Venue 6

C ARTS | C venues | C aurora

Lauriston Halls, 28 Lauriston Street, EH3 9DJ

Venue website: cthearts.com — for directions, access and food & drink. Fringe tickets are booked from each show’s page.

A powerhouse of pure performance. From bardic breakfasts to music, dance, circus: we showcase the uplifting, unsettling, side-splitting, thought-provoking at our festival hub with courtyard café-bar. Part of the vibrant, vivacious variety of C ARTS: a curated programme of international, independent work taking place at multiple city-centre locations, and online, in our 35th year at the Fringe. It’s a festival all of its own. Make sure you see it all.

Accessibility

Access courtyard and church spaces via slight ramp to courtyard at 26 Lauriston Street. Access main house, studio and accessible toilet via level entrance to halls at 30 Lauriston Street. There is level or slight ramp access to all auditoria and to all public areas of the venue. Accessible WC located adjacent to main house performance space. Full venue site is accessible, Wheelchair accessible toilet, No reserved accessible parking, On street blue badge parking, Assistance dogs welcome in all areas. Access courtyard and church spaces via slight ramp to courtyard from Lauriston Street. Access main house, studio and accessible toilet via level entrance to halls from Lauriston Street. Accessible WC located adjacent to main house performance space. On-street blue badge parking bay adjacent to venue on opposite side of Lauriston Street. Assistance animals welcome. For assisted booking and to request assistance, phone 0131 581 5552

What’s on at C ARTS | C venues | C aurora — Fringe 2026

Shakespeare for Breakfast · Theatre · £10–£14
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Snow · Dance Physical Theatre and Circus · £12–£16
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Chopin's Last Tour · Theatre · £10–£14
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Wintersweet and Larkspur · Theatre · £10–£12
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The Quiet Between · Theatre · £9–£11
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Emoji: The Hieroglyphs of Our Time, or how I learned to stop worrying and send the risky text · Comedy · £10–£14
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Clary · Theatre · £8–£12
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Dogberry and Verges Are Scared · Theatre · £10–£16
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Brick · Theatre · £9–£13
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Eastern Illusions Reimagined · Cabaret and Variety · £10
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M (Woman of Fashion) · Theatre · £10–£14
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Ass Ass In · Theatre · £10
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The Last Days of Trump (A Liberal Fantasy) · Theatre · £10–£14
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Thank You, F*ck You and I'm Sorry · Cabaret and Variety · £10–£14
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The Musical · Theatre · £10–£12
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Couture · Theatre · £8–£12
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Delivering Debussy · Theatre · £10–£14
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Mulan · Musicals and Opera · £9
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1617: Our Tale of Two Planets · Theatre · £12
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School of Rock · Musicals and Opera · £16
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A Magical Journey to Sichuan · Children's Shows · £3
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Bathroom · Theatre · £11–£13
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Seed · Theatre · £10–£12
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Realm Beyond Boundless Dance · Dance Physical Theatre and Circus · £10
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Othello · Theatre · £14
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Love's Labour’s Lost · Theatre · £14
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Feral · Theatre · £8–£12
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Hamlet Redux · Theatre · £14
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Sculpture and Poetry (Legacy) · Dance Physical Theatre and Circus · £14–£16
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Liu Ling Zui (Old Drunken Dream) · Musicals and Opera · £14–£16
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Echoes of Being · Dance Physical Theatre and Circus · £10
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Unbounded Growth · Dance Physical Theatre and Circus · £10
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The Bride · Dance Physical Theatre and Circus · £10
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Wukong and Kong · Theatre · £10
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The Silk Road (Kinda) · Musicals and Opera · £10
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Love in the Cracks · Theatre · £12–£16
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The History of Jazz Piano, and Irrelevant Topics · Cabaret and Variety · £10–£14
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Night Falls on Burma · Theatre · £12–£14
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Backstage · Theatre · £10
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Paywall · Theatre · £10–£14
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Title Goes Here · Comedy · £9–£13
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Bata Dance · Dance Physical Theatre and Circus · £10–£14
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The Becoming Stone · Dance Physical Theatre and Circus · £14–£16
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Dragon · Dance Physical Theatre and Circus · £14
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Liberty · Dance Physical Theatre and Circus · £14
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Mirror State and White Silence · Dance Physical Theatre and Circus · £12
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MIR · Dance Physical Theatre and Circus · £9–£13
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Chef! Gimme One of Everything! · Comedy · £7–£11
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Watch Us – Love, Fear, Intimacy · Dance Physical Theatre and Circus · £12
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An Audience with Marvin Herbert · Spoken Word · £3
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Dead Prepared · Theatre · £8–£10
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La Sylphide: The Coven of Desire · Dance Physical Theatre and Circus · £11–£13
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1896-2026: An Epic of Electronic Music and Its Technology · Music · £3
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