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Acclaimed Fringe veterans The Oxford Imps return to fill your afternoon with hilarious Whose Line Is It Anyway? style comedy. A huge variety of spontaneous games and sketches based entirely on your suggestions. Ideal for teens / adults.

Smart social observations and deviant stories confessed unflinchingly. Diane Spencer is a bold comedian, creator of quick-witted, hilarious stand-up. Chortle Best Newcomer winner 2011 and The Scotsman's Top 5 Hottest Comedy Shows 2012. ***** (Sunday Express).

Absurdist new writing exploring morality, reality, mortality. Four characters' ever changing and sinister relationships cause them to become tangled in a web of philosophical questions about what it is to think and feel. 'See whatever they put on' (Scotsman).

Imagine total gender freedom. Changing sex is as easy as getting dressed. Boyfriends can become girlfriends, daughters can become sons. A gene-juggling, biopunk vision of a world and its specie in disarray. 'A riot' (Scotsman on Uninvited).

Nick Helm has endured pain and suffering to become the greatest living example of not giving up the world has ever known and he will entertain you until it kills him. ***** (Telegraph).

GibbensMagnusJones present sketch comedy from the depths of the Clapham Falcons' changing room, where they will explore love, death, sex, war, friendship, failure, resentment, denial, jealousy, and sex, and death, and sex.

A dizzying collection of works in new circus, blurring the boundaries of performance and human physicality for pure viewing pleasure. Join this exciting, multi award-winning Australian ensemble for their European debut. ‘A total triumph’ (Guardian).

A sell-out touring hit in 2012, with silly songs and historical hysteria, The Six Wives of Henry VIII promises to be an ill-researched lesson in Tudor history that you'll never forget.

Entering an over-10s swimming gala, aged 30, to defeat 11-year-old nemesis Veronica Barr, a signalman swims for his life. 'Wonderfully unique and beautifully heartbreaking' (TotalTheatre.og.uk). 'Tender and hilarious' (Exeuntmagazine.com). www.idiotchild.com

Imagine the lovechild of Saved by the Bell and Art Attack! That's Lead Pencil and they've made a sketch show, by literally sketching it. 'Fast-paced, high energy nonsense' **** (Skinny). 'Well made, finely tuned comedy' **** (BroadwayBaby.com).