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Arthur Smith: My 75 Years at the Edinburgh Fringe

Arthur Smith: My 75 Years at the Edinburgh Fringe. Arthur Smith
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33: Pleasance Courtyard
Room: Cabaret Bar

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Arthur Smith's love letter to the playground of the imagination that is the Edinburgh Fringe on its 75th birthday. Recalling some of the triumphs, disasters, love affairs and arrests of his many Augusts in Auld Reekie. Hamlet, Colditz, Leonard Cohen, Dante, dementia, Arthur's Seat, Gary Lineker and the Leith Police all feature in this moving hour of revelations, songs, poems, gags and bad costumes. This is Arthur's last-ever Edinburgh show so you had better be there. 'There are Fringe legends and then there is Arthur Smith' (Bruce Dessau, Times).

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Arthur Smith's Edinburgh Fringe hit transfers to Pleasance London in 2023

Arthur Smith's show My First 75 Years In Comedy will transfer to Pleasance London in March 2023.

Theatre Weekly, 3rd January 2023

Tall stories: performers on their wildest Edinburgh moments

Stand-up in a swimming pool, naked tractor driving, heart attacks, heckles, walkouts, rain and an onstage marriage proposal - as the fringe turns 75, this year's performers on the memories that make the festival unique.

Tim Key, Sindhu Vee, Jayde Adams, Flo & Joan, Arthur Smith, Reginald D Hunter, Paul Foot, Tim Crouch, Nina Conti, Simon Munnery, Bilal Zafar, Lou Sanders, Matt Forde, Fascinating Aïda, La Clique, The Guardian, 6th August 2022

Edinburgh Fringe 2022: The comedy lineup so far

Here's a small fraction of some of the comedy coming up at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Jamie Dunn, The Skinny, 24th July 2022

Eddie Izzard, Michael Palin and more on 75 years of the Edinburgh Fringe

Stars of stage and screen share their Edinburgh memories.

The Telegraph, 23rd July 2022

Arthur Smith interview

It's my love letter to the playground of the imagination that is the Edinburgh Fringe on its 75th birthday and I consider some of the triumphs, disasters, love affairs and arrests of my many Augusts in Auld Reekie.

On The Mic, 20th July 2022

Performances

Date Time Venue
5th Aug 2022 14:40 Pleasance Courtyard (Cabaret Bar)
6th Aug 2022 14:40 Pleasance Courtyard (Cabaret Bar)
7th Aug 2022 14:40 Pleasance Courtyard (Cabaret Bar)
8th Aug 2022 14:40 Pleasance Courtyard (Cabaret Bar)
9th Aug 2022 14:40 Pleasance Courtyard (Cabaret Bar)
10th Aug 2022 14:40 Pleasance Courtyard (Cabaret Bar)
11th Aug 2022 14:40 Pleasance Courtyard (Cabaret Bar)
12th Aug 2022 14:40 Pleasance Courtyard (Cabaret Bar)
13th Aug 2022 14:40 Pleasance Courtyard (Cabaret Bar)
14th Aug 2022 14:40 Pleasance Courtyard (Cabaret Bar)

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