Sunday 29th August.
In the last show of the 2010 Edinburgh fringe, the Stoppers told the tale of a love triangle set in the Wild West. The town of Mitchum Creek, near Mitchum Falls in Mitchum County, has not seen a bullet fired in anger for a whole year. But all that is under threat when Dierdre, owner of the Golden Horse Saloon, discovers that her old boyfriend Carmichael, has come out of prison and aims to take her away from her current amour Black Hat Bob.
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Show 197 Cactus!, Sunday 29th August
Show 196 Stolen Delight, Saturday 28th August
Saturday 28th August.
Two sisters, one crime. In Turkey 1910, a poor village woman enlists the help of two ex-cons to break her sister out of jail and then prove both her innocence and the guilt of the true criminal: the sultan himself.
Show 195 L’amour, C’est Mort, Friday 27th August
Friday 27th August.
The wife of a Parisian mortician is increasingly frustrated by her husband’s obsession with his work and the fact he won’t walk the park with her. She is seduced by the Comte de Monteferriat. Eventually he becomes a mime so he can be in the Place des Vosges with her.
Show 194 I’m Crazy for You, Thursday 26th August
Thursday 26th August.
Dual writer show.
In Buckingham palace, three plots collide. The queen is mad and the staff must cover up for her; the Bulgarian maid is having an elicit affair with the Queen’s equerry; and a trio of BUlgarian revolutionaries plots to overthrow the monarchy.
Show 193 The Merm the Merrier, Wednesday 25th August
Wednesday 25th August.
Lord and Lord Charlesworth decide to salvage a sunken 17th century warship, depriving a mermaid community of their ancestral home.
Show 192 The Wishing Tree, Tuesday 24th August
Tuesday 24th August.
Dual writer show
A fairy tale about a woodcutter who is fails to cut wood for the Knight because he falls in love with his guardian angel. Will the magical wishing tree provide? ‘Happy ever after we will be, full of joy and laughter ‘neath the wishing tree’
Show 191 The Golden Parchment, Tuesday 24th August Matinée
Tuesday 24th August.
Matinee with Karen Koren
Before the Gilded Balloon there was the Golden Parchment in Cowgate in 1726.
Show 190 Get Your Rocks Off, Monday 23rd August
Monday 23rd August.
Pre-historic dinosaur hunters. Who will Kutuchka choose as she comes of age: the powerful but cold chief warrior or the gentle cave painter?
Show 189 Swingers and Roundabouts, Sunday 22nd August
Sunday 22nd August,
A druid musical set in Stonehenge. A man and a woman fall in love but the druidic tradition requires she give herself to a warrior first. That warrior is the man’s best friend. Will this tear the society apart?
Show 188 What The Dickens? Saturday 21st August
Saturday 21st August.
Dickens goes to Bedlam to write a new novel and falls for recovered mentalist Elaine. But Joseph and Mrs Edwards have something secret going on in the Persephone Wing. Can Mr and Mrs Head help or is the woman with two balls simple insane? A dark morality tale. “Go on, do the voices…”

