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The Road to Ballina is the true story of celebrated rock musician Jakko Jakszyk’s extraordinary journey to discover his real family. Directed by the esteemed Michael Attenborough, this is moving, sometimes shocking, storytelling that merges music and animation to create unforgettable theatre.

Jakko Jakszyk, guitarist/singer with King Crimson, was born Michael Curran. Adopted by Polish and French parents, he grew up wondering who he was. The Road to Ballina started life over twenty-five years ago as an autobiographical music commission for BBC Radio 3. One of Jakko’s solo projects, it used speech as part of the composition to tell the tale of his complicated family history and his search for his own identity.

We met Jakko and Michael at Teviot to chat about the origins of the show.

The Road to Ballina Runs from 3-28 August 14:00 at the Gilded Balloon. For tickets and more information visit edfringe.com

Photo by Steve Ullathorne

Jakko Jakszyk & Michael Attenborough, The Road To Ballina, Interview

This is a cover of a song by Lisa Hannigan ...Yall enjoyed my cover of Undertow so might as well do another...I always love the video for this song. So simple but effective...added to Lisa voice on this windy quirky song...the end result was beautiful...it reminded me of the Alexander McQueen moment in 1998 during his 1999 Spring collection show...where he sprayed the gorgeous Shalom Harlow & dress with color while she was on the runway...Magnifique 
I did it in my own way take a listen to Lisa version. I love it

Knots (Lisa Hannigan Cover)

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

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

A swing/jazzy arrangement of the Buzzcock's greatest hit.

The Red Room Sessions Vol. 1

Ever Fallen in Love (with Someone You Shouldn't've)?

From the collection 'All of Me' readied in advance of my 2017 Edinburgh Fringe run. This song also featured on the eclectic 2015 album 'Midnight Limbo'; for reasons of continuity, it demanded to make a cameo appearance here too.

All of Me

Love like a Murder

It’s the final episode of Live at the Pleasance for 2017. What a month it’s been! It’s all gone so fast! Can you believe it?! Etc. etc. This year we celebrated 70 years of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and 33 years of the Pleasance. We’ve talked to everyone from the freshest newly-hatched comedy chicks and the most seasoned Fringe leg(hen)ds (…ok we’re all tired right?) This episode features some of the best bits of Live at the Pleasance - are you ready for an onslaught of names? You’re going to hear chat from Rhys James, Kae Kurd, Pierre Novellie, Rose Matafeo, Terry Alderton, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Ross & Josh, Alisdair Beckett-King and Catriona Knox and live comedy from Dane Baptiste, John Robins, Kwame Asante, Andy Field and Pippa Evans. Grab yourself a cup of tea and a packet of Tunnock’s teacakes, sit back and marvel at all these funny genius minds at play. Oh and Al and Maddie are there too. See you in 2018!

Live at the Pleasance

16. Best Of Special

"Beautiful Monster" from new musical MONSTERS. Performed live on 3rd March for the first time. 
Performed by James Muldoon [Dracula], Laura Sweeney [Arae/Bride], Lorna Masson [Melinoe/Bride], Nicky Clark [Lucy], Antony Irwin [Van Helsing], Natalie Masterton [Emma], Scott Sutherland [Adam Frankenstein] with Tom Wordsworth & Ross Pollock.

Beautiful Monster [LIVE]

"The Wolf & The Crow" from my new musical MONSTERS which will premier at The Edinburgh Fringe 2019. 
Performed by Natalie Masterton [Emma Wildh] & Antony Irwin [Van Helsing]

The Wolf & The Crow [LIVE]

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