If you have sore feet, too little time, or are too exhausted even to read Ali G's Oot! when it appears here in August, why not choose your Fringe shows on the basis of proximity?
Here is a list of local venues. Those ones whose numbers are picked out in bold are understood to be free. Click here for a map.
5 The Stand Comedy Club (5 York Place) Tel. 558 7272
5 The Stand Comedy Club II (as above)
8 The Stand Comedy Club V (4 Picardy Place) (as above)
8 The Metropolitain Bar (as above)
12 The Stand Comedy Club III and IV (28 York Place) (as above)
28 Royal Botanic Garden (John Hope Gateway) (Arboretum Place) Tel. 248 2909
32 Rufus Reade Art (40 Pilrig Street) Tel. 554 1078
59 Edinburgh Playhouse (18–22 Greenside Place) Tel. 523 4444
67 Valvona & Crolla (19 Elm Row) Tel. 556 6066
86 St Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral (Broughton Street) Tel. 523 0106
99 The Outhouse (12a Broughton Street Lane) Tel. 07789556209
102 McNaughtan's Bookshop (3a and 4a Haddington Place) Tel. 556 5897
103 Pilrig Studio (1b Pilrig Street) Tel. 226 0000
116 Whitespace (11 Gayfield Square)
144 Edinburgh Printmakers (23 Union Street) Tel. 557 2479
146 Laughing Horse at The Phoenix (46 Broughton Street)
164 Laughing Horse at Edinburgh City Football Club (7 Baxter's Place) Tel. 556 9628
173 The Playhouse at Hawke & Hunter Green Room (12 Picardy Place) Tel. 524 3333
193 Royal Botanic Garden (Inverleith House lawn) (Arboretum Place and Inverleith Row) Tel. 248 2909
195 Leith on the Fringe at Out of the Blue Drill Hall (36 Dalmeny Street) Tel. 555 7101
212 Royal Botanic Garden – The Simple Things in Life sheds (Arboretum Place and Inverleith Row) Tel. 248 2909
239 The Street (2B Picardy Place) Tel. 556 4272
241 The Royal Scots Club (29–31 Abercromby Place) Tel. 226 0000
250 highlight (Omnicentre, Greenside) Tel. 524 9300
262 Mansfield Traquair Centre (15 Mansfield Place)
344 Kiwi Bar at Walkabout (Omni Centre, Greenside) Tel. 524 9300
369 Royal Botanic Garden, Inverleith House (Arboretum Place and Inverleith Row) Tel. 248 2909