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Like many enduring facets of modern life, Shedinburgh began as a pandemic stopgap: a series of live streamed performances in an actual shed, staged the summer of 2020 when the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was cancelled.
It was the brainchild of Francesca Moody, the Fringe producer with the golden touch, who has masterminded the success of such notable recent festival triumphs as Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, Richard Gadd’s Baby Reindeer, and last year’s Weathergirl.
Stuff she’s involved with has a habit of becoming an enduring success, and that goes for Shedinburgh. Last year, it was brought back in a limited way, offering performers who might not have been able to make it to the Fringe – a full three-week run is notoriously emotionally and financially challenging – a properly remunerated opportunity to do something a little special (in a shed). And this year it’s back with a greatly expanded line-up that will see it have a full run at the Fringe and then – in October – London’s Young Vic.
The line-up is a pretty damn awesome who’s who of leftfield British performing talent, including the return of legendary live art producers Forest Fringe, a staple of the festival’s ’00s years.
Frankly there is so much on – because each performer only does a show or two over three weeks – that it’s difficult to really pull out highlights, but let’s just say there’s a lot happening, from the revival of classic Fringe hits of yore like Bryony Kimmings’ hilarious breakthrough show Sex Idiot, to big name comics like Jordan Brookes and Jack Shep, to first look new shows from Time Out faves like RashDash (pictured top) and Sh!t Theatre.
Here then, as an exclusive, is the complete line up for Shedinburgh’s Fringe and Young Vic dates. There are 100 seats per performance, some for each show sold on a pay-what-you-can basis, so if you like what you see, get booking from 9am today (May 27) for Artist Card holders and Supporters or general on sale is at 11am.
EDINBURGH LINE UP
- Aug 7 and 8, 1pm, Truth's a Dog Must to Kennel by Tim Crouch
Performance Dates: 7th & 8th August
Performance Times: 1:00pm - Aug 7, 3.15pm, We Have a Problem by Mischief (WIP)
- Aug 7, 5pm, Orpheus by Wright & Grainger
Performance Dates: 7th August
Performance Times: 5:00pm - Aug 7, 6.35pm, Eurydice by Wright & Grainger
- Aug 7 and 8, 8.30pm, An Hour of Crowd Work In The Round by Josh Sharp
- Aug 7 and 8, 10pm, Lucy & Friends by Lucy McCormick
- Aug 8 and 9, 3.15pm, Blessed, Tryna Shake This Curse by Simon Manyonda & Owain Kelly (WIP)
- Aug 8, 29 and 30, 5pm (8), 1pm (29), 1 (30), Too Clowns by Damien Warren-Smith
- Aug 8, 6.45pm, Eat The Rich (but maybe not me mates x) by Jade Franks
- Aug 8, 22 and 29, 11.30pm, Maggie-Oke! by Jon Brittain & Matt Tedford
- Aug 9 and 10, 5pm, Sunrise by Jessie Cave
- Aug 9, 8.30pm, Anyone But Me by Rosie Jones (WIP)
- Aug 9, 10pm, An Evening With Hotter Project
- Aug 10, 6.45pm, Dreamweavers by Siblings
- Aug 10, 8.30pm, McGonagall’s Chronicles by Gary McNair
- Aug 11, 5pm, Come to Where I Am by Paines Plough
- Aug 11, 6.45pm, Clementine by Rosalie Minnitt
- Aug 11 and 12, 8.30pm, Everything's Fine by Bourgeois & Maurice (WIP)
