An audience-interactive hour
14 August: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
Bongo Club ***

Flea copulation
14 August: Cardoso Flea Circus
Princes Street Gardens ***

Table dancing in practice
14 August: Soho
Pleasance Cabaret Bar ***

God's spin doctors
10 August: Steven Berkoff is back on top form with the beautiful, blasphemous Messiah, says Lyn Gardner

Unkindness of strangers
10 August: Kay Adshead's new play addresses the problems faced by asylum seekers - from their point of view. By Brian Logan

Static
10 August: Pleasance Below
***

The Wake
10 August: Hill Street Theatre
*****

A Woman in Waiting
10 August: Assembly Rooms
****