Today Elaine chats with Alison Cleland the co-creator of Hen Night Horror. We chat about the show, the importance of comedy and music and making theatre for everyone. 
Hen Night Horror is touring Scotland right now tickets available below. 
https://www.beaconartscentre.co.uk/events/hen-night-horror

https://thegaiety.co.uk/events/hen-night-horror/

https://eden-court.co.uk/event/hen-night-horror


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Hen Night Horror
An original musical comedy by Fraser Boyle & Ali Cleland 
Thrilling. Terrifying. Hilarious. Amanda’s dream wedding is only days away but the proverbial has hit the fan. Her bestie bridesmaids have declared war on each other. Can one last hen night in a remote Highland lodge cover up the cracks? Or will Donna and Lydia crack each other’s skulls before the big day? This nasty feud has no easy fix but it soon becomes the least of the girls’ worries when they realise… they are not alone…A show that promises to put the willies right up ye! Several times.
This isn’t a hen night… It’s a game of chicken!

Alison Cleland 
Ali Cleland is a rural Ayrshire lass and started her musical career early on in the trad Scottish folk scene. At the age of 18 she headlined the ‘Festival Internacional de la Sierra” in Spain and performed as a soloist for the Commonwealth Games handover ceremony in Glasgow 2014. Her acting career has seen her star in shows such as Legally Blonde The Musical and she was both Musical Director & Played 'Woman 4’ in Girls Night Oot, Scottish Tour.  She’s been involved in development pieces for the National Theatre of Scotland, the Royal Court, London and the Tron Theatre, Glasgow to name a few. Ali also teaches Musical theatre at New College Lanarkshire and is extremely passionate about teaching the next generation of performers. Ali is a well known face in the Scottish Pantomime Scene. She and Fraser Boyle met whilst working at the Palace Theatre, Kilmarnock in 2018, where they first decided to write something together. Hen Night Horror is the result!
 


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Episode 204: Hen Night Horror

In today’s episode Elaine chat with 2 thirds of tasteinuourmouth theatre company Laoise Murray and Grace Morgan. We chat making work as a new company, women in theatre & indeed the world. How capitalism and the wellness industry uses us yet we buy in to it and much more.
You’re Needy (sounds frustrating) is on from the 1st -26th August at Buccleugh Terrace. Tickets available via Summerhall
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You’re Needy (sounds frustrating) 
tasteinyourmouth present the UK Premiere of their intimate, site-specific theatre show, You’re Needy (sounds frustrating) - after receiving nominations for Best Production and First Fortnight Award during their sell-out Dublin Fringe Festival 2023 run.

Skewering the dark undertones of the pastel pink wellness industry and the ways in which it plays on women’s insecurity, You’re Needy (sounds frustrating) invites one audience member at a time to the world of Carrie, who has retreated to her bathroom in the pursuit of wellness, solitude, and perfection. She spends her days taking long, tea-infused baths, and applying SnailMucusWhalePlacenta Face Masks (™), whilst living off of slim noodles and endless cups of coffee. Assuming the role of a support worker, audience members individually enter Carrie’s world, and attempt to coax her back into reality and reintegrate her into society. 
Carrie’s state of mind within You’re Needy (sounds frustrating) is inspired by hikikomori, the Japanese phenomenon of young people retreating to solitude, usually within their parents’ homes. The audience’s position within this comes from the custom of ‘Rental Sisters’, people who voluntarily visit these withdrawn individuals to encourage them to re-enter society. 
Created by tasteinyourmouth, performed by Laoise Murray and Heather O’Sullivan, with direction from Grace Morgan and original material and dramaturgy by William Dunleavy, You’re Needy (sounds frustrating) is an uncanny, feminist, and intimate multi-disciplinary piece that explores how capitalism seeks to control women’s bodies through the concept of ‘wellness’.

