Persistent and Nasty

Today Elaine chats with Anna Morris an award-winning comedian, actress and writer, who has written about her experience as a partially deaf performer for the Guardian newspaper.

We chat about Anna’s debut play Son Of A Bitch which she is bringing to the Edinburgh Festival 2024. We discuss the inspiration for the show, society’s relationship with motherhood, writing process and much more.

Son Of A Bitch is on at

Summerhall - 1st to 26th August (no shows 12th, 19th) @6.10pm

Tickets available here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/son-of-a-bitch

Son Of A Bitch

Son of a Bitch is the debut play from award-winning comedian, writer and actor Anna Morris. A solo performance, Morris takes audiences through a darkly comic monologue that explores themes of motherhood, mental health, perimenopause, and what happens when your darkest moment goes viral on social media.

Caught in a moment of air-rage, on a delayed flight from Dubai to London, Marnie does the worst thing she possibly could: she calls her four-year-old son Charlie a C*nt.

Anna Morris

Anna Morris is an award-winning comedian, actress and writer. She recently played Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh in Channel 4’s The Windsors and starred as Pippa in Channel 4’s comedy-drama Lee and Dean. She’s also featured in BBC sitcoms: Outnumbered, Count Arthur Strong, The First Team and ITV’s comedy entertainment show Bad Bridesmaid, which she also wrote.

For the stage, she’s written five one-woman character comedies which have received critical acclaim and had sell-out runs in the UK and Australia: Dolly Mixture, Would Like to Thank, It’s Got to be Perfect and most recently Bitchelors and Bombastic which both ran at the Soho Theatre. Anna is partially deaf and has written about her experience in The Guardian. Her BBC Radio 4 comedy special Kid-Life Crisis aired and became a stand-up show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022. Son of a Bitch is her debut play.

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In todays episode Elaine chats with New Zealand performer and choreographer Sacha Copland about her new show Anatomy for Accounts. We chat the creation of the show, what we are actually worth, how amazing our bodies are and the work that we need to do as white people to break down misogyny, racism, homophobia and so much more and how we do this with out getting defensive.

Anatomy for Accountants ticket link: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/anatomy-for-accountants

A high-risk, high-return dance show about how much our physical bodies are worth in a society ruled by cold hard numbers.

Natural growth doesn’t make sense in a world tightly commanded by economics - and prolific choreographer Sacha Copland of Java Dance Theatre (Back of the Bus, 2014) has something to say about it.

A show for lovers of the body (and accountants), Anatomy for Accountants is a passionate, new dance-theatre show about giving bodies back their full range. Copland prices every aspect of her own life to deconstruct how we define and understand our own worth whilst celebrating the body.

Joined by live musician and performer Tristan Carter in the role of number-crunching Chief Financial Officer, Copland crafts a deeply creative, vulnerable meditation on her own human form - pricing her limbs, head, and organs nude for the audience to see and intimately experience.

Lilting between gentle and brutal, soft and dark, universal and personal, Anatomy for Accountants examines how our value changes and shifts across our lived experiences; how every forced or pressured YES or each resolute or exhausted NO impacts how we are received by others, and if we depreciate or increase in value in their eyes.

Holding the audience in a charged yet ultimately compassionate embrace, Anatomy for Accountants references deep family histories, personal anecdotes, what we owe the future, and how the body holds onto it all - showing us that, in the end, it is simply enough to exist.

Through Copland’s creative search to reunite with herself, the show celebrates the expansive nature of humanity and our own thrilling ability to be alive.

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The second date will be in person at a venue in Edinburgh. All details of which will be given closer to the time.

Please Note: podcast slots are not assigned on a "first come, first serve" basis. We select podcast guests based on relevance to our listenership. 

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In today’s episode Elaine chat with 2 thirds of tasteinuourmouth theatre company Laoise Murray and Grace Morgan. We chat making work as a new company, women in theatre & indeed the world. How capitalism and the wellness industry uses us yet we buy in to it and much more.

You’re Needy (sounds frustrating) is on from the 1st -26th August at Buccleugh Terrace. Tickets available via Summerhall

Ticket link: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/you-re-needy-sounds-frustrating

You’re Needy (sounds frustrating)

tasteinyourmouth present the UK Premiere of their intimate, site-specific theatre show, You’re Needy (sounds frustrating) - after receiving nominations for Best Production and First Fortnight Award during their sell-out Dublin Fringe Festival 2023 run.

