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6 August 2022
Interview with comedian Tony Law
Tony Law talks to Voice about his new show, 'A Now Begin in Again', up to Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August.
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5 August 2022
Interview with Robbie Curtis, Director of Arc Circus
"At Arc we are passionate about our work reaching a wide audience, and Edinburgh Fringe is an incredibly well regarded festival showcasing some of the world's best work."
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5 August 2022
Interview with actor Daniel Hoffmann-Gill
"When you fall in love with making art, as I did, as a kid, you’re not thinking of being motivated to get into an industry. You just want to tell stories and entertain and make people feel stuff and change the bloody world. Lofty ideals that crash and burn but that I cling to nevertheless."
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5 August 2022
Interview with writer and comedian Hannah Fairweather
"While clocking up stage time is important and putting in your 10,000 hours definitely has its value, I now appreciate how important it is to set smart goals so you get exactly what you want out of each gig."
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4 August 2022
Interview with Melon the Human
"I specialise in object manipulation, flexibility and awkward comedy, and I regularly namedrop that I’ve worked for Cirque du Soleil because I feel that it adds legitimacy to my skills."
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4 August 2022
Interview with comedian Chelsea Birkby
"I used my savings to book two weeks of clown school. It was two of the best and hardest challenges of my life. You go on stage and perform these ridiculous tasks and he’ll tell you “what you did was detestable.” It was hilarious and freeing."
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4 August 2022
Interview with comedian Jake Lambert
"There’s a lot of pressure to do well and it’s not always that nice being reviewed and judged constantly. However the flip side of that is when it’s going well and when the audiences are lovely it really is a lot of fun."
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4 August 2022
Interview with Andrea Walker, Artistic Director of 201 Dance Company
"You could burn down in flames, or your life could change forever. Either way, it’ll be a crazy ride you’ll never forget."
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4 August 2022
Interview with Spenser Inwood & Debra Iris Batton, A Good Catch Circus
"The last 2 years have definitely impacted the way we made our new work. We spent a lot of time on Zoom, talking, writing and creating on our own, a very different approach from Casting Off which was created on the training floor, trying new tricks, letting our lives interrupt and inspire us."
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4 August 2022
Interview with theatre maker Trynity Silk, Say It Again, Sorry?
"The pandemic... also gave us an opportunity to test the show out more thoroughly as well as spend some time redeveloping the script. We’ve definitely had to rethink our “spit handshake” finale!"
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3 August 2022
Interview with Graham Butler, Long Lane Theatre Company
"Despite the obvious and numerous horrors of the pandemic, I have found one singular positive from it all. And that is to get on and do it. Since the start of 2020 I have written more, and more frequently... We found other ways to make art, which makes the industry less exclusive"
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3 August 2022
Interview with The Fremonts
"If you want to feel better about your own dysfunctional romantic relationship, this might be the show for you! We have been married for ten years and have the therapy bills to prove it."
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2 August 2022
Interview with Clare Bartholomew and Daniel Tobias, Salvador Dinosaur
"This show was created before the pandemic but it was postponed numerous times due to covid and lockdowns and as we had two years to think about it, we re-wrote it twice. It’s instilled in me that you always need to spend longer than you think creating a show."
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2 August 2022
Skank: Interview with writer and performer Clem
Growing up in France in the middle of bumblef*ck nowhere meant that I didn’t watch a theatre show until I moved to England and studied Drama GCSE, so I grew up on films that my mum brought back from her trips to the UK.
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2 August 2022
Interview with actress Charlotte Price
"Growing up, my mum was always super creative with entertaining me in school holidays and encouraging hobbies… even if it led to me in tears at a trial ballet class because I didn’t want to ‘walk on my tippy-toes’!"
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2 August 2022
Interview with comedian, writer, and actor Bilal Zafar
"I followed the advice of my friend and famous British Twitch Streamer Brian ‘Limmy’ and started to stream on twitch. It allowed me to find a whole new amazing audience and create the type of work I would never get close to doing anywhere else."
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2 August 2022
Interview with comedian Paul Williams
Paul Williams will be performing at Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August.
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2 August 2022
Interview with drag queen and cabaret performer Jinkx Monsoon
"I've wanted to be a performer since I could talk. It's just always been so clear to me that this is what I'm meant to do – so I've been finding any and every excuse to be on a stage since childhood."
Comment posted on 25 October 2023
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