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WELCOME TO THE 2010 FREE FESTIVALWelcome to our programme! We’re in our 7th year and 2010 sees our biggest ever Free Festival programme, with over 4,300 performances of 300 shows – an amazing figure if you consider in 2004 we started with only three shows in a single venue! This year we have brought together another huge selection from around the world, ranging from headline comedy performers, hit cabaret shows, challenging theatre, outdoor stages full of entertainment, music and bands, children’s shows, magicians, storytellers, opera, musicals and much, much more!

PUTTING THE ALTERNATIVE BACK INTO THE FRINGEAt the Free Festival we’re really trying to put the alternative back into the Fringe! A Festival isn’t just about star names - like the Fringe pioneers back in 1947 who started the Edinburgh Fringe as an alternative to the international festival, the Free Festival now exists as an alternative within the Fringe, where performers are not charged thousands of pounds to take part, and audiences aren’t charged high ticket prices. The Free Festival is your chance to go and see something you would never normally see.

WHO ARE WEThe Free Festival is organised by Alex Petty, of Laughing Horse Comedy, along with a large team of volunteers and all of the performers producing and running shows. It’s a big team effort and we all hope you enjoy our 2010 programme, which we think is more fun filled than ever!

GREENING THE FRINGEThere is a huge amount of paper printed at the Fringe each year, and that is one of the reasons we keep this brochure as a small listings leaflet, instead of producing a monumental brochure that would take up 100 pages. Keep hold of this leaflet to remind you where our shows are, and if you want to find out more about our shows have a look at our website www.freefestival.co.uk

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LAUGHING HORSE @ THE ARGYLE Venue 353, 17 Argyle Place. 0131 221 9759

SHOWS IN THE ARGYLE

Start Finish Dates Show

13:15 14:15 Aug 6-29 (not 16, 23)

I Can't Stand up for Falling Down

14:30 15:30 6-29 (not 9, 16, 23)

Adventures of a Singing Acupuncturist: Olivia in Caledonia

15:45 16:45 5-13 Still Life: Tales From the West Bank

15:45 16:15 15-22 Exemplary Crimes of The Mind

17:00 18:00 24-27 Community Vibe Comedy Show

18:15 19:15 5-29 (not 16,17,23,24)

6 and a Half a 7

19:30 20:30 5-29 Two Bloody Queens

20:45 21:45 5-14 (not 8,9) Online Courting

22:00 23:00 5-12 Emerald Smiles

22:00 23:00 14-22 The Complexity of Nonsense

22:00 23:30 27-29 Hang Up The Moon

LAUGHING HORSE @ THE COUNTING HOUSE Venue 170, 38 West Nicolson Street. 0131 667 7533

SHOWS IN THE BALLROOM

Start Finish Dates Show

12:10 13:00 5-29 (not tue) Twonkey's Cottage

13:15 14:15 5-16 Flat Pack Radio Happy Hour

13:30 14:15 17-26 Partisan Babies

13:30 14:15 24-29 A Clown, A Mime and a Minstrel

14:30 15:30 5-13 Amoeba to Zebra

14:30 15:30 14-18 Are You Lonesome tonight?

14:30 15:30 19-29 The Classics of Magic!

15:45 16:45 6-30 Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised!

17:00 18:00 7-21 Rogues Handbook

17:00 18:00 22-29 Let's Learn English Yourself

18:15 19:15 5-14 Richard Crawley: The Boy

18:15 19:15 15-21 3D Comedy

18:15 19:15 22-29 Opera Larks: Are We There Yet?

19:30 20:30 5-29 Lewis Schaffer: Free Until Famous

19:30 20:30 29 Amoeba to Zebra

20:45 21:35 5-29 (not 21) You've Been Stooched and Dunn

20:45 21:50 21 Phil Buckley's Charity Show

21:00 01:00 4 Free Festival 2010 Launch Show and Party

22:00 23:00 6-29 (not 16, 23) Bruce Fummey - About Nothing in Particular

23:15 00:15 5-14 Mostly Comedy Club - Free

23:15 00:15 15-29 Snigger Happy

00:30 01:40 5-18 Maxina Todd NVQ

00:30 01:30 19-29 Cabahooray!

