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  • Matt Winning: Solastalgia (Work in Progress) | Matt Winning / PBH’s Free Fringe

    Everyone’s favourite climate academic and comedian Dr Matt Winning tests new ideas about climate change. Host of Net Zero: A Very British Problem (BBC Radio 4). ‘Everything a Fringe show should be: hilarious, personal, inventive and something that will stay with you for some time to come’ ***** (Edinburgh Festivals Magazine); ‘Winning’s sharp wit and intelligence allows him to educate as he entertains in this excellent stand-up seminar’ ****½ (Sunday Post). ‘An entertaining blend of facts, figures and accessible bits of stand-up’ (Chortle.co.uk); ‘Informative, urgent and amusingly provocative’ (BritishTheatreGuide.info).

    VENUE: PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms
    TICKETED: No
    AGE: 18+

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  • Look What We’ve Done | Helio Collective

    Following sold-out shows in Manchester, Helio Collective debuts at Fringe with a fresh take on how we talk about our planet’s future. Unnerving, thought provoking and hilarious, prepare for talking animals, the heights of fast fashion and your (least) favourite politicians reassuring you that climate change is definitely not their fault. From the team that brought you last year’s five-star Manchester Revue comes ‘exaggerative comedic finesse’ (BingeFringe.com) with a healthy dose of existential dread. With what little time we have left we might as well enjoy ourselves, but how long until everything falls apart?

    VENUE: theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall
    TICKETED: Yes
    AGE: 14+

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  • Janie Dee’s Beautiful World Cabaret | London Climate Change Festival / Something for the Weekend

    All the world’s a stage, let’s protect it. Multi Olivier Award-winning West End star Janie Dee (National Theatre’s The Motive and the Cue and Follies; Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends) confronts the climate crisis, and celebrates our beautiful world, through song and spoken word. Unusual and inspiring guests join this green twist on classic cabaret, asking how we can each make a difference in the fight for our planet. Playful, radical, informative, and ultimately hopeful. ‘Is there a more enchanting actress on the British stage than Janie Dee?’ (Times). ‘Passionately green… hilarious… pure class’ (MusicalTheatreReview.com).

    VENUE: Pleasance Dome
    TICKETED: Yes
    AGE: 12+

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  • Grow | Suitcase Storytelling Company

    Enjoy double the fun for more of the family in this brand-blooming-new version of Niall Moorjani’s 2023 sell-out smash hit, re-potted by the Suitcase Storytelling Company, creators of the award-winning The Girl and the Dragon. Join in with a sun song, hose wrestle and hilarious clowning around in a joyful show celebrating nature and all things that grow. Ideal for little gardeners aged 2-6, but everyone welcome. Featured in the Guardian’s Top Five Children’s Shows of Edinburgh Fringe 2023. Originally commissioned by Discover Children’s Storytelling Centre, with adaptation commissioned by the Southbank Centre. ‘Heart-warming’ **** (Skinny). ‘Delightful’ **** (BroadwayWorld.com).

    VENUE: Scottish Storytelling Centre
    TICKETED: Yes
    AGE: 0+

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  • Green Home Festival | CICV

    The climate emergency, net zero and soaring energy prices are the driving factors behind the Green Home Festival. The Green Home Festival will run from 12-16 August and will involve 10 individual shows. Every show will be free to attend. Whatever the topic and format, every show will have the same mission – to inform audiences and help everyone reduce their carbon footprint. For details about the shows please visit www.greenhomefestival.co.uk

    VENUE: Charlotte Square Gardens
    TICKETED: No
    AGE: 18+

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  • Gracie and the Start of the End of the World (Again) | Zoë Bullock and Louise Oliver in association with Assembly Festival

    Gracie is looking for love, and it’s been tough. Despite what people say, there definitely aren’t plenty more fish in the sea. Now, in one last totally-not-desperate shot, she wants to see if you – yes, YOU – could be The One. Oh, and did she mention, she’s a jellyfish? An immortal, pop culture obsessed, very horny jellyfish, with a pretty big confession to make… An extinction-level comedy about heartbreak, revolution and surviving the apocalypse. ART Award Winner 2024.

    VENUE: Assembly Roxy
    TICKETED: Yes
    AGE: 16+

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  • FREAK OUT! | Coin Toss Collective

    This VAULT Festival Show of the Week nominee tells the story of UK communities losing their homes to coastal erosion. Performed by a company of seven, this high-energy theatrical cocktail blends clowning, physical theatre and live art to explore climate anxiety, what home means and what we owe to each other. FREAK OUT! was developed with support of choreographer Anthony Matsena (Sadler’s Wells Associate) and Papatango Prize-winning playwright Matt Grinter. ‘Celebrates the beauty of the coast and laments its loss with exceptionally ingenious flair’ ***** (BroadwayWorld.com). ‘A poetically playful and creatively choreographed moment for reflection’ **** (FringeBiscuit.com).

    VENUE: Pleasance Dome
    TICKETED: Yes
    AGE: 12+

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  • Fault Lines | Lîla Dance

    As our planet’s voice gets louder, are we ready to listen? Fault Lines pulls at the tension in our relationship with nature. Our constant pursuit of progress increasing the speed of life has left us out of sync with the natural world. Survivors emerge from the rubble of a scorched earth. Within changing landscapes created from striking digital illustrations and evocative music, our survivors navigate the world; racing towards an unknown future. Fault Lines explores our environmental impact but asks what happens when we stand together with hope? What will that take?

    VENUE: Assembly @ Dance Base
    TICKETED: Yes
    AGE: 12+

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  • Einaudi’s Piano by Candlelight – Elegy for the Arctic | Candle Concerts

    Relax and unwind as tonight’s artist plays contemporary piano classics by Ludovico Einaudi – by candlelight. Award-winning pianist Matthew Shiel performs his official most-streamed piano pieces including favourites such as Nuvole BIanche, I Giorni, Divenire, Le Onde, Primavera, Nightbook, Una Mattina and more. In solidarity with Greenpeace, Ludovico Einaudi and the global fight against climate change, tonight’s artist will also play a special performance of his Elegy for the Arctic. ‘Matthew Shiel shone’ (ThisWeekCulture.com).

    VENUE: St Vincent’s
    TICKETED: Yes
    AGE: 8+

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  • Deeptime Atomic Waste Pleasure Party | Elastic Fantastic

    Hedonistic queer party-goer Rey is sent on a mission to bury nuclear waste in an underground nightclub. Thumping bass, sweaty armpits, acid techno, thigh-highs, vinyl scratches… a sea of toxic waste. We’ve buried our atomic past under tainted soil – what do we tell future generations when our secrets are unearthed? Through neon-lit hallways and graffiti-scrawled backrooms, Rey stumbles over intoxicated encounters and down psychedelic rabbit-holes to send a message deep through time. Is it worth it? Or should they just dance the night away?

    VENUE: theSpaceTriplex
    TICKETED: Yes
    AGE: 14+

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