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+3 Interview: Steen Raskopoulos: Stay

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“I was nominated for Best Newcomer in my first year in 2014.”

WHO: Steen Raskopoulos, Performer

WHAT: “The electrifying new show from the gifted character comedian and improviser. Nominated for both the prestigious Barry Award and Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer, Steen’s live shows are a ‘triple threat of performance, material and charisma. A flawless hour of comedy’ ***** (Herald). As seen on Top Coppers (BBC Three), Whose Line is it Anyway? (ABC Australia) and Steen Raskopoulos’ Scare BnB (Sky). ‘Unique and completely hilarious and life-affirming’ ***** (New European). ‘Technically astonishing and emotionally fulfilling’ ***** (List). ‘An inspired and utterly original stand-up’ **** (Sunday Times). ‘Like witnessing a talent explosion’ (Independent).”

WHERE: Underbelly, Cowgate – Belly Button (Venue 61) 

WHEN: 20:00 (60 min)

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Is this your first time to Edinburgh?

It is not, it’s my fourth show. I was nominated for Best Newcomer in my first year in 2014.

What’s the biggest thing to have happened to you since Festivals ’17?

I went to the World Cup.

Tell us about your show.

I wrote it. Underbelly are producing it. Tom Parry directed it. It premiered at the Melbourne Comedy festival and then the Sydney Comedy Festival where it won the Director’s Choice Award.

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

Dream Gun, Rosie Jones, Sara Barron, Abandoman and The Bear Pack 🙂

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+3 Interview: Angry Alan by Penelope Skinner

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“ALAN is about a guy who feels misunderstood and left behind in America.“

WHO: Donald Sage Mackay, Actor

WHAT:“‘Looking out over the country, this country, where I was born and raised, I wonder what’s going to become of us. Because this can’t be the future, can it? Everyone just… changing the rules?’ Roger thinks the world’s gone mad. He hates his job, his ex-wife torments him and to top it all, his girlfriend just discovered feminism. Roger’s about to lose his shit. Until he discovers Angry Alan: online activist and “voice of reason”… A darkly comic new play about masculinity in crisis from award-winning Penelope Skinner performed by Donald Sage Mackay.”

WHERE: Underbelly, Cowgate – Big Belly (Venue 61) 

WHEN: 15:20 (60 min)

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Is this your first time to Edinburgh?

YES, thrilled to experience my first Festival!

What’s the biggest thing to have happened to you since Festivals ’17?

Professionally… probably a major recurring role as a “baddie” in DEEP STATE for Fox TV opposite Mark Strong that just aired in the U.K. and is currently running in the U.S.

Tell us about your show.

ANGRY ALAN is about a guy who feels misunderstood and left behind in America, doesn’t get feminism and #metoo and is struggling to keep up with the changing world around him. Written by renowned feminist U.K. playwright, Penelope Skinner, and developed with an American actor (me) this play gives a uniquely funny and inside-out cross-cultural peek at why some men just don’t seem to be able to evolve and hints at reasons for the recent steps backward here and in the U.S.

ANGRY ALAN was originally developed at the Aspen Fringe Festival and in Delhi ahead of this world premiere production at Edinburgh. We are hoping to bring this production back to London for a run and then to New York and beyond. Also a TV pilot is in development.

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

Go check out Penelope Skinner’s other play, MEEK, and UNDERGROUND RAILROAD GAME both at Traverse. And check out SQUARE GO at Roundabout @ Summerhall.

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