SHOWS IN THE LOUNGE

Start Finish Dates Show

12:00 12:50 5-29 (not16, 21) Dave Baucutt: Exceptionally Average

13:00 13:45 6-19 Jeff Leach: Leach on Society

13:00 13:55 20-22 Dave Cohen: My Life as A Footnote

13:00 13:55 23-29 Mothers Boy

14:05 14:50 5-29 Jonathan's World

15:10 16:05 5-29 The (Almost) Carbon Neutral Comedy Club by Day

16:15 17:15 5-29 Amy, Fate and Me

17:30 18:15 5-14 Lewis Schaffer: Free Until Famous

17:30 18:15 15-29 Bored Stiff

18:30 19:30 8-9 Aaaaaaaargh! Malcolm Hardee Documentary Preview

18:30 19:30 see venue Lara A King - Four Stars and Two Thumbs Up

18:30 19:30 22 Kevin McCarron - Only Going to Stay a Year

18:30 19:30 23 Kevin McCarron - Nuclear War 2010

18:30 19:30 15,16 Ian Smith: Losing Christina (Work in Progress)

19:45 20:45 5-29 (not 18, 25) Nik Coppin: Pasquinader

19:45 20:45 18 Liam Mullone: Crap Empires

21:00 22:00 5-29 (not 17) Frisco Fred's Comedy Hour

22:15 23:15 6-29 (not 18) Beacon of Health and Fitness: Racy Comedy with an Open Heart Chakra

23:30 00:30 5-29 Rebecca Donohue: Bilingual Comedian

01:00 02:00 17 Ian Smith: Losing Christina (Work in Progress)

01:00 02:00 22-27 Carrie Westwater

01:00 02:00 12-16, 18-21 Greaves, Maskell and Tucks Late Night Laughter

SHOWS ON THE PEAR TREE STAGE

Start Finish Dates Show

12:00 22:00 5-29 The Pear Tree Outdoor Stage

13:15 13:50 5,6,8-12 Mookin Man

15:30 16:30 5,6 From Japan to Scotland

17:00 18:00 13 Nimming Ned

17:00 18:00 15 Paul Gilbody

17:00 18:00 5, 6 Sounds of Summer

17:00 18:00 8,9 From Japan to Scotland

17:00 18:00 20 Douglas Kay Band

17:00 18:00 10,11,12 Dunwell Brothers Band

18:30 19:30 15, 22 Manky Bastard

18:30 19:30 26 Douglas Kay Band

18:30 19:30 9, 20 Emma Forman Band

18:30 19:30 5 Paul Gilbody

18:30 19:30 29 Nuala Kennedy and Jen Butterworth

18:30 19:30 6 Dave Desmelik

18:30 19:30 17, 20 The Elements

18:30 19:30 27, 28 Wasted www.freefestival.co.uk

LAUGHING HORSE @ CAFE RENROC Venue 84, 91 Montgomery Street. 0131 556 0432

SHOWS IN CAFE RENROC

Start Finish Dates Show

17:45 18:45 6-23 Free Booze

17:45 18:35 24-29 T Time

19:00 19:40 5-29 Don't Be a Comedian in Northern Ireland While Drinking Your Buckfast Under a Bridge

20:00 21:00 6-16 Tit's Up

20:00 21:00 17-29 Craig Shaynak: Fat, Bald And Loud

21:15 22:15 6-29 (Not wed) Hi, How Can I help you?

LAUGHING HORSE @ THE CITY CAFEVenue 85, 19 Blair Street. 0131 220 0125

SHOWS IN CITY CAFE

Start Finish Dates Show

12:00 13:00 5-14 Kooky Babooshka

12:00 13:00 15-29 The Beta Males' Picnic Present...

