Coverage of the Free Fringe

The Free Fringe is headed up by founder Peter Buckley Hill, and stages free shows at numerous venues across Edinburgh.
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10 Films With My Dad (Aidan Goatley / PBH's Free Fringe)
2 Facebooked 3 (Jools Constant / PBH’s Free Fringe)
2012 - An Improv Odyssey (Cambridge Impronauts / PBH Free Fringe)
A Coach Load Of Lesley (Lesley Evans)
Aaron Twitchen’s Quarter Life Crisis (Aaron Twitchen / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Abanico Flamenco (Dondeduendes / PBH's Free Fringe)
Activism Is Fun (Chris Coltrane / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Adam Strauss - Varieties Of Religious Experience (Adam Strauss / PBH Free Fringe)
All The Fun Of The Unfair 2012 (Pete Starr, Henry Perryment And Guests / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Am I Good Friend? (Yve Blake / PBH's Free Fringe)
An Indie Boy’s Guide To Sex And Girls (Marc Burrows / PBH’s Free Fringe)
And Still Rarely Rong (Gary Colman / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Andrew O’Neill And Marc Burrows Do Music And Comedy And Hideous Murders (Blamed For Nothing / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Ben Hustwayte & Jack Campbell - Get It On (Ben Hustwayte & Jack Campbell / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Bobby Carroll - Low Voltage - Free (Bobby Carroll / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Bristol Improv For Hire (Bristol Improv / PBH's Free Fringe)
Charlie Dupré Presents - The Stories of Shakey P (Charlie Dupré / PBH's Free Fringe)
Charmian Hughes - Charmageddon! (Charmian Hughes / PBH's Free Fringe)
Christian Reilly - This is Not A Love Song (Christian Reilly / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Computer Programmer Extraordinaire (Raph Shirley / PBH's Free Fringe)
Convicted (Pinder, Wight, Choyce and Davies / PBH's Free Fringe)
Crab House - A Bloody Cabaret (Joe Kiely and Courtney Powell / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Crunch The News
(Bright Green And Lampoon Apathy / PBH’s Free Fringe
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Daniel Ryan Spaulding - How Dare You!
Dear Dan Brown... (Robert Finn / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Distract And Conquer (Nick Elleray, Joshua Ross / PBH's Free Fringe)
Do Not Adjust Your Stage (Do Not Adjust Your Stage / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Dolly Mixture (Anna Morris / PBH's Free Fringe)
Domestic Science - Helen Arney and Rob Wells (PBH Free Fringe)
D’You Hear About Todd? (Will Pickvance And Jonny Hartley / PBH’s Free Fringe)
End Of The World Show 2012 (Mark Speed / PBH's Free Fringe)
End To End (The Gramophones Theatre Company / PBH's Free Fringe)
Evie And The Perfect Cupcake (Tina Sederholm / PBH's Free Fringe)
Failure And How To Achieve It (Max Fletcher and Nick Davies / PBH's Free Fringe)
Fat Kitten Goes Speed Dating (Fat Kitten Improv / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Fat Kitten vs The World (Fat Kitten Improv / PBH's Free Fringe)
Firenado! The Sketch Show (Firenado! The Sketch Show / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Flea Circus Open Slam (Tea Fuelled / PBH's Free Fringe)
Fliss Russell - Life Is Fliss (Fliss Russell / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Fragments Of Monotony / An Audience With Sir Dickie Benson (The Brethren of Levity/PBH’s Free Fringe)
Free Footlights (Cambridge Footlights / PBH's Free Fringe)
Fresh Faces At The Free Fringe (Danny Worthington, Elise Harris And Others / PBH's Free Fringe)
Gadd And Winning - Well, This Is Awkwarder
Gadd, Kirk And Winning - Well, This Is Awkward... (Richard Gadd, James Kirk, And Matt Winning)
Gareth Morinan Presents A Wilmops Good Improv Show (Gareth Morinan / PBH's Free Fringe)
Gemma Arrowsmith - Defender Of The Earth (Gemma Arrowsmith / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Gentlemen Bears (Nicholson Cooke And Rowan / PBH’s Free Fringe)
German Comedian (Christian Schulte-Loh / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Gerry Howell - Glorious Invention (PBH’s Free Fringe)
Go To The Devil And Shake Yourself (PBH's Free Fringe)
