Venue 61: Underbelly, Cowgate
- 66 Cowgate (entrances on Cowgate and Victoria Street), EH1 1JX
- 0844 545 8252
- www.underbelly.co.uk
- www.edfringe.com
Shows at this venue in 2017
Just William's Luck
- Play
- 9 - 10
- 3-15 & 17-27 Aug 2017
The invincible William Brown considers he is jolly well equal to solving most of life's trickier problems, although devising a... Full listing
UCL Graters: Smashing
- Sketch show
- 9 - 10
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
Against all odds, the UCL Graters return to Edinburgh with an hour of anarchic sketch comedy. The Graters have been... Full listing
Rupture
- Play
- 9 - 10
- 3-14 & 16-27 Aug 2017
The year is 2107 and Jay has just started work at a mysterious government agency. But when faced with a... Full listing
Wow!
- Stand-up
- 9 - 10
- 3-27 Aug 2017
Wow! The universe is mind-boggling! Isa Bonachera presents her debut Edinburgh show. If you like to hear about people, places... Full listing
Muriel: Bad Master
- Sketch show / multimedia
- 9 - 10
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
Muriel (Janine Harouni, Meg Salter and Sally O'Leary) are multi award-winning actresses and comedy performers. With millions of views online,... Full listing
The Durham Revue: Laugh Actually
- Sketch show
- 9.50 - 10.50
- 3-14 & 16-27 Aug 2017
Back with a new troupe and 100% new material, come and see the renowned Durham Revue perform their own brand... Full listing
Trashed
- Play
- 9.50 - 10.50
- 3-27 Aug 2017
19 years working the bins and Goody's about to crack! Trashed is a grimy, booze-fuelled sucker punch of a play,... Full listing
Matt Abbott: Two Little Ducks
- Poetry
- 9 - 10
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
From council estates to the Calais Jungle, Abbott uses razor-sharp wit, storytelling and linguistic flair to present this deeply personal... Full listing
Sam Goodburn: Dumbstruck
- Clown
- 11.50 - 12.50
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
Accidental clown turned multi award-winning performer Sam Goodburn plays a dumbstruck young man the morning after his first steps into... Full listing
The Canon: A Literary Sketch Show
- Sketch show
- 10 - 11
- 3-14 & 16-27 Aug 2017
'The Canon, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. The - Ca - non: the... Full listing
Quarter Life Crisis
- Storytelling
- 10 - 11
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
Alicia is a hot mess. She doesn't know what she's doing with her life. Swiping left, swiping right to find... Full listing
This Really Is Too Much
- Play
- 10 - 11
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
Raucous, provocative and laugh-out-loud funny, this genre-busting performance reveals the downright absurd realities of life as a three-dimensional, high definition,... Full listing
Nobody Puts Bibby in the Corner
- Sketch show / stand-up
- 9 - 10
- 3-14 & 16-27 Aug 2017
A one-man variety show by award-winning comedian Dave Bibby. Sketches, improv, storytelling and sick rhymes (you heard!). Expect fast-paced spontaneity,... Full listing
Beak Speaks
- Character
- 9.50 - 10.50
- 3-13, 15-20 & 22-27 Aug 2017
An audience with the self-professed queen of the Fringe. As 28 years of working on, in, under and around the... Full listing
Fag/Stag
- Play
- 11.50 - 12.50
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
One story, two unreliable narrators. Heartfelt, funny and direct from multi award-winning seasons at Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide Fringe, Fag/Stag... Full listing
Daniel Piper's Day Off
- Poetry
- 9 - 10
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
I'm not going in tomorrow! I'm having a day off! Work is a social construct! You're only young once! At... Full listing
Tense Vagina: An Actual Diagnosis
- Play / storytelling
- 10 - 11
- 3-8, 10-13, 15-20 & 22-27 Aug 2017
Using humour, movement, song and the audience, Sara Juli reveals all that is awesome and all that sucks when it... Full listing
Laughing Stock
- Sketch show
- 10 - 11
- 3-13 & 16-27 Aug 2017
Laughing Stock is a character-based and narrative-driven sketch comedy foursome. Sketches are interwoven within a rich tapestry of music, dance,... Full listing
Julio Torres: My Favourite Shapes
- Stand-up
- 9.50 - 10.50
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
In his first solo show, Julio guides a camera through his favourite shapes: plexi-glass squares, triangles, spheres, a sad crumpled... Full listing
The Starship Osiris
- Play
- 10.50 - 11.50
- 3-26 Aug 2017
Despite a cast that despise him, the arrogant actor, writer and director, George Vere, will endeavour to bring you his... Full listing
The Starship Osiris: Special Performance
- Play
- 10.50
- 27 Aug 2017
Join us for a one-off performance of The Starship Osiris, performed the way George Vere originally intended... 'George Vere is... Full listing
Viggo Venn - The Life of Pepito
- Clown
- 9 - 10
- 3-15 & 17-27 Aug 2017
Winner: Norwegian Champion of Theatresports 2015. Winner: Best Comedy at Brighton Fringe. Award-winning, Gaulier-trained comedian Viggo Venn heads to Edinburgh... Full listing
Jack Rooke: Happy Hour
- Stand-up
- 11 - 12
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
Fresh from his debut BBC Three series and Total Theatre nominated Good Grief on BBC Radio 4, Jack Rooke presents... Full listing
Nick Coyle: Queen of Wolves
- Character
- 9 - 10
- 3-14 & 16-27 Aug 2017
Blackbell House has a new governess: poor, plain, Frances Glass. But as odd things start occurring, Frances realises it's difficult... Full listing
AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly
- Stand-up
- 10 - 11
- 3-27 Aug 2017