13:15 14:15 6-29 (not 26) Lessons in Chaos with Mike Belgrave and Friends

14:30 15:30 6-29 (not sun) Ivor Dembina: Ivor's New Show

15:45 16:45 7-13 Those Bloody Teenagers Stand-up

15:45 16:45 14-22 Sheep Ahoy!

15:45 16:45 23-29 Time Warper

17:00 18:00 5-29 The Last Trilogy Part 2

18:15 19:15 5-29 (not sun) Ivor Dembina: This is Not a Subject for Comedy

19:30 20:30 5-29 (not 26) Belgrave and Manera's Music Club

20:45 22:00 5-29 (not 26) Beach Hut Mutts

22:15 23:15 6-29 (Not17, 26) Manslag

23:30 00:30 5-10 Sounds of Summer

23:30 00:30 11-15 The Invincible Man

23:30 00:30 16-29 (not 26) Psychic?

00:45 01:45 6-20 The Young and the Feckless

00:45 01:45 20-29 (not 26) Patchwork

LAUGHING HORSE @ EDINBURGH CITY FC Venue 164, 7 Baxter’s Place, Leith Walk. 0131 556 9628

SHOWS IN ROOM 1

Start Finish Dates Show

13:30 14:30 17-29 Samantha’s Hotline

14:45 15:45 6-29 I can Make Your Life Slightly Better

16:00 17:00 6-29 Mary's Extraordinary Story Club

17:15 18:15 5-29 (not 16) Confessions of a 'Smart' Wrestling Fan

18:25 19:05 21,22 The Mysterious Extra Show

18:25 19:05 7-15 9 to 5 idiot

19:15 20:15 5-17 (not13) Chris McGlade - The Bad Lad Lands

19:15 20:15 13, 20 Coming... Ready Or Not

19:15 19:45 18-19, 21-22, 25-29

By Name and Nature

20:40 21:30 7-29 (not mon) Great Yarmouth Social Club

21:45 22:45 5-14 David Innes Full Glory

21:45 22:45 15-21 Tobias Persson: Calm Me Old Fascist...

21:45 22:45 22-29 An Alright Wedding

23:00 00:00 5-28 Sidos Eklektic Fix

LAUGHING HORSE @ ESPIONAGE Venue 185, 4 India Buildings (Entrances on Victoria Street and Cowgate). 0131 4777 007

SHOWS IN KASBAR

Start Finish Dates Show

12:15 13:15 6-29 Twins

13:30 14:30 6-29 Bang Out of Order

14:45 15:45 5-29 (not 16, 23) Julie Jepson: Being Julie Jepson

16:00 17:00 5-29 Topical Storm

17:15 18:15 5-29 Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe (Early Show)

18:30 19:30 6-29 Granny's Gone Wild

19:45 20:30 6-15 The Phil Knoxville Superhero Sideshow

19:45 20:45 16-29 Rik and Jon Don't Know any Better

20:40 21:20 5-15 Alistair Greaves, Darren Maskell and Laurence Tuck in 3D!

21:30 22:30 5-29 Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe (Late Show)

22:45 23:45 5-29 Lynn Ruth Miller's Late Night Cabaret

00:00 01:30 5-29 Late 'n' Free

02:00 05:00 5-29t Free Festival Nightclub in Kasbar

SHOWS IN PRAVDA

Start Finish Dates Show

12:15 13:15 5-29 Hi Class

13:30 14:00 5-29 (not mon) Too Middle Class for Chlamydia

14:15 15:15 5-29 The Chelsea Grin

15:30 16:30 5-29 (not 16) The Monumental Joke Disco

16:45 17:45 5-29 The Great Big Comedy Picnic

18:00 19:00 5-29 Laughing Cows Comedy

19:15 20:15 6-28 (not 16) A Calculated Risk

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20:30 21:30 6-18 Jay Sodagar: Opinions are Free

20:30 21:30 19-20 Arguments and Nosebleeds

20:30 21:30 21 Kevin McCarron: Life after Divorce

20:30 21:30 22-29 East End Boy West End Girl

21:45 22:45 5-29 All the King's Men

SHOWS IN MATA HARI

Start Finish Dates Show

12:00 12:50 6-20 Mugging chickens

12:00 12:55 21-29 Making Faces

13:05 13:55 5-21 Too Early to Laugh

13:05 13:55 22-29 Scraping the Barrell

14:05 15:05 6-29 The Laughing Penguin Showcase

15:15 16:15 6-29 The Lost Letters of Cathy G

16:30 17:30 6-29 An Audience with Imran Yusuf

17:45 18:45 6-29 Dan Willis: Ferris Bueller's Way of...

