Katy Dye explores the infantilisation of women in BABY FACE at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? My name is Katy and I am an artist who works with performance. I am interested in iconography, materiality and entertainment, and especially seek to connect to physical sensation when making work. I have been working in performance for a couple of […]
Kate Kennedy talks about the dark superhero comedy HUNCH coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I played men throughout my teens. I think I wore the same pair of brown loafers in plays from 12-18. When I got to University (Trinity College Dublin) I bizarrely played even more men, but luckily, there were more shoes. I trained […]
Jeremy Stockwell talks about bringing Spike Milligan’s A SOCKFUL OF CUSTARD to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I am an actor and theatre director. I make devised improvisational shows that, hopefully, touch the cosmic in the comic and the humour human condition. Tell me about your show, what it is all about? This show I made with old mate […]
THOR AND LOKI talk about embracing who they are at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? HARRY I trained as a classical oboe player then began writing and composing after music college. Originally our company HOUSE OF BLAKEWELL were a cabaret act, where Alice sang the songs and I stayed safely behind the piano. But over the years […]
Jack Mosedale talks about NEWSREVUE at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I’ve actually tried to give up performing a couple of times but then like a bad boyfriend I’ve always come crawling back to it. I did my undergrad at Cambridge where the theatre scene is mentally lively so I got to do […]
Eliza Hewitt-Jones talks about bringing VERY BLUE PETER to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I trained at Italia Conti, and since graduating have performed in various shows around the country. Some musicals, others plays. I enjoy all styles of acting but I’ve always loved comedy. Tell me about your show, what it is all about? Very […]
Donald Sage Mackay talks about bringing ANGRY ALAN and the ‘Men’s Rights Movement’ to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? After decades of professional theatre/film/TV work in New York, Los Angeles and throughout the U.S. I’m thrilled to make my Edinburgh Fringe debut in Angry Alan. It’s been a dream of mine to play the Fringe ever since I was an acting […]
David Aula and Simon Evans talk about bringing magic and theatre to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? The Sorcerers or the Extinction of Death & Associates is a society with many secret members: Simon and David are happy to make themselves public for these two events. Simon has been performing magic for over 20 years but spends most of […]
Bernie Dieter talks about bringing the darkest, funniest and most debauched Kabarett Club this side of Berlin to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I have always been a performer darling, since I was about four years old and could hold a tune. By the age of eight I was hanging out with drag queens and composing songs full of swear words. I just love to […]
Helen-Marie O’Malley talks about the wives left behind when soldiers go to war in INVALID VOICE
Name: Helen-Marie O’Malley Name of Edinburgh show: inVALID voices Venue: army@thefringe in association with Summerhall Performance time: 4pm Show length: 1 Hour Ticket price: £12 (£10) Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I studied acting and directing at the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow, from there I became Assistant […]