Skewering the dark undertones of the pastel pink wellness industry and the ways in which it plays on women’s insecurity, You’re Needy (sounds frustrating) invites one audience member at a time to the world of Carrie, who has retreated to her bathroom in the pursuit of wellness, solitude, and perfection. She spends her days taking long, tea-infused baths, and applying SnailMucusWhalePlacenta Face Masks (™), whilst living off of slim noodles and endless cups of coffee. Assuming the role of a support worker, audience members individually enter Carrie’s world, and attempt to coax her back into reality and reintegrate her into society.

Carrie’s state of mind within You’re Needy (sounds frustrating) is inspired by hikikomori, the Japanese phenomenon of young people retreating to solitude, usually within their parents’ homes. The audience’s position within this comes from the custom of ‘Rental Sisters’, people who voluntarily visit these withdrawn individuals to encourage them to re-enter society.

Created by tasteinyourmouth, performed by Laoise Murray and Heather O’Sullivan, with direction from Grace Morgan and original material and dramaturgy by William Dunleavy, You’re Needy (sounds frustrating) is an uncanny, feminist, and intimate multi-disciplinary piece that explores how capitalism seeks to control women’s bodies through the concept of ‘wellness’.

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The second date will be in person at a venue in Edinburgh. All details of which will be given closer to the time.

Please Note: podcast slots are not assigned on a "first come, first serve" basis. We select podcast guests based on relevance to our listenership. 

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In today’s episode Elaine chats with writer and Performer of Gracie Zoë Bullock and Director Alice Langley.

We chat their careers, the show and how to raise shame free women.

Gracie and the Start of The End of The World (again) is on at Assembly Roxy Outside from 1st to 26th August.

There will be no shows 13th, 20th, 21st,22nd

Tickets here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/gracie-and-the-start-of-the-end-of-the-world-again

Gracie and Theatre Start of The End of The World Again

Gracie is looking for love. Honestly, it’s been tough. The dating pool is huge and there are plenty more fish in the sea, but maybe she’ll never find someone to adore for her (immortal) life. Now, in one last totally-not-desperate shot, she wants to see if you - yes, YOU - could be the ‘one’. Oh, and did she mention, she’s a jellyfish? A very horny jellyfish. ‘Gracie’ is a surreal murder mystery about falling in love at the end of the world, surviving the apocalypse, and being the last of your species.

Follow Gracie The Jellyfish on instagram! : https://www.instagram.com/graciethejellyfish/

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The second date will be in person at a venue in Edinburgh. All details of which will be given closer to the time.

Please Note: podcast slots are not assigned on a "first come, first serve" basis. We select podcast guests based on relevance to our listenership. 

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A clever, funny, existential play about philosophy and childbirth – with a touch of dubstep, karate, and slagging Socrates off.

An overnight smash-hit success in Norway with an ever-growing cult following and Finalist for the Hedda Award 2023 as Best Theatre Play, award-winning Det Andre Teatret brings their hilarious and existential theatre show Good Luck, Cathrine Frost! to the Festival Fringe 2024 to talk philosophy, birth, and public health. 

Did you know Socrates was pregnant? Yep - all the time. He gave birth to the immortal, pure, and civilised: ideas! Imagine that. All Cathrine Frost did was grow and give birth to an ACTUAL screaming, human, ugly baby… and then decided to write a comedy theatre show about it, discovering a galaxy of secrets in the process. No notes, huh Socrates?

Cathrine Frost Andersen is an actor, improviser, and nurse. As an early member of the ensemble at Det Andre Teatret, which she helped start in 2011, she plays in a number of different improvised performances throughout the year, both on the theatre's own stage in Oslo and out on tour. Cathrine is part of Det Andre Teatret’s longest-living improv group Improtent and she has a long acting career behind her. 

She has, among other things, been involved in the theatre production Vildanden at the festivals in Bergen with Vegard Winge directing, and a residence in Kautokeino at the Sami National Theater Beaivvás. She has participated in various theatre festivals at home and abroad, and is also on the TV screen now and then. In autumn 2022, she debuted with her first solo performance Good Luck, Cathrine Frost!. The show was a finalist to the prestigious Hedda award 2023 as Best Theatre Play.

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The second date will be in person at a venue in Edinburgh. All details of which will be given closer to the time.

