With just six weeks until Gothenburg Fringe 2026, we’re nearing the end of our artist reveals. This batch of shows highlights a splendid mix of theatre, comedy and clowning with two returning GBG Fringe acts and four newcomers.
This week we also revealed the festival poster for 2026, a gorgeous work by Babak Safari, creating this design which will be seen all around the city in the coming weeks.
Ticket sales are now well underway and for the first time, we’re selling Festival Passes, bundles of 3, 6 and 10-show passes at brilliant discounts. There is limited availability, so get your hands on them here and take a chance on some of the shows listed below. And everyone who picks up a festival pass in July will be given one of our festival posters for free.
Deluge
by Gabriela Flarys (Brazil)
What happens when grief spills into everything around you? A magical realism theatre comedy about loss and the unexpected ways we cope when life falls apart. Inspired by 40+ real-life stories gathered through a social media callout, Deluge blurs imagination with reality and physicality as one woman finds her inner world tipping sideways into ladders, Komodo dragons, and a thousand kilos of jam.
★★★★★ “Flares is a beast of a performer, funny, multitalented, physically impressive” – Binge Fringe
★★★★½ “Life-affirming piece that leaves a lasting impression” – A Young(ish) Perspective
★★★★ “Intense physicality and irresistible charm” – British Theatre Guide
★★★★ “Incredibly beautifully written” – Spy in the Stalls
★★★★ “I am totally absorbed” – Bouquets and Brickbats
Mörk
by Theatre of Menace (Sweden)
Mörk is a running anthology of English-language short plays that explores multiple sub-genres of horror and related themes. The production adopts minimalist theatre, aiming to be lit entirely by practical lights to give the audience an intimate and immersive experience. The two plays performed as part of this segment focus on the effect that fear and uncertainty have on people–and how the frightened mind can be more of a danger than anything lurking in the dark.
“The Butcher,” by Brian Bonafilia, follows two police officers hunting a brutal killer who is stalking the streets of Victorian London. With more attacks happening and fewer clues left, dread and suspicion begin to rise, leading to harrowing questions of how far good men must go to fight evil.
“The Light,” by Federico Giaimo, is set on a dockside in prohibition-era New England as two bootleggers come face-to-face with something that they cannot explain. Trapped between fear of the unknown and the very real dangers of their business, the men must make difficult decisions.
Casanova
by Jon Tilley (England)
Lover! Hero! Clown! A man who relies entirely on his wits – and his incredibly alluring face and body. Join award-winning physical comedian Jon Tilley (“Magnetic” The Scotsman) for a hilarious ride through the ridiculous and the sublime, in an anarchic, comic retelling of the myth of real-life ultimate lover and original rom com leading man, Casanova!
Following smash-hit fringe favourites ‘The Bakers’ (Fringe World Comedy Weekly Award Winner 2020), Scotland! (★★★★★ Fringefeed), Attenborough and his Animals (★★★★★ Adelaide Advertiser), and Strictly Barking (Fringe World Children’s Event Award Overall Winner 2023), Jon Tilley won the Prague Fringe Comedy Award for his first solo show ‘Old Man’. Now he’s back with his new creation.
“It is evident immediately that Tilley is a master clown” ★★★★ Binge Fringe
MISTRANSLATED
by Erica Jean (USA)
Ever accidentally said something completely wrong in another language… and only realized it too late?
Yeah. This show is about that.
MISTRANSLATED! is a hilarious and wildly relatable solo comedy show about the failure and triumph that come with learning languages.
It is a master class in linguistic survival that
• Offers hacks and tips on how to (badly) learn a foreign language
• Features tales of languages fails, tonal triumphs and finally being able to understand what those Thai masseuses are saying
• Explores the value of learning foreign languages in 2026 – because who needs AI when you can show off your basic Mandarin to steal the heart of someone else’s grandmother?
Excel Comedy and Mathem-antics
by David Benaim (Cambodia/Gibralter)
A comedy show for spreadsheet experts and casual users alike, performed by a true piece of sheet, that blends stand-up, storytelling and demos. Sprinkled amongst the comedy routine, you’ll learn a few Excel tricks from pun-loving Excel YouTuber and Jewish math addict David – “The Excel Comedian”. By holding the official Microsoft MVP Award for Excel, David is considered by Microsoft to be amongst the top 100 or so Excel people worldwide, and he advises Microsoft on future directions for Excel. Growing up with a maths obsession shaped David’s life and paved the way for him to become ‘the Excel guy’ at the office, attend spreadsheet conferences and indulge in mathem-antics.
This show had sold-out seasons in 2025’s Edinburgh Fringe festival and 2026’s Adelaide Fringe festival.
NICE BITCH
by EXPERT BY IDENTITY (Germany)
The therapy session is open, bitch! The Berlin comic EXPERT BY IDENTITY invites you to sit with them! In their dark comedy special, the self-proclaimed NICE BITCH tries to make their therapist laugh – and gets you on the way! To avoid accountability, no personal topic is off limits: the perks of liberal parents, fucking straight men as political action, or queer-feminist stances on abortion! All those jokes to deflect the pain, especially for your gain! And as emotional support? Britney Spears!
NICE BITCH is a queer comedy show that transforms discrimination into a dazzling doing of dick jokes. All that trauma-dump in only one hour? That’s our service guarantee! See you in therapy, hopefully!