Harry Baker - Proper Pop-Up Purple Paper People (Harry Baker / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Ian Smith And Tom Toal (PBH's Free Fringe)
Jack And Nikki - Killing Machines (Tea Fuelled / PBH's Free Fringe)
Jack Barry And Patrick Turpin - Your New Mild Friends (Barry / Turpin / PBH's Free Fringe)
James Christopher - Bring Me The Head Of Russell Kane - Free (YorkshireComedy.com / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Jamie Demetriou's People Day (and Special Guests) (Jamie Demetriou / PBH's Free Fringe)
Jollyboat (PBH's Free Fringe)
Joshua Seigal - We All Love Llamas! (Joshua Seigal)
Josie Long And Sam Schäfer's Awkward Romance (PBH's Free Fringe)
Lead Pencil (Lead Pencil Comedy Group / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Love In The Key Of Brit Pop (Emily Anderson)
Lucy Ayrton - Lullabies To Make Your Children Cry (Tea Fulled)
Mace And Burton - Heartbreak Hotel (Mace And Burton / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Mace And Burton - Rom Com Con (Mace And Burton / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Malones Live Music (Todd Cook / Malones Irish Bar / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Mark Cooper-Jones - Geography Teacher - Free (PBH’s Free Fringe)
Matthew Highton’s End Of The Road (PBH’s Free Fringe)
Max Fletcher - Delicious (Max Fletcher / PBH's Free Fringe)
Michelle De Swarte (Michelle De Swarte / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Michelle Wormleighton - Bewildered (Michelle Wormleighton / PBH's Free Fringe)
Monkey Poet - Potty Mouth (Monkey Poet / Makin Projects / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Monkey Poet’s Murder Mystery (Monkey Poet / Makin Projects / PBH’s Free Fringe)
My Little Songbook (Emily Rose / PBH's Free Fringe)
My Sister (Scandal Theatre)
Nathan Cassidy - Free Pound (Nathan Cassidy / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Newcastle University Comedy Society Showcase (PBH's Free Fringe / Alan Fletcher, Marc Smethurst, Jonny Pelham, Charlie Rowley)
No Turn Unstoned (Beth Vyse / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Once Upon A Time (In Space) (The Mechanisms / PBH's Free Fringe)
Other Voices - Alternative Spoken Word and Cabaret (Other Voices / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Owen Niblock - Codemaker (PBH's Free Fringe)
Passion, Pints And Potatoes - An Irish Guide To Life (Christiane O’Mahoney, Steve Bennett)
Peter Piper - The Man Behind The Legend (Sam Quinn / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Phil O'Shea (Phil O'Shea / PBH's Free Fringe)
Phill Jupitus Is Porky The Poet In 27 Years On (Off The Kerb Productions / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Plenty More Fish (But I Don't Have A Fish Fetish) (Accident And Emergency / PBH's Free Fringe)
Reclamation (Joe Hakim, Mike Watts, Ruth E Dixon / PBH's Free Fringe)
Richard Tyrone Jones’s Big Heart (Utter! Spoken Word / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Richard Wiseman - Psychobabble (Richard Wiseman / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Rob Auton - The Yellow Show (PBH’s Free Fringe)
Rookie Mistakes (Ethan Addie / PBH's Free Fringe)
Rory & Tim - Good For Nothing (PBH’s Free Fringe)
Santa’s Dead And We Have Killed Him (Owen Hughes / PBH's Free Fringe)
Sex ‘n’ Slugs ‘n’ Accordion (Jet Black Pearl /
PBH’s Free Fringe)
Ship Of Fools - Children Of Twelchford (Ship Of Fools / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Slap And Giggle - Redrawn (Sid Wick and James Bennison / PBH's Free Fringe)
Slap And Giggle - Retrial (Slap And Giggle / Sid Wick, James Bennison)
Someone, Somewhere (Mark Stephenson / PBH's Free Fringe)
Stephanie Laing And Martin Croser - Greens! (Stephanie Laing / Martin Croser / PBH's Free Fringe)
Stinky Show (Hitch And Mitch / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Straight-To-DVD (Thom Tuck)
Tennyson Hanbury's Condensed Cabaret (Tennyson Hanbury's Condensed Cabaret / PBH'S Free Fringe)
Test Tube Comedy (Test Tube Comedy / PBH's Free Fringe)
The Birmingham Footnotes Drop Their Trousers (Birmingham Footnotes / PBH's Free Fringe)
The Edinburgh Revue Sketch Show (PBH'S Free Fringe)
The Institute (Act One / PBH's Free Fringe)