Please Note: podcast slots are not assigned on a "first come, first serve" basis. We select podcast guests based on relevance to our listenership. 

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OUR WEBSITE - www.persistentandnasty.co.uk

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Today Elaine chats with Alison Cleland the co-creator of Hen Night Horror. We chat about the show, the importance of comedy and music and making theatre for everyone.

Hen Night Horror is touring Scotland right now tickets available below.

https://www.beaconartscentre.co.uk/events/hen-night-horror

https://thegaiety.co.uk/events/hen-night-horror/

https://eden-court.co.uk/event/hen-night-horror

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Hen Night Horror

An original musical comedy by Fraser Boyle & Ali Cleland

Thrilling. Terrifying. Hilarious. Amanda’s dream wedding is only days away but the proverbial has hit the fan. Her bestie bridesmaids have declared war on each other. Can one last hen night in a remote Highland lodge cover up the cracks? Or will Donna and Lydia crack each other’s skulls before the big day? This nasty feud has no easy fix but it soon becomes the least of the girls’ worries when they realise… they are not alone…A show that promises to put the willies right up ye! Several times.

This isn’t a hen night… It’s a game of chicken!

Alison Cleland

Ali Cleland is a rural Ayrshire lass and started her musical career early on in the trad Scottish folk scene. At the age of 18 she headlined the ‘Festival Internacional de la Sierra” in Spain and performed as a soloist for the Commonwealth Games handover ceremony in Glasgow 2014. Her acting career has seen her star in shows such as Legally Blonde The Musical and she was both Musical Director & Played 'Woman 4’ in Girls Night Oot, Scottish Tour. She’s been involved in development pieces for the National Theatre of Scotland, the Royal Court, London and the Tron Theatre, Glasgow to name a few. Ali also teaches Musical theatre at New College Lanarkshire and is extremely passionate about teaching the next generation of performers. Ali is a well known face in the Scottish Pantomime Scene. She and Fraser Boyle met whilst working at the Palace Theatre, Kilmarnock in 2018, where they first decided to write something together. Hen Night Horror is the result!

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The second date will be in person at a venue in Edinburgh. All details of which will be given closer to the time.

Please Note: podcast slots are not assigned on a "first come, first serve" basis. We select podcast guests based on relevance to our listenership.

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Today Elaine chats with Jordy Joans about their new show Astrolo-J Monologues which has its premier on the

29th June at The Storytelling Centre Edinburgh at 7.30pm.

This is the Queer Vagina Monologues we’ve all been waiting for.

https://scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:5376/913:22284/

To help support this project please donate to the Kickstarter fund using the link below

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jordy-joans/the-astrolo-j-monologues

THE ASTROLO-J MONOLOGUES

Join Non-Binary Diva Jordy Joans at the afters in her very own living room for their first-ever interactive cabaret. Featuring original monologues about why dating men of all star signs doesn’t work and covering highs and lows of dating within Edinburgh’s queer community, Jordy’s funny, filthy and heart-wrenching stories about each zodiac sign will look back at a decade of sex and everything that didn’t go right. Spoiler alert: all these men are awful. You’ll be dancing along to twelve iconic pop tracks accompanying each heartbreak, as Jordy and her ex-lovers teach you that self-love really is the foundation of it all.

With additional support from Naomi Head and Tash McPhillips, Jordy brings this preview show to the Netherbow Theatre at the Scottish Storytelling Centre June 29th for Pride Month.

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The second date will be in person at a venue in Edinburgh. All details of which will be given closer to the time.

Please Note: podcast slots are not assigned on a "first come, first serve" basis. We select podcast guests based on relevance to our listenership.

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Today Elaine is giving you all the details you need on how to be a guest on the Persistent and Nasty Podcast at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024.

If you are a woman, non-binary, or LGBTQ+ creative presenting your work at the Festival this year and want to amplify your voice, signal boost your work and generally have a casual chat about smashing the white heteronormative capitalist patriarchy, then we want to hear from you!

Please fill in form below

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10 slots for Scottish Based Artist - There will be 10 episodes dedicated to artist based in Scotland who are taking work to the Festival in 2024.

Sell Your Show Slots - We will be holiday 2 full day where there will be 10-minute slots to come and chat about your show. The first date will be in the first week of the festival and will be available to be in person or via Zoom.