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Edinburgh Festival 2024 Series - Ep 207: You're Needy (sounds frustrating)

In today’s episode Elaine chats with writer and Performer of Gracie Zoë Bullock and Director Alice Langley.
We chat their careers, the show and how to raise shame free women.
Gracie and the Start of The End of The World (again) is on at Assembly Roxy Outside from 1st to 26th August.
There will be no shows 13th, 20th, 21st,22nd
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Gracie and Theatre Start of The End of The World Again 
Gracie is looking for love. Honestly, it’s been tough. The dating pool is huge and there are plenty more fish in the sea, but maybe she’ll never find someone to adore for her (immortal) life. Now, in one last totally-not-desperate shot, she wants to see if you - yes, YOU - could be the ‘one’. Oh, and did she mention, she’s a jellyfish? A very horny jellyfish. ‘Gracie’ is a surreal murder mystery about falling in love at the end of the world, surviving the apocalypse, and being the last of your species.

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Edinburgh Festival Series 2024 - Ep 206: Gracie And The Start Of The End Of The World (again)

'Fortress' out now on all streaming platforms. Thanks for listening :)

Credits: 

Written by, acoustic guitar, vocals: Emily Theodora 
Violin: Jenni Grossmann
Drums: Neo Sukhraj-Hammerl
Bass: Linus Hakansson

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Fortress

Today Elaine chats with writer and performer Sora Baek about her play Sell Me: I Am From North Korea the true stories of incredibly courageous North Korean women defectors. We chat the creation of the play, the importance of keeping your creativity while being a mother and much more. 
Sell Me: I am From North Korea  - Pleasance Courtyard - Below
31 July - 25 August (not 7, 13, 19, 20)
@12:35 (55 mins)

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Sell Me: I am From North Korea
SELL ME follows 15-year-old Jisun, a North Korean girl who decides to sell herself to an old Chinese man to make money for her mother’s medication. After risking her life by crossing the Tumen River into China, Jisun learns her malnourished, underdeveloped body is not wanted. She finds herself having to make her own way on the streets, struggling in a merciless foreign land where her very existence is illegal. Inspired by the journeys of many North Korean women defectors, SELL ME portrays the everyday lives and impossible choices made by those living in North Korea, too often overlooked and distorted by Western media.

Sora Baek
Sora Baek is an award winning actor, playwright, and producer from South Korea. She has been featured on the Korea Times, News 12 NJ, and Voice of America. Select acting theatre credits include: SELL ME: I am from North Korea (the US Capitol Center), The Storm, A Christmas Carol, and Sworn Virgin (NYC and International Tour) with Blessed Unrest and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Calaveras Repertory Theatre). She received a Best Actress Award at the Epidemic Film Festival in San Francisco. Sora has been working with Only Make Believe which brings interactive theatre to children with disabilities over 15 years.

*Sora’s grandparents fled the North during the Korean war with her father when he was only four years old. She grew up in a small South Korean town across the river from North Korea, looking out at the empty ghost buildings. Sora’s writing and research into the lives of North Korean defectors were born out of her family’s inability to return home, the pain caused to many innocent families by the war that divided the two countries, and the pain many have since continued to live through. She presents this performance for her father, her grandfather, and all those who cannot go home.
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Edinburgh Festival 2024 Series  - Ep 211: Sell Me: I am From North Korea

Today Elaine chats with Stephanie Katie Hunter, theatre maker and Artistic Director of Scissor Kick about one of the 3 shows they are producing at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Catafalque, which is written and performed by Amy Conway is on at Summerhall until the 11th August before going out on tour across Scotland. We talk the creation of the show, The premise of the show - how do we Eulogise someone who has committed awful acts and how we deal with that and much more. 

Catafalque - Summerhall 
Dates: 1st-11th August 
@ 12:25 pm

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Tour Dates : https://www.scissorkick.co.uk/tour

Catafalque 
Fern doesn't get invited to dinner parties anymore. They used to love her tales of the macabre. But now? The mask is slipping. Written by Amy Conway and directed by Beth Morton, Catafalque is a one woman eulogy to death through the lens of a civil celebrant. How do we grieve the ungrievable? How do you speak of death when no-one wants to look? A show about love, loss and a lifetime of secrets. Join Fern as she navigates the complexities of a grieving family and learns to tell the truth when it repels the bravest of us.

