If you didn’t manage to catch the Pleasance’s sold-out shows in the Scottish capital this Summer,  you’re in for a treat! After the success of their 40^th anniversary Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the  Pleasance Theatre Trust is bringing an exciting and diverse season of Fringe favourites with theatre,  comedy, cabaret, magic and children’s shows to London this Autumn. With 50 shows, there’s  something for everyone at Pleasance London, with all performances now on sale.  Settle in for a wild ride below as we give you highlights on each show – or go straight to buying your tickets here: www.pleasance.co.uk

Joe Sellman-Leava will kick off the season with two of his sell-outs; Fanboy (14^th – 16^th October) is a love-hate letter to pop culture and nostalgia, while It’s The Economy, Stupid (14^th – 16^th October)  will embark on a quest to uncover how the economy wins elections, and why the force that  dominates our lives is so complicated! Hughie Shepherd-Cross’ sixth Fringe play, Gang Bang (17^th – 18^th October) tells the story of one man by the name of Don Lambrini who in 1945, when Sicilians  were pouring onto boats for America, accidentally boarded an all-inclusive Thomas Cook cruise to  Blackpool. Bebe Cave’s The Screen Test (17^th – 19^th October) is a one-woman dark comedy about  delusion, desperation and dreams following an aspiring actress in 1930s Hollywood, so desperate to  become a star that she might just sacrifice herself along the way. 

Using just a single deck of cards, one of the best card magicians in the world, Andrew Frost will  enrapture audiences with Andrew Frost: Cards on the Table (19^th October), delving into the  mechanics of sleight of hand, the level of discipline needed to become a card cheat, and how  feigning good fortune can bring about genuine luck. Award-winning writer Emma-Louise Howell  (BBC Writer’s Room Finalist)’s arresting debut play I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life (21^st – 23^rd October) is a hair-pulling, fake-nail scratching, catfight against what it means to be a  #GirlBoss. 

Two of Pleasance’s Charlie Hartill Fund winners will return to London as part of the season. Sweet  Beef Theatre’s Crying Shame (23^rd October) is a cabaret-show-cum-wellness-journey all about  loneliness; you might be lonely, but you’re definitely not alone. Sierra Sevilla’s For the Love of Spam (7^th – 9^th November) is a comedic, multi-sensory, participatory one-woman show dedicated to two  things: canned meat and colonialism. 

Lubna Kerr’s Chatterbox (24^th – 25^th October) recalls the labels we are given in primary school and  looks at the impact they have for the rest of your life. Ethereal artist LULA.XYZ presents her brand  new show I AM – A Walking Universe (25th October), spotlighting overt medical racism prevalent in  the UK alongside the first episode in the series OommoO (25^th October), which considers what  happens when you’ve left everything behind for the promise of something better and the something  ‘better’ isn’t ‘better’. 

Shows from the Pleasance Edinburgh National Partnerships scheme are heading to London too.  From multi award-winning Documental Theatre, Scaffolding (26^th – 27^th October) is an explosive  show about strength, love and community. Winner of The Debut Award at this year’s Besties Òran (11^th – 13^th November) is a thrilling story of a man on a journey to rescue his best friend from the  Underworld. 

Following his previous smash hit successes, Luke Wright returns with a new set of poems that get to  grips with the idea of JOY (26^th October). In her debut storytelling show 16 Postcodes (29^th – 31^st October), Jessica Regan (BBC, Channel 4, Guilty Feminist) shares lessons lived and learned from a life  as she moves North, South, East and West, finding out which is best. How a Jellyfish Saved the  World (30^th – 31^st October) is a heart-warming, tentacle-tapping, puppetry musical from Jam Jar  Theatre. Inspired by real events, 2024 Untapped Award winner Drum (4^th – 6^th November) is a joyful  and poignant play fusing storytelling, music and dance; capturing a unique snapshot of the swinging  sixties. 

Award-winning drag king and London’s loveable nature boy, Bi-Curious George, invites you into a  raucous celebration of queerness and the animal kingdom in the love letter to nature that is Queer Planet (14^th – 16^th November). Sorry (I Broke Your Arms And Legs) (18^th – 20^th November) is a  riotous debut PowerPoint presentation combining the thrills of World Book Day with the hilarity of  the Maths Olympiad from Maybe You Like It. And, rounding off the theatre programme, Jake  Roche: Neporrhoids! (21^st – 23^rd November) is a (mostly) true story following the meteoric rise and  devastating fall of chart-topping boyband member Jake Roche. 

In the comedy programme, Fringe legend award winning John-Luke Roberts will launch the season  in style with John-Luke-a-Palooza (13^th and 20^th October) as he does all 10 of the solo comedy shows he’s ever done in a row across two days! Named ‘the rock’n’roll star of British Comedy’ by Rolling  Stone, Rachel Fairburn is back with seven deadly characters, in Rachel Fairburn: Side Eye (6^th November). Most Outstanding Show nominee at MICF 2022 and 2023, Laura Davis returns with  Albatross (13^th and 14^th November), rapid-fire stand-up that journeys through nature, empires,  lighthouse keeping, existentialism, birdwatching and haunted microwaves. 