- Aug 11, 10pm, You Wait. Time Passes. by Joz Norris
- Aug 12, 13 and 14, Elbow Deep by Elinor Peregrin (WIP)
- Aug 12, 10pm, Songs You’ve Never Heard (Sung By People Who Can Sing) by Flo & Joan
- Aug 13, 14, 3.15pm, A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) by Jon Brittain with Matthew Floyd Jones
- Aug 13 and 14, 5pm, Sappho: The Poetess by Hayley Canham
- Aug 13, 8.30pm, An Evening with Anoushka Lucas
- Aug 13 and 21, 10pm, FOC IT UP! with Kemah Bob
- Aug 13, 11.30pm, Body Of Work by Jordan Brookes
- Aug 14, 8.30pm, An Evening with Jack Godfrey
- Aug 14, 10pm, Stuart Laws as Michael Caine and Nish Kumar as Christopher Nolan Doing Something For An Hour Performance
- Aug 15, 3.15pm, MANWATCHING by An Anonymous Woman
- Aug 15 and 16, 5pm, some songs I wrote by Lucy Moss
- Aug 15 and 16, 6.45pm, Show Pony by Ginger Johnson (WIP)
- Aug 15, 10pm, Coffindodgers by Dane Buckley
- Aug 16 and 17, 1pm, MERCURIAL by Rosaleen Cox
- Aug 16, 3.15pm, It Will Always Hurt a Bit by Nick Helm (WIP)
- Aug 16, 8.30pm, Cancel Anti Wokeflake Snow Culture by Sam Nicoresti
- Aug 17, 3.15pm, Jazz by Sara Pascoe (WIP)
- Aug 17, 5pm, Swan Power by Paul Foot
- Aug 17, 6.45pm, Comedians Do Poems with Amy Matthews & Ben Pope
- Aug 17, 8.30pm, Wanting to be Cool, Having to be Funny with Jack Shep
- Aug 18, 3.15pm, Lorna Rose Treen (WIP)
- Aug 19, 5pm, Eye Infections by Crybabies
- Aug 19, 20 and 21, 6.45pm, An Evening with an Immigrant by Inua Ellams
- Aug 22, 5pm, Childhood’s End by Frankie Thompson (WIP)
- Aug 22, 23 and 24, 6.45pm, Songs From Across the Sueniverse by Daf James with Ben Lewis
- Aug 22, 8.30pm, BITS OF IN BED WITH MY BROTHER by IN BED WITH MY BROTHER
- Aug 23, 3.15pm, Save the Queen? by Sabrina Mahfouz (WIP)
- Aug 23, 5pm, DreamDate by Deborah Frances-White
- Aug 23 and 24 Aug, 8.30pm, Dry Ice by Sabrina Mahfouz
- Aug 23, 11.30pm, House of Life & Friends by Sheep Soup
- Aug 24, 3.15pm, Echo Echo Beach by Sh!t Theatre (WIP)
- Aug 24, 5pm, Love Letters to the Public Transport System by Molly Taylor
- Aug 25 and 26, 3.15pm, THREE QUEER DAUGHTERS by Rachel Mars (Forest Fringe) (WIP)
- Aug 25, 5pm, And Then We Walked by Alisa Oleva (Forest Fringe)
- Aug 25 and 26, 5pm, Sex Yacht by Made in China (Forest Fringe) (WIP)
- Aug 25, 6.45pm, Like the Party has been Cancelled by Ira Brand (Forest Fringe)
- Aug 25 and 26, 8.30pm, A Song and Dance by Action Hero (Forest Fringe) (WIP)
- Aug 25, 10pm, 99 Plays by Alan Fielden (Forest Fringe)
- Aug 26, 6.45pm, Like You Were Before by Deborah Pearson (Forest Fringe)
- Aug 26, 10pm, Holding Pattern by Tim Etchells (Forest Fringe)
- Aug 27, 1pm, I Half-Read Don Quixote and Now I Know the Truth by Robbie Gordon (WIP)
- Aug 27, 5pm, Shetland Nordic Saga by Marjolein Robertson
- Aug 27, 6.45pm, The Greatest Card Magician In The World by Andrew Frost
- Aug 27 and 30, 8.30pm, Sex Idiot by Bryony Kimmings
- Aug 27, 11pm, Late Night with Terry Wogan by Benjamin Alborough & Liebenspiel
- Aug 28, 29 and 30, 5pm, America's Kingdoms by The Javaad Alipoor Company
- Aug 28 and 29, 8.30pm, There Were Goddesses by RashDash
- Aug 28, 10pm, Trowel of Tralee by Frankie Monroe (WIP)
- Aug 28, 11.30pm, Adventureman 7: The Return of Adventureman by Mat Ewins
