Persistent and Nasty

It’s the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 series

Today Elaine chats with writer creators Milly Blue (Basement Jaxx, BBC Radio 4) & Jessie Maryon Davies (Kate Nash, Lips Choir) about their new show

Elysium - Ruby Gilded Balloon @Appleton Tower

4 - 24 Aug 12:20

An comedy horror with music by Ghouls Aloud. It’s another must see.

Elysium

Meet Elysium Court’s newest arrivals - an aspirational couple in their late thirties who’ve recently escaped central London to start family life in earnest. The woman plans to spend her maternity leave happily cultivating vegetables…and hopefully her online presence. But from the moment she pulls up her narrow new garden’s standard-issue astroturf, their haven turns to hell. From multidisciplinary artists Milly Blue (Basement Jaxx, BBC Radio 4) and Jessie Maryon Davies (Kate Nash, Lips Choir), Elysium is a moving, modern horror, full of humour and spine-tingling truths, with a haunting live score and original songs.

A satirical, suspenseful nightmare inspired by modern gothic literature and speculative fiction, Elysium will linger in the memory long after the lights go up. Milly Blue and Jessie Maryon Davies are Ghouls Aloud, lifelong friends, and an exciting creative partnership which perfectly blends music and theatre through provocative writing which both challenges and entertains. Elysium is their debut work.

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It’s the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 series

Today Elaine chats with writer Amanda Verlaque about her play

This Sh*t Happens All The Time. An exciting new one woman show. A must see.

This Sh*t Happens All The Time - Studio 4 Assembly Studios @George Sq

4th - 25th August 13.20

This Sh*t Happens All The Time - Acclaimed Northern Irish writer Amanda Verlaque presents her powerful, timely one-woman drama, This Sh*t Happens All The Time, in its Edinburgh Fringe festival debut following acclaimed runs at the Lyric Theatre and Grand Opera House Studio, Belfast. A deeply personal show about queer love, tummy flips, hearts skipping beats… and defending yourself against a homophobic bully.

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Elaine and Louise chat with the Stacey Simmons author and psychotherapist about her book The Queens Path and the 2-day workshop event which is taking place in Glasgow on the 23rd and 24th of August 2025 at the Grand central Hotel. We discuss the event, the creation of the book, the studio system and much, much more.

As part of our ongoing mission to remove barriers and support creative connection, Persistent & Nasty is sponsoring a Sisterhood Ticket. This will fund two women or non-binary pals / colleagues to attend together – because transformative experiences should never be limited by finances.

Apply Here

The Queens Path Scotland Website

The Queens Path Scotland

The Queen's Path is the new archetypal journey for women's narrative, from psychotherapy to screenwriting. Whether you're a screenwriter, a novelist, or a psychotherapist, come to Glasgow and learn the revolutionary way of thinking about women's narratives. Whether you're working on a new screenplay, novel, stage play, or work with women who need new narrative models, bring those stories and learn how to place them on The Queen's Path so that the characters or the women you serve can find sovereignty in their stories.

We’re honoured to be supporting the first ever Queen’s Path event – a 2-day in-person workshop happening in Glasgow this August, informed by Stacey Simmons' incredible book of the same name.

Taking place on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th August at the Glasgow Central Hotel, this is a unique opportunity to meet celebrated women writers, directors, producers, and community leaders. Armed with our collective stories we can create and foster powerful communities for women creatives and activists.

Buy the Book @Waterstonesbooks

INSTAGRAM @queenspathscotland

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Elaine and Louise chat with the brilliant Zara Gladman about her Edinburgh Festival Show Zara Gladman is… Aileen: Cameron’s Gap Year Fundraiser and her new BBC Scotland show Good For Her. We talk about the full circle moment for all of is that this podcast is. As Zara and her writing partner Laura’s script was the very first thing we selected for the very first Persistent and Nasty event. We also chat about the struggle for freelancers and creatives to balance the work we do to pay the bills and keeping the creativity alive.

