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Spoken Word at the Edinburgh Fringe 2026

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 programme has 162 shows listed under spoken word, running between 4 and 31 August across venues all over the city.

All of them are listed below, rated ones first.

Availability figures come from the Fringe's own ticketing data and change through the day.

In Conversation with... Vittorio Angelone The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · Good · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Loud Poets Scottish Storytelling Centre · Good · 3 of 3 dates on sale
In Conversation with... Josie Long The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · Ok · 1 of 1 dates on sale
A Brief History of Northumbria (WIP) Alchemist Cocktail Bar and Restaurant · 11 of 12 dates on sale
A Cosmologist's Guide To Life and Love The Royal Scots Club · 12 of 12 dates on sale
A Disease by Any Other Name / Forget the Alzheimer’s Test? The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
A Disease by Any Other Name / It All Went Wrong at Legs The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
A Meditation on Memory theSpace @ Niddry St · 3 of 3 dates on sale
A Scottish Football Odyssey ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
A Wee Bit Zen – When Less Is More ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
ADEY theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall · 9 of 9 dates on sale
AI and Economics / Forensic Jewellery The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
AI and Economics / Midwife Crones Fight Back The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Address to a Haggis Scottish Storytelling Centre · 24 of 24 dates on sale
Adorable Comedians Performing Funny Poetry and Telling Lovely Stories PBH's Free Fringe @ Pizza Geeks Easter Road · 20 of 20 dates on sale
Age-Old Story / Molecular Matchmaking The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Alice Hawkins – Working Class Suffragette Paradise in The Vault · 5 of 5 dates on sale
All Talk with Baroness Gillian Shephard and Lord Robin Butler Iain Dale · Pleasance at EICC · 1 of 1 dates on sale
All Talk with Baroness Jacqui Smith Iain Dale · Pleasance at EICC · 1 of 1 dates on sale
All Talk with Jess Phillips MP Iain Dale · Pleasance at EICC · 1 of 1 dates on sale
All Talk with Joanna Cherry KC Iain Dale · Pleasance at EICC · 1 of 1 dates on sale
All Talk with Kemi Badenoch MP Iain Dale · Pleasance at EICC · 1 dates, none on sale centrally
All Talk with Kieran Maguire and Kevin Day Iain Dale · Pleasance at EICC · 1 of 1 dates on sale
All Talk with Matt Forde, Rosie Holt and Susie McCabe Iain Dale · Pleasance at EICC · 1 of 1 dates on sale
All Talk with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Richard Ratcliffe Iain Dale · Pleasance at EICC · 1 of 1 dates on sale
All Talk with Nicola Sturgeon Iain Dale · Pleasance at EICC · 1 dates, none on sale centrally
All Talk with Sarah Vine and Andrew Pierce Iain Dale · Pleasance at EICC · 1 of 1 dates on sale
All Talk with Sir John Curtice, Brian Taylor and Michael Crick Iain Dale · Pleasance at EICC · 1 of 1 dates on sale
All Talk with Stephen Flynn MSP Iain Dale · Pleasance at EICC · 1 of 1 dates on sale
All Talk with Wes Streeting MP Iain Dale · Pleasance at EICC · 1 of 1 dates on sale
All Talk with Zack Polanski Iain Dale · Pleasance at EICC · 1 of 1 dates on sale
An Audience with Marvin Herbert C ARTS | C venues | C aurora · 5 of 5 dates on sale
Ancient Voices, Living Landscape – Scotland’s Geomythography ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Andy Macleod's Soho Days and Camden Nights Just The Tonic at The Mash House · 12 of 12 dates on sale
Arabella Weir Scottish Comedy Legends · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Are Me and My Kids Doomed? Sharath Jeevan OBE – Meek Inheritance · Panmure House · 1 of 2 dates on sale
Art Without Borders – Demarco’s Europe ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Artificial Wombs / Panic! at the Cortex The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Attercliffe Stupid Club PBH's Free Fringe @ Central Youth Hostel · 7 of 7 dates on sale
Attila the Stockbroker PBH's Free Fringe @ Bannermans · 9 of 9 dates on sale
Ben Macpherson Does Poems at Adults PBH's Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies · 22 of 22 dates on sale
Between the Stones: Scotland Through Outlander ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 2 dates on sale
Body Snatchers, Serial Killers, Ulstermen Burke and Hare · Greenside @ Riddles Court · 21 of 21 dates on sale
Brain Health Roulette / Satellites Destroy Privacy The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 dates, none on sale centrally
Brave New Music – The Martyn Bennett Story ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Bridget Jones Meets the Existentialists / Forensic Jewellery The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Choose Life Choose Leith – Trainspotting on Location ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Comedians Do Poems 1 of 1 dates on sale
Connecting in a Connected World Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters · 4 of 4 dates on sale
Cracking the Menopause Mariella Frostrup · Gilded Balloon Teviot · 8 of 8 dates on sale
Dave Rowntree (of Blur) – No One You Know 4 of 4 dates on sale
