Ed Fringe Guide · Guide · Genres · Spoken Word
Spoken Word at the Edinburgh Fringe 2026
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 programme has 164 shows listed under spoken word, running 7–31 August 2026, with previews from 4 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.
Ticket availability on this page was last updated on 30 August at 16:50 UK time. Figures change through the day during the festival, so if you are reading this later, check the show page for the current position.
- In Conversation with... Vittorio AngeloneGood 1 of 1 dates on sale
- In Conversation with... Josie LongOk 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Loud PoetsOk 3 of 3 dates on sale
- A Brief History of Northumbria (WIP) 8 of 13 dates on sale
- A Cosmologist's Guide To Life and Love 12 of 12 dates on sale
- A Disease by Any Other Name / Forget the Alzheimer’s Test? 1 of 1 dates on sale
- A Disease by Any Other Name / It All Went Wrong at Legs 1 of 1 dates on sale
- A Meditation on Memory 3 of 3 dates on sale
- A Scottish Football Odyssey 1 of 1 dates on sale
- A Wee Bit Zen – When Less Is More 1 of 1 dates on sale
- ADEY1 review 9 of 9 dates on sale
- AI and Economics / Forensic Jewellery 1 of 1 dates on sale
- AI and Economics / Midwife Crones Fight Back 1 dates, none on sale centrally
- Address to a Haggis 24 of 24 dates on sale
- Adorable Comedians Performing Funny Poetry and Telling Lovely Stories 20 of 20 dates on sale
- Age-Old Story / Molecular Matchmaking 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Alice Hawkins – Working Class Suffragette1 review 5 of 5 dates on sale
- All Talk with Baroness Gillian Shephard and Lord Robin Butler 1 of 1 dates on sale
- All Talk with Baroness Jacqui Smith 1 of 1 dates on sale
- All Talk with Jess Phillips MP1 review 1 of 1 dates on sale
- All Talk with Joanna Cherry KC 1 of 1 dates on sale
- All Talk with Kemi Badenoch MP 1 of 2 dates on sale
- All Talk with Kieran Maguire and Kevin Day 1 of 1 dates on sale
- All Talk with Matt Forde, Rosie Holt and Susie McCabe 1 of 1 dates on sale
- All Talk with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Richard Ratcliffe 1 of 1 dates on sale
- All Talk with Nicola Sturgeon 1 of 2 dates on sale
- All Talk with Sarah Vine and Andrew Pierce 1 of 1 dates on sale
- All Talk with Sir John Curtice, Brian Taylor and Michael Crick 1 of 1 dates on sale
- All Talk with Stephen Flynn MSP 1 of 1 dates on sale
- All Talk with Wes Streeting MP1 review 1 of 1 dates on sale
- All Talk with Zack Polanski 1 of 1 dates on sale
- An American Ginger In Paris (WIP) 19 of 19 dates on sale
- An Audience with Marvin Herbert 5 of 5 dates on sale
- Ancient Voices, Living Landscape – Scotland’s Geomythography 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Andy Macleod's Soho Days and Camden Nights1 review 12 of 12 dates on sale
- Arabella Weir 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Are Me and My Kids Doomed? 1 of 2 dates on sale
- Art Without Borders – Demarco’s Europe 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Artificial Wombs / Panic! at the Cortex 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Attercliffe Stupid Club 7 of 7 dates on sale
- Attila the Stockbroker 9 of 9 dates on sale
- Ben Macpherson Does Poems at Adults 22 of 22 dates on sale
- Between the Stones: Scotland Through Outlander 1 of 2 dates on sale
- Body Snatchers, Serial Killers, Ulstermen1 review 11 of 21 dates on sale
- Brain Health Roulette / Satellites Destroy Privacy 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Brave New Music – The Martyn Bennett Story 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Bridget Jones Meets the Existentialists / Forensic Jewellery 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Choose Life Choose Leith – Trainspotting on Location 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Comedians Do Poems 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Connecting in a Connected World 3 of 4 dates on sale
- Cracking the Menopause 8 of 8 dates on sale
- Dave Rowntree (of Blur) – No One You Know 1 of 4 dates on sale
- Donald Dewar – An Incomplete Legacy? 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Echoes of Self 12 of 12 dates on sale
- Elvis in Chaos 9 of 9 dates on sale
- Ethical Innovators? / Satellites Destroy Privacy 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Farmyard Follies 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Folklore of the Scottish Highlands 9 of 9 dates on sale
- Forget the Alzheimer’s Test? / Artificial Wombs 1 dates, none on sale centrally
- Fortunes from Flesh – Scotland and Slavery 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Good Predictions, Good Decisions? / Galactic Archaeology 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Good Predictions, Good Decisions? / Human-Robot Uncanny Collision 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Greg Hemphill CANCELLED 1 dates, none on sale centrally
- Hard Drugs / When Superbugs Kill 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Haven from Fascism? / Ms Information 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Haven from Fascism? / Spermageddon 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Heel for Heel – Scottish Dance Fever 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Hookers for Jesus / Breathe. Sleep. Wee. 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Horror Therapy / Ethical Innovators? 1 of 1 dates on sale
- How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside1 review 7 of 7 dates on sale
- I Like Big Peaks / Hookers for Jesus 1 of 1 dates on sale
- I Like Big Peaks / Pax Physica 1 of 1 dates on sale
- I'm The One Your Mother Warned You About 8 of 8 dates on sale
- In Conversation with... Amanda Dwyer CANCELLED 1 dates, none on sale centrally
- In Conversation with... Andy Burnham CANCELLED 1 dates, none on sale centrally
- In Conversation with... Bobby Bluebell 1 of 1 dates on sale
- In Conversation with... Chris Brookmyre and Marissa Haetzman1 review 1 of 1 dates on sale