19:00 20:00 6-29 Dan Willis: Michael Jackson, World's Greatest Entertainer

20:15 21:15 6-29 Late Night Laughs

21:30 22:30 5-29 (not 20-23) Sound & Fury's 'Testaclese & Ye Sack of Rome'

21:30 22:30 20-21 The grim(m) Tales

21:30 22:40 22-23 Daily Males

SHOWS IN LIZARD LOUNGE

Start Finish Dates Show

12:00 12:50 6-30 Biffs!

13:00 13:55 6-20 Post Me to the Fringe

13:00 13:55 21-29 Oli Bettesworth: Quarterlife Crisis

14:05 15:05 7-29 (not 23) Ashdwn and Maskell's Trade Show

15:30 16:20 6-29 The Very Best of Stephenson, Brice and Larter

16:35 17:35 5-6 An Arrangement of Shoes

16:35 17:35 9-29 Exile into Frugality

17:50 18:30 5-29 Espionage a Trois

18:45 19:45 5-29 Nefertiti Unveiled

20:00 21:00 5-29 (not mon) Obie: Using the Force

SHOWS IN MINUS ONE

A Spectacularly Awesome High-Tech Game of Interactive Inventiveness

16:15 & 23:45 - 21ST AUG 21:00 - 22ND AUG

LAUGHING HORSE @ THE HIVEVenue 313, 15-17 Niddry Street. 0131 556 0444

SHOWS IN THE BIG CAVE

Start Finish Dates Show

12:00 13:00 6-27 (not tues) Wanted: For Fighting the Laws of Comedy

13:15 14:15 15-29 In These Shoes

13:35 14:10 5-14 Playing Fate

14:30 15:30 6-29 The Flat

15:45 16:45 6-29 The Difference Between Gin and Bacardi

16:55 18:05 5-22 (not15) Lady In Bed

17:00 18:00 23-29 The Dead Dude Routine

18:15 19:15 5-22 Bob Slayer's Punk Rock Chat Show

18:!5 19:15 23-29 Free Booze

19:30 20:30 6-29 (not 9,16,23)

Manos the Greek: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Greece (But Were Afraid to Ask)

20:45 21:45 6-29 (not 11, 18,25)

Stand-Up Showcase at the Hive

20:45 21:45 11 Aaaaaaaargh! Malcolm Hardee Documentary Preview

SHOWS IN THE LITTLE CAVE

Start Finish Dates Show

12:30 13:30 5-11 Roman Around: A Guided Tour of the Eternal City

12:30 13:30 12-29 (not14,15) The Olympic Gene

12:30 13:30 14-15 Lee Goodall: Gelomancy

13:45 14:30 5-29 (not mon) Laura

14:45 15:45 7-21 The Guest Speakers

14:45 15:45 22-29 The Magical Faraway Tree

16:00 17:00 5-29 (not 8-10,21,22)

Phil Buckley: Jokes Not Included

17:15 18:15 6-29 (not 16,23) Kitty Go Miaow Miaow Presents... Katrina Thompson

18:30 19:30 5-29 The Pointless Comedy Debate Show

19:40 20:10 5-28 Sarah Campbell: 27 Up

20:20 20:50 6-29 Ku Klux Flan

21:00 22:00 6-29 The Johnny Foreigner Comedy Show

LAUGHING HORSE @ JEKYLL & HYDEVenue 259, 112 Hanover Street. 0131 225 2022

SHOWS IN THE CRYPT

Start Finish Dates Show

12:00 13:00 5-29 The Fools Free Theatre Show

13:15 14:15 5-12 Improv Wins!

