#SNAPCHATZ is simple. I challenge all 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 indelible Fringe memories are star-powered musical monologue TINK, dark macabre circus Party Ghost, and the practically subversive Little Wimmin!
TINK
📍 Underbelly, Bristo Square – Clover
📅 Aug 2-20
🕖 12:55pm
🕖 Running time (approx.): 1 hour
👥 Created by: Kat Kleve and Lizzy Connolly
💰 £11.00 – Concessions available
🎂 12+
🎭 Wheelchair Accessible Venue; Wheelchair Accessible Toilet, Audio Enhancement System
Who are you/what is your show?
We are Fizzy Cat Productions… bringing you…’TINK’. A musical monologue performed and composed by Kat Kleve, who gives a “tour de force performance” as Tink. Reminding us to “shine as children do” to be big and loud and bold.
The piece – although full of comedy – sees a fairy that started life brave, bright and huge, shrink herself to fit in, to be liked, and to make others comfortable. She ends up small enough that even when standing tall, she still fits under your thumb, mirroring how women in particular can shrink themselves in society and stop speaking up. With book and direction by Lizzy Connolly. The pair created TINK as a love letter to their young selves and loud little girls everywhere. They want to inspire young women to stand tall and think BIG.
What sets your show apart from the rest?
With its catchy tunes, on-the-money relatable script, you will see yourself / sister / sibling / mother / daughter / best friend live and breathe on stage. You will root for Tink and in rooting for her you will be reminded to root for yourself.
Your dream audience turns up to see the show, who’s watching?
Teenage gals, dads of daughters, anyone who has ever been told they are too much, anyone who feels they have lost their spark or that their light has dimmed or gone out. Come and LAUGH and grow and shine!!!!
Party Ghost
📍 Assembly Checkpoint – Assembly Checkpoint
📅 Aug 2-13, 15-20, 22-27
🕖 2:55pm
🕖 Running time (approx.): 1 hour
👥 Created by: Olivia Porter and Jarred Dewey
💰 From £15.00 – Concessions available
🎂 12+
🎭 Not fully wheelchair accessible
Who are you/what is your show?
We are Party Ghost, a team of misfits from Australia that collectively use circus and comedy to explore ideas on grief, death and the afterlife.
A multi-award-winning production by Jarred Dewey (CIRCA, Yummy) and Olivia Porter (La Soirée, Palazzo) under the direction of Nicci Wilks (Circus Oz, The Long Pigs). This off-beat, high skilled show involves a plethora of discarded bed sheets, tear-soaked tissues, dismembered doll heads, all rolled into an astounding physical comedy. We invite the audience on a journey into the weird and wonderful short-lived lives of two spooky twin sisters.
What sets your show apart from the rest?
This is the most life affirming show about death! We promise on our mother’s graves that Party Ghost distinguishes itself from the contemporary circus scene by combining clowning, physical theatre and spooky stage craft into a witchy concoction of high heels, bloody limbs and birthday presents and party games.
Never will you have seen before the unmatched trapeze work of Dewey nor the unique ball manipulation skills by Porter. This show guarantees to take you on a fast paced, laugh-out-loud journey that by the end you might actually think you just alighted a thrilling ghost train ride… cross our hearts and hope to die.
Your dream audience turns up to see the show, who’s watching?
Our dream audience would be seats filled with the loved ones we have lost. A performance to the dearly departed but not forgotten… but don’t worry there will still be plenty of spine-tingling seats for the living! We’d love to see full houses and haunted houses. Bring a sheet!
Horizon Showcase: Little Wimmin
📍ZOO Southside – Main House
📅 Aug 21-26
🕖 10:20pm
🕖 Running time (approx.): 1 hour 40 minutes
👥 Created by: Figs in Wigs
💰 £16.00 – Concessions available
🎂 12+
🎭 Wheelchair Accessible Space; Wheelchair Accessible Toilet
Who are you/what is your show?
We are Figs in Wigs and our show is ‘Little Wimmin’. For the last 10 years we have been making epic, genre-bending performance that sits somewhere in between live art, music, theatre, comedy & dance. We make work collaboratively with a DIY approach – we write, direct, choreograph, compose & perform all of our creative output.
In all honesty, Little Wimmin started as a joke. In 2017 we were touring our abstract dance show ‘Often Onstage’ and struggling to get audiences. We thought wouldn’t it be easier to give up all this performance art crap and just do a traditional theatre adaptation. We’ll get big audiences, sell out, and then we can go on holiday. ‘Little Women’ was the first thing we thought of because we are women, and it has women in it. As a joke we started telling people we were going to do Little Women, but then suddenly venues got really interested, and said ‘yes we’ll book that’. So we just went along with it! And here we are…5 years later…the joke might have gone a bit too far, but we’re still laughing.
What sets your show apart from the rest?
We like to think of this show as a bit of a trojan horse. It does not do what it says on the tin. It is not like any other adaptation of Little Women. Ever. We can’t really tell you exactly what sets it apart, because we don’t want to give any spoilers. But we can tell you that Beth dies.
Your dream audience turns up to see the show, who’s watching?
Full houses! inc. Louisa May Alcott – we would love to know what she thinks.
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