Total sell-out 2005-2016 returns with a brand-new line-up. 'Comedy the way it should be: laugh-a-minute, leaving the audience wishing the... Full listing
Abi Roberts: Anglichanka
- Stand-up
- 9.50 - 10.50
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
Anglichanka is an exhilarating comedy show about living in the USSR in the 90s and going back as the first... Full listing
Zach Zucker - Human Person
- Clown
- 9 - 10
- 3-15 & 17-27 Aug 2017
Winner: Rising Star (TheMediaEye.com). Winner: Best Comedy at Brighton Fringe (Zach and Viggo). Award-winning comedian Zach Zucker returns with his... Full listing
Bruce
- 12 - 14
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
The yellow block of foam with a heart of pure gold returns to the Fringe! Following 2015's sell-out run, this... Full listing
Paul Foot: 'Tis a Pity She's a Piglet
- Stand-up
- 7.50 - 12.50
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
The show that offended 1, 000 piglets is back. Honed by an extensive tour of four countries across six continents,... Full listing
Abigoliah Schamaun: Namaste, Bitches
- Storytelling
- 9 - 10
- 3-14 & 16-27 Aug 2017
What's the point in pursuing enlightenment when you could just put your feet up and knock back a bourbon? And... Full listing
John Robertson: The Dark Room
- Multimedia
- 10 - 11
- 3-27 Aug 2017
You awake to find yourself in a dark room! You, the audience, must choose an option. Will you: A) Find... Full listing
Neal Portenza
- Stand-up
- 10 - 11
- 3-27 Aug 2017
Winner (People's Champion) Amused Moose Comedy Award, '16 Edinburgh Fringe. 'One of the most exhilarating and insane nights of comedy... Full listing
Steen Raskopoulos - The Coolest Kid in Competitive Chess
- Sketch show / improv
- 11.50 - 12.50
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
The Barry Award and Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer nominee returns with a brand-new hour of comedy characters and inspired... Full listing
Graham Dickson is The Narcissist
- Character
- 10 - 11
- 3-14 & 16-27 Aug 2017
Grigoriy Alexeivich Dhukov is one of the world's greatest unsung literary talents. The tragic and inspiring story of the great... Full listing
Prom Kween
- Music
- 10 - 11
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
From the producers of the five-star hits Margaret Thatcher: Queen of Soho, How to Win Against History and Dizney Rascal,... Full listing
Diane Chorley: Rhythm of Live
- Music
- 10 - 11
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
Fallen 80s icon Diane Chorley and genius multi-instrumentalist Milky Bar Chris De Burgh perform from her seminal 1986 album. An... Full listing
Denim: World Tour
- Cabaret
- 10 - 11
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
It's pop in a dazzling new costume. It's drag as you've never experienced before. Drag supergroup Denim are hitting Edinburgh... Full listing
Demi Lardner: Look What You Made Me Do
- Stand-up
- 10 - 11
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
Gavin is 46 and is trapped in his basement. Is that a metaphor? You decide (it's not). Come see a... Full listing
And For My Next Trick
- Magic
- 10 - 11
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
Magician-Scientist hybrid Kevin Quantum activates his silly side with comedy sketch-magic. This fast paced show has more blow-your-brains tricks than... Full listing
Zach & Viggo
- Clown
- 10 - 11
- 3-15 & 17-27 Aug 2017
Winner: Best Comedy Brighton Fringe 2016. Winner: Best Comedy Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award 2017. After a sold-out run at the... Full listing
Wolf Meat
- Clown
- 10 - 11
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
Croydon's depraved, gun-wielding family will have you squirming in your seat in this hilarious show by absurdist theatre company Wildheart.... Full listing
Otto & Astrid: Eurosmash! (Die Roten Punkte)
- Cabaret / music
- 10.50 - 11.50
- 3-8, 10-14 & 16-27 Aug 2017
Berlin's premiere art rock duo, Otto and Astrid of Die Roten Punkte, perform unashamedly slick, Eurovision-inspired pop from their new... Full listing
Danny O'Brien: RaconTour
- Stand-up / storytelling
- 9.50 - 10.50
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
Award-winning Irish comedian Danny O'Brien returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with his most adventurous and unique solo show to date.... Full listing
Found Footage Festival
- Multimedia
- 10 - 11
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
A guided tour through the unbelievable VHS collection of childhood friends Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (Late Show... Full listing
Patrick Turpin: Itty Bitty Little Titty Piece
- Stand-up
- 9 - 10
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
Turpy - star of Climaxed (BBC Three) and Pop Sludge (4Music) - returns with a stand-up show/hour of performance art/arse... Full listing
The Bear Pack
- Improv / storytelling
- 10 - 11
- 15-20 & 22-27 Aug 2017
The Bear Pack is Sydney's Steen Raskopoulos (Whose Line Is It Anyway - Australia, BBC's Top Coppers) and Carlo Ritchie... Full listing
The Prophetic Visions Of Bethany Lewis
- Play
- 9 - 10
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
Did you know your neighbour's mum's got chlamydia? Bethany Lewis, stay-at-home mother of two, said so. The spirits told her.... Full listing
Losers
- Satire
- 9 - 10
- 3-13 & 15-27 Aug 2017
Grab a voting handset, meet four dangerously desperate contestants and decide their formidable fates. It's the most nail-biting TV game... Full listing
Spank!
- Variety
- 13.50 - 15.50
- 4-27 Aug 2017
Spank! returns for an incredible 14th year with sexy hosts, awesome comedians and gratuitous nudity. With the most exciting comedy... Full listing