“Fringe is such an amazing place to connect with people and I’m just so excited to see the other work that will be there!”
WHO: Aaron Pang
WHAT: “Aaron walks with a cane, and everyone asks ‘what happened?’. Aaron answers the question twice, first with a story you’ve heard a thousand times, and then with one you’ve never heard before. Faced with a spinal-cord injury, follow Aaron’s journey to understand this new body in the uncertain world of first loves, online dating and sex. The show untangles his own understanding of his body and the stories he tells himself. Falling is an uncomfortably sexy and hilariously vulnerable stumble through Aaron’s misadventures searching for love, lust and life after disability. Directed by Connie Chen.”
WHERE: Bunker Two at Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33)
WHEN: 15:00 (60 min)
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Is this your first time to Edinburgh?
Yeah and I’m so excited and so scared! I think Edinburgh Fringe has always been a dream and goal ever since I started pursuing this storytelling and comedy career. It’s just such a rich place for boundary pushing art! I think a great festival really fosters a community and dialogue among the artists and between the artists and audience. Fringe is such an amazing place to connect with people and I’m just so excited to see the other work that will be there!
What are the big things you’ve learned since 2024 and have you absorbed any of the lessons yet?
Hmmm, I think a big lesson I’ve learned this year is that selling tickets is hard. I’ve performed all my life but I’ve never had to sell tickets and I think that getting up close and personal with it through a few of the festivals I’ve done has really gotten me comfortable learning to promote without overwhelming my people.
Another more personal lesson is a lesson about care. Through my amazing partner I’m learning a lot about what different forms of care for different people can look like, and changing my own perspective around the world to allow for me to receive more care.
Tell us about your show.
The show is called Falling: a disabled love story. You will watch me try not to fall on stage for an hour while I tell you a story about trying to fall in love after becoming disabled. I’m self producing the project with my director and creative and life partner Connie Chen. Connie and I met while attending the University of Iowa’s writing program. This show was a product of doing standup in Los Angeles for a summer. I noticed how people were so eager to help me because I walked with a cane. Those underlying assumptions really made playing with their expectations of me really fun and strange and slightly mischievous. The show was my Master’s thesis and it first premiered in the US, first in Iowa City and then with the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles. Right now I’m focused on having a successful Edinburgh run, but I think the next step would be to bring it to New York and hopefully have a run there!
What should your audience see at the festivals after they’ve seen your show?
My friend Woody Fu has a great show at Assembly this year called Woody Fu: One man John Wick! It is such hilarious and absurd character work and I just never get tired of watching it.
Also Mark Vigeant’s Best Man Show which is an interactive wedding reception where a drunk best man speech goes really off the rails!
Olivia Atwood is doing a double header at Greenside with her shows Oops and Faking It. Oops is a story about her job as a matchmaker, and Faking It is about her time being a fake patient that helped test the US healthcare system. Her physical comedy is hilarious and the laughs never stop!
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