- Aug 29 and 30, 3.15pm, Bad Lesbians by Selina Thompson Company (WIP)
- Aug 29 and 30, 6.45pm, A Little Inquest Into What We Are All Doing Here by ThisEgg
Performance Dates: 29th & 30th August
Performance Times: 6:45pm
LONDON
- Sep 19 and 20, 1.40pm, Sunrise by Jessie Cave
Performance Dates: 19th & 20th September
Performance Times: 1:40pm - Sep 19 and 20, 4.50pm, America's Kingdoms by The Javaad Alipoor Company
- Sep 19, 6.40pm, Songs From Across the Sueniverse by Daf James with Ben Lewis
- Sep 20, 3.10pm, McGonagall’s Chronicles by Gary McNair
- Sep 22 and 23, 8.20pm, Lucy & Friends by Lucy McCormick
- Sep 24, 6.40pm, It Will Always Hurt a Bit by Nick Helm (WIP)
- Sep 24, 8.10pm, Jazz by Sara Pascoe (WIP)
- Sep 25 and 26, 6.40pm, There Were Goddesses by RashDash
- Sep 25, 8.10pm, Sofar Sounds Presents
- Sep 26, 1.40pm, Opheus by Wright & Grainger
- Sep 26, 3.10pm, Eurydice by Wright & Grainger
- Sep 26, 4.50pm, Elbow Deep by Elinor Peregrin (WIP)
- Sep 26, 8.10pm, Body Of Work by Jordan Brookes
- Sep 27, 1.40pm, Sappho: The Poetess by Hayley Canham
- Sep 27, 3.10pm, We Have a Problem by Mischief (WIP)
- Sep 27, 4.50pm, Shetland Nordic Saga by Marjolein Robertson
- Sep 29. 6.40pm, Dry Ice by Sabrina Mahfouz
- Sep 29, 8.10pm, Songs You’ve Never Heard (Sung By People Who Can Sing) by Flo & Joan
- Sep 30 and Oct 1, 8.20pm, A Little Inquest Into What We Are All Doing Here by ThisEgg
- Oct 1 and 2, 9.30pm, Everything's Fine by Bourgeois & Maurice (WIP)
- Oct 2 and 3, 6.40pm, Anyone But Me by Rosie Jones (WIP)
- Oct 2 and 3, 8.10pm, Echo Echo Beach by Sh!t Theatre (WIP)
- Oct 3, 1.40pm, A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) by Jon Brittain with Matthew Floyd Jones
- Oct 3 and 4, 4.50pm, Truth's a Dog Must to Kennel by Tim Crouch
- Oct 6 and 7, 8.20pm, An Evening with an Immigrant by Inua Ellams
- Oct 8, 8.20pm, Cancel Anti Wokeflake Snow Culture by Sam Nicoresti
- Oct 9, 6.40pm, Come to Where I Am by Paines Plough
- Oct 9 and 10, 8.20pm, Sex Idiot by Bryony Kimmings
- Oct 9, 9.30pm, FOC IT UP! with Kemah Bob
- Oct 10, 1.40pm, The Guilty Feminist Podcast by Deborah Frances-White
- Oct 10, 3.10pm, Some Songs I Wrote by Lucy Moss
- Oct 10, 4.50pm, MANWATCHING by An Anonymous Woman
- Oct 10, 6.40pm, Trowel of Tralee by Frankie Monroe (WIP)
- Oct 10, 9.30pm, Stuart Laws as Michael Caine Doing Something For An Hour
SHED ORIGINALS (NEW PLAYS)
- Aug 20, 11am (Edinburgh), Sep 22, 6.40pm (London), The Gap by Victoria Gimby & Stuart Matthew Price (Lowry)
- Aug 20, 3.15pm (Edinburgh), Oct 7, 6.40pm (London), BULK by Shaun Dunne (Abbey Theatre)
- Aug 20, 1pm (Edinburgh), Oct 6, 6.40pm (London), A Ghost in The Throat by Ursula Rani Sarma (Abbey Theatre)
- Aug 20, 5pm (Edinburgh), Sep 30, 6.40pm (London), Dancing Shoes by Stephen Christopher & Graeme Smith (Traverse)
- Aug 21, 3.15pm (Edinburgh), Sep 23, 6.40pm (London), We Have Been Here For… by Ella Langley (Lowry)
- Aug 21, 1pm (Edinburgh), Oct 1, 6.40pm (London), To Be A Bat by Ellen Ritchie (Traverse)
- Aug 21, 5pm (Edinburgh), Oct 8, 6.40pm (London), The Dark I Swim by Rebecca Jade Hammond (Theatr Clwyd)
Tickets go on sale today at 9am for Artist Card holders and Supporters or general on sale is at 11am, from here.
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