The second date will be in person at a venue in Edinburgh. All details of which will be given closer to the time.

Please Note: podcast slots are not assigned on a "first come, first serve" basis. We select podcast guests based on relevance to our listenership.

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OUR WEBSITE - www.persistentandnasty.co.uk

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Resources

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Today Elaine chats with playwright Maureen Lennon about her new show Dead Girls Rising, the importance of regional theatre, the power to art and artist have to ask the difficult questions and much more.

Ticket details for Dead Girls Raising:

https://www.silentuproarproductions.co.uk/coming-soon

Maureen Lennon

Maureen is a Hull based writer, a graduate from the English and Theatre Studies BA from The University of Bristol and the Writing for Performance and Publication MA from The University of Leeds. She is an Associate Artist of Middle Child Theatre, a Leeds Playhouse FUSE writer 2019, a BoxFresh Writer 2023 and Sphinx30 playwright. In 2020 her play Helen was shortlisted for the Theatre 503 International Playwriting prize. In 2018/19 she was longlisted for the Alfred Bradley Bursary for Radio Drama.

Her credits include Baby He Loves You (Middle Child Theatre 2024), Helen (Theatre 503/ Terrain Theatre 2023), The Coppergate Woman (York Theatre Royal 2022), Us Against Whatever (Middle Child Theatre 2019), and Bare Skin On Briny Waters (Bellow Theatre 2017/18). She has also written work for Paines Plough, Hull Truck Theatre, Sheffield Theatres, and Pilot Theatre.

Dead Girls Rising

A brand-new production from Hull-based Silent Uproar, Dead Girls Rising is an angry, joyous, punk protest that doesn’t pull any punches. Written by Maureen Lennon, with music and lyrics from Anya Pearson (international punk artist featured on BBC Radio 6 Introducing ), Dead Girls Rising is an explosive exploration of what it takes to live and survive within a violent patriarchy.

Katie and Hannah love murder. They go to bed listening to podcasts about serial killers; they clutch blankets watching gruesome documentaries. They’re in deep. They’re not sure if they can stop, and they’re not sure if they want to.

Dead Girls Rising interrogates themes of true crime, Greek mythology, patriarchy and women’s safety, with a furious soundtrack and moments of horror and magic on stage. Co-directed by Silent Uproar’s Ruby Clarke and Alex Mitchell, it stars Helen Reuben, Angelina Chudi, Izzy Neish, Zoe West and Rebecca Levy.

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Resources

Samaritans - Rape Crisis Scotland - Rape Crisis UK

ArtsMinds - BAPAM

Freelancers Make Theatre Work

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Today Elaine and Louise chat with the inaugural interim CEO of CIISA the Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority about why they were set-up, how they will work, what their mission is and much more.

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CIISA

The purpose of the Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (CIISA) is to uphold and improve standards of behaviour across the creative industries and to prevent and tackle all forms of bullying and harassment, including bullying and harassment of a discriminatory nature. Following a significant period of discussion with the creative industries, we are now in the next stages of development for CIISA. In our first iteration, CIISA will support the film, TV, theatre and music industries. We are heartened by the positive groundswell of support. CIISA’s vision is to create consistently safe and inclusive workplaces for creative industry professionals through pro-active interventions and advice, providing a single place of accountability where behaviours of concern can be reported and investigated, and building capability to prevent and tackle bullying and harassment and bullying and harassment of a discriminatory nature.

Jen Smith

Jen Smith is Interim CEO of the Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (CIISA) responsible for developing its remit, operating model and governance structure. Jen led the creation and publication of the screen sectors’ first ‘Set of Principles and Guidance to Prevent Bullying and Harassment and Racism’ convening over 50 cultural organisations to adopt them, in addition inspiring additional editions tailored for the Theatre and Music sectors. In her previous role at the BFI before leaving to lead CIISA, she was responsible for gaining international recognition for the BFI Diversity Standards, achieving Autism Friendly Status for BFI Southbank, partnering with Changing Faces on the impactful #Iamnotyourvillain campaign and ensuring that the full range of diversity data on who the BFI funds and employs is published annually. Jen has also held a broad range of roles in the housing sector leading on Strategy, PR, Business Development, Learning and Development and Inclusion. Prior to that Jen worked as Parliamentary Researcher specialising in Foreign Affairs and International Relations and is a member of the Institute of Regulation and an ACAS accredited mediator.

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