Durham Fringe Festival 2024
Durham City
County Durham
DH1 3NJ
Tel: +44 07903 871 238
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Durham Fringe Festival 2024 returns bigger and better with 8 performance spaces across 7 venues, 90 different shows. Running from Wednesday 24 to Sunday 28 July, it’s looking to be the best festival yet!.
The 2024 festival offers dance, drama, music, comedy and magic including sell-out favourites from 2023 like Tom Bolton’s Grow Up Magic Man and the Durham Revue as well as a whole host of new shows from all over the UK and beyond!
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Comedy
* Mock the Geek with Educated Idiots
* Calcoholic with Cal Halbert
* Babs for Life with Freddie Main
* Spontaneous Wrecks
* Tezting Tezting 123 with Tez Ilyas
* Iantropection with Ian Younghusband
* Free as a Bird with Kelly Rickard
* S**t Lawyer with Abigail Rolling
* Newspaper Punchlines with Shellshock! Improvised Comedy
* The Improvesarios
* One Helluva Twist
* Chin Wang: Wang’s Republic
* Biscuit Barrel: Not Another 69-Sketch Show
* Harun Musho’d Reads Bad Political Memoirs So You Don’t have to (WIP)
* Impromptu Shakespeare
* Jen Strike: Strike by name
* Stanley Brooks: I Can Make Me Rich
* Jack Kelly & Jimmy Shirley: Pool’s Gold
* Nerd is the Word with Neil Harris
* Elaine Robertson
* Marigold Lately ‘Dirty Old Town’ 2024 Tour
Theatre
* Green Knight with Debbie Cannon
* BED – A one man show with Brandonville Productions
* Hellcats with Menstrual Rage Theatre Company
* Jekyll & Hyde: A one woman show with Sweet Productions
* Toast with Night-Light Theatre CIC
* Sonder with Wrong Tree Theatre Company
* Cepacia with Durham School
* Sherlock Holmes The Last Act with Fringe Management LLC
* Technically: A Musical
* Cheesy Waffles Project
* Body or Soul Durham with Fury Theatre
* NCD: Class of 2024 with New Collage Durham
* Grimm Tales with NTC Touring Theatre Company Ltd
* Stewart Howson’s “Strange and Extraordinary Tales”
* Hairy B*stard with Molly Farquhar
* Buckets Of Blood – Fairy Tales Not For Kids with Stories Alive
* The Academy Trust with Mode Theatre
* YCTMHT Alternative Theatre with Lorraine Smith Arts
Magic
* Brooklyn Magician with Brooklyn-Ellis Carr
* Wonderstorm with Lichfield and Larmouth
* Grow up Magic Man with The Magic Corner
* Magician Twinpossible With Kane & Abel
Children and Youth
* Captain Zak’s Space Pirate Problems with Stories Alive
* The Sound of Science with ATOMS Education CIC
* Meet at the Ark with Cheesecake Productions
* Sing, Sign and Sensory with Effectus Theatre
* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen with The Time Travelling Baron
* MTA Choir with Miss Toni’s Academy of Music and Performing Arts
Literature and Spoken Word
* Canny Words with We are Northern
* Where Are You From: A Poetry Performance with Mwelwa Chilekwa
Music
* You Me Him - Milne Glendinning Band
* Durham: Songs of Sanctuary with Citizen Songwriters
* REED between the Lines with Robert Reed
* Isabel Maria
* A Tapestry of Life with Jessa Liversidge
* Sing your cares away with Jessa Liversidge
* Philip Jonathan
* Steve Pledger
* GRACE 2024 with Joe Bayliss
* Durham Scratch Choir
* Cartoon Food
* Miss Jean & the Ragtime Rewind Swing Band
* Jam Tub Live Music
Dance and Cabaret
* Past & Future with Eliot Smith Dance
* Fragments of Poe with Dora Frankel Ensemble
* Down the Rabbit Hole with Aria Art and Movement
* All, Here and Now with Unearthed Dance Company
* You. Don’t. Think with Alex Jade Wallace
Book Tickets
Guide Prices
Ticket Type | Ticket Tariff |
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Discover Ticket - 3 Shows | £20.00 per ticket type |
Family up to 2 Adults and 2 Children | £20.00 per ticket type |
Standard | £9.00 per ticket type |
Concessions available.
