Persistent and Nasty

It’s the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 series

*TW for discussion of DV/DA*

Elaine chats with creator and performer of LA Baby Ambrosine Davies.

LA Baby

Zoo Playground – Playground 2

Now– 24th August

Time: 15:35

LA Baby

The unbelievable truth of nearly a decade in LA from award-winning actor and comedian Ambrosine Davies (Funny or Die, The Inbetweeners). the darkly comedic story of Davies’ nine years in LA, caught in a cycle of cringeworthy auditions, balancing odd jobs and working as a nanny for an Orthodox family in the middle of the world’s most expensive divorce.

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It’s the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 series

Elaine chats with co-creator and performer of Baby in The Mirror

Stella Marie Sophie.

Baby In The Mirror

Summerhall – Red Lecture Theatre

Now– 25th August

Time: 15:15 (60 mins)

Baby In The Mirror

The debut show from a new Queer Femme-led theatre company Second Adolescence, exploring queer parenthood - the how and the why - through the lens of three Queer individuals questioning what it is to become a parent, and the logistics that their identity requires them to go through.

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It’s the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 series

Elaine chat’s with Samia Rida about her new autobiographical show Kidnap.

Directed by the BBC’s Gareth Edwards and produced by BAFTA Elevate producer Gina Lyons, writer and actor Samia Rida’s blazing autobiographical comedy-drama explores Saudi, family, and how the act of kidnap can involve a swimming pool…

Kidnap

Dram at Gilded Balloon Patter House

Now– 10th August

Time: 19:15 (60 mins)

Kidnap

Blazing, hilarious, and hard-hitting autobiographical comedy-drama by writer, actor, and comedian Samia Rida that explores Saudi, family, disability - and how the act of kidnap can involve a swimming pool. Inspired by her own experience of being kidnapped to Saudi by her father as a child, it balances humour with prompting nuanced conversations about domestic violence, the hidden complexities of family, being a carer, and emotional resilience as both a child and an adult.

TICKET LINK HERE

OUR WEBSITE - www.persistentandnasty.co.uk

Persistent and Nasty join the CEC community to create a safe space & build a community for those who are marginalised in any way in the arts.

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It’s the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 series

Elaine and Louise chat with Frisky (Laura Corcoran) about her new show Frisky’s Reshuffle. What’s been happening since she was last at the festival – motherhood and going solo in her act and reminiscing with Louise about the good old days of the Fringe.

In Louise’s words having Frisky back means “the Fringe is healed”

Frisky’s Reshuffle

Palais du Variété at Assembly George Square Gardens

Now – 24th August (except Mondays)

Time: 21:55 (60 mins)

Frisky’s Reshuffle

A fantastic musical evening. Everything the fringe is all about.

Frisky (Frisky & Mannish) is back. The Matriarch of Twisted Pop Cabaret is bringing a full band and a full heart to her debut solo adventure. A spontaneous and interactive genre-spanning live music extravaganza – no two shows will be the same. Maybe you will never be the same. 'Lethally ridiculous' (Guardian). 'A diva to the marrow' (Telegraph). 'A simply stupendous voice' (Evening Standard).

TICKET LINK HERE

OUR WEBSITE - www.persistentandnasty.co.uk

Persistent and Nasty join the CEC community to create a safe space & build a community for those who are marginalised in any way in the arts.

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It’s the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 series

Elaine chats with performer, comedian and creator Liz Coin about her show as an Izzy Sunshine

Izzy Sunshine

@ Bothie at Gilded Balloon Patter House

Now – 10th August

Time: 13:20 (60 mins)

Izzy Sunshine

Lizzy Sunshine! sees Coin channelling her inner child as she carries a would-be-double-act, alone, punctuated with the question of whether her show partner will arrive in time. The show-within-a-show ends in a pang, revealing the farcical fate of addiction's little sister. Described as a ‘high-energy clown fest,’ the show is filled with absurd characters, audience

interaction, big feelings and surprises under each seat!

TICKET LINK HERE

SFAD https://www.sfad.org.uk/

The Bothy https://www.edinburghadp.co.uk/arc-groups/group-44/

Find Liz on all socials @lizcoin

OUR WEBSITE - www.persistentandnasty.co.uk

Persistent and Nasty join the CEC community to create a safe space & build a community for those who are marginalised in any way in the arts.

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MAIL BAG – you can write and ask us industry related questions or general

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Coffee Morning Eventbrite - Coffee Morning Tickets

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Resources

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It’s the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 series

Elaine chats with performer and creator Gabrielle Cabrera about her show My Life as an “Inspirational Porn” Star!

My Life as an "Inspirational Porn" Star!

@ Just the Snifter Room at Just the Tonic at The Mash House

Now – 11th August

Time: 20:35 (60 mins)

My Life as an “Inspirational Porn” Star is a blend of stand-up, burlesque, and existential dread. We’ve got something for everyone! I refuse to be boxed in, and so does this show. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you might learn about Nazi history and how it ties into feminism? You could feel seen in ways you didn’t know you needed. Either way, it will be well worth the ride.

My Life as an "Inspirational Porn" Star!

Winner of the Tampa Fringe Social Good Award 2025, and 2019.

