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A shadow puppetry scene where a hippo walks through a mysterious crystal cave.

Theatre

Space Hippo

31 July - 24 August 2025, 12:30 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A newspaper collage with cut outs of lads magazines and old archive family photos. In the centre there is an old mobile phone with a small child smiling and the title of the show inside.

Theatre

A Small Town Northern Tale

31 July - 24 August 2025, 12:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A close up of a woman. She is wearing orange and is staring right into the camera.

Theatre

WANTED

31 July - 24 August 2025, 12:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Two friends lie on a green carpet surrounded by cut-outs of Princess Diana and sewing materials. One wears her iconic black revenge dress and holds white rosary beads; the other wears a white YALE jumper and holds a measuring tape. They face each other,

Theatre

Don't Tell Dad About Diana

31 July - 24 August 2025, 12:50 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Peter and Lloyd wearing yellow shirts with Mr Bing robot head between them, against a red background with bingo balls suspended from the ceiling.

Children's Shows

Foxdog Studios: Robo Bingo Kids

31 July - 24 August 2025, 12:55 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Connor Delves as Cadel Evans in the new play CADEL: Lungs On Legs. Delves, as Evans, rides a BMC road bike, following the 2011 win of the Tour de France.

Theatre

CADEL: Lungs on Legs

31 July - 24 August 2025, 1:00 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A woman with long brown hair, wearing a beige floral cardigan, is awkwardly smiling while a small squirrel sits on her shoulder nibbling a nut. To her right, an oval-framed portrait of another squirrel hangs on a deep red, patterned wallpaper.

Theatre

Yes, We're Related

31 July - 24 August 2025, 2:00 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A ballerina with blue hair in a blue dress smoking a cigarette

Theatre

SWAN?

31 July - 24 August 2025, 2:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

White door in the middle of a plain dark wall with white skirting running along bottom of the wall. The door has four panels with performer Neil Frost in four different costumes. Top left door panel - white shirt and black bowtie costume, Top right door

Theatre

Neil Frost: The Door

31 July - 24 August 2025, 2:25 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Black background with yellow Durham Revue logo showing the silhouette of a group of students

Comedy

The Durham Revue: Sketch Marks the Spot

31 July - 24 August 2025, 2:30 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Two men in prison officer uniform, in a multi-coloured ball pit

Theatre

Going Soft

31 July - 24 August 2025, 2:35 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Theatre

Ways of Knowing

31 July - 24 August 2025, 3:30 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

man wearing an open white shirt with a white tshirt on underneath stares at the lighter he is holding in his hand. the background is black and he is been lit with an orange light

Theatre

Scatter: A Horror Play

31 July - 24 August 2025, 3:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Comedy

David's One-Man Band (F*ck You, Steven)

31 July - 24 August 2025, 4:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A dark skinned woman (the creator Lula Mebrahtu) is wearing MiMu gloves in one hand and gold jewellery in the other. She is looking directly into the camera as she holds both hands up just under her chin

Theatre

I AM – One of many, many of One

31 July - 23 August 2025, 5:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Kathryn has big blonde hair and is wearing a pink dress and a yellow apron. She is using a blender.

Comedy

Kate Owens: Cooking with Kathryn

31 July - 24 August 2025, 5:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Three people are dressed as chickens locked up behind bars

Theatre

3 Chickens Confront Existence

31 July - 24 August 2025, 5:20 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A woman is dressed in a white shirt, red bowtie, black jacket and a black hat with flowers and cherries on them. She is looking into the camera with a confused look, wide eyes and red liptick.

Comedy

Dirty Work

31 July - 24 August 2025, 5:25 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

- Three toilet cubicles in colours: pink, green/blue and purple. - Cubicle one (left): A man (Ollie) dangling off the door with a mahoosive smile on his face. - Cubicle two (middle): Ollie sat on the toilet seat with his legs crossed and his hand on his

Theatre

DESPERATE WEE GAY BOY

31 July - 24 August 2025, 5:45 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A painting of a young man with dark hair facing away from us, toward the mountains. The man's jacket is made only of simple red outlines, revealing the mountains through him and giving him the appearance of a transparent ghost.

Theatre

The Monkeypox Gospel

31 July - 24 August 2025, 5:50 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Comedy

Su Mi: THISMOTHERPHUCKER

31 July - 24 August 2025, 6:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A drag artist in white clown make up stands in front of a mirror that has been adorned with many little photographs and images.

Theatre

KINDER

31 July - 24 August 2025, 6:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Two men dressed as Jesus hold each other in a field

Theatre

JEEZUS!

