Stand Up If You're Here Tonight
Stand Up If You're Here Tonight is a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026, performing at Underbelly, Bristo Square. It has 26 performances listed, running from Wed 5 Aug, 16:40 to Mon 31 Aug, 16:40. The run has finished — every listed performance has taken place.
About this show
'You've tried everything. Yoga. Acupuncture. You floated in salt water in the pitch black dark. You juiced, you cleansed. You got a mattress that fitted itself to your foetal form. You ate only rinds for three days and nights. You reached out, you looked within. You have tried, and yet here you are.' So begins this new play by Olivier-nominated playwright John Kolvenbach. Jim Ortlieb delivers a tour-de-force performance as a man bent by isolation and deeply in love with the audience itself.
Details
- Venue: Underbelly, Bristo Square
- Space: Dairy Room
- Genre: THEATRE, Comedy, Immersive
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Running time: 60 minutes
- Room size: about 120 seats (Dairy Room) — the Fringe box office sells a share of the room, not all of it
- Performances listed: 26, of which 0 still to come and on sale
Accessibility
- Wheelchair access: lift
- Access features: Step-free access, Accessible toilet
- Venue notes: Accessible entry: If not taking the lift there is 28 steps into the performance space. Wheelchair access type:Lift (Building Lift) Stairs: 20+ Number of stairs is provided as guidance and is not in addition to any wheelchair access type (lift/ramp etc) stated above.
What the reviewers said
We have captured 7 published reviews and 27 audience reviews for this show from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s own listing. The excerpts below are the reviewers’ words, not ours — follow each link for the full review.
This is an absurdist, interactive play that swerves into trickster theater in a way that I’m required to keep mum about, a code of silence that critics have apparently respected through years of previous productions in…
— New York Theatre (5 out of 5 stars)
‘Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight is less a piece of theatre and more a group experience or calling. It forces the audience out of the role of passive consumer of art, into active participant and creator.
It may be that no review or sequence of words can possibly describe the meaning of the brilliantly written Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight.
— The RECS
Performance dates and ticket availability
- Wed 5 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £9.00
- Thu 6 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £9.00
- Fri 7 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £9.00
- Sat 8 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £14.00
- Sun 9 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £14.00
- Mon 10 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £14.00
- Tue 11 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £14.00
- Wed 12 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £13.00
- Thu 13 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £13.00
- Fri 14 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £14.00
- Sat 15 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £14.00
- Sun 16 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £14.00
- Mon 17 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £13.00
- Wed 19 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £13.00
- Thu 20 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £13.00
- Fri 21 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £14.00
- Sat 22 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £14.00
- Sun 23 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £14.00
- Mon 24 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £13.00
- Tue 25 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £13.00
- Wed 26 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £13.00
- Thu 27 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £13.00
- Fri 28 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £14.00
- Sat 29 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £14.00
- Sun 30 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £14.00
- Mon 31 Aug, 16:40 — Already performed — £13.00