The Jewbadour (Daniel Cainer)
The Joke Circus (Funny Boilers - Simon Weekes, Bob Fletcher, James Farmer and Tom Baker)
The Mysterious World Of Clovis Van Darkenhelm (Clovis Van Darkenhelm / PBH’s Free Fringe)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Pregnant Fish Theatre Company / PBH's Free Fringe)
The Quadrantines (Jack Campbell, David Murphy, Dan Nicholas / PBH’s Free Fringe)
The Six O’Clock Club (Six O’Clock Club / PBH’s Free Fringe)
The Tim And Pat Show (Tim Shishodia And Pat Cahill / PBH's Free Fringe)
The Top Secret Comedy Club (The Top Secret Comedy Club / PBH's Free Fringe)
The Trial (On Your Feet Theatre Collective / PBH's Free Fringe)
The Two O’Clock Show (Freyberg, Hannant And Boyd / PBH’s Free Fringe)
The Very Scariesome Lollipop Lady (Martha McBrier / PBH's Free Fringe)
Thomas Hardie - Where's Thomas Hardie? (PBH's Free Fringe)
Three For Free (PBH’s Free Fringe)
Under Your Feet (Elise Harris / PBH's Free Fringe)
Unneeded Baggage (Snickelway Theatre Company / PBH's Free Fringe)
Words And Women (Skyers Productions / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Yianni - Numb And Number - Free (Yianni / PBH’s Free Fringe)
You Are Being Lied To 2012 (David Mulholland / PBH Free Fringe)
You Have Nothing To Fear... (Ed O’Meara / PBH’s Free Fringe)
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10 Films With My Dad (Aiden Goatley/PBH's Free Fringe)
14 Smiles (Martha Brown / PBH's Free Fringe)
2 Comedians, 1 Bucket - Free
3 Comics To Midnight (3 Comics To Midnight / PBH's Free Fringe)
A Timetraveller's Guide To Surviving Childhood (Swan Picnic / PBH's Free Fringe)
Aisle16 R Kool! (Tim Clare, John Osborne, Luke Wright)
All The Fun Of The Unfair (Barry / Quaile / Turpin / PBH's Free Fringe)
An Evening In With Henry The Hoover And Friends (Steve Aruni And Henry The Groover / PBH's Free Fringe)
Applied_Optimism (Alex Marion / PBH's Free Fringe)
Are You Happy Now? - Free (New Room Theatre / PBH's Free Fringe)
Asli And Ashley - Audacious And Angry (Asli Akbay And Ashley Strand / PBH's Free Fringe)
Ben Target In Discover Ben Target (Ben Target / PBH's Free Fringe)
Benjamin Crellin - Stands To Reason (Bar 50)
Big Noise (Tara Flynn / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Cariad Lloyd: Lady Cariad's Characters (Cariad Lloyd / PBH Free Fringe)
Carl Sagan Is My God, Oh And Richard Feynman Too (Robin Ince / PBH's Free Fringe)
Catherine Semark: The Truth About Lions (Catherine Semark / PBH's Free Fringe)
Comedy Manifesto (PBH's Free Fringe)
Conference Of Strange (Patternfight Performance / PBH Free Fringe)
Dana McCoy - Cube Rat
Devlin And Pulsford Are Spitting Dummies (Richard Pulsford/Elaine Devlin/PBH’s Free Fringe)
Do Not Take Advice From This Man – Jim Smallman And Friends – Free (Best Medicine Management / PBH's Free Fringe)
Don’t Mess (WitTank / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Emblem - Spontaneous Thoughts On Perception (Ludus Ludius Improvisation Theatre Co / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Fat Kitten Vs The World (Fat Kitten Improv / PBH Free Fringe)
Festival Of The Spoken Nerd (Helen Arney, Matt Parker And Steve Mould / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Fin Taylor And Jared Hardy - With Full Orchestra (Fin Taylor And Jared Hardy / PBH's Free Fringe)
Four Screws Loose Present 'Screwed-Over-Again!' (Four Screws Loose / PBH's Free Fringe)
Fraser Millward's Little Men (Fraser Millward / PBH's Free Fringe)
Free Agent – A Free Show By James Hazelden (James Hazelden / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Fresh Bread Presents Johnny's Favourite Show (Fresh Bread / PBH's Free Fringe)
Fresh Faces At The Fringe (PBH's Free Fringe)
Funny As Muck (Merseyside Uncut Comedy Kollective)
Funt (Dangerfield Hawley Shishodia / PBH's Free Fringe)
Gadd, Kirk And Winning: Well, This Is Awkward... (Richard Gadd, James Kirk, And Matt Winning)
Gagtanamo Bay (White Noize Productions / PBH's Free Fringe)
Giants Of Comedy (Darren Walsh, Leo Kearse, Lindsay Sharman / PBH's Free Fringe)
Hammerpuzzle's Measure For Measure (Hammerpuzzle Theatre Company / PBH's Free Fringe)
Happiness (Ester & Son / PBH's Free Fringe)
Hitch And Mitch – Genisis (We Happy Few / PBH's Free Fringe)
