Aim

Knee Touch is my debut solo stand up show about panicking, crushes and panicking over crushes - help me to take it to the Edinburgh Fringe!

“Original and compelling” (Chortle.co.uk) with "Considerable style" (Beyond The Joke), BBC New Comedy Award nominee and Leicester Square new Comedian of The Year Runner-Up, Abbie Edwards brings her debut hour of confessional stand up comedy to the Edinburgh Fringe 2026.

Abbie Edwards’ debut show Knee Touch is a storytelling stand up show taking place over five years of a will-they-won’t-they in her early twenties. This is interspersed with primary school anecdotes such as her crush on a Mormon boy at primary school which was very much unrequited, accidentally raising herself religious, being the most repressed person at a life drawing class and detours of a Brokeback Mountain obsession.

“Abbie Edwards’ endearing style was offset with cheeky and charming material laced with effortless crowd engagement.” (Reading Today) 

Nothing consumes your life more than having a crush. You can make playlists to underscore daydreams about their rom-com realisation that it’s always been you. You can analyse every look they give you, re-read birthday cards for hidden meaning, replay every conversation and - the best part is - you never have to actually do anything about it. You can yearn for as long as you like… unless you leave it for too long and accidentally set them up with someone else.

When Abbie’s fantasies of never-gonna-happen romance finally come true, they’re turned upside down as her own worries try to sabotage the entire thing and throw it all away. At its core, it is an ode to overthinking: a show about living inside your own head, taking charge of your own life and maybe even falling in love.

Show History

I have performed Work in Progress versions of this show in London and Leicester, with more previews lined up in Chichester, Hastings, Margate, London, and King’s Heath. I will be performing the show at Just The Bottle Room at The Mash House, 16:50 from 6th-16th August.

Why do you need the money?

I have been unbelievably lucky enough to be a recipient of the Keep It Fringe Fund this year, the money from which has made my run at the Edinburgh fringe possible at all. The grant money of £2,000 has covered the majority of my venue hire cost and registration fee which totalled £2,293.20 for my 11 performance run.

In addition to this, I still need to pay for accommodation, train travel, projector and screen hire, flyer and poster printing, photography for my poster, and technician hire. This comes to around £1,500-£2,000. A preferable extra would be to be able to afford to hire a flyerer for an hour per day to help to promote my show, which would cost around £165.

Thanks for taking the time to read this!

Abbie :)

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 28th July 2026 at 8:12pm