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Bedfringe 2024 Interview: The Untold Fable of Fritz

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“I am also from Bedfordshire, so performing here means a lot to me.”

WHO: Paige Canavan-Smith

WHAT: “A Piece inspired by Philip Pullman’s short story, ‘Clockwork’.

White snow seeps down from the mountain tops of the Neuchstein region, freezing over the valleys and the hearts of all the people that live within it.

At the foot of the tallest peak, resides the inhabitants of Brutzenvien and their King. Through this everlasting stone-cold ice age, the King’s son soon falls ill and the King makes a pledge to do all in his power to save his heir. But how far will he go?

Unsettled Theatre showcases their 50-minute live performance of The Untold Fable of Fritz, using puppetry, live music and physical theatre.

The only way to describe this show is if Narnia, Monty Python and Tim Burton were a 45-minute play … with puppets.”

WHERE: Quarry Theatre

WHEN: 21 July 2023 @ 16:00 (45mins)

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Is this your first time to Bedfringe?

This is our second time at Bedfringe!

We actually debuted this show in the studio space, since then we have toured across the country and are even heading to Prague Fringe in May 2024.

The team at Bedfringe are amazing and for our first show – having a sell out performance was insane!

I am also from Bedfordshire, so performing here means a lot to me and I can’t wait to bring Fritz back to Bedford but this time in the larger venue.

What are the big things you’ve learned since 2023a and have you absorbed any of the lessons yet?

We have been super busy.

Finalising the show, getting a new puppet and with local funding taking free puppetry workshops to young people and vulnerable adults across the South East.

We learnt so much from our time here before, it really did help us with the rest of our tour.

Tell us about your show.

Well… We are hugely inspired by Monty Python and Horrible Histories, we wanted to created a show that the whole family would enjoy – showcasing the magic of puppetry alongside a multitude of characters that you would only meet in the mystical world of Brutzenvien!

Come join us, for 50mins of laughter and maybe our fable might teach you something along the way.

What should your audience see at Bedfringe after they’ve seen your show?

Post Office Scandal – The Musical
Frankenstein: On a Budget
Siblings and Family Friends
The Family Magic Show

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Bedfringe 2024 Interview: Vince ‘Too Tall’ Taylor

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“If you like someone who doesn’t take themselves (or anything else) too seriously then I can promise you an entertaining time.”

WHO: Vince “Too Tall” Taylor

WHAT: “Despite his many years in the music business Vince “Too Tall” Taylor is still trying to make sense of a confusing world. If you sympathise or just want to hear witty original songs about dead cats, rucksacks, Gen-Z, AI and chucking phones away catch this tall but modest man.”

WHERE: Quarry Theatre

WHEN: 18 July 2023 @ 20:05 (40mins)

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Is this your first time to Bedfringe?

I played in 2023 – a beautiful evening, or at least it was until I hit my first chord and opened my mouth to sing. The birds stopped singing and the sun went in but I gave it my best to entertain and amuse.

What are the big things you’ve learned since 2023a and have you absorbed any of the lessons yet?

Well, I managed to trim the hedge and …oh you mean musically. Well, I’ve played many gigs and plenty of local radio coverage (I have the looks for radio). I’ve also got a load of outdoor festivals lined up for the summer so it promises to be hay-fever all the way.

Tell us about your show.

Despite being in music for many years I have now reinvented myself as a tall man singing about life. In truth I have been a tall man for some time but now I sing about my love of opera (!) luggage, falling off roofs and numerous other daily catastrophes. But there is also hope – the hope comes in the form of the songs being very short. If you like someone who doesn’t take themselves (or anything else) too seriously then I can promise you an entertaining time.

What should your audience see at Bedfringe after they’ve seen your show?

I have met many musicians from the area and there is some real class about – check out the highly talented Sarah Chiari, Julie SImpson, Murray Easton for starters.

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‘Be Not Afeard: A Sensory Telling of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest” (Bedfringe, 22 July 2023)

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“Like all the best Shakespeare done proper, ‘Be Not Afeard’ can be enjoyed by those of us who live and breathe the bard as well as those who couldn’t give a honk about the Swan of Avon.”

