A Fringe Quickie (#226) with ‘Bitches in Stitches: The New Grrrl Order’

Questions answered by Fran Ayala-Rock.

Q1: Aside from this Quickie, what is the most desperate marketing tactic you plan on using to get bums in seats this August? 280 chars

We’re launching Count Us In: a joyful visibility photocall for underrepresented comics. Basically, if Fringe won’t count us, we’ll count ourselves in — with flyers, placards, press and the haunted energy of women who know Canva.

Q2: If your show suddenly developed a massive ego and became the biggest diva in the 2026 Fringe, what absurd, hyper-specific item would be mandatory on its dressing room rider?

A group of manfluencers wearing Bitches in Stitches merch, simultaneously livestreaming themselves saying, “We were wrong. Women are funny.” to their millions of followers.

Q3: If all the shows running right now were at a massive Fringe house party, what is your show doing?

We’re in the kitchen, wrecked, turning a casual chat into a global movement, making friends and taking selfies in the toilet queue, changing the playlist to Charli XCX, then drunkenly convincing everyone to come to our show.

Q4: How will the audience remember you the morning after?

Like the group chat they didn’t know they needed: loud, filthy, weirdly healing, and full of people they want to see again. Also possibly with glitter somewhere it should not medically be.

About the show

Bitches in Stitches: The New Grrrl Order

Date(s): Week 1 (Fri 7th to Thurs 13th Aug) • Week 2 (Fri 14th to Thur 20th Aug) • Final week(s) (Fri 21st to Mon 31st Aug) • Limited run

Time(s): Evening (Between 6pm and 10pm)

Ticket type: Pay what you can

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