#SNAPCHATZ is simple. I challenge 2023 Fringe performers & creators to answer 3 questions and to sell you, dear reader, their show. Their answers are tossed into a digital hat, and published in quick-read trios. It’s a Fringe goer’s fastest, safest (no guerilla flyering!) way to find someone or something new.
If you like what you read; if you’re intrigued; if you bark a laugh or shed a tear; if you suspect some risk of lasting trauma, then click those links and buy a ticket or 10. Today’s brave band of would-be Fringe legends is parent-surviving comedian Lisa Pezik, sitcom survivor Eden Sher , and intense police drama BLUE.
Lisa Pezik: Too Big For Her Britches
📍 theSpaceTriplex – Studio
📅 Aug 4-12, 14-19, 21-26
🕖 Times vary – check calendar
🕖 Running time (approx.): 1 hour 10 mins
👥 Lisa Pezik
💰 £11.00 – Concessions available
🎂 14+
🎭 Wheelchair Access; Wheelchair Accessible Venue
Who are you/what is your show?
I’m an introverted extrovert, Messaging Strategist, Marketing Expert, Mom and Wife, TEDx Speaker, International Best-Selling Author, Off-Broadway Playwright, Actor, Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Creator of Too Big for Her Britches, an original solo musical.
Too Big for Her Britches explores the question, “What if too big, turns out to be exactly the right size?” It’s an award-winning, partly autobiographical, solo musical that follows heroine Luna as she tries to make the right choices in life, while being undermined at every turn by her overbearing, narcisstic mother. It’s an inner struggle between her Shame, which drives her to bulimia and alcohol abuse, and her Warrioress alter ego, who urges her to fight back against her mother’s toxicity.
What sets your show apart from the rest?
No moment is wasted. Between 20 characters and 11 original songs this show moves! In the writing and acting, I humanize every character, not always having them respond the way you might think. It’s mind bending when you catch yourself relating or having empathy for to the villains.
Narcissism is a huge topic to take on, and I was intentional on making it both hilarious and heartbreaking, ripe with humor and vulnerability and taking the audience on the mind-bending madness that comes with dealing with a narcissist.
Your dream audience turns up to see the show, who’s watching?
My front row is first and foremost my husband and son. My family are everything to me! Then it would be my team! My director, movement coach, composer, PR. I’m so thankful to collaborate with such amazing people to bring this story to life. I could never, and don’t want to do this alone!
Next to them would be Broadway icons that inspire me such as Lin Manuel Miranda, Cynthia Ervio, Ben Platt, Hugh Jackman, Alex Lacamoire, Justin Paul, and Benj Pasek. Then the music icons that have inspired me such as P!nk, Beyoncé, and Sam Smith.
The rest of the house is packed with men, women, young, old, every kind of family structure you could imagine. Also, the misunderstood, the disruptors who are ahead of their time, who feel deeply and feel like outsiders. It takes courage to go against the grain.
The root of my show is acceptance and belonging and I want everyone to know when they are with me for those 70 minutes, they are perfectly who they are meant to be, and right where they belong.
Eden Sher: I Was On A Sitcom
📍 Gilded Balloon Teviot – Turret
📅 Aug 2-13, 16-28
🕖 8:20pm
🕖 Running time (approx.): 1 hour
👥 Created by: Eden Sher
💰 From £12.00 – Concessions available
🎂 14+
🎭 Wheelchair Accessible Venue; Wheelchair Accessible Toilets
Who are you/what is your show?
I’m Eden Sher, and I was on a sitcom. My show is called Eden Sher: I Was On A Sitcom. And the opening line of my show is, “Hi, my name is Eden Sher, and I was on a sitcom.” So as you’d expect, it’s a show mostly about my very traumatic birth to my twins and a year of postpartum depression!
What sets your show apart from the rest?
I can’t be 100% sure, but I feel like I’m the only one who talks about what it’s like slowly losing your grip on reality after spending nine years playing another person on an ABC show called “The Middle,” and what it’s like having your organs removed from your body by a person who is telling you “you’re such a hoot!” But I don’t know, is Patricia Heaton also doing a show this year?
Your dream audience turns up to see the show, who’s watching?
Well, the dream would be for Jacob, the boy in fifth grade who told me I was an annoying show-off because I sang The Star Spangled Banner at the talent show, to come and then afterwards be so awe-inspired he confesses to me what a fucking moron he was and now he sees that actually he was just jealous of how talented and confident I was for a 10 year old. But that’s kind of unrealistic, so right now I’m really just focused on trying to get my manager to come.
BLUE
📍Assembly George Square – The Box
📅 Aug 2-8, 10-28
🕖 5:05pm
🕖 Running time (approx.): 1 hour
👥 Created by: June Carryl
💰 £13.50 – Concessions available
🎂 16+
🎭 Wheelchair Accessible Space; Wheelchair Accessible Toilet
Who are you/what is your show?
Our show is called BLUE. It’s about an investigation into the death of a black motorist during a traffic stop that shatters a years long friendship.
What sets your show apart from the rest?
We’re talking about uncomfortable things: racism, policing, authoritarianism, and their ties. The audience will feel like flies on the wall.
Your dream audience turns up to see the show, who’s watching?
James McAvoy is ALWAYS welcome. I don’t like “important” plays, but I do like plays that cause conversation and from the reception we’ve had here in Los Angeles, BLUE fits the bill. So, we want houses full of people who are willing to sit in an uncomfortable space with us and hash things out.
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