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30 July 2019
Interview with Maddie Ross, creator of Coming Home With Me
"We’ve since taken the show to Guildford and London where I interviewed more people from those areas to make the show more location specific. It’s important that the show is as relatable as possible to really hammer home how entrenched this issue is in society."
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29 July 2019
Interview with Lizzie Vieh, playwright
Upcoming New York playwright Lizzie Vieh’sMonsoon Season is a dark and twisted tale of paranoia and addiction, taking you down to humanity’s darkest depths with biting humour and blinding insight.
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29 July 2019
Interview with Richard Saudek
"I want to be relevant and modern in the content I produce, but the techniques I use will be rooted in a very old tradition."
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29 July 2019
Interview with Tatiana Pavela, writer and performer in Brandi Alexander
"I remember drawing a swiggly line, looking at it, then thinking “I’ve never seen that before. I have invented that.” A short time later I was in a car, staring up at a billboard with a picture of a heart rate on it, saw the zig-zag line on that and thought that they had stolen my artistic idea."
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28 July 2019
Interview with Crybabies
"If anyone comes away from Danger Brigade with a moral or message, that is a profound mistake on our part. We want this show to be the comedic equivalent of an ostrich burying its head in the sand."
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28 July 2019
Interview with James Barr
"I’ve always wanted attention, as a kid I even pretended to be a stripper for my Mum and her friend Paula. So awks."
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28 July 2019
Interview with Jon Long
"You don’t want to become stale or irrelevant, but at the same time you want to work on your stuff long enough for it to reach its full potential."
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25 July 2019
Interview with Malick Bright aka Android X
"The only time I’ve been to Edinburgh was for my Duke of Edinburgh award… don’t really know what to expect but I hear it’s a big deal…"
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25 July 2019
Interview with Cam Spence
"At the age of three I remember listening to the Smurf’s Christmas album and really rather enjoying it. The characters, the melodies, the high pitches. One of our culture’s finest works."
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25 July 2019
Interview with Abigail Dooley and Emma Edwards (aka A&E Comedy), creators and performers of Witch Hunt
Emma was obsessed with flamenco dancers as a child. She drew them constantly and is still very fond of polka dots and stamping. At 3 years old Abigail painted her cat, literally.
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25 July 2019
Interview with Ambika Mod and Andrew Shires (aka Megan from HR) writers and performers of Children of the Quorn™
"It was our experiences doing comedy at uni which allowed us to perform in professional theatres nationally and at the EdFringe every year that ingrained comedy so tightly into the fabric of our lives. Now if we don’t have funny, we have literally nothing."
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24 July 2019
Interview with Kit Redstone, creator of Passengers
"In the words of my old twitter bio I’m a ‘writer and director, and a hot tempered short arse trans man who wears a lot of jewellery’."
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24 July 2019
Interview with Alex Kealy
"I think political polarisation is very frustrating - I’m of the left and pro-Remain, but I’m trying to reach out in elements of this show. And you absolutely don’t get rewarded by audiences for this..."
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24 July 2019
Interview with James McNicholas
"I’m a comedian probably best known on the live circuit for being part of the sketch group BEASTS, and I pop up in things like Drunk History, The Reluctant Landlord, and I’m one of the main cast on the BBC’s Horrible Histories."
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23 July 2019
Interview with Dominic Frisby
"Since the referendum vote it has become more acceptable to utter opinions that don’t conform to the Guardian’s litany."
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23 July 2019
Interview with Konstantin Kisin
"I’d love to meet a medieval court jester who succeeded in entertaining the court and helping his ruler to see sense at the same time."
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23 July 2019
Interview with Robin Morgan
"It’s been interesting to see that the public sentiment isn’t the same all over the country. You can end up performing in a bubble, and I need my show to work to people who might not necessarily agree with the core theme of it."
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22 July 2019
Interview with Diana Dinerman, Detour
"Responding to events isn’t just about world politics; it’s about responding to events in your own life: your relationships, your desires, your disappointments. Every good solo show or comedy set responds to the personal and somehow captures the universal."