Adam Kay makes a return to the festival

The first show has gone on sale for next year’s Edinburgh Fringe – almost two months earlier than usual.

Adam Kay has announced that he will be returning to the festival for his first full month there for the first time since 2016.

The show he performed that year was based on his time as an NHS doctor and became the blockbuster memoirs, This is Going to Hurt, which sold three million copies and became an award-winning BBC series.

The new show, Undoctored, has more tales of life on and off the wards and is shares its title with his latest book

Kay said ‘Reading from my diaries at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2016 absolutely changed my life, and I’m absolutely thrilled to return to The Pleasance, where it all started. Although this time I’m in a slightly bigger room and travelling around in a Swarovski helicopter.’

His 2016 venue was the 170-seat Cabaret Bar; next year he’ll be in the 750-capacity Grand.

The show will also contain some favourite anecdotes from This is Going to Hurt, because Kay says some punters ask for refunds if they don't get the eye-watering ‘degloving’ story.

For others, the show carries the content warning: ‘This show contains strong language and stories relating to medical situations that some might find distressing.’

At this year’s Fringe the first shows went on sale on February 9. Tickets for Undoctored are available now.

Published: 15 Dec 2022