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Venue 61: Underbelly, Cowgate

Shows at this venue in 2015

What the Dickens!.

What the Dickens!

  • Improv
  • 7 - 9
  • 6-16 & 18-30 Aug 2015

Improvised comedy with a twist. The Cambridge Impronauts - ***** (Tab.co.uk) - transport you back to the timeless era of...   Full listing

Islands. Image shows from L to R: Kyle Ross, Eva Tausig.

Islands

  • Theatre
  • 8.50 - 10.50
  • 6-17 & 19-30 Aug 2015

In Kyle Ross' scathing new play, a successful young couple struggle to tie each other down. Sophie wants to get...   Full listing

Daniel Cainer: 21st Century Jew. Daniel Cainer.

Daniel Cainer: 21st Century Jew

  • Music / cabaret
  • 8 - 10
  • 6-30 Aug 2015

Brand new stories-in-song from this award-winning master songwriter. Fringe favourite Cainer explores the challenges and contradictions of being Jewish in...   Full listing

Checkpoint 22.

Checkpoint 22

  • Theatre
  • 8 - 10
  • 6-30 Aug 2015

Glastonbury, 2009. Joel and Dave, two uni graduates with zero job prospects are working security: miles from the action, guarding...   Full listing

Laughing Stock.

Laughing Stock

  • Sketch show
  • 8.50 - 10
  • 6-30 Aug 2015

Irreverent. Unnerving. Pointless. Following their sell-out show K.I.S.S. which toured the Camden and Brighton Fringes, and fresh from storming London...   Full listing

The Lost Art of Lost Art.

The Lost Art of Lost Art

  • Theatre
  • 8.50 - 10.50
  • 6-18 & 20-30 Aug 2015

The theft of art is an art in itself, and Molly and Lee think they're masters of the craft. Much's...   Full listing

Raisin' the Hoof. Image shows from L to R: Ali James, George Kemp, John Oakes.

Raisin' the Hoof

  • Sketch show
  • 8 - 10
  • 6-16 & 18-30 Aug 2015

Giraffe are back! And they're stampeding through the Underbelly with their third offering of charming silliness. The 'stand out sketch...   Full listing

Sad Faces Present The Dawn Chorus.

Sad Faces Present The Dawn Chorus

  • Sketch show / storytelling
  • 6 - 10
  • 6-18 & 20-30 Aug 2015

Sad Faces challenge themselves and you with their adaptation of JR Chapterhouse's devastatingly heartbreaking novel. A tale of war. A...   Full listing

Thünderbards: Chapter III. Image shows from L to R: Matt Stevens, Glenn Moore.

Thünderbards: Chapter III

  • Sketch show
  • 7 - 10
  • 6-30 Aug 2015

Critically acclaimed sketch duo Thünderbards - 'Without question one of the funniest sketch shows on the Fringe' (GQ) - return...   Full listing

Cosmonaut by Ryan Good. Ryan Good.

Cosmonaut by Ryan Good

  • Storytelling
  • 8 - 10
  • 6-16 & 19-30 Aug 2015

I wanted to write you a heart-breaking song so epic it would get her back. But I'm rubbish at guitar...   Full listing

Paul Foot. Paul Foot.

Paul Foot

  • Stand-up
  • 10.50 - 12.50
  • 6-16 & 18-30 Aug 2015

A caboodle of burning church keys flying through the debonair strike Clumpy Claud in his unclerical face. Seaside divorcees clatter...   Full listing

Night + Daze.

Night + Daze

  • Theatre
  • 8.50 - 11
  • 6-11 & 13-30 Aug 2015

A wild night out for a top lad on a mission, to party hard and catch a girl from heaven!...   Full listing

Wilting in Reverse. Stuart Bowden.

Wilting in Reverse

  • Storytelling
  • 9 - 11
  • 6-16, 18-23 & 25-30 Aug 2015

A strangely compelling story with live music, vigorous dance moves, understandable words and a fair bit of profound (probably life-changing)...   Full listing

Penny Arcade: Longing Lasts Longer. Penny Arcade.

Penny Arcade: Longing Lasts Longer

  • Theatre
  • 6 - 12
  • 6-16, 18-23 & 25-30 Aug 2015

New York's undisputed queen of the underground presents an exuberant performance anthem and passionate rumination on love, longing and loss....   Full listing

Zoe Coombs Marr: Dave. Zoe Coombs Marr.

Zoe Coombs Marr: Dave

  • Stand-up
  • 9 - 11
  • 6-17 & 19-30 Aug 2015

What's the deal with pizza? Single with cats? Finding Nemo's girlfriend. Lesbian totem tennis?! My dad's a good guy! Sex...   Full listing

Foil, Arms and Hog: Skiddlywup. Image shows from L to R: Sean Finegan, Sean Flanagan, Conor McKenna.

Foil, Arms and Hog: Skiddlywup

  • Sketch show
  • 10 - 12
  • 6-30 Aug 2015

Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato you racist. Ireland's top comedy...   Full listing

Mixtape.

Mixtape

  • Sketch show
  • 8 - 10
  • 6-30 Aug 2015

Join the Mixtapers for their hilarious bitesized theatre inspired by music. Part comedy show and part music quiz. The Mixtapers...   Full listing

Chaos Theory. Image shows from L to R: Stephen Colfer, Hannah Mamalis, Niall Cutler.

Chaos Theory

  • Sketch show
  • 8.50 - 10.50
  • 6-30 Aug 2015

Chaos Theory, 25 sketches performed in a random order, decided each night by shuffling a deck of cards. Delve into...   Full listing

Best of Scottish Comedian of the Year.

Best of Scottish Comedian of the Year

  • Stand-up
  • 10.50 - 13.50
  • 6-11, 13-17, 20-24 & 27-30 Aug 2015

**** (Scotsman). ***** (BroadwayBaby.com). Eight sell-out years. Biggest selling showcase of multi award-winning Scottish comedy talent at the Fringe. Featuring...   Full listing

Get Your Shit Together.

Get Your Shit Together

  • Musical
  • 8 - 10
  • 6-12 & 14-30 Aug 2015

Alex's life has fallen apart. His girlfriend has left him for TV's Breakfast Dave, he's been fired and he can't...   Full listing

Spank.

Spank

  • Cabaret / stand-up
  • 12.50 - 15.50
  • 7-30 Aug 2015

Spank returns for an incredible 12th year with sexy hosts, awesome comedians and inevitable gratuitous nudity. You love it! 'This...   Full listing