Stephanie Katie Hunter 
Stephanie Katie Hunter is a producer and theatre maker based in Glasgow, Scotland. Working across art forms and contexts since 2013, highlights of Stephanie’s career include working at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as the Associate (formally Creative) Producer for six years, and independently producing the national and international tour of ‘Drone’, the Fringe First winning ‘LipSync’ for Cumbernauld Theatre Company and delivering ‘Playing with Tales’ for The Royal Lyceum Theatre in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company. 
Amy Conway 
Amy Conway is a Playwright, Theatre Maker, Actor and Community Artist. She works solo and alongside other artists with text, physicality, clown, cabaret, site specific and street theatre to make bold, confronting and inclusive performance. Her award-winning interactive solo show, Super Awesome World [Summerhall/Riotbox], exploring her own experience of depression through the world of 90s video games, has toured theatres and festivals across the UK (and NYC). As a playwright, The Warhol Assassin was awarded Fire Exit’s Pyromania bursary for experimental playwriting and Mountain was longlisted for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting. As a community artist she was Associate Director and Artist for Loop Theatre who make inclusive physical theatre with Learning Disabled Performers and delivers therapeutic drama for those in addiction recovery with Creative Change Collective. 
Recently she was writer, performer/devisor on Shrill [Scissor Kick/Surge], a radical cabaret of the female and femme voice, premiering at a Glasgow nightclub, and co-creator of Blood Moon [Magnetic North/Manipulate], an outdoor physical theatre response to the spectrum of menstrual experience performed with a community cast

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Edinburgh Festival Series 2024- Ep 216: Catafalque

Today Elaine chats with writer/performer Yolanda Mercy about her new show Failure Project. We chat the meta- ness of the show, being an independent artist, the importance of care and how we need to implement that more and how vital it is that we all evolve and understand when we have made a mistake and acknowledge that mistake and apologies. 

Failure Project - Summerhall
Dates: 1st - 26th AUGUST (not 12, 19, August)
@ 1.30 pm

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Failure Project 
Written and performed by BAFTA nominee Yolanda Mercy. Failure Project is a “Comedy drama... Or “dramedy” about Ade. Ade is a successful writer, or so it seems. She has everything she has ever wanted; her career is flying, she’s (kinda) moved out of her mums house, her situationship isn’t as complicated as she expected. Life is perfect?! But things don’t always go how you plan, and Ade is about to find that out?

Yolanda Mercy 

BAFTA Nominee -Yolanda Mercy is a British Nigerian writer, performer, and director whose creative journey has taken her from the stages of London to the international screens of television and beyond. With a passion for storytelling that knows no bounds, Yolanda's work has garnered critical acclaim and numerous accolades. Her writing has been recognised with nominations for prestigious awards such as BAFTA, WGGB, and Broadcast Award, highlighting her craft narratives that captivate audiences. Additionally, Yolanda's talents have earned her the esteemed Edinburgh TV Festival “New Voices Award”, Underbelly Untapped Award and Another Route fellowship. Mentored by industry luminaries like Anne Mensah through the BAFTA Mentoring Scheme, Yolanda has honed her skills and gained guidance from within the creative sphere. As an alumni of prolific fellowships including JMK mentoring, Soho Theatre Six, and Film4, Yolanda continues to build bridges and foster collaboration within the artistic community. Currently, Yolanda is crafting original projects for both screen and theatre. With her unique voice and boundless creativity, she invites audiences to join her on a journey of self-discovery and artistic expression. 
 


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Edinburgh Festival Fringe Series 2024 - Ep 220 : Failure Project

Today Elaine chats with Isley Lynn and Libby Rodliffe the co-writers and performer of Jobsworth. We chat the inspiration for the show, shame around debt and our lack of honestly when it comes to finical maters, the comedy of bad bosses and we have a great laugh. 

