dundee fringe 2022

 

 

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 with a ten-day festival at our pop-up venue, the city's newest arts festival returns this year!

 

Dundee Fringe 2024

  • THEATRE
    Fri 12 September 2025 - Sun 14 September 2025

    The Weaver's Knot

    16:00 (45mins)

    Prepare yourself for a journey back in time, to a time where the witch trials changed people's lives.

    A show devised by the minds of ADH3 theatre group with themes of love, horror,...

  • THEATRE
    Fri 12 September 2025 - Sat 13 September 2025

    Shallowspace Cryotech Feverdream

    21:00 (50mins)

    Frozen blood. Coolant in your veins. Every moment of human history preserved in digital hyperspace. Memories become data. Routine becomes regimen, yet somehow, your limbs feel… wrong? Trans sci-fi new writing...
  • THEATRE
    Sat 13 September 2025 - Sun 14 September 2025

    Cody and Beau: A Wild West Story

    16:30 (50mins)

    In 1889 Texas, Cody and Beau have one goal: becoming cowboys. But when the boys plan to pursue the outlawing dream, what awaits them in the desert is far from the fantasies of their magazines. A wild ride toward...
  • THEATRE
    Sat 13 September 2025 - Sun 14 September 2025

    Lunchbox

    19:30 (60mins)

    Lunchbox, is about the impact of bullying seen the eyes of a troubled boy, Steven. It examines the situation of a Pakistani girl, Lubna, who gets in his path. Lunchtime drama club is her escape, until Steven joins. ...
  • THEATRE
    Sun 14 September 2025

    SLUSH

    17:20 (45mins)

    Annie and Diane are in patients in a mental health unit. As they sit chatting in the day room, Diane wonders why Annie is so interested in the snow falling outside. As they discuss Diane’s potential discharge...
  • THEATRE
    Sun 14 September 2025

    Dundee Improvisation Nights

    19:00 (60mins)

    Dundee Improvisation Nights invites you into an evening of spontaneous performance, where performers, musicians, and artists create live and in the moment. Expect raw energy, story, unexpected connections, and the...
  • THEATRE
    Sun 14 September 2025

    Whispers

    20:00 (60mins)

    Step into the shadows of Victorian London in a haunting exploration of memory, trauma, resilience and the silenced voices of the past. Rooted entirely in historical source material, Whispers explores the brutal power...
  • THEATRE
    Mon 15 September 2025 - Tue 16 September 2025

    Note of Concern

    16:30 (45mins)

    Childhood friends, distant strangers now, trapped in their least favourite teachers classroom during a school reunion, poke their noses where they don’t belong. Following clues left by their teacher, they...
  • THEATRE
    Mon 15 September 2025 - Tue 16 September 2025

    Do Astronauts Masturbate in Space?

    17:30 (60mins)

    In a dystopian Britain where you need a license to have children, a young couple is put to the test in this electric dark comedy.
  • THEATRE
    Mon 15 September 2025 - Tue 16 September 2025

    Her Raving Mind

    18:00 (60mins)

    EL is not well. Her weekly therapy sessions reveal more than she expected. As she shares her story, secrets and dark memories surface through a muddle of cathartic flashbacks and visceral 'rave-clubbing deliriums'...
  • THEATRE
    Mon 15 September 2025 - Tue 16 September 2025

    For An Eye?

    18:30 (50mins)

    Make sure to bring an offering for the shopkeeper- he plans to barter his way out of this place by any means. It matters not who visits him, or what he stands to lose- trade must persist in this new one-man horror.
  • THEATRE
    Mon 15 September 2025 - Tue 16 September 2025

    The Constant Storm

    19:00 (60mins)

    The Constant Storm is a contemporary performance that blends clowning, physical theatre, and collaborative storytelling. It explores the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes that shape the complex...
  • THEATRE
    Mon 15 September 2025 - Tue 16 September 2025

    Euripides' Iphigeneia in Tauris

    19:34 (60mins)

    Intothedark presents: Euripides' Greek drama 'Iphigeneia in Tauris'. Translated by Kenneth McLeish - this play is a tale of exile, escape, and the meaning of family. We follow Iphigeneia, searching for hope in the...
  • 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...
  • THEATRE
    Wed 17 September 2025 - Thu 18 September 2025

    You Have Failed Me For The Last Time!

    17:30 (60mins)

    When Agent J. Blonde comes face-to-face with maniacal supervillain Friedrich Von Fittervach and his unsettling hunchback, Ivor, he must rally the tyrant’s begrudging workforce in time to save the world.
  • 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...
  • 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 - 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...
  • 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...

  • 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...
  • 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 ...
  • THEATRE
    Thu 18 September 2025 - Sun 21 September 2025

    Mask 4 Masc

    20:00 (45mins)

    Dating is complicated enough, but when you have three personalities, all of them equally clueless, a first relationship becomes a minefield. Add to that one asexual and one hypersexual partner and you get Adam...
  • THEATRE
    Thu 18 September 2025 - Fri 19 September 2025

    Hope You're Doing Well

    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 ...

  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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 ...
  • 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.
  • THEATRE
    Sun 21 September 2025

    The Fives King

    14:10 (80mins)

    Meet Marcus (AKA The Fives King), (AKA The Sheriff), (AKA The Lone Ranger), he rules the roost at his local five-aside club. Recently there's been a wee bit of a change, and folk aren't wanting to play with him...