Tickets to Fringe at Panmure
Fringe returns to Panmure for 2024! Mark your calendars to secure your tickets. On sale from Thursday 9 May.
Take this rare opportunity to visit the iconic Panmure House during Edinburgh's most exciting month. Make sure to head along to the venue early to soak in the atmosphere and enjoy the bar before your show begins.
Smithy's Scavenger Hunt
Fascinated with Edinburgh's history? Want to learn more about the Scottish Enlightenment, its leading figures, and have a blast while doing it?
Returning for its second year, aimed at those aged 8-12, this fun sixty-minute clue solving activity teaches you and your child about the rich history of Edinburgh during the Scottish Enlightenment. Includes a certificate and medal of completion. You may even meet a special guest!
Young people must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
SIMON EVANS PRESENTS ALAS, SMITH AND HUME!
Debuting at Panmure House for 2024. From the host of BBC Radio 4’s Simon Evans Goes to Market comes this humorous, even mischievous celebration of the friendship at the heart of the Scottish Enlightenment. A wider examination of their unique intellectual legacy, from the birth of political economy as a discipline, through the navigations of a genial empiricist in a deeply pious world, to the single greatest unleashing of talent per capita in the history of the modern world. It has never been more important to remind Scots of their birth right, of robust and vigorous debate!
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The Butcher, The Brewer, The Baker and Merryn Somerset Webb
Concerned about the economy? Join Merryn Somerset Webb as she interviews, debates, and argues with a well-known group of economics, politics and financial gurus. This is a firm favourite guaranteed to sell out.
Audience participation is invited and welcomed.
Catch up with the Merryn Talks Money podcast on Apple, Spotify and other major podcast platforms. Click the QR link below to listen to the latest episode.
Jesper Koll: Japan - Capitalism That Works
Japan has got what it takes to be an economic superpower and role model. Japan's social resilience, political stability, corporate competitiveness and creative innovation are poised to deliver positive surprises – not just economic growth and investment opportunities but, more importantly, as a source of inspiration for a new generation of global creators and leaders. Japan expert Jesper Koll, embedded in Japanese society for over thirty years, uncovers a world well beyond transistor salesmen or lost generations of demographic doom. You'll laugh and learn why Japan is capitalism that really works.
Jesper Koll has been researching and investing in Japan since becoming a resident in 1986. Over the past decades, Jesper has been consistently recognized as one of the top Japan strategists/economists. He currently serves as Expert Director for the Monex Group and the Japan Catalyst Fund (Japan’s 1st retail investor based corporate engagement/activist fund). In 2022, he was appointed Global Ambassador for Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike’s Tokyo Financial Center initiative.
Jesper is an economist, angel-investor, patron; and yes, a Japan Optimist.
Dominic Frisby: Shaping the Earth - A Light-Hearted History of Mining
A Panmure House regular, Dominic Frisby presents a new lecture with funny bits about the extraordinary history of mining. From cavemen with pickaxes to modern-day excavators, humans have been mining metal since the Bronze Age. Entire nations have been built on the backs of mining booms. Discover how digging stuff up changed everything.
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SIMON EVANS PRESENTS FOOTNOTES TO SMITH
Our first regular evening show, this witty and entertaining show promises plenty of laughs and one or two things you may not know about the Scottish Enlightenment and its luminary thinkers.
Alfred North Whitehead characterised the European philosophical tradition as 'a series of footnotes to Plato'. We beg to differ. Influential as the Big Beards were, the modern world began with Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment. Join Fringe stalwart, BBC Radio 4 regular, creator of Jokenomics and Economedy and general intellectual magpie and dilettante Simon Evans for a brisk canter through the 250-year legacy of The Sage of Kirkcaldy. May contain visible hands. Praise for past work: 'A masterclass' ***** (Scotsman); 'Jaw dropping' ****½ (Chortle.co.uk).
Frequently Asked Questions
Tickets can be bought directly via the Fringe Box Office. By clicking the performance headings above, you will be redirected to the Fringe Box Office page where you can buy tickets for your chosen dates.
We are situated just off the Royal Mile and within close proximity to the Scottish Parliament. Our address is Panmure House, 4 Lochend Close, Edinburgh, EH8 8BL. You can access us easily on foot or by public transport.
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Located just opposite the Royal Mile Primary School, Lochend Close can be accessed via two openings on the street. This leads you out into a courtyard in which Panmure House is located directly ahead. A comprehensive set of directions can be found here, and throughout the Fringe-related web pages.
Panmure House is equipped to allow for a comfortable experience for wheelchair users.
The House has both an exterior* and interior lift as well as an accessible bathroom on our ground floor in the Interpretation Suite area.
*If you require access into the venue via our exterior lift, the Team kindly ask that you arrive 10-15 minutes prior to curtain up. This allows for setup in advance and prevents any delay to your Fringe at Panmure experience.
Lochend Close is reserved for permit holders only and is heavily monitored by parking attendants. For this reason, we recommend parking at Holyrood Park [£1p/h] and taking the short walk up the mile to Panmure House. A comprehensive set of directions can be found here, including additional parking information.
Please note that Panmure House will not be held liable for parking charges and/or towing in Lochend Close.
Panmure House is a hub of enlightened research, debate and scholarship. At Panmure, we seek to continue the legacy of Adam Smith and his works - to do this, we host an array of events and academic programmes that draw upon the cultural relevance of Smith, and his home. Themes include economics, finance, social theory, ethics and the Scottish Enlightenment.
We cannot make any scheduling changes to the Fringe show programme at Panmure House for any reason. Due to the layout of the venue, we are unable to admit latecomers. This is disruptive to the performers and other Fringe goers so please be aware that latecomers will be turned away from the venue.
Unfortunately we are unable to offer refunds, unless a show has been cancelled by us. Please do contact us if there is an alternative show you are able to attend and we will transfer your ticket if it is possible to do so.