31 July - 24 August 2025, 6:50 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Jessica Durand is dressed in a historical World War 1 soldier's uniform covered in dirt. She leans forward with her hands, shouting with an intense expression. She has curly red hair partially covered by a helmet. The background is a deep burgundy colour

Comedy

Jessica Durand: Over The Top

31 July - 24 August 2025, 6:55 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Two men stand in the centre of the screen wearing green suits. They are both looking worried, gazing out in front of them. There are hands behind and around them holding bananas.

Comedy

Pear: Phobia

31 July - 24 August 2025, 7:20 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Holly Redford Jones, a white woman with short blonde hair wearing a teal green velvet suit and a white t-shirt, looking straight forward with a smile, and holding in her right hand a gold bar tray with three drinks - a whiskey glass, a martini glass and

Comedy

I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar

31 July - 24 August 2025, 7:25 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

a poster for pigs fly easy ryan with a person wearing a clown make up in an airhost uniform on a pink background

Theatre

Pigs Fly Easy Ryan

31 July - 24 August 2025, 8:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Karen, dressed up in white feathers, yawns. Crash of the expectations of a

Theatre

Karen Houge: DREAMGIRL

31 July - 24 August 2025, 8:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

An illustration of two people holding up a butt plug, next to this is the title 'HOLE' in yellow block capitals

Musicals and Opera

Hole!

31 July - 24 August 2025, 8:20 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Peter and Lloyd wearing yellow shirts against a red background with bingo balls suspended from the ceiling.

Comedy

Foxdog Studios: Robo Bingo 2.0

31 July - 24 August 2025, 8:25 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Actor Alex Medland, dressed as the devil with red horns and a grin to match, takes a lit match to a contract signed by 'Faustus.'

Theatre

The Faustus Project

31 July - 24 August 2025, 9:05 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

An man in a naked body suit is being soaped-up by giant pair of hands. The soap bubbles are illustrated in a Japanese Ukiyoe style painting and projected onto a screen behind the man to create the illusion that he is interacting with the painting.

Theatre

SHUNGA ALERT

31 July - 24 August 2025, 9:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Three childlike astronauts in white school polo-neck t-shirts look on in awe. Behind them we see the Yorkshire Dales beneath a starry sky. A rocket takes off, the planet mars lies on the horizon, Cleggy, Compo, and the third one sit, whilst Dame Jessica

Comedy

Pat Rascal: Space Gravy

31 July - 24 August 2025, 9:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A woman (pronouns she/they) holding a rock over her head. She looks wistful in a green, collared shirt on a lavender backdrop.

Comedy

Alice Tovey: Glass Houses

31 July - 24 August 2025, 9:55 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Two people look surprised and fearful as yellow banana peels fall around them against a dark background. One wears glasses and a hat, the other has curly hair and an open mouth.

Comedy

A Night of Drama

31 July - 24 August 2025, 10:00 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

The show's mascot Mr Chicken poses in front of a white background, with the words BATSU! emblazoned in red across the image.

Comedy

BATSU! Cowgate

31 July - 23 August 2025, 10:45 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

DeliaDelia has a green face and is wearing a witch's hat in full black dress, squatting in the middle of a ring of green fire, holding a wand

Comedy

DeliaDelia! The Flat Chested Witch!

31 July - 24 August 2025, 11:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Two twins stand shoulder to shoulder wearing green suits against a similarly green background, a pear rests on their shoulder between them.

Comedy

Late with Pear

1 - 24 August 2025, 11:30 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Barnie and Trygve in a dressing room somewhere with buckets of hot chips.

Comedy

Trygve Wakenshaw and Barnie Duncan: Hot Chips

2 - 24 August 2025, 11:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A young dishevelled man with dark shades on

Comedy

Jake Roche: Neporrhoids!

11 - 24 August 2025, 8:55 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Sara, an Iranian women with light olive skin is dressed in a dark blue Iranian girls school uniform (blazer, trousers & headscarf). She smiles like a cheshire cat, dancing, with her arms out to her side. The image is edited with a bright Yellow filter.

Theatre

Saria Callas

12 - 24 August 2025, 2:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Two men stand in a forest, in between them is another person with a urinal on his head. They all look into the camera.

Comedy

Readymades

12 - 24 August 2025, 3:55 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Sketch comedy odyssey through the best worst film never made!

Comedy

Will BF: MOON TEAM IIIV

12 - 24 August 2025, 11:25 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A women stands on stage with a microphone.

Comedy

Kyla Cobbler: Gone Rogue

13 - 17 August 2025, 4:15 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

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