Brighton Fringe Shows

Have a look through our selection of shows... we hope we have something you'll want to see in Brighton!


List Shows: By Name | By Start Time

Listings for 15 May, sorted by Start Time

18:00

The Queen, Shakespeare and Me

The Queen, Shakespeare and Me

Comedy

The Queen, Shakespeare and Me

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs
MAY 7-10, 13-15 at 18:00 (60 min) - Buy Tickets from £8

''The Queen, Shakespeare and Me' is an affectionate musical comedy tribute to a thoroughly modern, fully empowered female role model - a woman who headed up a country and united a commonwealth for more than 70 years, earning respect, admiration and affection from around the world. From the vantage point of her Platinum Jubilee and final year, we see how this colourful, powerful lady head of state defined the postwar era. In this show, Carole Shaw reflects on HM's long life and reveals her 'all' to her people - her undying love for her corgis, the men in her life, her singlehanded success at...


Violet's Vaudeville Vault

Violet's Vaudeville Vault

Cabaret

Violet's Vaudeville Vault

Cabaret

The Walrus / Basement Room
MAY 3, 8-10, 15-17 at 18:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets from £10

Brought to you by Glasgow’s own Vaudeville Vixen, award winning international cabaret chanteuse Violet Duff presents Violet’s Vaudeville Vault. Take a trip back in time for some riotous old school vaudevillian variety. With a revolving nightly cast & featuring some of the finest international circus, variety and burlesque acts in town, from contortion to sword swallowing, anything could happen when you enter the Vault. You won’t want to miss your trip to the depths of Violet’s Vaudeville Vault. ...


19:00

Pop Collaborate and Listen 90's Music Quiz

Pop Collaborate and Listen 90's Music Quiz

Comedy

Pop Collaborate and Listen 90's Music Quiz

Comedy

The Caroline of Brunswick / Upper Lounge
MAY 15, 22, 29 at 19:00 (60 min) - Buy Tickets from £5

The Team behind the chart topping podcast Pop, Collaborate and Listen bring you a panel based music quiz that the audience can play along with. Expect plenty of laughs and bad language as the guest panellists answer questions on both the pop, and underground sounds of the 90's. Rounds include alternative album covers (featuring Waffles the Corgi), Name that tune (featuring shred guitar versions of 90's pop classics) plus loads of other shenanigans....


Addiction: The Truth

Addiction: The Truth

Spoken Word

Addiction: The Truth

Spoken Word

The Walrus / Raised Room
MAY 8-9, 15-16, 22-23, 29-30 at 19:00 (60 min) - Free and Unticketed

Kevin McCarron is an experienced stand-up comedian, and a Doctor of Philosophy. He has also been a drug addict and an alcoholic. In this presentation he will mock the most cherished beliefs which have so disastrously dominated Western attitudes to drug addiction and alcoholism for the last century....


KinVincible

KinVincible

Comedy

KinVincible

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs
MAY 13-15 at 19:15 (60 min) - Free and Unticketed

Life's tough when you literally don't fit in. Pete is the book whose cover you should not judge. Behind the crumpled and ripped dust jacket, is a modern classic. Come let the beat man of Surrey rant his way into your heart. Mark suffers from long-Catholic. He lapsed many moons ago but symptoms keep re-appearing, rather like untreated syphilis. He has been in London for over thirty years on a night out. Various bits of his body have been replaced by doctors, sometimes for the better. He boasts the only wi-fi enabled prostate in the whole of North London. His hobbies are watching telly and wi...


20:00

Henning Wehn – Das Neuen Materialen Nachten

Henning Wehn – Das Neuen Materialen Nachten

Comedy

Henning Wehn – Das Neuen Materialen Nachten

Comedy

The Walrus / Basement Room
MAY 12-17 at 20:00 (65 min) - Buy Tickets from £11.50

Join the German Comedy Ambassador for Teutonic jolliness at its best. Expect some old favourites and plenty of new ideas for his upcoming tour Acid Wehn. Some might call it work-in-progress but Henning prefers to describe it as masterpiece-under-construction. Come along. Or else. ...


Stefania Licari: Trust Me, I'm a Comedian

Stefania Licari: Trust Me, I'm a Comedian

Comedy

Stefania Licari: Trust Me, I'm a Comedian

Comedy

The Caroline of Brunswick / Upper Lounge
MAY 15-17 at 20:15 (60 min) - Buy Tickets from £5

'Dr Licari is blessed with huge reserves of charm and warmth' The Spectator 'Immensely likeable, perfectly tonally balanced' The Scotsman ...


Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy

Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy

Comedy

Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy

Comedy

The Walrus / Raised Room
MAY 12, 15 at 20:15 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets from £4

A revolving line-up of the best comedians from around Brighton and the Fringe in a show filled with hilarity. 'A solid comedy show well worth the ticket price' ★★★★1/2 - Fringefeed ...



Finlay and Joe: Past Our Bedtime

Finlay and Joe: Past Our Bedtime

Comedy

Finlay and Joe: Past Our Bedtime

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs
MAY 15-17 at 20:30 (60 min) - Buy Tickets from £12

Finlay and Joe are tired. Tired of the world and its injustices, but mainly of performing sketch comedy. It’s late, they’ve got a big day tomorrow, and so they’re off to bed to get their 40 winks. If only they could stop dreaming hilarious brand new sketches together. Join Finlay and Joe in the land of nod for some knockabout nocturnal nonsense with their brand new narrative sketch show, Finlay and Joe: Past Our Bedtime. Armed with their camomile teas, ambient nighttime whale song and one shared memory foam mattress, it’s just two sleepy boys against the world. Can they get the beau...


21:00

Otto‘s Komedyshow

Otto‘s Komedyshow

Cabaret

Otto‘s Komedyshow

Cabaret

The Caroline of Brunswick / Upper Lounge
MAY 12-15, 19-21 at 21:30 (60 min) - Buy Tickets from £7

One hour without stand-up! Here comes comedy from the motherland of humour: Germany. Meet Berlin-based comedian and musician Otto Kuhnle for a show of his best, most whimsical, most successful and most bonkers routines from variety to oddness and back. It‘s drama, tragic and oompah music, all at once! “Masterful. Has to be seen to be believed.” Henning Wehn, German Comedy Ambassador ...