Jobsworth - Pleasence Courtyard - Upstairs 
Dates: 31st July - 26th AUGUST (not 14th) 
@ 1.45 pm

Tickets available here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/jobsworth

Jobsworth
Bea's secretly working three full-time jobs. All at the same time. And she's still financially f*cked. Between looking after luxury flats and dogsitting the world's ugliest pooch, she's neck-deep in employers and it's only a matter of time until someone finds out she's breaking all her contracts. Armed with nothing but her smarmiest boss' dirty secret, can Bea get herself out of the red and into the black (and into the fit intern's bed)? Or will the plates she's been spinning come crashing down around her and her dysfunctional family? A riotous comedy about snakes and surviving capitalism.

Libby Rodliffe
Libby trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Theatre credits include: JOBSWORTH (Vault Festival), Skin a Cat (Assembly Rooms: Edinburgh Fringe & UK Tour), Who Are We Now? (Southwark Playhouse), Trapped (Cockpit Theatre), Mr Kolpert (Lion & Unicorn Theatre). 
TV credits include: Best Interests, Call the Midwife and His Dark Materials (BBC). Feature film credits include: Spencer (Komplizen) and Big Boys Don't Cry (Six from Eight).

 
Isley Lynn
Isley is an American-born, London-based playwright and poet. Their play THE GLUE opened at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and transferred to the Young Vic this year.They won the ‘Most Promising Playwright Award’ at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2023 for their play THE SWELL, which opened to great acclaim at the Orange Tree Theatre and received a 2024 Olivier Awards nomination for Outstanding achievement in affiliate theatre, as well as being nominated for Best New Play, Best Director and Best Production at the 2023 Offies. Isley’s play SKIN A CAT played at The Bunker as their premiere production in 2016. It was nominated for four Off West End Awards, including Best New Play. It was originally performed as part of the Vault Festival in London in January 2016, and was awarded ‘Pick Of The Year’ by the festival. It was picked up by Playground Entertainment for TV adaptation.Isley is currently under commission to Vicky Graham Productions, Chichester Festival Theatre, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, and is writing a new musical with Emmy The Great and Tom Hughes. They are a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme (2012), the Royal Court Invitation Studio Group (2013), the Soho Theatre Young Company from 2011-2012, and The Bush Theatre’s Emerging Writers’ Group.



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Edinburgh Festival Fringe Series 2024 - Ep219: Jobsworth

Today Elaine chats to young Edinburgh writer and performer Olivia McGeachy about her show What The Fuck Happened to Love and Hope. We talk about finding your way in the industry, the development of the show and the premise of the show (trigger Warning as this play is about the culture of spiking and assault). We also chat about being young and a producer on your first fringe show.  


WTF Happened to Love and Hope - theSpace on the Mile
Dates: 20th-24th August (special venue showing on the 19th) 
@ 10am 

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WTF Happened to Love and Hope 
Teenager Nina and best friend Faye are tangled in the terrifying culture of spiking and assault in this powerful new work written by an 18-year-old. Nina is cheeky and bubbly, until a night out takes a horrific turn, leaving her to navigate the devastating aftermath. Confident, outspoken, Faye's okay. Definitely. When Harry from school removes the condom midway through sex without her consent, she struggles for the first time to pretend she's fine. Playing Nina is Olivia McGeachy (also writer) and playing Faye is Heidi Steel (star of Summerhall's The Fish Bowl).

Olivia McGeachy 

Olivia McGeachy is an 18-year-old mixed heritage Indian/Scottish actor and creative from Edinburgh. After building experience as an actor, including joining the National Youth Theatre, she’s delighted to be at the fringe this year as writer/lead producer/actor (Nina) for ‘What The F*ck Happened To Love And Hope?’ with an excellent and properly lovely team!

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe Series 2024 - Ep 224: WTF Happened to Love and Hope

In this episode Elaine chats with Australian actor/writer/musician Lucy Heffernan about her Party Girl. We chat the inspiration for the show, song writing, mythical beings and much more. 

