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Bryony Kimmings' BOG WITCH and THE REAL KYLE MCCARREN headline Avalon's Pleasance Courtyard programme

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Avalon has announced their theatre line-up for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026. The programme includes the highly anticipated return to the Fringe after seven years of performance artist Bryony Kimmings, presenting her critically acclaimed Bog Witch following a major London run and UK tour; Flo & Joan's smash-hit One Man Musical, back after award-winning sell-out runs in Edinburgh, Melbourne, and the West End; and the multi-award-winning new musical The Real Kyle McCarren by American creators Andy Roninson and Sean McVerry, making its festival and UK debut.

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The Real Kyle McCarren is the fourth musical to be produced by Avalon, following Jerry Springer: The Opera - the first West End production to win all four UK Best New Musical awards- and Operation Mincemeat, the Olivier and Tony Award-winning musical, currently running simultaneously in New York, London and on the UK leg of its world tour.

New York City - Public Theater's Joe's Pub, 18th July & Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Pleasance Courtyard, 5th -30th August

Following the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat in 2024, where The Real Kyle McCarren went on to win the Triple R Award and a Pipeline Foundation Arts Grant, and was further developed at New York City's Public Theater (Joe's Pub) and Prospect Theater, Jonathan Larson Grant recipient Andy Roninson and international indie recording artist Sean McVerry (AURORA, Danger Mouse) debut their new musical at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Co-directed by multi-Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated Lonny Price (Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along) and Matt Cowart (Beaches, Sunset Boulevard, Walking with Ghosts), this true story of a Best Friend , bandmate, and enigma stars Roninson as himself, alongside McVerry and a company of NYC and Broadway actors and musicians to be announced, making their first ensemble appearance at Joe's Pub on 18th July ahead of its UK premiere.

Welcome to Upstate Wherever, USA. Way back in the year two-thousand-who-cares, Kyle and Andy were more than friends. More than brothers, dammit! They were bandmates! But the real Kyle McCarren was a complicated dude. Well, an asshole. Worst of all, he's dead - and he won't let Andy forget it. Sometimes the easiest way to tell people about a buddy of yours is to write a show. In this musical-meets-live concert séance that's equal parts Bo Burnham and Tick, Tick... Boom!, you're invited to meet the legend himself.

Following a critically acclaimed hit London run and a 2026 OffWestEnd Award nomination for Innovation, playwright, performer, documentary-maker and screenwriter Bryony Kimmings (I'm a Phoenix, Bitch, Fake It Till You Make It, BBC One's The Rapture) returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after seven years, to perform a month-long run at the Traverse Theatre as part of her biggest UK and Ireland tour to date.

As with all the legendary performance artist's previous autobiographical shows, Bog Witch follows a part of Kimmings' real-life story... Using her trademark mix of humour and heart, expect excellent storytelling, mystical projections, epic songs and banging sound, as Bryony charts her journey uprooting her and her son's life in the city to live in a tumbledown cottage in the wilderness as a last-ditch attempt to be happy and sane. This is the vital story not of dropping out... but of plugging back in, and one that changed absolutely everything for Kimmings.

After enjoying a triumphant debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 and going on to storm Melbourne Comedy Festival and London's Soho Theatre and Underbelly Boulevard, Flo & Joan's award-winning smash hit musical One Man Musical returns to the Edinburgh Fringe. Since the show began it went on to pick up multiple accolades including #1 Comedy Show of 2024 in The Guardian, Best Show of 2024 at the Chortle Awards, it was nominated for Most Outstanding Show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025 and for Best Composer, Lyricist or Book Writer at the Stage Debut Awards 2025. The show also recently won Best Production at the Offies 2026 where it was nominated for two further accolades. Watch as an icon of the musical theatre world finally turns the spotlight onto the one story he's yet to tell: his own.

During the last 36 years, Avalon have worked with more Edinburgh Comedy Award winners and nominees than any other company including: Chris Addison, Greg Davies, Dave Gorman , Frank Skinner , Mike Wozniak , Harry Hill , The Mighty Boosh, Al Murray, Russell Kane , Alex Horne, Roisin Conaty, Kristen Schaal & Kurt Braunohler, Garth Marenghi, Lucy Beaumont , John Kearns , Bilal Zafar, Glenn Moore, Ciarán Dowd, Sara Barron, Sophie Duker, Huge Davies, Lauren Pattison, Phil Ellis , Ania Magliano, Ahir Shah, 2024's Best Newcomer Joe Kent-Walters, 2025's Best Show nominees Katie Norris and Sam Jay, as well as three of only eight female winners of the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award; Jenny Eclair , Laura Solon and Rose Matafeo.

Andrew Doherty - Reviewers Welcome...TO DIE!

Ania Magliano - Peach Fuzz

Cecily Hitchcock - Family Recipe

Crowd Work

Ed Gamble - Work in Progress

Emma Doran - Emmaculate

Frank Skinner - Work In Progress

Garrett Millerick - We Tried It Your Way

James Trickey - Split

Kate Dolan - Trout

Katie Norris - Mother Succubus

Matt Forde - Project Holy Moly

Matt Forde - Matt Forde's Political Party

MC Hammersmith - Ice Ice Nepo Baby

Mike Wozniak - The Bench

Phil Ellis - Bath Mat

Pierre Novellie - Okay, One More Then Bedtime

Pierre Novellie - Do the One About...

