REVIEW: Jewels
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn Jewels, writer and performer Tanwen Stokes brings a fresh, fun, and lovingly irreverent story of mediaeval womanhood onto the stage.
Category Edinburgh Festival Fringe
In Conversation with: Sam Ipema
Reading Time: 3 minutesBased on writer-performer Sam Ipema’s lived-experience of finding she had a brain aneurysm at the ageof 20, and ditching her scheduled life-saving surgery until after her All-American Spring Break, Dear Annie, I Hate You is a duologue between Sam and her aneurysm. Visualising her rare brain aneurysm as an unexpected ‘other’ from the subconscious voice inside her head, Sam Ipema’s dark comedy explores the struggles of processing such a diagnosis at an early age, when most people are still figuring out who they are and what they want to do with their lives. She meditates on the events that brought her to the present after deciding that the best thing to do before getting the surgery was to go out with a bang at Spring Break, but intrusive ‘Annie’ had other plans. This is a true story, not necessarily a smart one.
In Conversation with: Peter McCormick
Reading Time: 3 minutesExploring existentialism, ego and unrequited love, Beyond Krapp is a dark comedy that follows Cormac, a dead man, as he overhears his own funeral from the void of purgatory. The writer and performer, Peter McCormick, was also recently named on the longlist for the David McLennan Award with A Play, A Pie, and A Pint, for which he is writing a new play about love and manipulation.
In Conversation with: Yolanda Mercy
Reading Time: 4 minutesWritten and performed by BAFTA nominee Yolanda Mercy, Failure Project is a “Comedy drama... Or “dramedy” about Ade. Ade is a successful writer, or so it seems. She has everything she has ever wanted; her career is flying, she’s (kinda) moved out of her mums house, her situationship isn’t as complicated as she expected. Life is perfect?! But things don’t always go how you plan, and Ade is about to find that out?
In Conversation with DARKFIELD
Reading Time: 3 minutesDARKFIELD create innovative immersive 360 degree audio experiences at the forefront of technology and theatre.
In Conversation with: Louise Orwin
Reading Time: 4 minutesFAMEHUNGRY is a helter-skelter nosedive into the TikTok universe and a grudge match with the attention economy.
Flipping the script on the mentor/mentee relationship, acclaimed UK performance artist Louise Orwin has enlisted Gen Z TikToker Jax Valentine (20yo, queer, 80k followers) to guide her (37yo, queer, 4k followers) through a brave new world of dance trends, 24 hour live-streaming, enforced face filters and endless monetizable content.
FAMEHUNGRY will be showing at Edinburgh Fringe from 1 - 26 August. Check it out here.
In Conversation with Luke Wright
Reading Time: 3 minutesAcclaimed multi award winning poet Luke Wright is taking his brand new show Luke Wright: Joy! to the Edinburgh Fringe, performing every day at Pleasance Dome from 31 July to 13 August at 14.55.
In Conversation with James Farley
Reading Time: 3 minutesGood Boy is a dark comedy drama following Boy in the throes of first love with his first, older boyfriend. Based on writer and actor James Farley’s own experiences this play explores the dangerous effects of misogyny within Gay Male relationships.
In Conversation with Kristin McCarthy Parker
Reading Time: 3 minutesHold on to Your Butts is a theatrical recreation of Stephen Spielberg’s iconic 1993 dinosaur film which features only two actors and a Foley artist who creates sound effects live on stage. Presented by Recent Cutbacks, an ensemble of theatrical and digital comedy creators in New York, this show was named in Time Out New York’s Top 10 Comedy of the Year.
In Conversation with Alex Nissen from Dizney in Drag: Once Upon A Parody
Reading Time: 3 minutesA gender-bending pantomime romp through beloved fairytales told with drag performers giving (andreceiving) positive lessons on respect, healthy masculinity, periods, and sex positivity.