Editorial Rating: 4 Stars (Outstanding)

Theatre is a sensory experience. Arguably, theatre was the first sensory experience conjured by the earliest humans that was indisputably distinct from the natural world. The Victorians liked their theatre grand and pagentrick, a feast for the senses, which is why they favoured scripts such as ‘King John’ with its many parading princes. The original Globe Theatre burnt down as a result of a prop cannon gone wrong. Costumes, properties, scenery, standing with one’s legs apart shouting lines at the audience – these are all variations of the conjuring art of Theatre.

The Tempest lends itself to such magic. It is possible that Shakespeare wrote the part of Prospero for himself at the end of his star-studded career – “Now my charms are all o’erthrown, And what strength I have’s mine own.” What a closing night that must have been. Percy Stow’s pioneering 1908 silent movie version of The Tempest makes this paragraph’s point far better than I can.

So it’s wonderful to see a live production, aimed at us CBeebies viewers, delivering such a wealth of sensory charms, none of which would be out of place in a grown-up version, and delivering the same with such artistic precision. For the script, Collar & Cuffs Co. have taken inspiration from the underpinning themes of The Tempest without getting bogged down in the occasionally cumbersome plot. It’s the elegant equivalent of summarising Sir Walter Raleigh’s The Discovery of Guiana with just a picture of a potato and a pipe of tobacco. Like all the best Shakespeare done proper, ‘Be Not Afeard’ can be enjoyed by those of us who live and breathe the bard as well as those who couldn’t give a honk about the Swan of Avon.

Daughter 1.0 (8yrs) wrote in her notebook – the one with Arthur Rackham’s etching of Disney’s Maui arm wrestling Caliban on the cover:

“Yesterday I went to the tempest. When I walked in I Saw a big mat and three bins and a tent. We were asked to sit on the edge of the mat. The story was about all of us going on a long journey to find a magic artist and take them home.

I liked when they sprayed us with warter and balls I realy enjoyed it and it looked like the little kids did too!”

What this show did need was more bustle and less bossy. Bustle is Widdow Twanky or Captain Mainwaring taking themselves far more seriously than anyone else in the room. We can all giggle at that. Bossy is being slightly hungover at a raucous kids’ show and being endlessly told what to do in a way that might make artistically-minded disruptive kids want to throw a chair at their constricting early years teacher.

This is the show that Shakespeare would have taken his son Hamnet to if the latter hadn’t been so taken with the snake roll’d in a flowering bank With shining chequer’d slough. It’s a show that will stick long in the mind for its artistry and ingenuity.

Reviewer: Dan Lentell

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‘The Hare and the Hedgehog’ (Bedfringe, 23 July 2023)

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“You have to take silly really seriously to make such magic happen.”

Editorial Rating: 5 Stars (Outstanding)

Children’s theatre is hard because you have to make it look easy. I once saw newsreel footage of Her Late Majesty inspecting preparations for a sumptuous banquet at Buckingham Palace. Wow, tough crowd. Britain’s longest-reigning monarch was not easily impressed. There was a cake which, a breathless royal watcher solemnly intoned, had taken a team of top bakers and pastry chefs so long to make that several of those bowing and scrapping in the royal presence were the children or grandchildren of the original egg crackers. There was enough gold leaf to Goldfinger a hippopotamus, more layers than a Scandinavia crime drama, and icing as intricate as the plaster cornicing in Brighton Pavillion. HM smiled thinly, nodded and passed on. Ostentatious and insincere displays of emotion were not her thing. The same applies to children for whom everything is a wonder and so nothing is a wonder. It takes a Merlin to captivate such open and shut little minds.

We enter to find Andy Lawrence looking younger than he did 12 months ago. This is a man around who time and space happily bend. As my brood of chicks grows, I am more and more impressed by those saints among us who can turn a gaggle of noisy brats into a gathering of earnest ears, eager to absorb the erudition coming at them. You have to take silly really seriously to make such magic happen and Andy’s tales are gorgeously silly – as light and fluffy as a cake fit for a queen. It looks effortless, but packed into each of Andy’s daily 40-minute Bedfringe morning sessions is the cumulated effort of years of storytelling, puppetry, stagecraft, and experience. Time bends. It folds neatly into a wizard’s bag of tricks.