- In Conversation with... Gordon Strachan 1 dates, none on sale centrally
- In Conversation with... Ian Rankin 1 dates, none on sale centrally
- In Conversation with... Jackie Kay 1 of 1 dates on sale
- In Conversation with... Jeremy Corbyn 1 dates, none on sale centrally
- In Conversation with... John Davidson 1 dates, none on sale centrally
- In Conversation with... Mark Thomas 1 of 1 dates on sale
- In Conversation with... Stuart Cosgrove and Tam Cowan 1 dates, none on sale centrally
- In Search of Scottish Architecture 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Iona with Love 1 of 1 dates on sale
- It All Went Wrong at Legs / Age-Old Story 1 of 1 dates on sale
- It Will Always Hurt a Bit (WIP) 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Jack Docherty 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Jane McCarry 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Jesters, Jokers and Clowns 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Jim Smith 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Jonathan Watson 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Let People Like You 21 of 21 dates on sale
- Loft Clearance 15 of 15 dates on sale
- Love Did a Number on Me1 review 9 of 9 dates on sale
- Love Light and Labels 12 of 12 dates on sale
- Memory Management / Breathe. Sleep. Wee. 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Memory Management / Bridget Jones Meets the Existentialists 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Midwife Crones Fight Back / When Superbugs Kill 1 dates, none on sale centrally
- Mini Brains / Birthing Bravery 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Mini Brains / Women Can’t Be Doctors? 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Mistakes on Maps 12 of 20 dates on sale
- Ms Information / This Dermatologist Recommends Sunshine 1 of 1 dates on sale
- No Booze, No Boogie? / What’s the Point of Trees? 1 of 1 dates on sale
- No Scotland No Party! CANCELLED 1 dates, none on sale centrally
- Northern Spirits, Restless Hearts 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Performative Male 12 of 12 dates on sale
- Performing Possibility / 200 Monks, 1 Dead Frog 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Performing Possibility / No Booze, No Boogie? 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Poems for People Who Don't Like Poetry 6 of 6 dates on sale
- Poetry, Stories and Songs 1 of 3 dates on sale
- Queer Folks' Tales 3 of 3 dates on sale
- Raymond Mearns 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Resistance Is Not Futile / 999 WTF 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Resistance Is Not Futile / Human-Robot Uncanny Collision 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Sanjeev Kohli 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Sasha Graham's Ghost Stories and Tarot1 review 24 of 24 dates on sale
- Scotland’s Darkest Past 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Scott Manley Hadley Exposes Themselves and the Shape of the Earth (It's Flat) 1 of 1 dates on sale
- She Named It Coyote Ugly – An Evening with Lil Lovell 1 of 2 dates on sale
- Should You Trust Anyone? / 200 Monks, 1 Dead Frog 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Smut Slam1 review 20 of 20 dates on sale
- Steve Richards Presents Rock and Roll Politics 13 of 14 dates on sale
- Superhero Porn / Hookers for Jesus 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Tales from the Shoulders of Giants1 review 23 of 23 dates on sale
- Tales of Haunted Edinburgh 5 of 5 dates on sale
- Talking Two Millennia (of Scotland’s History) 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Tea and Tales 1 of 1 dates on sale
- That's That One 20 of 20 dates on sale
- The Art of Not Letting Go 7 of 7 dates on sale
- The Dolphins Are Still Singing. Can You Hear Them? The Epic of Lee, Me and the Tree 5 of 5 dates on sale
- The Eazy Club 24 of 26 dates on sale
- The Frauds That Made Europe 10 dates, none on sale centrally
- The Frauds That Made Europe 5 of 5 dates on sale
- The Fringe Story 2 of 2 dates on sale
- The Killer Case of John Bodkin Adams 21 of 21 dates on sale
- The Life of Eric Liddell 2 of 2 dates on sale
- The Making of Chariots of Fire CANCELLED 1 dates, none on sale centrally
- The Naked Truth1 review 8 of 8 dates on sale
- The Shamrock and the Cross – Spectators Under Heaven 1 of 1 dates on sale
- The Weakness of Vulnerability / Brain Health Roulette 1 of 1 dates on sale
- The Weakness of Vulnerability / Should You Trust Anyone? 1 of 1 dates on sale
- The World at 15mph... ish 20 of 20 dates on sale
- This Dermatologist Recommends Sunshine / Spermageddon 1 dates, none on sale centrally
- This Library Needs a DJ / Hard Drugs 1 of 1 dates on sale
- This Library Needs a DJ / Horror Therapy 1 of 1 dates on sale
- This Library Needs a DJ / Superhero Porn 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Traditional Tales 22 of 23 dates on sale
- Trust Issues, Fake News, Real Poems 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Unexplained Live5 reviews 21 of 21 dates on sale
- Unfinished Business – Scotland’s Political Crossroads 1 of 1 dates on sale
- What We Talk About When We Talk About the JFK Assassination2 reviews 21 of 21 dates on sale
- What’s the Point of Trees? / Pax Physica 1 dates, none on sale centrally
- When Silence Listens / Galactic Archaeology 1 dates, none on sale centrally
- When Silence Listens / Your Robot Bestie 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Wild and Whirling Words 11 of 11 dates on sale
- Witch? Women on Trial 12 of 17 dates on sale
- Women Can’t Be Doctors? / Birthing Bravery 1 dates, none on sale centrally
- You Can Write a Book! 12 of 12 dates on sale
- Young Religious Poets Competition Final 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Your Mind's World / Molecular Matchmaking 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Your Mind's World / Panic! at the Cortex 1 of 1 dates on sale
- Your Robot Bestie / 999 WTF 1 of 1 dates on sale