A Fringe Quickie (#383) with ‘Ghost Songs To Die For with Madame Isolde’

Questions answered by Tristan Wolfe.

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

Madame Isolde will be offering free star sign readings around the Fringe. Strangely, an unusually high number of people will discover their future includes a show featuring ghost songs… that she may or may not be appearing in.

Q2: If your show walked into a cocktail bar, what would it order?

A Corpse Reviver Number 2. Madame Isolde has been dead since 1936, so anything to help get her going.

Q3: We all have weird pre-performance rituals. What is yours, and how confused would a normal person be if they walked in on you doing it?

I put on the wig, gloves and glamorous dress, dim the lights, light my surprisingly realistic battery-operated candle and quietly become Madame Isolde. To anyone walking in, it probably looks like I’m preparing for a séance. Which, in a way, I am.

Q4: If all the shows running right now were at a massive Fringe house party, what is your show doing?

Madame Isolde is holding court in the corner, reading star-signs, chatting to ghosts only she can see and quietly convincing half the party they’re destined to attend her show. She insists it’s fate, not marketing.