH) longlist" — the top hit is from 2023.
Where a show has no 2026 review I've said so rather than reusing prior-run marketing stars. Anything I couldn't confirm from a live page this morning is marked unverified.