Rob Auton - JUPITER

Rory Cargill - On TV!

Russell Howard - Work in Progress

This year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe sees the return of rising star Andrew Doherty, following the release of his debut comedy drama on BBC Radio 4, The Real Housewives of The Wife House, featuring Ambika Mod . The star, creator and heartthrob known for his sell-out hits Gay Witch Sex Cult and Sad Gay AIDS Play will perform a brand new comedy-horror, a late-night-slasher-spooktacular called 'Reviewers Welcome...TO DIE!'. (Reviewers enter at your peril!)

Award winning comedian, Ania Magliano, brings her brand new stand-up hour 'Peach Fuzz' to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the full month run. Following starring in series 20 of Taskmaster (Channel 4), Ania is currently making waves as she stars in Saturday Night Live UK (Sky One) as co-host of the Weekend Update segment, which has been highly praised by critics as "a defining moment" (Metro). The show will see the Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated comedian once again deliver a stellar hour of stand-up with her signature laid-back story telling style and relatable humour, discussing all of her unhinged and hinged inner thoughts. The Fringe run comes as Ania tours across the UK and Ireland on her biggest tour to date, with multiple extra dates added to keep up with the extraordinary demand from audiences.

Comedy siren Cecily Hitchcock is set to bring her highly-anticipated debut stand-up hour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Through 'Family Recipe', Cecily takes you on a nostalgic dive into 2000s Britain, opening her book of disgusting yet comforting family recipes for the Fringe. Born into the wobbling promise of the new millennium, like a jelly at her family table, in a new-build town that seems to multiply overnight, young Cecily was raised by oddball parents and terrorised by an evil swan. Her child mind eschewed boys and dolls and instead fixated on Blair and Brown's Number 10 drama, which she imagined like a Greek tragedy. It's offbeat, it's high-energy, it's the 2008 crash. Dinner's ready kids, come to the table. Cecily is a favourite in comedy clubs around the UK, her unique mix of outlandish anecdotes and offbeat observations has earned her a devoted following both online and on stage. An accomplished live MC, her sketches and stand-up videos have amassed over 25 million views across social media, with features from Ladbible, The Sidemen and BrewDog. "Hot"( Katherine Ryan ).

Three Comics. One Crowd. Absolute Comedy Chaos. Following a string of sold-out London shows at Leicester Square Theatre, Crowd Work makes its highly anticipated Edinburgh Fringe debut this summer. This hour-long interactive show features comedy legend Frank Skinner and two other guest comics working as a team and flexing their comedy muscles by taking on whatever the audience throws at them each night. No two shows are ever the same! Lightly formatted with various rounds to provide an assortment of material for the comedians to play with, the comics celebrate the crowd's weird and wonderful stories, unpack their confessions, and tackle their dilemmas head on. At the end of each show, the comedians get to choose the ultimate crowd champion; winning a prize for bringing the best story, biggest laughs, and fully embracing the chaos of the night. Crowd Work is an exciting new stand-up show...Nothing is Prepared. Anything can happen. Previous Crowd workers include; Iain Stirling, Maisie Adam, Sara Pascoe, Jamali Maddix, Chloe Petts, Ahir Shah, Travis Jay, Emma Doran, Felicity Ward and Aurie Styla.

Hot off his first ever international show, Ed Gamble Live, which saw him perform sold out performances across major European cities before heading to the USA and Canada, as well as his extended and biggest UK and Ireland tour to date, Hot Diggity Dog', which played venues nationwide before heading to Australia and New Zealand, Ed is returning to the Fringe with an hour long work in progress comedy show. Topics! Angles! Takes! All will doubtless feature. Come witness the sheer delight on his face as he nails a new routine / the crumbling realisation that a routine doesn't work. Either way, it will be an event...

Irish comedian, best-selling author, podcast host and online star Emma Doran (LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland) makes her Edinburgh Fringe debut with smash hit stand-up show Emmaculate. This rambunctious hour lays bare the many trials and tribulations of Emma's blended family, jam-packed with razor-sharp observations, riotous on-stage antics and conspiratorial gossipmongering. The month long Fringe run follows a triumphant UK and Ireland tour of the show, which has sold out an astonishing 80+ dates, with a second leg (including a date at the iconic London Palladium) just announced for Autumn 2026 up until Spring 2027. This past year has also seen Emma return for series 2 of Irish sketch show No Worries If Not! on RTÉ (which she wrote and starred in), appear on RTÉ's The Late Late Show alongside Miriam Margoyles and surpass over half a million followers across social channels and 2.5 million TikTok likes for her comedy sketches. Emma currently co-hosts the podcast Keep It Tight alongside fellow stand-up and LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland contestant Deirdre O'Kane.

When Frank Skinner puts together a new stand-up show, he does all his experimenting in half- hidden rooms above pubs. For the necessarily small audiences, it's a bit like watching Doctor Frankenstein building his monster, trying 6 or 7 tracheas before he gets the one that fits perfectly, and doing his best to make sure the stitches are neat and equidistant. Now Skinner brings his stand-up laboratory to Edinburgh. You too can witness his successes and failures, in this work-in-progress show, as a new monster is put together.

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_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/scotland/article/Avalon-Reveals-Edinburgh-Festival-Fringe-2026-Theatre-Line-Up-20260506)._