Daughter 1.0 (8 years) wrote the following in her notebook, the one with sequins stitched onto the cover so that they show a rainbow when rubbed one way and a frog, sitting on a toadstool, playing what I think is a flageolet, on the other.

“Today I went to The Hare and the Heghog. At the front there was some cushions for children to sit on. On stange there was an old wooden chest an old seet and a few music boxes.

He lold a story of a heghog Who beat a Havisham hair in a race and how Havisham hair became kind.

I liked when he used Strings to make the hair move along, I also liked when he got big funny ears to make him look like the hair.

Last year and yesterday I saw pigs and bears don’t come in pairs. Pigs and bears don’t come in pairs is a show of two stories “the three little pigs” and “Goldieloks and the three bears” And I liked seeing the same man doing another funny show.”

Someone somewhere once described heaven as waking up each morning to a fresh P. G. Wodehouse novel on the bedside table. They neglected to follow up by saying that the next item on the agenda of eternal bliss is a saunter down to Bedfringe with your angels to watch Andy Lawrence doing something divine, bringing the young and the young at heart together in another masterclass in the power of theatre.

 

Reviewer: Dan Lentell

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Bedfringe 2023 Interview: The Geneva Convention of Human F**Ks

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“Marina, the other half of Yet To Be, has always raved about Bedfringe having performed here loads of times with her old company O&O so I am really excited to have my first taste of it.”

WHO: Charlie Whitworth

WHAT: “Performed exclusively by women, this bold and uncompromising production takes audiences on a wild journey as three men embark on a sex tour across Europe, delving into the ethics of their actions and confronting various societal issues head-on.As the trio navigates ethical dilemmas surrounding prostitution, the #metoo movement, sex trafficking, and even global warming, audiences are in for a thought-provoking ride.

Brace yourselves for an unforgettable experience that will challenge your perceptions and make you consider whether you should laugh or cry.”

WHERE: Quarry Theatre

WHEN: 26 July 2023 @ 18:30 (60mins)

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Is this your first time to Bedfringe?

For me, it will be… but it shouldn’t! Yet To be were meant to bring this show “The Geneva Convention of Human F**ks” last year and had to cancel at the very last minute due to Covid. We were gutted a year ago… so we are completely chuffed we are able to bring the show this time around instead.

Marina, the other half of Yet To Be, has always raved about Bedfringe having performed here loads of times with her old company O&O so I am really excited to have my first taste of it.

What are the big things you’ve learned since 2022 and have you absorbed any of the lessons yet?

Many things. We have got a new show called “Free Will & Other Myths” which is in development at the moment and “Geneva” is just starting to tour. Bedfringe is the second date in a tour that takes in a fair few dates between now and October, with more being booked in all the time. I guess the main thing we have learnt over the last 12 months is that you can never fully predict or plan for everything that life will throw at you and that it is important to remember that things will work out one way or another… because they have to.

Tell us about your show.

“The Geneva Convention of Human F**ks” is a darkly comic and full-on hour exploring themes like Lad Culture, Toxic Masculinity and Sex Tourism. There is a lot of misogyny on stage in the show and it pulls no punches… and it is why having a cast of three amazing women playing the parts of Michael, Liam and Peter is so key to making the show work.

Come see the show to have your perceptions challenged; to see people on stage and not a bunch of character stereotypes; to laugh and groan and reflect.

What should your audience see at Bedfringe after they’ve seen your show?

You should go and see the lovely folk at Ricochet Theatre and their new show “Agnes”. Not only are they a super bunch but they have also won the “Pick of the Fringe” award before so they are super talented too.

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Bedfringe 2023 Interview: Agnes

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“Our show follows Agnes after her ascension to sainthood as she reckons with her powers, identity and legacy, with the audience joining her on a time travel revenge mission to track down her murderers in order to exact vengeance.”

