IKEA WARS - Edinburgh Fringe 2026
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IKEA WARS IS BACK! After a roaring Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut at the Gilded Balloon last year, the cult festival favourite is back for another month of Fringe madness!
With twenty-eight massive shows at the iconic Patter House, and it's promising to be the biggest IKEA WARS season yet! It's time once again Edinburgh, to enter the flatpack thunderdome!
IKEA WARS is a high-octane comedy game show pitting two comedians against each other in the ultimate home improvement indignity: building IKEA furniture in front of a live audience.
The challenge is simple: build the piece of furniture before your opponent does. Is it a race? Yes! Is it a game show? ALSO YES! A plethora of chaotic sabotages are on hand to ensure that the road to glory is paved with pitfalls!
Build the furniture.
Survive the sabotages.
Be crowned the Champion of Sweden!*
*title not officially recognised by the Swedish government.
Let's build!
"Who knew you could get so engrossed, anxious, agitated, in watching IKEA furniture being built!" Fringefeed, 2025
With twenty-eight massive shows at the iconic Patter House, and it's promising to be the biggest IKEA WARS season yet! It's time once again Edinburgh, to enter the flatpack thunderdome!
IKEA WARS is a high-octane comedy game show pitting two comedians against each other in the ultimate home improvement indignity: building IKEA furniture in front of a live audience.
The challenge is simple: build the piece of furniture before your opponent does. Is it a race? Yes! Is it a game show? ALSO YES! A plethora of chaotic sabotages are on hand to ensure that the road to glory is paved with pitfalls!
Build the furniture.
Survive the sabotages.
Be crowned the Champion of Sweden!*
*title not officially recognised by the Swedish government.
Let's build!
"Who knew you could get so engrossed, anxious, agitated, in watching IKEA furniture being built!" Fringefeed, 2025
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Where is it happening?
Gilded Balloon, 2 (1F4) Commercial Street,Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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