BIGHEAD at the 2026 Edinburgh Fringe
Bebe Cave: Swoon
Pleasance Dome, 5th - 30th August, 5:40pm
Character comedian and actress Bebe Cave’s conclusion of her trilogy exploring historical female main-character-syndrome. This time it's the Victorian era, where men wear top hats and waistcoats and ladies don’t have the vote yet. Good times!
Through the lens of the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, some very silly men who were very good at painting, and their most famous muses, Bebe skewers pretentious male artistry and the women they love to drown.
Why are women such beautiful artistic objects, especially when they are dead, and why are the men who paint them so difficult and very much alive?
"Bebe Cave never misses" The Scotsman
Previous Praise:
WINNER - Best Comedy Show - The List Festival Awards
★★★★★ The List
★★★★★ The Scotsman
★★★★★ Broadway World
★★★★★ Everything Theatre
★★★★★ The Recs
★★★★★ Bookmarks and Stages
★★★★★ theatrebab
Jenny Gorelick: SORRY
Monkey Barrel Studio, 3rd - 30th August, 6:25pm
Jenny Gorelick presents her flirty debut hour about bad dates and worse decisions. She’d like to preemptively apologize to every man she’s ever dated—or ever will—for writing about you.
As seen on Netflix Is a Joke and in Cosmopolitan.
“Crush-worthy, ever charming.” — Time Out
"Incredible host.” — Jezebel
Critic’s Pick — The New York Times
Roger Prick: Sexopolis
Underbelly Cowgate (Jelly Belly), 5th - 30th August, 6:55pm
It’s Roger Prick! The 1970s pornographer, erotic novelist, and lecherous casanova is back for 2026. Now it’s time to relaunch his dirtiest novel, revised and edited for the feminist era. Bringing together character comedy, drag, time travel, cardboard props, drawings, and all the sex of seventies Soho, this is an alternative comedy extravaganza.
Han Whyte is a Drag King, character comedian, and Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off Finalist 2025. She participated in Soho Comedy Plus Lab in 2025.
"A soft porn Alan Partridge" Morning Star
“Archetype of puffed up machismo” Chortle
Cabbage The Clown: Cinemadrome
Underbelly Cowgate (Belly Button), 5th - 17th August, 8:25pm
It's the return of multi-award winning cinematic drag chaos in stunning CinemaScopeVision!
Minimum wage cinema employee turned multi award-winning tragic fool Cabbage the Clown's debut hour marries genres in polygamous holy matrimony in their “Gen-Z, loudly queer and thoroughly hilarious” (Binge Fringe) debut.
With over 8 million views online for their genre-busting brand of multimedia drag-clowning, Cabbage presents the return of their critically-acclaimed Fringe hit. So talk through the trailers, sit back and enjoy this Bechdel Test-passing, BBFC-unapproved hit.
★★★★★ Broadway Baby
★★★★★ The Student
★★★★★ Binge Fringe
★★★★★ EdFringeReview
Fanny Bleach: The Nearly Naked Show
Assembly Roxy Downstairs, 5th - 30th August, 9:50pm
Award winning drag thing Fanny Bleach brings you The Nearly Naked Show, described as 'A Mighty Boosh and Leigh Bowery mash-up’ full of guts and glitter this fantastical freak show is a reclamation of the naked body in all its gory glory.
Join cabaret, drag, performance art and comedy star Fanny on a journey through the universe of her mind in all it’s creepiest corners and crevices, but please try to keep your hands inside the ride.
"A parade of chaos, craft and cuntery’’ Narc
Maya Ricote: Ay Am!
Pleasance Cellar, 5th - 30th August, 10:40pm
Cryogenically preserved and freshly defrosted, this passionate Latina with dangerous curves is ready to make you melt.
In her debut clown spectacle, The Queen of Wails FINALLY performs her Latin-melodramatic-soap-opera slash camp musical, for you.
Maya Ricote is a Mexican/Venezuelan-American telenovela actress turned clown.
“A charismatic delight to watch... I predict big things.” — Chortle
Baby Lame: Hit Me Baby One More Lame!
Pleasance Above, 5th - 30th August, 10:50pm
Cult superstar Baby Lame is Britney Spears in a hilariously unhinged punk odyssey, uncovering the true (but completely unauthorised and definitely not approved by her legal team) story of the world’s most chaotic pop icon.
Featuring 100(ish) Britney bangers, space travel, romance, murder, and full-throttle pop madness, co-starring the entire audience. Directed by Deanna Fleysher (Butt Kapinski / Red Bastard).
This is the Britney saga nobody asked for, but everyone will remember.
“A wildly entertaining force to be reckoned with” (Culture Fix)
“Badass, gutsy and kind of kinky too” (Fest Mag)
Sam Eley is Basil Crumbwick: Soul Sewage
Monkey Barrel Two, 5th - 30th August, 11:25pm
Sam Eley is Basil Crumbwick: Soul Sewage
Say hello to a horrid bloke. Award-winning late-night villainy from an uncomfortable mind.
'I was in danger of throwing up from laughing.' (Tim Harding, Chortle)
'A virtuoso display of comic writing.' (Steve Bennett, Chortle)
Winner of Sketch-Off 2025
Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year Finalist