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Dragonfly

Laughing Horse Free Festival Venue

Dragonfly

Fringe Venue 414 - Click here for map
52 West Port (Just off of Grassmarket), Edinburgh, EH1 2LD. Phone: 0131 228 4543
Food  Wifi  Licensed
Open from 13:00 to 01:00
Strictly 18+ Only

Dragonfly Cocktail Bar was re-established in 2018 as a revival of the original spirit of the Edinburgh cocktail scene; a laid-back environment where our guests can explore a carefully considered drinks list. An established Fringe venue in the heart of Edinburgh.

This year we have two entry methods: Free & Unticketed or Pay What You Can
Free & Unticketed: Entry to a show is first-come, first served at the venue - just turn up and then donate to the show in the collection at the end.
Pay What You Can: For these shows you can book a ticket to guarantee entry and choose your price from the Fringe Box Office, up to 30 mins before a show. After that all remaining space is free at the venue on a first-come, first-served bases. Donations for walk-ins at the end of the show.

List Shows: By Room and Name | By Start Time

Shows sorted by Venue Room

Main Room

60 Minutes About Scotland

60 Minutes About Scotland

Comedy

60 Minutes About Scotland

Comedy

Dragonfly / Main Room
AUG 4-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-27 at 16:30 (60 min) - Free & Unticketed

Vladimir McTavish and friends. "One of the finest acts on the Scottish comedy circuit" (Guardian) hosts a one-hour showcase of stand-up from North of the Border. Entertaining for Scots and visitors alike. Follows the 100% sell-out success in 2022 of 60 Minutes About Scotland...


An Aussie, African and Englishman Walk Into a Bar...

An Aussie, African and Englishman Walk Into a Bar...

Comedy

An Aussie, African and Englishman Walk Into a Bar...

Comedy

Dragonfly / Main Room
AUG 3-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-27 at 21:30 (50 min) - Free & Unticketed

A revolving door of different African, Australian & British comedians every show! Come support your home country's roots while learning about other cultures in the funniest way possible. The best, most diverse comedy line-up at Fringe. Each show contains 3 acts from these proud nations in an easy one stop showcase. Sold out Edinburgh fringe 2022!...


Broad Strokes Improv

Broad Strokes Improv

Comedy

Broad Strokes Improv

Comedy

Dragonfly / Main Room
AUG 22-27 at 19:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50

Six of Dublin’s hottest comedy performers return to Edinburgh Free Fringe Festival to bring you an all-women, all-improvised comedy show! Think you’ve seen every kind of improv comedy show out there? Think again. We create filmic hour-long narrative stories based entirely off your suggestions, full of protagonists, antagonists, wizards, spies and suspicious wives, the likes of which you’ve never seen before. Our comedic style is surreal, understated and worldly, giving our shows a theatrical sophistication that makes them truly unmissable. Join us again as our improvisers embark on quests of e...


Dr. Bonk's Macarbaret

Dr. Bonk's Macarbaret

Cabaret

Dr. Bonk's Macarbaret

Cabaret

Dragonfly / Main Room
AUG 22-26 at 22:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5

Scotland's silliest surgeon, Dr. Bonk, presents the Macarbaret: an evening of drag, burlesque, music, comedy, and medical mayhem, starring the not-so-good doctor and an all-sorts assortment of spooky performers! There'll be laughs and scares galore as anything goes in this madcap hour of madness! From the mind of critically acclaimed comedian Eliott Simpson comes this new nightmarish masterpiece! After a successful SOLD OUT run at the 2022 Edinburgh Horror Festival, Dr. Bonk has now set his sights on the Edinburgh Fringe with a whole new host of horrors to play with! Join the undead pla...


Eliott Simpson: (A)sexy and I Know it

Eliott Simpson: (A)sexy and I Know it

Comedy

Eliott Simpson: (A)sexy and I Know it

Comedy

Dragonfly / Main Room
AUG 27 at 22:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50

Eliott has never cared for sex. He enjoys doing people as much as he enjoys doing his taxes. But with tales of gender, stakes, queerness and cakes, Simpson will widen your eyes to the bizarre life of an asexual man trying to survive in a sex-obsessed world. So come along, keep on your thong, and enjoy the only show completely absent of dick jokes... Okay, there are some but they're very intelligent I swear... . "A fully-formed stand-up" (Neurodiverse Review) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ . "The most charming comedian you will meet" (EdfringeReview) n...


Hard Work in Progress

Hard Work in Progress

Comedy

Hard Work in Progress

Comedy

Dragonfly / Main Room
AUG 3-6, 8-13 at 22:45 (45 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5

Kiran Saggu hates hard work. So she’s created, rehearsed and ready to perform an entire show to tell you just that. Fake it til you make it, I guess? Where does this pressure to work hard come from, and why does it come easier for some than others? Kiran fights the forces of her immigrant background, her capitalist American/British influences and her love of attention against her innate desire to just lay down and eat snacks off a carefully balanced plate on her stomach. Despite being a lazy git - she’s the kinda girl that’ll refrain from trashing Kendall Jenner on Twitter in case t...


