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3 August 2022
Interview with singer-storyteller Gecko
"Being a part of a festival that is so sprawling and has such variety is an inspiring thing. Also, the ups and downs of it forge a bond with your fellow performers like no other."
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3 August 2022
Interview with comedian, writer and mental health advocate Harriet Dyer
"There’s been a three-year creative backlog within my loins which I can’t wait to release. That sounds more sinister than enticing, doesn’t it?"
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3 August 2022
Interview with Flo & Joan, multi-award winning musical comedy duo
We speak to comedy music act Flo & Joan, consisting of sisters Rosie and Nicola, all about their show 'Sweet Release' heading to Edinburgh Fringe
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3 August 2022
Interview with Dave Chawner, comedian and mental health campaigner
We speak to Dave Chawner about his two solo shows, 'Underdog' and 'Mental', heading off to Edinburgh Fringe
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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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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."
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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 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 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
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 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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1 August 2022
Interview with Connor Taylor: professional ballet dancer turned dance teacher
We speak to Connor Taylor, founder and principal of Adore Dance London in East London, all about the impact of lockdown on creative practice, gaining confidence to dance for yourself, and what it's like to run an entire dance school.
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1 August 2022
Interview with comedian and author Grace Campbell
"My family are Scottish and so I have a huge affinity with the country, and with Edinburgh. I love the way Edinburgh hosts the fringe, it’s like nothing else in the world."
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1 August 2022
Interview with comedian Emo Majok
"I decided a long time ago that failure is not an option. I’ve sacrificed way too much to not be living my purpose. I love, live and breathe stand-up comedy. I honestly feel so lucky to be doing the thing I love."
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1 August 2022
Interview with physical comedian Luke Rollason
"There’s a lack of diversity within alternative comedy, which I think is primarily down to its much smaller scale than more mainstream forms of comedy. If you scale down any industry, you get a microcosm of the same ratio, but it is far more blatant in a much smaller pool of talent."
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1 August 2022
Interview with Jenna Fincken, Joint Executive Director of Wildcard Theatre Company
"It wasn’t till I was in my mid-twenties I seriously considered trying to write something. I’d always have ideas but no strategy on where to even begin. The real turning point of inspiration was watching Angry Alan by Penelope Skinner at Fringe 2018. It blew my mind."
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1 August 2022
Interview with Rob Auton, writer and comedian
Rob Auton returns to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a brand new show all about crowds
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1 August 2022
Interview with comedian Pierre Novellie
"Watching impotently as years of work and momentum were destroyed in front of me as I recovered from long covid made me a lot more zen, in the end. There are many ways to skin the cat of success."