Party Girl - Summerhall
Dates: 1st-26th August
@ 9.20pm

Tickets available here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/party-girl

Party Girl
Fairy Sprinkles isn't your average fairy... In this award winning rock'n'roll monologue from Lucy Heffernan, all the glitzy hell of a kid's birthday party explodes out on stage to rip apart class, challenge traditional feminine behaviour and explore the impact of mental illness on family. Telling stories from Heffernan's time as a Party Fairy, and featuring five original rock songs – don't miss this intimate, funny and deeply moving work. Winner: 2023 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award for Best Theatre / Physical Theatre.

Lucy Heffernan
Lucy is an actor, writer, and theatre-with-music- maker. Lucy studied a Bachelor of Performance degree at the University of Wollongong. Lucy’s one-woman rock ’n’ roll monologue PARTY GIRL won the Week 4 Award for Best Theatre/ Physical Theatre at the 2023 Adelaide Fringe and was re-mounted at KXT on Broadway to critical acclaim. As an actor, her most recent theatre credits include: Embellishment (KXT), The Midnight Gang (CDP), Luna Gale (Ensemble), Lost Boys (Merrigong Theatre Company), Single Asian Female (Belvoir St/La Boîte) and 4:48 Psychosis (Redline/ Workhorse productions). As a playwright/composer, Lucy has previously presented PARTY GIRL (MerrigongX and Crack Theatre Festival), The Fool (The University of Wollongong) andYeah, Nah! (UOW). Lucy has co-directed musicals Teen Angst and Tender for Shopfront Arts Co-op. Lucy is also the creator of Stay at Home with Sprinkles, a musical web series made during Sydney’s 2021 lockdown. Lucy also works as a teaching artist, running drama, music and storytelling workshops, a role which she loves. She is a proud dog mum.  



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Edinburgh Festival Fringe Series 2024 - Ep 225: Party Girl

In this episode Elaine chats with actor, writer Meg Rose Dixon about her new show Abrasion. We chat the inspiration of the show, graduating at the height of the pandemic and bond over being endo sisters. 

Abrasion - Gilded Balloon Patter House - Bothie  
Dates: 1st-26th August
@ 9.20pm

Tickets available here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/abrasion

ABRASION
A one-woman show (written and starring Meg-Rose Dixon) following a diagnosis journey set at the anniversary of her surgery. A dark comedy filled with turbulent embarrassing moments flipped in a comical way, verbatim anecdotes highlighting the importance of patient care, terrible doctors, and a few genuine heroes. This is a darkly funny show that laughs in the face of pain while shedding light on a condition that affects 1.5 million people, but has an average diagnosis wait time of 7.5 years.

Meg Rose Dixon 
Meg trained is a graduate from Arts Ed and East 15, has worked on multiple short films, music videos, online projects and a range of street theatre and off west and theatre performances. She is currently working on a one woman show she has written which will is on at Edinburgh Fringe 2024, Gilded Balloon Patter House at 21:20 until the 26th of August. 


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Edinburgh Festival Fringe Series 2024 - Ep 227: Abrasion

In this episode Elaine chats with writer, musician and actor Em Hoggett about her show. Showtime! We chat the inspiration for the show, being a young female musician in the music industry and much more. 

Showtime! - C ARTS | C venues | C aurora
Dates: 1st to 25th August 
@7.45pm 

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Showtime!
If Tim Burton met Stephen Sondheim in the KitKat Club… and they were a woman… This twisted one-woman musical is an electric exploration of the life of the artist. As Amelia's prime source of inspiration, her charismatic alter-ego, The Master, gradually becomes her sadistic captor, we travel through the depths of workaholism and the lengths one will go in pursuit of "the dream". A frantic Dad, dodgy agent, oh… and that 65-year-old boyfriend, all come to life through The Master's larger-than-life 'Show Dahling!', while Amelia believes one thing is more important than entertaining an audience: the truth


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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024-  Ep232:  ShowTime!

In this episode Elaine chats with actor and writer Emma Howell about her show This will make you happy. 
We talk the inspiration for the show, not feeling like theatre was ever an option for you because of your background, multi-marketing and much more. 

