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In Conversation with: Dave Kirby

Reading Time: 3 minutesI’d had the original idea many years ago and thought, how do you top that? Then in around 2018 I started to bump into a lot of people I hadn’t seen since the 70s. A few lads and a woman I’d met. And I was thinking about them and the people I’d met and started thinking about doing something about the 70s again. I started to write a few ideas down and then thought why not revisit those characters from Lost Soul. Last time it was Terry who had hit this middle aged wall. This time it’s Smigger. He can’t get his head out of the 70s. 

In Conversation With Omar Khan

Omar Khan ; Portrait ; StoryFest Playwright ; National Youth Theatre ; London, UK ; 10 May 2024 ; Credit & copyright: Helen Murray www.helenmurrayphotos.com

Reading Time: 5 minutesWe sat down with Omar Khan, an International Emmy award-winning writer and actor. In 2022 he wrote and starred in an award-winning short film funded by Netflix (Queen of Diamonds).

FEATURE: Funny Women: The Glitter Project Launch at Edinburgh Fringe

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn a beautiful courtyard of possibly the poshest hotel I’ve ever stepped foot in there’s an early morning (for fringe) gathering for Funny Women at the fringe. A mixed group of ages and experience, everyone is stuck in chatting about the early days of the fringe. Snippets of conversations hang in the air ‘I had a small audience’, ‘make sure you steam’, ‘there’s massage chairs in Edinburgh Waverley.’