“The absolute best thing about the festival is being able to meet other creatives from around the world who are putting their work out there. Their energy is catching!”
WHO: Hollace Starr
WHAT: “Kit has a job to do and people to take care of. Time is ticking and there’s too much at stake to turn back. In a facility where powerful people have harnessed science to realise the impossible, and AI dictates a daily regimen for wellbeing, how will the residents react when their routine is disrupted by an outsider? What truly is the cost of living a long, protected life? Fringe First winners Lynda Radley and Pepperdine Scotland unite to present a new play, exploring a future where a select few live far longer than the many.”
WHERE: Studio Two at Assembly George Square Studios (Venue 17)
WHEN: 12:00 (70 min)
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Is this your first time to Edinburgh?
This is not our first time to Edinburgh. Our programme has been coming since the 1990s (or earlier), and we have been running our current programme which includes the commission of an original play by a Scotland-based playwright since 2012. We have had some great successes through the years, but the absolute best thing about the festival is being able to meet other creatives from around the world who are putting their work out there. Their energy is catching!
What are the big things you’ve learned since 2025 and have you absorbed any of the lessons yet?
2024 was my first visit to the festival as a theatre director. The first lesson I have learned was to watch out for dogs on Scottish beaches (dog + Hollace = bum knee for the whole summer!!). But the artistic lesson I would like to internalise for this time around is to be incredibly nimble and incredibly collaborative at every step of the process. Ideas are never precious, but this is especially true during the Fringe rehearsal process where trusting your gut and the other creative people in the room is paramount!
Tell us about your show.
The play is a world premiere by Lynda Radley called Lifelong. Lynda is a celebrated Irish playwright living in Glasgow. She wrote the award-winning, Fringe First play The Interference, also for our programme, in 2016. We (Pepperdine) are an undergraduate university programme from Malibu California. We have been producing original work of social concern at the Fringe for many years.
What should your audience see at the festivals after they’ve seen your show?
We always try to see shows at the Traverse when we are at the Fringe so we can support new writing. This year, we are incredibly excited that one of our previous playwrights Morna Young has a premiere at the Traverse. And it’s from a story devised by Morna and our former producing partner (and Pepperdine alumnus) Alex Fthenatkis. We are super excited about that show and about all the shows at the Traverse – their schedule looks amazing. So yeah, support new writing! See as much as you can. Try to sit in a room and be live with people because God knows the very concept of being in person with anyone is under threat right now and theatre just might be the thing to save us. Or if not save us, at least give us a bit of hope and solace as we are wading our way through these incredibly awkward times.
Also, a show with some similar themes to our own is Lubna Kerr’s A Better Memory – exploring the issue of AI simulations of our loved ones.
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