I really Do Think This Will Change Your Life - Pleasence Dome 
Dates 1st-26th August
@12.20pm

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I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life 
Belles was the it girl, hip girl, oh-so-very-fit girl. When she was 17. Now, she’s 24 and spends her days bossed about by her Mum and girls she 100% used to bully. So, when a life-changing opportunity slides into her DMs, she carpes the diem, makes her millions and proves the worth of women worldwide one post at a time. Except she doesn’t. Because…come on. A finalist for The Stage Innovation Award, this is a hair-pulling, fake-nail scratching, cat-fight against get-rich-quick schemes and what it means to be a Girl Boss


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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024- Ep232: I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life

In this episode Elaine chats with actor and singer Michaela Burger about her show The State Of Grace. We chat the inspiration for the show, care when you are telling the stories of those who have been brave enough to share their stories, sex work and the outdated narratives around this and much more.  

The State of Grace 
Dates: 1st -24th August
@7.05pm 

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The State of Grace 
Grace was a high-class sex worker, who rose to meteoric fame on social media. She was an activist and modern-day maverick, until suddenly, she died... Award-winning artist Michaela Burger (A Migrant's Son, Exposing Edith) explores her legacy in this one-woman show. Through Grace's writing – unpublished hip hop lyrics, monologues and musings – Burger explores her multifaceted life. Her outrageously funny wit and charm, fearlessness and 'f*ck it' outlook on life will seduce you into marching with this social justice warrior who was determined to decriminalise the sex industry.



Michaela Burger 
Described by Kate Ceberano as “an asset to the performing arts community”, Michaela Burger is the recipient of the Frank Ford award, Adelaide Fringe award, American Australian Association Scholarship (performing arts) and has been nominated for two Helpmann Academy Awards. Burger has performed with one of Broadway’s most sophisticated writers, Jason Robert Brown, and has shared the stage with Australia’s own Tina Arena, Paul Capsis, Alan John, Meow Meow, Nancye Hayes, Mitchell Butel, Johanna Allen, Cameron Goodall, Tyran Park, Robyn Archer, John Thorn and Daniel Koek. Her recent credits include Aftertaste (ABC TV & Closer Productions), Twelfth Night (Adelaide Botanic Gardens/Shakespeare South), Apocalypse Meow (Brooklyn Academy Of Music, New York & Malthouse Theatre), Rumpelstiltskin (Southbank Theatre London/Windmill & State Theatre of South Australia), Simply Brill (Adelaide Cabaret Festival/Amplified Assembly), Driftwood (Umbrella Productions/Chapel off Chapel), Can You Hear Colour? (Adelaide Festival & Patch Theatre), Cranky Bear (Patch Theatre) and  Passion (State Opera Studios).Other performing credits include, Merry Widow (State Opera of South Australia), , Brel-The Immortal Troubadour (Adelaide Cabaret Festival), Rouge (Highwire Entertainment), Otello (State Opera of South Australia), Réquiem (State Opera of South Australia), Marriage of Figaro (Co-opera of South Australia), Tosca (Co-opera of South Australia), (Warner Brothers) and as the host of Humphrey B Bear (Banksia Productions, Chanel 9).In addition to winning the 2015 International Cabaret Contest, Burger is the co-writer and star of the world-renowned stage show Exposing Edith, about the life and songs of Edith Piaf and more recently a performer and creative on the team of Simply Brill. Her award-winning show, A Migrant’s Son - which explores Greek migration to Australia - has received critical acclaim and features original music written by Burger.

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 - Ep 236: The State Of Grace

Spooky Season is back. 

We have a week of brilliant audio drama coming your way. 
First up we have Cull by Cara Watson. 
This is two extracts from Cara’s script, and we hope it gives you a sense of the story. 
Content warnings to be aware of themes of blood, violence and animal hunting, although not fully explored in the extracts.