13:15 14:15 13-29 Jim Bowes: Obsession

14:30 15:30 5-29 Kingsley and I

15:40 16:20 5-29 (not 22-24) Incidental Combobulations

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15:40 16:20 22-24 Graeme Harkins & Jim Park: Two Scotsman walk into a bar

16:50 17:50 6-29 (not 16, 23) United By Liverpool

18:05 19:05 6-29 An Introduction - Free Stand-up Comedy

19:20 20:20 5-29 The Dead Comedian's Socks - Edinburgh Review

20:35 21:35 5-29 Bang Out Of Order

21:50 22:50 5-29 (not16) Funny Peculiar

23:00 00:00 5-29 (not wed) Girl Balls

00:10 01:10 6-10 A Rabbit's Foot

00:10 01:10 12-21 Berlin für Beginners

00:10 01:10 22-28 She's Black, He's Jewish, They're Still Married, Oy Vey

LAUGHING HORSE @ THE MEADOW BAR Venue 264, 42-44 Buccleuch Street. 0131 667 6907

SHOWS IN MEADOW BAR

Start Finish Dates Show

12:10 12:50 7-18 Base Notes

12:00 12:55 19-26 Stockholm Syndrome

13:05 14:05 5-14 Q-Fusion Improv: Knowledge of Randomness

13:05 14:05 15-29 Two Bloody Queens

14:15 15:10 15-29 Ashley Frieze: The Seven Deadly Sings

14:30 15:00 5-14 Fotobooth

15:15 16:10 5-29 (not17) Dr Ettrick-Hogg Presents Manly Specimens

16:20 17:10 5-14 No Traveller: a Comedy About Suicide

16:20 17:10 15-29 The Good, The Bad and the Cuddly Ride Again

17:20 18:20 5-14 (not 8) Making Faces

17:20 18:20 15-29 Jam For Tea

18:30 19:30 5-29 (not16) Doggett and Ephgrave: Big in Small Places

19:45 20:45 6-29 (not 17, 24) Amusements

21:00 22:00 5-29 The (Almost) Carbon Neutral Comedy Club by Night

21:00 22:30 Aug 30 - Sep 4

Laughing Horse Extended shows - comedy into Sepember!

22:15 23:15 6-29 The Jocks and Geordies

23:30 00:30 5-29 Laughing Horse New Acts At the Fringe

00:45 01:45 5-29 (not 16) Kunt and the Gang: Complete Kunt

LAUGHING HORSE @ THE NEWSROOM Venue 93, 5-11 Leith Street. 0131 557 5830

SHOWS IN THE NEWSROOM

Start Finish Dates Show

11:00 11:30 8-22 Clause 9

11:00 11:50 23-28 Herbie Treehead Show

12:00 13:00 6-22 Herbie Treehead Show

12:00 13:00 23-29 Mages Through the Ages

13:10 14:05 6-30 Tom McDonnell's Musical Ministry of Comedy

14:15 15:05 5-29 Tom Toal - On the Scrapheap

15:30 16:20 5-7 Carrie Westwater

15:20 16:20 8-28 Waiting for Malcolm

16:35 17:05 18-25 Martin McLaughlan

17:20 17:50 5-29 (not 13, 18, 25)

Universe shaped Colouring Book

18:15 19:15 5-15,17-23 Reality Vaccine

18:15 19:15 24-29 Ken Parsons - Celtic Harp, Songs, Poems and Yarns

19:30 20:30 5-7 The Paranoid Bucklabels

19:30 20:30 8-14 Bil & Cyn Bizarre Guitar and Terse Verse

19:30 20:30 15-29 Lies, Trickery and Deceit: A Magic Show!