Donald Dewar – An Incomplete Legacy? ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Echoes of Self Greenside @ Riddles Court · 12 of 12 dates on sale
Elvis in Chaos Greenside @ George Street · 9 of 9 dates on sale
Ethical Innovators? / Satellites Destroy Privacy The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Farmyard Follies ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Folklore of the Scottish Highlands artSpace@StMarks · 9 of 9 dates on sale
Forget the Alzheimer’s Test? / Artificial Wombs The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Fortunes from Flesh – Scotland and Slavery ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Good Predictions, Good Decisions? / Galactic Archaeology The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Good Predictions, Good Decisions? / Human-Robot Uncanny Collision The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Greg Hemphill Scottish Comedy Legends · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Hard Drugs / When Superbugs Kill The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Haven from Fascism? / Ms Information The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Haven from Fascism? / Spermageddon The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 dates, none on sale centrally
Heel for Heel – Scottish Dance Fever ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Hookers for Jesus / Breathe. Sleep. Wee. The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Horror Therapy / Ethical Innovators? The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside Brian Bilston · Assembly Rooms · 7 of 7 dates on sale
I Like Big Peaks / Hookers for Jesus The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
I Like Big Peaks / Pax Physica The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
I'm The One Your Mother Warned You About Just The Tonic at The Hive · 8 of 8 dates on sale
In Conversation with... Amanda Dwyer The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
In Conversation with... Andy Burnham The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 dates, none on sale centrally
In Conversation with... Bobby Bluebell The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
In Conversation with... Chris Brookmyre and Marissa Haetzman The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
In Conversation with... Gordon Strachan The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
In Conversation with... Ian Rankin The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
In Conversation with... Jackie Kay The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
In Conversation with... Jeremy Corbyn The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
In Conversation with... John Davidson The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 dates, none on sale centrally
In Conversation with... Mark Thomas The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
In Conversation with... Stuart Cosgrove and Tam Cowan The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
In Search of Scottish Architecture ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Iona with Love ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
It All Went Wrong at Legs / Age-Old Story The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
It Will Always Hurt a Bit (WIP) Nick Helm · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Jack Docherty Scottish Comedy Legends · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Jane McCarry Scottish Comedy Legends · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Jesters, Jokers and Clowns Hiding Behind the Mask · C ARTS | C venues | C digital · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Jim Smith Scottish Comedy Legends · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Jonathan Watson Scottish Comedy Legends · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Let People Like You PBH's Free Fringe @ CC Blooms · 21 of 21 dates on sale
Life of Pie Paradise in The Vault · 9 of 9 dates on sale
Loft Clearance theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall · 15 of 15 dates on sale
Love Light and Labels PBH's Free Fringe @ Strathmore Bar · 12 of 12 dates on sale
Memory Management / Breathe. Sleep. Wee. The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Memory Management / Bridget Jones Meets the Existentialists The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Midwife Crones Fight Back / When Superbugs Kill The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 dates, none on sale centrally
Mini Brains / Birthing Bravery The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Mini Brains / Women Can’t Be Doctors? The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Mistakes on Maps Library of Mistakes · 20 of 20 dates on sale
Mixed Signals / Horror Therapy The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Ms Information / This Dermatologist Recommends Sunshine The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
No Booze, No Boogie? / What’s the Point of Trees? The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
No Scotland No Party! ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Northern Spirits, Restless Hearts ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Performative Male Darren McGarvey · The Stand Comedy Club · 12 of 12 dates on sale
Performing Possibility / 200 Monks, 1 Dead Frog The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Performing Possibility / No Booze, No Boogie? The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Poems for People Who Don't Like Poetry Greenside @ George Street · 6 of 6 dates on sale
