Episode 2

Kicking off this week’s Edinburgh Nights is Rhythmic Circus - a group of hoofers from Minneapolis who have returned to the Edinburgh Fringe with their infectious show, Feet Don’t Fail Me Now! Performing alongside the four tappers is funk band, The After Party featuring Alex Rossi and human beatbox, Heatbox. It’s a parade of genre-hopping music and hard-hitting percussive dance – rapid fire tap meets a musical mash-up! Winner of the Mervyn Stutter Spirit of the Fringe Award in 2012.

Rhythmic Circus: Feet Don’t Fail Me Now!

The Assembly Hall

19.45, until August 25th

Renowned stage, TV and film actress Dame Diana Rigg brings her one woman show, No Turn Unstoned – an insightful and entertaining reflection on the worst theatrical reviews in history – to the Fringe. Originally published as a book in 1982, this is the first time Rigg has staged the work which spans from Greek theatre to her own experiences working with Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir Ralph Richardson.

No Turn Unstoned

Assembly Checkpoint

13.20, until 23rd August

Following his award-winning show Bravo Figaro!, Edinburgh Festival regular Mark Thomas returns to the Traverse theatre to tell the true story of how he discovered his close friend was spying on him for Britain's biggest arms dealer. Already the winner of a fringe first, Cuckooed is a tale of hubris, friendship, loss and undercover deceit.

Cuckooed

The Traverse

Times vary, until 24th Aug

Why did people praise Michael Gove on 25 February 2014? What made Bridget lose control of her emotions at a casting for a yoghurt commercial? And which national newspaper genuinely mistook Bridget for King Charles II? 

After winning the Foster’s Comedy Award last year for, A Bic for Her, Bridget returns with An Ungrateful Woman where she takes on the advertising industry, sex shops and FGM.

An Ungrateful Woman

The Stand

11.10am, until 25th August

America cabaret singer and comedienne Lady Rizo returns to Edinburgh for her third consecutive year. Renowned for reviving the cabaret genre, she combines vintage arrangements and theatrical explorations of pop songs from every decade with her own original material. 

In 2010, she won a Grammy for her duet with acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma and she also sings and records with multi-platinum recording artist Moby.

Lady Rizo

Assembly Checkpoint

22.15, until 24th August

This week Mark looks into the stamina required to survive the festival. From keeping fit on his own treadmill to training with No Fit State Circus, he then encounters comic Sam Simmons who’s spending his festival surviving at sea on a wrecked wind surf and then takes in a late night and slightly inebriated performance of Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona.

It’s all in a day’s work for Mark.

Mark Watson: Flaws

Pleasance

21.00 / 23.50, until 24th August

Mark Watson’s Comedywealth Games

Pleasance

23.00, until 16th August

This week award-winning comedian author and poet Tim Key tells us about his Edinburgh experience, involving running up hills, eating pies and the changing shape of his beard.

The former Edinburgh Comedy Award winner is in town with his show Single White Slut, mixing tales of Hollywood with poems about owls and tooth fairies as he takes audiences into his bumbling world of failed masculinity.

Single White Slut

Pleasance

21.40, until 25th August