WHO: Ella: Director

WHAT: “In 304 AD Agnes of Rome was executed at the age of 12 after rejecting the advances of grown men. We follow Agnes after her ascension to sainthood as she reckons with her powers, identity and distorted legacy. The audience join Agnes on a revenge mission through time to track down her murderers.

Combining shadow puppetry, music, and a healthy dose of time travel, Agnes is a new show by ‘THE company to watch’ Ricochet Theatre with their signature humour and poignancy.

Earlier this year Agnes was shortlisted for the Charlie Hartill Award, and Ricochet can’t wait to come back to Bedfringe with this work-in-progress performance, where they were awarded ‘Pick of the Fringe’ in 2021.

Agnes is a historical piece, but her story raises vital and timeless questions surrounding the way history is moulded and the desire to control our legacies; Do we have that power? If we don’t, who does?

“Ricochet Theatre are THE ones to watch” ★★★★★ GET YOUR COATS ON”

WHERE: Quarry Theatre

WHEN: 29 July @ 16:00 + 30 July @ 12:00 (60mins)

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Is this your first time to Bedfringe?

This will be our third stint at the wonderful Bedford Fringe Festival. We first came to Bedfringe back in 2021 with our first ever performance of our first ever show as a company The Same Rain That Falls On Me which won that year’s Pick of the Fringe. We returned in 2022 with the same show for a one off performance whilst also bringing along a new show Intricate Rituals which was a dark comedy one woman show using shadow puppetry.

Both experiences have been incredibly fulfilling – as a theatre company starting out we are so lucky to be able to access such a well-facilitated venue. The team are so friendly and supportive of our work. Bedfringe is quickly becoming the place we come to test out our new work and grow as artists – there simply isn’t a better festival to do that!

What are the big things you’ve learned since 2022 and have you absorbed any of the lessons yet?

Since 2022 we have finished a tour of a double bill of monologues and put together our new show Agnes. We’ve embarked on a series of Research and Development rehearsal weeks, bringing together our team across the UK (not an easy feat!).

Agnes was shortlisted for the Charlie Hartill Award with the Pleasance theatre – something we weren’t expecting! Although we didn’t win, it was an incredible experience to connect with and share the stage with other budding new theatre companies and to have a chance to share a story we’re care so much about.

We’ve also launched Bulletpoints, a writers’ showcase event – since beginning this we’ve read over 100 scripts and connected with so many exciting new artists!

Tell us about your show.

In 304 AD Agnes of Rome was executed at the age of 12 after rejecting the advances of grown men. She subsequently became the patron saint of girls, chastity and sexual abuse victims, though her story has become distorted and obscured over time. Our show follows Agnes after her ascension to sainthood as she reckons with her powers, identity and legacy, with the audience joining her on a time travel revenge mission to track down her murderers in order to exact vengeance.

Our version of Agnes’ story encapsulates several topics of interest to our company – artistic and historical legacy, forgotten stories, adaptation, staging time travel and revenge, to name a few. These concepts echoed our prior interest in staging the impossible, subverting narrative structure and exploring themes and stories from unfamiliar perspectives. In our previous show, we staged a character eating a dead mouse – this time we want to send a woman through time, perform miracles and bring paintings to life.

We are not interested in naturalistic staging but we are interested in revealing the artifice of the performance through methods including overhead projection, on-stage set and costume changing, on-stage lighting operation and perhaps even puppetry. Combining shadow puppetry, music, and a healthy dose of time travel, Agnes is a new show by Ricochet Theatre with our signature humour and poignancy.

We aim to surprise, move, entertain and provoke our audiences. Agnes is a historical piece, but her story raises vital and timeless questions surrounding the way history is moulded and the desire to control our legacies; Do we have that power? If we don’t, who does?

What should your audience see at Bedfringe after they’ve seen your show?

Well we’ve started up Fringe Friday on our social media channels so you should deffo check back in to hear about the exciting work going on at Bedfringe this year.