Poetry, Stories and Songs Louis de Bernières · Valvona & Crolla · 3 of 3 dates on sale
Queer Folks' Tales Scottish Storytelling Centre · 3 of 3 dates on sale
Raymond Mearns Scottish Comedy Legends · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Resistance Is Not Futile / 999 WTF The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Resistance Is Not Futile / Human-Robot Uncanny Collision The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Sanjeev Kohli Scottish Comedy Legends · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Sasha Graham's Ghost Stories and Tarot Just The Tonic at The Caves · 24 of 24 dates on sale
Scotland’s Darkest Past ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Scott Manley Hadley Exposes Themselves and the Shape of the Earth (It's Flat) PBH's Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth · 1 of 1 dates on sale
She Named It Coyote Ugly – An Evening with Lil Lovell Coyote Ugly Edinburgh · 1 of 2 dates on sale
Should You Trust Anyone? / 200 Monks, 1 Dead Frog The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Smut Slam PBH's Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth · 20 of 20 dates on sale
Steve Richards Presents Rock and Roll Politics theSpace @ Symposium Hall · 14 of 14 dates on sale
Superhero Porn / Hookers for Jesus The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Tales from the Shoulders of Giants PBH's Free Fringe @ Greek Gyros Grill · 23 of 23 dates on sale
Tales of Haunted Edinburgh Arthur Conan Doyle Centre · 5 of 5 dates on sale
Talking Two Millennia (of Scotland’s History) ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Tea and Tales ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
That's That One Craig Chalmers · PBH's Free Fringe @ Strathmore Bar · 20 of 20 dates on sale
The Art of Not Letting Go Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey · 7 of 7 dates on sale
The Dolphins Are Still Singing. Can You Hear Them? The Epic of Lee, Me and the Tree theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall · 5 of 5 dates on sale
The Eazy Club C ARTS | C venues | C alto · 25 of 26 dates on sale
The Frauds That Made Europe How to Steal a Million Euros · PBH's Free Fringe @ SUPERCUBE Cowgate · 10 of 10 dates on sale
The Fringe Story The Pend · 2 of 2 dates on sale
The Killer Case of John Bodkin Adams Ulster's Doctor Death · Greenside @ Riddles Court · 21 of 21 dates on sale
The Life of Eric Liddell Eric Liddell Community · 2 of 2 dates on sale
The Making of Chariots of Fire CANCELLED Eric Liddell Community · 1 dates, none on sale centrally
The Naked Truth Paradise in Augustines · 8 of 8 dates on sale
The Shamrock and the Cross – Spectators Under Heaven Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at Canonmills Church · Canonmills Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
The Weakness of Vulnerability / Brain Health Roulette The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
The Weakness of Vulnerability / Should You Trust Anyone? The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
The World at 15mph... ish PBH's Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd · 20 of 20 dates on sale
This Dermatologist Recommends Sunshine / Spermageddon The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 dates, none on sale centrally
This Library Needs a DJ / Hard Drugs The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
This Library Needs a DJ / Superhero Porn The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Traditional Tales Scottish Storytelling Centre · 22 of 23 dates on sale
Trust Issues, Fake News, Real Poems ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Unexplained Live theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall · 21 of 21 dates on sale
Unfinished Business – Scotland’s Political Crossroads ScotlandsFest · St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church · 1 of 1 dates on sale
What We Talk About When We Talk About the JFK Assassination The Umbrella Man · theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall · 21 of 21 dates on sale
What’s the Point of Trees? / Pax Physica The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
When Silence Listens / Galactic Archaeology The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
When Silence Listens / Your Robot Bestie The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Wild and Whirling Words PBH's Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd · 11 of 11 dates on sale
Witch? Women on Trial Museum of Magic, Fortune-Telling and Witchcraft · 14 of 14 dates on sale
Women Can’t Be Doctors? / Birthing Bravery The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
You Can Write a Book! Greenside @ Riddles Court · 12 of 12 dates on sale
Young Religious Poets Competition Final Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at Canongate Kirk · Canongate Kirk · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Your Mind's World / Molecular Matchmaking The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 2 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Your Mind's World / Panic! at the Cortex The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale
Your Robot Bestie / 999 WTF The Provocateurs · The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 · 1 of 1 dates on sale