Search: 5-10 - Edinburgh Festival Guide

Join Mixed Doubles for an hour of rapid-fire sketches from one of this year's most exciting new comedy collectives! Described as 'very funny' by Clare Balding, the gang will leave you grinning like Cheshire cats! Double up!

Exuberant fusion of funky mbalax/Afrobeat grooves, with undercurrents of ska, rock and Senegalese soul. Diverse international group of musicians, led by charismatic Senegalese singer Samba Sene. ‘Top quality world music’ ***** (EdinburghSpotlight.com).

In a rare performance of one of Shakespeare's darkest and most intense plays, anger, jealousy and lust are intimately explored in a powerful new production. Previous productions: '...fluent, energetic, brilliantly staged' (Scotsman), ***** (ThreeWeeks). www.freerangeproductions.co.uk.

An award-winning, original comedy musical where the audience are invited to the recording of everyone's favourite reality TV show to decide the fate of a deceased contestant. Heaven or Hell? You decide!

Sydney Carter's finest songs from The Crow on the Cradle to The Lord of the Dance performed by singers aged between eight and eighty interlaced with poetry read by Scottish poet Bob Shields.

Romeo and Juliet gets turned on its head using physical theatre and comedy in this modern interpretation. Two household supermarkets, both alike in dignity and price, in fair common land where we lay our scene…

A mind reader who makes people believe things that aren't true for a living sets out to understand his wife's secret conversion to Islam. What makes humans believe in the unbelievable? Mind-blowing, sceptical, funny. www.godvsmindreader.com

From the creative team behind Richard Parker (Best International Show – Hollywood Fringe Festival 2012). **** Scotsman), including acclaimed playwright Owen Thomas, comes this darkly comic tale of conspiracies and shadows, where nothing is as it seems.

Bedtime Solos tells the story of a couple's evening of lovemaking, exploring the isolation that exists even in the height of passion. Poetic and dense with imagery, this examination of how we love also considers why we love.

New writing theatre company, intwothewings, presents an exciting dark comedy about William, a playwright fixated with death. Experience laughter, suspense and psychological turmoil as William's reality gradually merges with the world of his plays, to deadly effect.