Your ultimate guide to the Dundee Fringe 2025

The Dundee Fringe is returning for its fourth year. (Picture: Dundee Fringe)

Dundee Fringe returns from 12–21 September 2025, bringing ten packed days of comedy, theatre, music, cabaret, spoken word, family shows, and workshops.

Since launching in 2021, the festival has become one of Dundee’s most exciting cultural events, giving audiences the chance to enjoy local talent alongside visiting acts in an atmosphere buzzing with creativity.

Set at the Keiller Centre, the fesrival brings together a mix of theatre, music, cabaret and family shows - meaning that there is something for all ages.

Here’s a look at the highlights you can catch across this year’s Fringe:

🎼 Musicals & Opera

• Songs Don’t Sing (12–13 Sep)

• What The Brontës Did At The Fringe (16–18 Sep)

• Helen Shapiro – Walkin’ Back (19 Sep)

🎭 Theatre

• The Weaver’s Knot (12–14 Sep)

• The 4% (12–13 Sep)

• Bipolar Badass (12–13 Sep)

• Shallowspace Cryotech Feverdream (12–13 Sep)

• Lunchbox (13–14 Sep)

• Beastie (14 Sep)

• SLUSH (14 Sep)

• Whispers (14 Sep)

• Do Astronauts Masturbate in Space? (15–16 Sep)

• Her Raving Mind (15–16 Sep)

• The Constant Storm (15–16 Sep)

• Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Tauris (15–16 Sep)

• Bothy Tales (16–17 Sep)

• The Snow Dance (17–19 Sep)

• Dundee Playwrights Group Scratch Night (17 Sep)

• Ladies Who Lunch (17 & 18 Sep)

• read me (17–18 Sep)

• Upstaged (17 Sep)

• Tay View (18–19 Sep)

• Love Hurts (18–19 Sep)

• Mask 4 Masc (18–21 Sep)

• Hope You’re Doing Well (18–19 Sep)

• Almost Famous (19–20 Sep)

• The Lonely Hearts Theatre Company (19 Sep)

• The Masterplan (20–21 Sep)

• Uncle Vincent (20–21 Sep)

• Secret Staging (20–21 Sep)

• BAD BIRDS (or Kleptoparasite) (20–21 Sep)

• The Fives King (21 Sep)

😂 Comedy

• Wizard of Orkney (12–13 Sep)

• It Just So Happened (12 Sep)

• Tattoo Dave: Tat’s Life (12 Sep)

• Nik Coppin’s Comedy World (12–13 Sep)

• Richard Pulsford: The Short Joke Teller Returns (12 Sep)

• Imaginary Porno Charades (12–20 Sep)

• Nick It For Munich (13–14 Sep)

• Comedy Quines (13 Sep)

• Leslie Bloom: No More Murders in the Village (13–14 Sep)

• Ye Gods! (14 Sep)

• Excel Comedy and Mathem-antics (14 Sep)

• Scott Redmond: Poetic Comedian (14 Sep)

• Fernando: Attacked By A Slightly Larger-Than-Average Pigeon (14 Sep)

• Dundee’s Silly and Strange (14–15 Sep)

• Silly, Billy, Jilly (15–16 Sep)

• Ryan Cullen – Cullen Them Softly (15 Sep)

• For Your Entertainment (15–16 Sep)

• Ray Fordyce: Quincunx (16 Sep)

• Onboarding (16 Sep)

• Whit’s Meh Line? (19–20 Sep)

• Diceblitz: A Double D&D Adventure (19–20 Sep)

• Judie Boom’s LOOK BUSY (19 Sep)

• Dinner with President Obonjo (20 Sep)

• Harun Musho’d: A History of the Last Conservative Government (20 Sep)

• Craig Wilson: Who? (21 Sep)

🎶 Music

• Where Do They Keep Their Wallets? (12 Sep)

• The Jennifer Ewan Band: Bonnie Bayou (13 Sep)

• Majk Stokes: Songs for the 2020s (13 Sep)

• Julia’s Jolly Silly Music Playlist Panel Show (14 Sep)

• Henry Pullan – Music for Sharks (15 Sep)

• Barry Potter – Dream Time Reality (16 Sep)

• Laurie Black: Deadly Synths (17–18 Sep)

• Slow For A Poet (18 Sep)

• Patchworks (20–21 Sep)

• Archie Dye (20–21 Sep)

• Lullabies on Imbalances and Other Things (21 Sep)

• Sexy As Folk (21 Sep)

🧑‍🧑‍🧒 Family

• The Tale of the Great Tay Whale (12–13 Sep)

• Poppy’s Wonderful World of Bubbles (13–20 Sep)

• Comics vs Kids (13–14 Sep)

• The Creative Martyrs: FEZvolution (19–20 Sep)

• Valhalla Awaits – Viking Stories for Kids (20–21 Sep)

• 1 Very Silly Old Man With Magical Rhymes (21 Sep)

📚 Spoken Word & Storytelling

• In-trans-pection (12 & 21 Sep)

• FEVER PEACH: We Are The Things That Live In Your Wardrobe (12 Sep)

• Partners in Rhyme (12 Sep)

• Ma Name is Isabelle (13–14 Sep)

• Words Are the Knife (13–14 Sep)

• Act My Age (14–17 Sep)

• A History of Scotland in 6 Bad Ideas (14 Sep)

• blood palace (17 Sep)

• The Sound of My Own Voice (21 Sep)

• Our Anxious Measurements II (21 Sep)

• FEVER PEACH: Life’s a Peach, Then You FEVER (21 Sep)

💃 Cabaret & Variety

• The Creative Martyrs (19–20 Sep)

• Fullfrontal Alchemist (19–20 Sep)

• Four Magicians (20 Sep)

✨ Workshops & Events

• Dance Workshops (5–7s / 8–10s) with Scottish Dance Theatre (13 Sep)

• 400 Second Nerd Talks (15 Sep)

• Mimetolith: Closure and Complicity (15–16 Sep)

• Philosophy Playtime at the Fringe (17–18 Sep)

• Philosophy Storytime: Erotic Tales (17–18 Sep)

• Scottish Mushroom Podcast Live (14 Sep)

• Animals Drawn From Memory – Exhibition by David Valentine (19–21 Sep)

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With such a huge programme, Dundee Fringe 2025 is set to be one of the city’s biggest cultural celebrations yet.

You can find more information about the events over at the Dundee Fringe website here.

So if you’re drawn to laugh-out-loud comedy, experimental theatre, family fun, or powerful spoken word, there’s something for every taste. Dive in, book your tickets, and get ready to experience Dundee at its most creative.