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 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...
  • STORYTELLING
    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...
  • COMEDY
    Sat 20 September 2025

    Dinner with President Obonjo

    15:50 (50mins)

    President Obonjo has got a whole country in stitches as he attends his first State Visit to the UK.
  • 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.
  • THEATRE
    Sat 20 September 2025 - Sun 21 September 2025

    Secret Staging - come along to find out more!

    18:00 (60MINS)

    Meet a woman who is truly an expert at micromanaging her day(s).  Not that she has a choice. Or much in the way of resources: a few props of uncertain origin and a collection of assorted memories and ...
  • STORYTELLING
    Sat 20 September 2025 - Sun 21 September 2025

    Thor's a Dick - Viking Legends Not For Kids

    18:30 (60mins)

    Today we see Thor and the Norse gods as heroes, but like a lot of gods they were full of faults and more human in their actions.  This are not kid-friendly stories; they’re about taking revenge by pouring ...
  • THEATRE
    Sat 20 September 2025 - Sun 21 September 2025

    BAD BIRDS (or Kleptoparasite)

    18:50 (45mins)

    Birdsnipers. Vermin of the skies. Violent, over-sized pigeons. Your screeching, screaming, morning alarm. Dylan’s worst nightmare. Dylan’s strange secret.
  • COMEDY
    Sat 20 September 2025

    Harun Musho'd: A History Of The Last Conservative Government, In Their Own Stupid Words

    20:20 (60mins)

    Harun Musho’d reads from the memoirs of David Cameron, Theresa May, Liz Truss, Nadine Dorries, Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson, so you don’t have to. He will fact check them. You laugh. That’s the...
  • COMEDY
    Sat 20 September 2025 - Sun 21 September 2025

    Silence, You Peasant!

    20th - 21:30 (50mins)
    21st - 17:00 (50mins)

    The Wiffmiffer family estate has held the largest bank accountin the world for centuries, and now they decided to do improv. Unfortunately it seems as though these theatres are...
  • THEATRE
    Sun 21 September 2025

    The Fives King

    14:10 (80mins)

    Meet Marcus A.K.A- The Fives King. He rules the roost at his local five-aside club. One day, things begin to change and folk aren’t too keen to play for his team any more. 

    A dark comedy about toxic...
  • COMEDY
    Sun 21 September 2025

    Punchline Bingo

    14:20 (60mins)

    Four top comedians try to beat the punchlines in this comedy gameshow. But, you can win prizes too by playing the comedy bingo! All you need to do is cross the words off your card as the comics say them to win...
  • SPOKEN WORD
    Sun 21 September 2025

    The Sound Of My Own Voice

    14:35 (60mins)

    Personal. Political. Poetry for our times punctuated with song and true life stories. Gentle, fierce, honest. Themes range from Artificial Intelligence to the beauty of human kindness , from Thatcher’s Children...
  • FAMILY
    Sun 21 September 2025

    1 Very Silly Old Man With Magical Rhymes

    15:30 (60mins)

    Award-winning Sid Ozalid invites you to join him on his interactive journey of comedy, magic, song, poetry, and dad dancing.

    Sid has bumped his...

  • SPOKEN WORD
    Sun 21 September 2025

    Our Anxious Measurements II

    15:50 (55mins)

    The search begins for the one metric capable of conquering all our anxieties and convincing the world we are enough. Does such a unit exist? Should it? Critics Choice Award winner at the 2024 Bay ...
  • MUSIC
    Sun 21 September 2025

    Lullabies on Imbalances and Other Things

    17:30 (60mins)

    With time, one’s body changes, mental states are journeying wildly while emotions need a different “tuning”. Here comes the urge for writing songs on imbalances, adaptation, loss, and acceptance.
  • SPOKEN WORD
    Sun 21 September 2025

    In-trans-pection

    19:00 (30mins)

    Hey there you are girl.

    Took your time to get here, but here you are.

    No, wait, don't turn away.

    Please...

  • MUSIC
    Sun 21 September 2025

    Sexy As Folk

    19:30 (50mins)

    You’ve never heard so many rude songs in one place! Scots are a sexy lot, and our traditional songs are no exception. From ballads to Burns, come hear new versions of auld sexy sangs, and leave begging for...
  • COMEDY
    Sun 21 September 2025

    Craig Wilson: Who?

    20:20 (60mins)

    Craig Wilson is the most forgettable man in the world.

    After sell out festival shows in 2023 and 2024, people can’t stop talking about ‘that guy at the weekend who was a...
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