We have to give a big shout out to Yet To Be Theatre with The Geneva Convention of Human F**KS for their female centric witty gender commentary. We’re also keen to see Hidden Stories by Plays The Thing as we are interested in untold female stories in history (hence Agnes!) and Faustine by Light at Midnight Theatre – making Marlow’s Faustus female.

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Bedfringe 2023 Interview: Lana Soy

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“I have been singing all my life. As a kid I have been touring around the world …”

WHO: Lana Soy: Singer-songwriter

WHAT: “‘Pure’, ‘softest’ , ‘soulful’, Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell like – are usually the words thrown to describe Lana’s voice. Originally from Moscow, Londoner since 18, and in love with Bedford for 2 years now, Lana’s music has been inspired by most 00’ Pop, Tori Amos, Regina Spektor, Evanescence, Des’ree, Brandy and Sade.”

WHERE: Quarry Theatre

WHEN: 23 July 2023 @ 16:00 (60mins)

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Is this your first time to Bedfringe?

This is my first time and I feel proud to be a part of it. I have heard a lot about it and am looking forward to my show. Not only it is great fun but also a proud addition to my performance experience.

What are the big things you’ve learned since 2022 and have you absorbed any of the lessons yet?

I have been singing all my life. As a kid I have been touring around the world with the children choir. In London since 18 years old both gigging everywhere I could and studying Commercial Music (BA) at Westminster Uni and then Popular Music (Masters) at Kingston Uni. Highlights are an advert I sang on which aired on the main channel in Russia and a TV dance show used my original song for one of their entries.

Tell us about your show.

This is all about the voice. I love vocals the most in music, then melody. I do my best to show it in my performance. I write my own songs and play guitar/piano. I do play some covers as well to spice things up. I love playing music for people and give it my all. I hope it comes across in my performance.

What should your audience see at Bedfringe after they’ve seen your show?

I recommend Fran Pegg, Matt Bedford, Mat Roberts and Samantha Hughes. They are all brilliant.

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Bedfringe 2023 Interview: Dimensions

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“What started out as a dance piece evolved into a multi-arts experience…”

WHO: Nisha Vyas-Myall: Director and Principal Choreographer

WHAT: “A group a young people, bored with their everyday lives, have their wish for adventure granted when they are pulled through a vortex. They find themselves in worlds of sweets and bright lights, stars, ice and fire, but soon find they miss the comfort of home. But will they be allowed to leave?”

WHERE: Quarry Theatre

WHEN: 23 July 2023 @ 16:00 (60mins)

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Is this your first time to Bedfringe?

This is our third BedFringe performance, and our second on the Main Stage. Our students always have an amazing experience participating as it gives them the chance to perform in a professional theatre- for some of them, for the very first time.

What are the big things you’ve learned since 2022 and have you absorbed any of the lessons yet?

After our last performance, the children started talking more about integrating more arts into our end of year production. What started out as a dance piece evolved into a multi-arts experience, with acting, singing and even video and lighting effects.

Tell us about your show.

Dimensions is a show about exploring the unknown whilst appreciating everyday life. Four young explorers get pulled through a vortex into a multi-layered world unlike anything they’ve ever seen before. Those who live there are eager to keep them, but is that something they really want?

What should your audience see at Bedfringe after they’ve seen your show?

I have to recommend the other dance performances at the Fringe- the Kinetic Vibes Burlesque themed show looks fascinating and I definitely think the Red Cuthbert Morris are unmissable.

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Bedfringe 2023 Interview: Life Under The Sun

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“Turns out that when you’re the only person in the festival doing a show in English then you get a lot of the internationals coming to watch you.”

WHO: Stephen Bathurst

WHAT: “A theatre show that explores the biggest question of all: “What’s the point?”

Features underpants, pompous man-servants, self-deprecating witticisms, an existential crisis and one giant hangover. 

King Solomon was a man who had it all…

Life Under The Sun is a one man show based on the book of Ecclesiastes. Well described as Blackadder meets the Bible, it is a dark comedy with a unique mix of ancient verse offset against pantomime and the dry wit of stand-up.”

WHERE: Quarry Theatre

WHEN: 31 July 2023 @ 19:30 (60mins)

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Is this your first time to Bedfringe?

