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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe newest avant-garde production from YESYESNONO, the award-winning company known for Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist and we were promised honey!, hits the Roundabout stage at Edinburgh Fringe. Simply titled Nation, this new piece will challenge what you know to be true.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteJulie Flower brings her one-woman show Grandma’s Shop to Edinburgh Fringe. A wholly personal production, this play delves into the life and influence of Julie’s grandmother, Hilda, who ran a vintage shop on Devonshire Street in Sheffield for decades.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe award winning company piss/CARNATION, which stunned last year’s fringe with their verbatim production 52 Monologues for Young Transexuals, bring a new work to the festival. Ugly Sisters, an experimental, devised piece, explores trans identity, womanhood and what it means to actually be a feminist.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSeconds to Midnight, a new play debuting at Bunker One at the Pleasance Courtyard and produced by Love Songs Productions, is a queer couch drama set at the end of days. Written by Jessica Tabraham and directed by Matilda Piovella and Katie Kirkpatrick, this two-hander is introspective and endlessly pondering.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteKnives and Forks, a new work by Danielle James, hits the stage at the Gilded Ballroom Patter House, presented by Band of Sisters Theatre. Exploring the relationship of two best friends as tragedy begins to loom its ugly head, this play directed by Hannah Calascione investigates the intricacies of friendship.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy Mother’s Funeral: The Show, written by Kelly Jones, follows Abigail, a struggling playwright who’s mum Linda passes away. Without any money to give her the funeral she believes she deserves, Abigail, who’s current script holds no interest for the big theatre she is attached to, decides to create what they are looking for: a piece that is gritty, real and authentic. So she makes a play about the death of her mum.

Reading Time: 2 minutesTemping, crafted and devised by Dutch Kills Theatre Company, is an immersive piece that puts you in the shoes of a temporary temp, filling the shoes of a former employee at a firm. Written by Michael Yates Crowley and directed by Michael Rau, slipping into this life for an hour will turn out to be one of the strangest things you can do at fringe.