20:45 21:45 5-15 The S&M Show

20:45 21:45 16-28 N-Euro-Sis

22:00 22:50 5-21 You're Not the One: A Guide to Love and Dating

23:05 23:45 5-17 Sh!t Theatre Presents: Sh!t Theatre

00:15 01:00 5-10 From Japan to Scotland

00:15 01:00 13, 14 The Audience

00:15 01:00 15-23 Charm//Offensive

LAUGHING HORSE @ THE THREE SISTERS Venue 272, 139 Cowgate. 0131 622 6801

SHOWS IN MAGGIES CHAMBER

Start Finish Dates Show

12:00 13:00 6-15, 17-19 The Hamwehads

12:00 13:00 20-29 The Uninvisibles - The Show You Can't Not See

13:15 14:15 5-14 Electro Gemstone! (and Other Instruments of Moderate Intrigue) -

13:15 14:15 15-29 Whores Aboard

14:30 15:30 5-29 Two Wise Men

15:45 16:45 5-29 (not 12, 20) Tales from a house of No Windows

17:00 17:50 5-17 Pig With the Face of a Boy: The Girl With the Arms Made From Marrows

17:00 17:45 19-29 Pig With the Face of a Boy Presents: Dan Woods's Oral History

18:15 19::15 5-29 (not 16, 23) Cabaret Whore - Encore!

19:30 20:30 5-19 Mat Ricardo: Three Balls and a Good Suit

19:30 20:30 20-29 Richard Crawley: The Boy

20:45 21:45 6-29 (not fri) The Blue Lady Sings - Free

20:45 23:15 9, 16, 23 Tricity Vogues Ukelele Cabaret

22:00 23:15 5-29(not mon) The 'F' Show

23:30 01:30 5-29 Shaggers

23:30 01:30 27 The Malcolm Hardee Awards (during Shaggers)

SHOWS IN ROOM WITH A VIEW

Start Finish Dates Show

12:15 13:15 23-29 Diet!

12:20 13:05 5-22 A World of Pure Imagination

13:30 14:30 6-29 (not 16, 23) Michael Piper: The Ping Pong Years

14:45 15:45 5-21 Gill Smith - OCD: The Next Generation

14:45 15:45 22-29 Aberdeen2Edinburgh - The G & T Comedy Showcase!

16:00 17:00 5-19 Fools and Drunks

16:00 17:00 20-29 100 Greatest Beekeepers in Switzerland, Ever

17:10 17:50 7-29 Alistair Greaves, Darren Maskell and Laurence Tuck in 3D!

18:00 19:00 5-14 Lasse Nilsen: The Mime who wouldn't Shut up

18:00 19:00 15-29 Spring Day: We're Not in Kansas Anymore

19:15 20:15 5-29 American Cougar of Comedy

20:30 21:30 5-29 (not16, 23) Keara Muphy's Travelling Circus

21:45 22:45 5-29 Set to Stun!

23:00 00:00 6-29 The Late Night Talky Talk

00:30 01:30 6-29 BattleActs! Improvised Comedy

SHOWS ON THE COWGATE STAGE

Start Finish Dates Show

12:00 22:00 5-29 The Outdoor Stage

18:00 19:00 9-11 Sounds of Summer

18:00 19:00 19 Paul Gilbody

18:00 19:00 13 The Douglas Kay Band

21:00 22:30 Mon Tue Acoustic Curves

21:00 22:30 Wed Music News Live Music

21:00 22:30 Thur Fire & Rain Acoustic Music

21:00 22:30 Fri, Sat & Sun The Music Party - from Ceilidh's to Rock'n' Roll

LAUGHING HORSE @ THE METROPOLE CAFE Venue 141, 29-33 Newington Road. 0131 668 4999

SHOWS IN THE METROPOLE

Start Finish Dates Show

17:00 18:00 6-28 (not sun) The Cheeky Beggars Banquet

18:30 19:00 6-9,12-15 By Name and Nature

18:30 19:30 16-29 Horse & Louis' Special Offer

20:00 21:00 9-20 Lou Sanders and Friends

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According to Wikipedia, the Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that serve billions of users worldwide, but for the first time the internet will become the exclusive venue for an Edinburgh Festival comedy show... come and join the Free Festival on Twitter Every day with this special Fringe show that could take place at your home, in your place of work, or anywhere you can find an internet connection...