A Fringe Quickie (#460) with ‘Need A Light?’

Questions answered by Freddie Meredith.

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

Every show I’m going to refer to as “the last chance you have to see this show before it finishes and I die.”

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

Probably a Guinness. It doesn’t know that that’s not a cocktail.

Q3: If you brought this show home for the holidays, how would your parents react to them?

They’d be polite, supportive, and slightly relieved when it finally left.

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

It would be having the time of its life and saying “This is the best night of my life”. Even if the party was ostensibly really bad and boring. Then it starts to give everyone nicknames then gets really emotional, and keeps saying ‘I needed this’.

About the show

Need A Light?

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)

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

Ticket type: Paid

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