An "inspirational porn" star, Gabrielle Leonore shares her life story in this irreverent one-woman comedy, filled with candid anecdotes about sex, drugs, and the aspects of life no one prepares you for – especially as an autistic woman. Written and performed by Leonore, the show builds on the success of her previous production, (Re)union, which won the Social Good Award at the 2019 Tampa International Fringe Festival and was also featured in the 2019 Tampa Bay Theatre Festival.

TICKET LINK HERE

OUR WEBSITE - www.persistentandnasty.co.uk

Persistent and Nasty join the CEC community to create a safe space & build a community for those who are marginalised in any way in the arts.

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It’s the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 series

Elaine chats with performer and co-creator Emily Carding about their show Timonopoly

TIMONOPOLY – George Mackay Brown Library at Scottish Storytelling Centre

Now - 12 August (not 6th)

Time: 12:20 (60 mins)

A Shakespeare play turned into a board game with interactive elements and politics thrown in for good measure. It's quite a hard thing to describe but if you love a game with a twist and a good story.

Timonopoly

Come Fortune! Let’s play a game. It’s only money... Inspired by Timon of Athens, one of Shakespeare’s least known works, Timonopoly is a unique experience, a game, a show, an event. Come take your chance with Fortune. Let’s see how easily any of us can fall through the cracks of society... whoops! Brite Theatre (Deliverance) continue to push the immersive envelope, creating ever more daring audience-specific work and bold adaptations of classical material. The long-anticipated final instalment of the Coward Conscience trilogy, following Richard III (a one-person show) and Hamlet (an experience).

For more information on the creator check out emilycarding.com and for the company @britetheater

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OUR WEBSITE - www.persistentandnasty.co.uk

Persistent and Nasty join the CEC community to create a safe space & build a community for those who are marginalised in any way in the arts.

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It’s the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 series

Elaine chats with performer and co-creator Maria Teresa Creasey and Rebecca Reeves director and co-creator of Degenerate.

Degenerate – Pleasance Courtyard (Bunker One)

30 July - 23 August (not 5, 12, 19)

Time: 23:10 (60 mins)

She is style, she is grace, she has blood dripping from her face: she’s Degenerate.

Degenerate

Maria just wants to perform for you - but the voice in the room is keeping her captive. Made to reenact an onslaught of famous horror scenes, will she make it out alive? Why does the voice seem hell-bent on keeping her here? And in a world where social worth is placed upon beauty and youth, who wouldn’t want to live forever? A high-octane, biting satire, Degenerate holds a mirror up to ageing and society, with Maria Teresa Creasey being the manic-pixie-scream-girl we’ve waited a lifetime for. Crammed with horror references, tap dancing and the queen of all vampires (Shania Twain, obviously. Seriously, how does she look like that? Still?), this is the mother of late-night comedies at the Fringe. A comedy so raw, so sexy, so deranged it’ll make you rethink your skincare routine.

TICKET LINK HERE

OUR WEBSITE - www.persistentandnasty.co.uk

Persistent and Nasty join the CEC community to create a safe space & build a community for those who are marginalised in any way in the arts.

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It’s the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 series

Elaine chats with performer Michelle Monteith about Red Like Fruit

Red Like Fruit – Traverse Theatre – various times

Award-winning Canadian theatre company 2b returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the UK premiere of critically acclaimed playwright Hannah Moscovich’s (Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes with Hugh Jackman) honest, raw, and gut-punching play about power, reclaiming narratives, and gender.

Red Like Fruit

While Lauren’s been reporting on a high-profile case of domestic violence, she’s been thinking back with eerie ambivalence on a set of sexual events from her adolescence, and something in her has started to crack. Soon, Lauren can no longer comprehend her own decisions and desires (like why she asked Luke to narrate for her in the first place). Red Like Fruit interrogates the many contradictions and complexities of complicity, consent, patriarchy and traumatic memory in the post #MeToo era.

TICKET LINK HERE

OUR WEBSITE - www.persistentandnasty.co.uk

Persistent and Nasty join the CEC community to create a safe space & build a community for those who are marginalised in any way in the arts.

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It’s the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 series

Elaine chats with writer, performer and musician Jay Eddy about her new show

Driving in Circles – McIntosh at Gilded Balloon @ Appleton Tower

4 - 24 Aug13:30

A musical comedy that encourages audiences to take a different approach to trauma and to see the light and beauty in life.

Driving in Circles

Driving in Circles - Get in the car, we’re taking a road trip. An acclaimed new theatre hybrid solo show traversing the highway between confessional monologue, rock band, original music, concert, and stand-up comedy. Set to Jay Eddy’s self-penned electric art-pop score, Driving in Circles traces the aftermath of intimate violence - mapping our hero’s darky funny, deeply felt, and defiantly hopeful journey through the bodymind-altering landscapes of trauma towards something like happiness.

TICKET LINK HERE

OUR WEBSITE - www.persistentandnasty.co.uk

Persistent and Nasty join the CEC community to create a safe space & build a community for those who are marginalised in any way in the arts.

Link for our Zoom meeting with Creative Entrepreneurs Club

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MAIL BAG – you can write and ask us industry related questions or general

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Email – [email protected]

Instagram - @persistentandnasty

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Coffee Morning Eventbrite - Coffee Morning Tickets

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Resources

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