After an encounter with a wildlife enthusiast, Funny Women Award finalist Amy Mason explores  what it means to be a human animal in Free Mason (16^th November). What a year it has been for Freya Mallard, with a baby, a Fringe debut and now a London transfer; The Bounce Back (27^th November) proves that being a new mum and performing a smash-hit stand-up hour can go hand in  hand. With uproarious anecdotes and sharp wit, Rosco McLelland takes audiences on a rollercoaster  ride in Sudden Death (29^th November) through the highs and lows of day-to-day life, peppered with  Scottish charm and unexpected twists. 

Holly Stars in Justice for Holly (18^th October) tells the story of how she got there to the Superdrug  security office, with a handbag full of shoplifted lipsticks. After 2023’s successful debut, the wonky  and worried award-winning comedian, and Stoke-on-Trent urchin Adam Flood returns with Back Of  The Spoon (14^th November). Join UK-based Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani, one of The Times’ Top  Three Rising Stars of the Fringe, in Meanings of Life (23^rd and 28^th November). 

The debut hour from Nerine Skinner, Funny Women Content Creator 2023 Runner Up and Britain’s  Got Talent Semi-Finalist – The Exorcism of Liz Truss (21^st October) comes to London. Join magician,  comedian and charlatan Pete Heat on a surreal journey into your own brain in Bogus (21^st November). Indo-Kiwo-Ausso comedian Runi Talwar presents his award-nominated debut hour with  Runi Talwar as ‘Runi Talwar’ in Runi Talwar: The Runi Talwar (20^th November), in this incredible  story of a guy who was once told he should ‘get his name out there more’ and took it far too  literally. 

John Meagher, the Host of Radio 4’s The Divil’s Own is coming to London with his debut show Big  Year (26^th October). Isobel Rogers: will ask modern life’s essential questions in How To Be Content (9^th November), looking at baby fever, polyamory, living at home and even moving into your mum’s  house (with your boyfriend). André de Freitas will bring Work in Progress show Makuma (18^th October) that tells the story of how, upon turning 30, he discovered he was under a Brazilian curse  from his ex called Makumba. 

Think Taylor Swift…on acid; Pop princess and multi-award-winning musical comedian Katie Pritchard  has mastered up to and including 12 instruments, to bring you the era-defining bonanza, I Kiss The  Music (19^th November). Pleasance audiences can enjoy a gift of a show from a 2x BBC New Comedy  Award nominee, Alfie Packham in My Gift To You (15^th November). After over a decade as a critically  acclaimed stand-up, Ollie Horn is at the business end of his late-20s, and he’s decided he’d like a  wife; get ready for the comedian’s toxic rebrand with Comedy For Toxic People (And Their Friends) (27^th October).  

This November, Sasha Ellen brings us My Milf-Shake Brings All The Boys To The Yard (4^th November), a stand-up show about all the things that hit you like a ton of bricks in your thirties.  Expect group meditation, an effective technique to deal with annoying people, the magic of velvet  sofas all mingled with a semi-intellectual demeanour from German based Libyan stand-up Mustafa Algayadi in Almost Legal Alien (19^th October). On eBay there is only one winner in a sea of losers,  but in Ruby Carr’s eBae (8th November) everyone is a winner. 

Mandeep Singh Presents Singhin’ In The Rain (28^th November) is a silly, joyous, comedy show from Mandeep Singh about cracking on regardless of the circumstances. Prepare to get spiritual at  Bishops’ exploration of love, death and a third general theme in Farewell Bruce Porcelain (16^th November), an anarchic hour of surreal sketch comedy, all set at Bruce’s funeral. Expect a lot of  props, accents, music, an existential crisis and plenty of artistic self-doubt from Chris East in My  Brain Is Soup, Your Hands Are The Spoons (9^th November).  

Michael Kunze is superstar actor Mitch Cooney in his Hollywood Odyssey Infinity Mirror (7^th November). After sold-out runs at Camden Fringe and VAULT Festival, former journalist and ex professional doomscroller Suchandrika Chakrabarti tries to explain the news to her 5-year-old niece, through character comedy and props, then speculates about the future with Doomscrolling (21^st November). Award nominated character comedian and failed wiseguy Ben Goldsmith welcomes audiences to CrimeLandTown (7^th November), playing every character in a ‘hilarious’ and  ‘one of a kind’ screwball comedy. 

Rich Spalding offers audiences a stand-up comedy show about life, death and what happens after  that in Gather Your Skeletons (25^th October). The Awkward Silence present a kaleidoscope of  characters in their hallucinatory sketch comedy feast Mind Milk (5^th and 6^th November). Mischievous  balding duo Aram Balakjian & Alexy Walexy transfer their sell-out Edinburgh fringe show Shiny  Things (29^th October) to London, promising a night of pure silliness and uncomplicated delight! 

Finally, in the 20^th year of the Comedy Reserve, the Pleasance are bringing The Pleasance Comedy  Reserve (12^th November) back to London for the first time ever. After a sold out run at this year’s  Fringe, the UK capital can catch four of the hottest new comics; Marty Gleeson, Rohan Sharma, Sam  Williams and Sharon Wanjohi.  

It’s a season not to be missed this Autumn at The Pleasance – get your tickets while you still can! Tickets are available at http://www.pleasance.co.uk.