Third time out for me.

First go round was 2016 and featured ‘While Mortals Sleep’, a show about Job. There was lots of angst, shouting at the heavens and having rotting banana skins dumped over my head.

Second was 2022 with an earlier version of this ‘Life Under The Sun’. I spent most of that show prancing around in my pants and was told my abs were too distracting and pulling focus from the text.

As I directed both these shows I have only myself to blame…

What are the big things you’ve learned since 2022 and have you absorbed any of the lessons yet?

I have nearly hit the required residency period to acquire Finnish citizenship, a beautiful country and where I now abide. Happiest country in the world for the last five years. If you go there you’ll see why.

‘Life Under The Sun’ toured festivals in Britain, Sweden and Finland in summer 2022, selling out and breaking venue records in both the Nordic countries. Turns out that when you’re the only person in the festival doing a show in English then you get a lot of the internationals coming to watch you. And when many of the native audience grew up watching Monty Python and Blackadder then your show is quite popular with them too…

Tell us about your show.

Imagine King Charles doing his Christmas speech in his pants with a massive hangover and talking about how he can’t get it up any more. And he doesn’t have just 1 wife, he has 700.

Or old Joey Biden doing his State of the Nation address about the current economic performance, but he’s not slurring his words because he’s old, it’s coz he’s just hammered.

But instead of Charles or Joey Biden it’s King Solomon, supposedly the wisest man who ever lived. He’s trying to figure it all out. But he’s not quite sure what IT even is.

Blackadder meets the Bible is a good description…

What should your audience see at Bedfringe after they’ve seen your show?

I LOVE satire. And political satire especially. Very relevant and cutting edge with what’s going on.

So I’ll give a shout out to Rosie Holt: That’s Politainment! It’s got 4* and hit Edinburgh last year.

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Bedfringe 2023 Interview: The Evil Bat!

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“Come see Vincent Price at his malevolent best.”

WHO: Jason Frederick: Composer / Performer

WHAT: “The Classic Horror Experience presents a brand new and never-before seen film experience starring Vincent Price and based on the classic 1959 thriller THE BAT, with a new original score performed live-to-picture by composer Jason Frederick.

Who is the mysterious murderer terrorising the citizens of Oakdale?!

The Bat! Who is The Bat? Come and find out! See Vincent Price at his malevolent and charming best in this unique evening of film and music.

Jason Frederick’s film and television credits include Disney’s 101 Dalmatians 2: Patch’s London Adventure, Top Gear USA and the recently updated classic documentary Bela Lugosi: The Forgotten King, amongst many others.”

WHERE: Quarry Theatre

WHEN: 26 July 2023 @ 19:00 (90mins)

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Is this your first time to Bedfringe?

I’m pleased to say that I’m returning to Bedfringe for the second time.

I think this year’s lineup looks as interesting and creative as ever, something Bedfringe really seems to excel at, and it’s great to be involved once again.

And – it’s not necessarily evident to punters, but I’ve been involved in a few evenings like this now, and the operation of James and everyone else really is second to none.

What are the big things you’ve learned since 2022 and have you absorbed any of the lessons yet?

Lessons of 2022 – I’ll have to double-check that.

The Classic Horror Experience has been continuing on its journey of live-to-picture filmscores to classic horror films, with performances in London, Colchester, Harwich-On-Sea and Southend, and preparations are in full swing for the next two extravaganzas, FRANKENSTEIN UNCHAINED and THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN”T DIE.

Tell us about your show.

THE EVIL BAT! is a new edit of the 1959 classic The Bat, starring the legendary Vincent Price and Agnes Moorhead, now with a completely new original score composed by me and performed live-to-picture.

Come see Vincent Price at his malevolent best and listen to the soundtrack on Spotify in the meantime to get in the mood!

https://open.spotify.com/track/3KHmEfGmpOLyzgJFuFtKKE

What should your audience see at Bedfringe after they’ve seen your show?

Well there’s just so much to see! I like the look of Twisted Tales and Frenzy, but there’s loads.

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