Martha McBrier: Story-tastic

Martha McBrier: Story-tastic

Comedy

Martha McBrier: Story-tastic

Comedy

Dragonfly / Main Room
AUG 3-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-27 at 17:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50

McBrier returns to the Fringe with a 'greatest hits'compilation of short stories from her previous shows. Each story is condensed into a short, tight, laugh-tastic version of its previous self. Each story is the best, funniest yarn from any show from 2015.This is stand-up storytelling at it's very best, from a performer who has been called 'the female Billy Connolly' and described as 'funny like Chic Murray was funny' “Female comic genius”***** Kate Copstick – the Scotsman “A hoot” ***** Scotsgay“A knack for funny storytelling **** Broadway Baby“The hour appeared to flash by much too quickly”...


Sam Coade and James Trickey: Floorfillers

Sam Coade and James Trickey: Floorfillers

Comedy

Sam Coade and James Trickey: Floorfillers

Comedy

Dragonfly / Main Room
AUG 3-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-27 at 14:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50

Get your laughing shoes on because James Trickey and Sam Coade are bringing the floorfillers to the Edinburgh Fringe. Join rising stand-up chart toppers James (Chortle Student Runner Up, BBC New Comedy Award Shortlisted, 2Northdown New Act Semi-Finalist) and Sam (Double Bubble New Act Winner, West End New Act Runner Up, SYTYF Semi-Finalist) as they turn up the volume to a reasonable level and fill that floor with jokes (and #goodtimes)! Developed with support from Soho Theatre Labs, previous praise includes “Magnificent... Such well developed writing skills” (Chortle), “great stage pre...


Scott McPherson: Life

Scott McPherson: Life

Comedy

Scott McPherson: Life

Comedy

Dragonfly / Main Room
AUG 15-20 at 22:45 (60 min) - Free & Unticketed

Scott McPherson: Life, is an intimate window into the inner workings of Scott’s mind on the often bewildering nature of modern life. In the first half Scott addresses what it is like to be mocked for not drinking alcohol in the UK, life in his 40’s and those awkward life moments. The second half of the show is littered with comic insights into Scott’s relationship with himself and those around him. This is a completely new show which I will be taking to a number of other comedy festivals in 2023, including Brighton, Chichester, Hastings, Tunbridge Wells and Manchester. ...


Sex, Art and the Art of Survival

Sex, Art and the Art of Survival

Comedy

Sex, Art and the Art of Survival

Comedy

Dragonfly / Main Room
AUG 15-20 at 19:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5

Sex, Art and the Art of Survival Genre: comedy, stand up Author and Performer Helen Prior Director Ronald Sounders August 15th to 20th 7 pm Dragonfly Bar 52 West Port Edinburgh EH1 2LD Venue 414 Free tickets Sex, Art and the Art of Survival A rollercoaster of laughter and art fused together, this show is hilarious, sometimes outrageous and saucy, but always inspiring. Helen , a former art historian (PhD, turned comedian, with Ukrainian, Russian and English ancestry, will take you on a fascinating journey with the help of her curated gallery of art masterpieces. After a serious ...


Shaggers

Shaggers

Comedy

Shaggers

Comedy

Dragonfly / Main Room
AUG 3-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-27 at 15:15 (60 min) - Free & Unticketed

The worldwide hit show returns with a line-up of superb and varied comedians from all around the Fringe doing material based around the hilarious, cheeky subject of shagging. "The perfect way to close a night at the festival" ★★★★★ (Funny Tonne, Melbourne International Comedy Festival) "A tour de force of laughter filled mischievous comedy" ★★★★★ (ArtsInLeicestershire.co.uk) "Excellent" ★★★★★ (Audience Review, Edfringe.com) "Utterly hilarious" ★★★★1/2 (Perth Fringe Worl...


The Anti Self-Help Show

The Anti Self-Help Show

Comedy

The Anti Self-Help Show

Comedy

Dragonfly / Main Room
AUG 3-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-27 at 20:15 (55 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50

Good things will happen. Maybe not to you, but they will happen! Award-winning Austrian comedian, Alice Frick, has tried out every piece of self-help advice available and is now the Anti Self-Help expert! In this show you will learn why it’s good to not face your fear, how to say yes (and no) and what to do when you find out your inner child is a grumpy teenager. Alice Frick is an award-winning stand-up comedian from Austria and Funny Women Finalist 2012. She started her comedy career in Austria in 2006 where she performed on stages in Austria and Germany as well as on several TV shows. ...


Whisk(e)y Wars

Whisk(e)y Wars

Comedy

Whisk(e)y Wars

Comedy

Dragonfly / Main Room
AUG 3-6, 8-13 at 19:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50

'hypnotic enough to stop time itself...' (EdFringeReview22) This 'blistering' DOUBLE ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ solo show about men, women and whiskey was placed in the Top 10 % of the BBC Writersroom Open Call 2023. And is back for a limited run! The only NI voice in Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs:Legion, Joyce has worked with Sandi Toksvig (QI) Georgia Pritchett (Succession) and Alice Birch (Normal People) but is an award winning writer and actress in her own right. 'Outrageously talented... We were FLOORED...' (Hello Popelei) 'not to be missed' (@absurdistworld) ...