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Opening Times
2024 (24 July 2024 - 28 July 2024) |
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Highlights...
Friday, 26th July 2024 - Saturday, 27th July 2024
Sunday, 28th July 2024 - Sunday, 28th July 2024
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Durham Fringe FestivalAmazing tales, elegantly told. Top award-winning improvisers tell extravagant stories all based on the Adventures of Baron Munchausen. There will be pirates and princesses, unicorns and dragons, spacemen and swordfights, and all of it completely and irrefutably true.
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Friday, 26th July 2024 - Sunday, 28th July 2024
Helluva Twist - Durham Fringe FestivalDickens wrote some incredible novels. But what about the ones he never got a chance to start? Watch a group of buffoons submerged you in a brand spanking new tale based off a title suggestion from the audience!
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Saturday, 27th July 2024 - Sunday, 28th July 2024
Cartoon Food - Durham Fringe FestivalCartoon Food are a folk rock fusion however it’s apparent they aren’t afraid of experimentation, even combining reggae rhythms with their melancholic lyrics about love & loss of. Their sound is reminiscent of the Beatles, the Kinks & the Lumineers. Review from Urban Arts - St Anne's.
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Sunday, 28th July 2024 - Sunday, 28th July 2024
Sonder - Durham Fringe FestivalA play about strangers, connection, community, hopes and fears.
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Sunday, 28th July 2024 - Sunday, 28th July 2024
Cepacia - Durham Fringe FestivalJen, in a foster home with abusive past. Alex, in an elite boarding school. Both have Cystic Fibrosis. Jen’s a bit skinny but reasonably well, Alex is desperate for a lung transplant after years of destructive infections. They meet in a CF chat room and Alex learns it’s nearly Jen’s birthday which…
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Saturday, 27th July 2024 - Saturday, 27th July 2024
Sunday, 28th July 2024 - Sunday, 28th July 2024
Technically: A Musical - Durham Fringe FestivalIt’s the morning of the tech run for a fresh, new student production, and the technicians have stayed up all night to make sure their cues are perfect
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Sunday, 28th July 2024 - Sunday, 28th July 2024
Retake Remake - Durham Fringe FestivalRetake, Remake is The Lawnmowers learning-disabled led Theatre Ensemble’s empowering new show.
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Wednesday, 24th July 2024 - Sunday, 28th July 2024
Burned Out - Durham Fringe FestivalBurned Out follows a nurse who is barely making ends meet. When the food bank she has been relying on to feed her family loses its main benefactor, Becky makes it her mission to find who is responsible.
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Saturday, 27th July 2024 - Sunday, 28th July 2024
SING IT! Northern Lights from Retro To Remix - Durham Fringe FestivalSING IT! Northern Lights from Retro to Remix promises to be an exciting journey through time and music for Edinburgh Fringe 2024 audiences, from reigning UK A Cappella champions Northern Lights.
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Friday, 26th July 2024 - Sunday, 28th July 2024
Thursday, 25th July 2024 - Sunday, 28th July 2024
A Tapestry of Life - Durham Fringe FestivalSongs from Carole King's classic album 'Tapestry', interspersed with original songs inspired by Andrea Brown's 'Life, Love, Loss'. Universal themes of love and and friendship, situations and journeys, sure to touch the heart.
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Friday, 26th July 2024 - Sunday, 28th July 2024
Sunday, 28th July 2024 - Sunday, 28th July 2024
Nerd is The Word - Durham Fringe FestivalEmbark on a laughter-filled journey with Neil Harris, a versatile comedian and computer programmer. In his alternative comedy show, Neil seamlessly blends humour with live coding sessions, unveiling uniquely designed games for an amusing encounter that fuses technology with laughter. Join Neil…
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Sunday, 28th July 2024 - Sunday, 28th July 2024
Elaine Robertson - Durham Fringe FestivalElaine is famous. Elaine is the worst person in the world. Elaine saw Ian Beale on a child’s bike outside a Dominos in Newcastle* *None of these things are true. Elaine Robertson is Delulu.
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