Hydronomicon (PBH'S Free Fringe)
James Christopher: Triangle Man – Free (James Christopher/PBH’s Free Fringe)
James W Smith: Living In Syntax (James W Smith / PBH's Free Fringe)
James W Smith: Living In Syntax (James W Smith / PBH’s Free Fringe)
JEWELSH (Bennett Arron / PBH's Free Fringe)
Joel Sanders - Jokes That Got Me Kicked Out Of Tennessee (Joel Sanders / PBH's Free Fringe)
Jollyboat (Jollyboat / PBH's Free Fringe)
Kate Daisy Grant With Nick Pynn (Kade Daisy Grant With Nick Pynn / PBH's Free Fringe)
Kelly Kingham And Guy Manners: Infectious – Free (Tank Productions / PBH's Free Fringe)
Leila's Ladies (Leila Borris / PBH's Free Fringe)
London Is Funny Presents... (Tom Webb / PBH’s Free Fringe / LondonIsFunny.com)
Mary Mary Quite Contrary (Mary Bourke)
Meditation Ruined My Life (Sam Brady / PBH's Free Fringe)
Mickey Anderson Unlocks The Key To Human Happiness (We Happy Few / PBH's Free Fringe)
Mind Games (Jo Loth / PBH's Free Fringe)
Monsters: A History Of Villainy (Monsters / PBH's Free Fringe)
Moon Horse Vs The Mars Men Of Jupiter (MJ Hibbett And Steve / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Moonshine And Trumpery (Gerry Howell / PBH's Free Fringe)
Morningside Malcolm Meets The Weegies (Robin Cairns / PBH's Free Fringe)
Morris & Vyse: Daylords Return (Morris & Vyse / PBH’s Free Fringe)
One Handed Show: A History Of Pornography (Nellie White / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Original (Denis Krasnov / PBH's Free Fringe)
Otway On Otway (John Otway / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Parents Evening (Kieran And Natalie / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Parris And Dowler: Special Delivery (Rachel Parris and Matt Dowler / PBH's Free Fringe)
Pathos, Wholesale (Rebel Base Productions/PBH’s Free Fringe)
Quiz In My Pants (Nicola Bolsover, Laura Lexx, Miles Lloyd / PBH's Free Fringe)
Richard Dawkins Does Not Exist, And We Can Prove It (Mark Quinn and Charlotte Young / PBH's Free Fringe)
Richard Sandling Performs Music And Comedy As Pot Pourri And Does Some Poetry As Spak Whitman (Richard Sandling / PBH's Free Fringe)
Robin Ince's Struggle For Existence (Robin Ince / PBH's Free Fringe)
Rom Com Con - Free (Mace And Burton / PBH's Free Fringe)
Rory And Tim Are Free At Last (Rory And Tim / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Rowena Haley: Nothing To Write Home About (R Haley / PBH's Free Fringe)
Shinoxcy Presents There's No 'I' In Shinoxcy - Free (Shinoxcy / PBH's Free Fringe)
Slap & Giggle: Revealed (Sid Wick & James Bennison / PBH's Free Fringe)
So Much Potential (Heron and Timpani / PBH's Free Fringe)
Soldier And Death (Relief Theatre / PBH’s Free Fringe)
Stephens And Thomas (Juliet Stephens And Matt Thomas / PBH's Free Fringe)
The Artisan (Cheeky Beggars / PBH's Free Fringe)
The Bob Blackman Appreciation Society (Johnny Sorrow and Sir Richard Swan / PBH’s Free Fringe)
The Footlights Present... (The Footlights)
The Improlympians - Free (The Improlympians / PBH's Free Fringe)
The Inflatables – Free (The Inflatables)
The Lastminute Comedy Club (Lastminute Comedy / PBH's Free Fringe)
The Maybe Pile (Clark And Boothy / PBH's Free Fringe)
The Midnight Hour (PBH's Free Fringe)
The Top Secret Comedy Club (PBH's Free Fringe)
The Translator's Dilemma (Scandal Theatre / PBH's Free Fringe)
The Truth (Explained in Doodles!) (Gareth Morinan / PBH's Free Fringe)
Thirty-seven Ways Of Deceiving You, The Audience, Into Believing I Have Written A New One-man Show For 2011 Even Though I Probably Haven't, Or Something (Peter Buckley Hill / PBH's Free Fringe)
Those Two (Elf Lyons & Masud Milas)
Totally Acoustic (MJ Hibbett / PBH Free Fringe)
Trevor Browne – Greaterness (Trevor Browne / PBH's Free Fringe)
Tweeting Beauty (And Other Stories) (Paul B. Edwards / PBH's Free Fringe)
Warning: May Contain Jokes (Hodder, Graves And Taylor / PBH's Free Fringe)
We Love Comedy (PHB's Free Fringe / Sean Brightman Ltd)
Welcome To The Kerryman (Lauren O'Rourke / PBH Free Fringe)
Yianni: Things That Make You Go 'Oooooh!' - Free (Yianni / PBH's Free Fringe)
Yorkshire Comedy Cabaret (James Christopher / PBH's Free Fringe)
You’re Being Lied To – 2011 / PBH’s Free Fringe (David Mulholland)