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+3 Interview: Price (still) Includes Biscuits

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“I also involve the audience in range of ways – but it’s always safe on the front row!”

WHO: Naomi Paul – Writer and performer

WHAT: “Satirical and hilarious deadpan humourist Naomi Paul returns to the Fringe with her quirky four-star one-woman show Price (still) Includes Biscuits. Naomi uses characteristic dry Jewish humour to comment on topical political issues, share personal stories and perform catchy handmade songs. The show takes audiences on a surreal journey from lingerie to libraries, Birmingham to the Balkans.”

WHERE: theSpace @ Surgeons Hall (Venue 53)

WHEN: 18:15 (50 min)

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Is this your first time to Edinburgh?

No, it’s not the first time!

I came initially to the Free Fringe in 2011 with a double bill show and then again in 2012 with my first solo show, doing half the run in a lopsided comedy bus at The Free Sisters. Since then I have been at the Space @ Surgeon’s Hall performing solo shows entitled Making Light (2014) and Price Includes Biscuits (2015)…

Tell us about your show.

Price (still) Includes Biscuits is a revised and updated version of last year’s show – hence its title! I want to offer the audience unusual and satirical angles on the everyday (both personal and political). I use my Jewish background as a platform for material, as well as a deadpan style. I also involve the audience in range of ways – but it’s always safe on the front row!

I wrote and produced the show, and have been writing and performing my own work since 2010 and following completion of a Creative Writing MA.

For this show I’ve worked with Peta Lily on script development and directorial supervision, and with Joe Samuel on musical arrangement of the songs.

The show will be on in the forthcoming Birmingham Comedy Festival at the Old Joint Stock Theatre (Friday October 14, @8pm) After that I hope to take it to other festivals and small scale venues during 2016-7.

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

Simon and Garfunkel – Through the Years is a remarkable show by Bookends; they have forensically listened to the songs with great empathy and musicianship and when you shut your eyes you would imagine you were listening to the originals. At the Space at Symposium Hall

Lost in Blue by Debs Newbold at Summerhall. A remarkable piece of solo theatre telling a moving story via several characters, leaving the audience catching their breath – and their emotions – by the end.

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+3 Interview: Spoon-Feeders

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“Each year we take an original piece of writing to the Fringe.”

WHO: Chloe Burton – Production Manager

WHAT: “Spoon-Feeders follows the daily lives of four actors working for STN News; exploring the interaction between the worlds of information and entertainment. Max, Tibby, Jons and Felicity all have their own dramatic aspirations but Felicity, quashed by the others, has to satisfy herself with office work. When Stephen, an aspiring actor and recent graduate accepts a job at the office, Tibby and Jons feel their positions are threatened. The prospect of a career-making scoop beckons and claws are sharpened. As each party vies for supremacy, a question emerges: What does it really mean to control something?”

WHERE: theSpace @ Surgeons Hall (Venue 53)

WHEN: 20:30 (40 min)

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Is this your first time to Edinburgh?

This is not our company’s first time in Edinburgh, previous members of NUTS have taken shows to the Fringe for years, most recently If Only Diana Were Queer (2015) at Greenside and Big Brother: Blitzkrieg (2014) at theSpaceUK; the venue we return to this year.

Our production team have been in shows and have worked at some fringe venues before but for all our actors this will be their first time acting at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Tell us about your show.

Spoon-Feeders was written by Patrick Watson, a member of our company. We are Newcastle University Theatre Society and we are one of the largest and most successful student theatre societies in the country and one of the oldest societies at Newcastle University. Students from all over the university come together each year to showcase their talents in the form of 10 plays, 2 musicals and 6 student written plays and each year we take an original piece of writing to the Fringe.

We premiered Spoon-Feeders at our Drama Festival in June showcasing 6 student written plays from Newcastle and 1 from Durham University. Since then the show has developed, grown, been rewritten and recast and comes to the show with a new director, Lucy Sherratt, production manager Chloe Burton and show producer Thomas Edney.

We don’t have any plans to tour after Fringe but the writer is keen to develop and keep changing the show based on feedback during our run up here in Edinburgh.

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

Our cast and crew saw a fantastically self-aware, self-deprecating and very funny (also student written) performance by Manchester University Drama Society called Novel Experiments In Living. The characters in the play slowly discover that they are indeed characters, not real as they thought, and they try to take control of their own ‘script.’

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