first fringe, reunions, and comedy

Each week, you will be hearing from each of our team members. Up this week: Ausette!

I am thrilled to be reuniting with Very Rascals to bring some comedy to Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025!

Even having studied and lived in Glasgow for a few years, I never managed to properly engage with the fringe, but I really wanted to experience the excitement and exhaustion of performing daily, meeting lots of people, and seeing so much theatre you can hardly remember all the stories and set pieces. This is also a unique opportunity to play and explore with a team of people some of which I have worked with extensively, and some of which are completely new. This mixture of familiarity and newness is always a gift when creating.

I have always been immensely curious about what makes things funny; really movingly funny in the way that makes your heart feel like a lock has been turned and all the breath you’ve ever held in comes out at once. This is a rare occurrence, but once achieved, it is a feat unlike any other.

I am most excited to continue my everlasting pursuit of laughter and comedy through the character of Gwen in “How Not To Fund a Honeymoon.”

Since I moved to London, just a year ago now, I was privileged to work with the brilliant team at Fracassantes Productions, on A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Compass Collective at The Bush Theatre. And something that brought the comedy out so naturally in this show/cast, as guided by our wonderful director Robyn Faye, was a sense of inhibition and truth. And although this may be easily said, and often understood, reaching a state of such truthful reaction takes a deeply excited, energetic world and sense of character. One where any attempts to force responses into a neatly sensical process is left outside. I aim to continue this practice as I move into our rehearsals; embracing being truthful about strange impulses and the unsettling vulnerability that accompanies your first thoughts and most unfiltered understanding of a given situation.

What a gift it is to be silly, and how healing it is to be silly. How sweet it is to be silly, and how silly it is to be silly.