Our voice actors in this episode are: 
Fern – Chloe Kaney
Cal – Jamie Cunningham 
Billy – Joshua Gardner


CARA WATSON 
An actor and playwright from Fife, currently living in Edinburgh. I
have a strong interest in new writing, as well as re-approaching the
classics. My writing pulls history and Scottish DNA into today with a
mystical connection to nature. I am also co-founder of Untie My Tongue
Theatre, which focuses on new writing from women and marginalised
genders within Scottish theatre.


CULL
Cull, a thriller set in the remote and bleak landscape of Scotland that explores themes of animal cruelty and misogyny. The play follows Fern in her quest to become a deer stalker in a male dominated business within rural Scotland. Upon arriving, Fern meets Billy, a middle-aged man and experienced deer stalker, and Cal, a local lad who has been working for Billy since he was a teenager. Although Billy welcomes Fern into their unique and brutal way of life, Cal is not as pleased about her arrival and makes various attempts to put her off. However, Fern is determined to stay. Meanwhile, strange things start to happen. Eerie noises are heard at night. There are knocks on the door, but nobody is there. Fern feels like she’s being watched…hunted even. She soon realises that Billy and Cal are not what they seem.
 And she wonders if the deer are starting to fight back…

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Episode 238: CULL by Cara Watson

Next up on our spooky season series is 
Living History by Torya Winters. 
Voice Actor Megan Lovat

TORYA WINTERS 
Torya is an Edinburgh based actor and writer, and graduate of RCS. She was shortlisted for the Scottish Arts Club Flash Fiction Award in 2021, and her short plays have been performed at the Blazing Hyena scratch night and workshopped at Stage to Page in Glasgow. She is currently working on a one woman play about maternal mental health.

LIVING HISTORY 

Looking for somewhere to go on doors open day? Then this is the destination for you. History, great tour guides and much more. 
When a woman goes to doors open day in she has no idea what she is about to experience

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Episode 242: Living History by Troya Winters

Spooky Season. 
Next up is a spooky season is 
Bite Pattern by Charlotte Smith. 
Voice Actors: 
Kath – ChloeAnn Taylor
Imy -  Rebekah Lumsden

Charlotte Smith
Charlotte Smith is an Edinburgh-based playwright. She studied Drama Writing at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and her work has been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, Òran Mór, the Scottish Youth Theatre, the CCA, the Golden Goose Theatre and the Camden Irish Centre. She was longlisted for the David MacLennan Award at Òran Mór in 2022 and 2024, and shortlisted for WonderFools' Positive Stories for Negative Times 2024 programme. Charlotte's play The Sculptor is currently being performed by Not So Nice! Theatre at the Edinburgh Horror Festival. Her work is sometimes surreal, often supernatural, and always queer.

BITE PATTEREN 

Meeting the in-laws is never easy but when true crime is involved the conversations involved lead you to answers you were never expecting. 

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Episode 243: Bite Pattern by Charlotte Smith

Spooky Season. 

Next up is a spooky season is 
It comes with rain by Siobhan Murphy . 
Voice Actor: 
Amira Al Shanti

Siobhan Murphy
Siobhan is a Glasgow-based freelance writer and editor with a background in ELT and educational publishing. I am a passionate writer, and, previously successfully applied to pitch a fantasy novel to publishers and agents at Xpo North festival in Inverness. I also had a piece of short fiction published by The Selkie as part of their New Voices workshop. Recently, my short piece on top writing advice was selected as a runner up in a competition by The New Zealand writer's college, and subsequently published on their website. In my free time, I primarily write fantasy and dystopian fiction and English language and educational content. I've written two radio plays available on Soundcloud. I also write professionally for a number of educational companies. I have an MA undergraduate degree in English Literature and Spanish, during which time I was selected for the creative writing dissertation course, for which I received an A grade. You can read more of my creative work on my blog or find out about my professional work on my website. I'm currently seeking representation for my novel.

IN COMES WITH RAIN 

A curse, a spell, generational trauma you decide. Just remember never be out in the rain. 


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Episode 244: it comes with rain by Siobhan Murphy

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