Lucy Stevens talks to Kate Saffin about creating A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening’, the story of Gertrude Lawrence using Lawrences own words. She then goes on to talk about the process of researching the lives of other women whose stories she has told through performance, or whom she came across and who drifted […]
Tag: solo show
Alison Skillbeck is no stranger to the Edinburgh Fringe. She is a writer and actor with several critically acclaimed plays under her belt Are There More of You?, The Power Behind The Crone and Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London. In this interview she talks to Kate Saffin about the isolation of lockdown, how important the […]
Solo performers probably outnumber every other group at the Fringe if you include theatre, comedy, spoken word and music. The 262 solo theatre shows listed this year offer diverse work across every genre and style, every venue and every imaginable topic (well, possibly not every one but certainly a great range!). Many are new writing, […]
Kazu Kusano (Producer, Writer, Performer) is a comedian, actress, and writer. She has a Japanese accent, crazy physicality, a dark sense of humor, and hot flashes. Kazu immigrated to America all alone in her thirties to do comedy. Kazu can be seen on Comedy Central UK’s Cannel Hopping as a Japanese correspondent. Also, she is the […]
I’m 39. I’ve been single for nearly 39 years. I’ve had a handful of “situationships,” but never a reciprocal relationship where we’ve both equally liked/loved each other–either the guy loved me, and I was like, “ehh,” or I was obsessed with him, and he was like, “boo, bye”. He damn-near disappeared. I started an Instagram […]
A debut solo play: Kate Saffin talks to Rosie Fleeshman about Narcissist in the Mirror
Kate Saffin talks to Rosie Fleeshman about her portrayal of life as a millenial. She describes her difficulties finding work after drama school and and how that led her to start writing and performing spoken word pieces. Travelling and meeting other millenials experiencing similar frustrations started the journey towards this, her solo debut play, which […]
Kate Saffin talks to Pip Utton about his new show exploring Alzheimer’s: And Before I Forget I Love You, I Love You. It’s a very different show to all his previous work and he talks about the background, the development and plans for post Edfringe 2018 Listen to our interview with Pip Utton about And […]