Poet and storyteller, Laura Thurlow, talks to Kate Saffin about her new show ‘River Time’ (Edfringe 2024 show details below). The title is taken from one of the show’s opening anecdotes. As a student in Edinburgh with unmanaged ADHD (and later realising also Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria), Laura would often go for a night out on the Cowgate, perceive someone as looking at her wrong, become paranoid that her friends secretly despised her, and have a meltdown. To regulate these intense emotions, she would take moonlit walks at 4am along the Waters of Leith. To this day, if she texts a friend River Time, they know that she means her brain is on fire.
She shares the journey and influences in creating the show and goes on to explore one phrase that caught Kate’s ear during the show – that of ‘performing vulnerability’, making choices about how much a performer shares about her personal journey.
Listen to our interview with Laura Thurlow here:
