As week one shows leave and new shows arrive, let’s look at the things you might be taking home from the world’s largest arts festival.

- Money
- Debt
- Reviews
- Fidget toys scavenged from Fringe Central’s Health and Wellness
- 10 million flyers
- New artist friends
- A taste for Gregg’s
- Strong ankles (from walking 30,000 steps a day on cobblestones)
- Inspiration that will carry you through your next year, light a fire under your future projects, and make you smile like you did when you were a kid.
- 10 million more flyers

Sad Girl Songs is a one-person show performed by Gwen Coburn at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025. It runs from August 1 to 23 at the Ivy Studio, Greenside, with a running time of about one hour. The performance uses original songs and spoken sections to cover topics including trauma, PTSD, womanhood, abuse, mental health, patriarchy, and feminism. It incorporates personal experiences alongside references to mythology.
Sad Girl Songs is Gwen’s show at the Fringe. More details here.