You can watch Good For Her here: watch on iplayer

And you can get tickets for Zara Gladman is… Aileen: Cameron’s Gap Year Fundraiser here: https: Ticket Link Here

ZARA GLADMAN

Dr Zara Gladman is a comedy writer, performer and recovering scientist. She has been making sketch comedy and musical parodies since 2012, including viral hits “Last Friday Night in Glasgow“, Scottish indyref star “Lady Alba” (as featured in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Al Jazeera, BBC, Irish Times, The Independent), lockdown anthem “I’m losing it” (lauded by pop queen Alesha Dixon as “Absolutely hilarious!!!”) and Glasgow’s “West end mums.” Zara’s TikTok parodying a Scottish newsreader racked up 1 million views in under 24 hours. Her new BBC sketch show “Good For Her” comes to iPlayer and BBC Scotland in summer 2025, when she will also make her Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut. Zara was among 20 “ones to watch” on The List’s Digital Hot List. She has written and co-written screenplays and theatre, including “Culture Club” with Laura McNamara, which was longlisted for the UK’s Funny Women Comedy Writing Awards. Zara has also co-written award-winning educational theatre (“Chasing the Waves”, 2016), for national radio (BBC Noising Up) TV (BBC Steven’s & McCarthy show) and cultural magazines (The Skinny). Oh, and she wrote a PhD once too! About crayfish. But that’s another story. In 2021, Zara was spotlighted by Chortle for her “incisive, funny and relateably honest videos” during lockdown and in 2023 she was shortlisted for the UK’s Funny Women Content Creator Awards. Zara has made comedy for BBC Scotland (Short Stuff) and Channel 4 (TikTok). Her hotly anticipated debut hour took place in 2024, selling out the Oran Mor three times as part of Glasgow International Comedy Festival and WestFest. In 2024 Zara was shortlisted for the pretigious Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award. In 2025 she was a Finalist in the UK’s Musical Comedy Awards and she is due to debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August.

Zara wrote, directed and starred in her sketch show pilot “Good For Her” which comes to iPlayer and BBC Scotland this summer.

WEBSITE: zaragladman.com

INSTAGRAM @zanyzaz

TIKTOK: @zaragladman

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Elaine chats with co-founder of F-Bomb Theatre co Rachel O’Regan about their latest project Monumental which is a walking tour of the imagined statues of five women from history and their connection to Edinburgh. We also chat with two of the writers Hannah Low, Emery Schaffer and the director Emily Ingram.

F-Bomb are working with Edinburgh 900 celebrations to brig Monumental to the audiences. In a city that has more statues to animals than to women join these incredible writers as they celebrate these inspirational women.

On from the 10th – 17th May 2025

TICKET LINK HERE

MONUMENTAL

Edinburgh has nearly 200 monuments and statues dotted around the city, showcasing key historical figures in the city’s history - but where are all the women?

Part of the Edinburgh 900 celebrations, Monumental is a new extraordinary theatrical walking tour that showcases the real ‘herstory’ of Edinburgh. Produced by multi-award-winning Edinburgh-based feminist theatre company F-Bomb Theatre, the experience will take audiences around the city to explore the lives of five women who deeply impacted, lived, and worked in Edinburgh.

The project was conceived by playwright and producer Rachel O’Regan after reading Sara Sheridan’s book Where Are The Women?; O’Regan learned that the city has more statues of animals than of named women, and began asking herself: ‘Where are the monuments to our real-life heroines?’.

Taking on historical figures in the show range from Clara Marguerite Christian, the first black woman to study at the University of Edinburgh, to Scotland’s youngest suffragette, Bessie Watson. Their stories will be interpreted by five early-career female playwrights based in Edinburgh, including Rachel O’Regan, playwright, dramaturg, and producer,

Hannah Low, Jaïrus Obayomi, Kirin Saeed and Emery Schaffer.

A brave recentring of women across time, Monumental highlights not only the accomplishments of women in Edinburgh over the past 900 years - but also gives a new platform to the emerging talent of the future.

Monumental will take place throughout May 2025 across the City of Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh 900 celebrations commissioned by Edinburgh City Council. F-Bomb Theatre is currently holding a raffle for pay-what-you-can tickets on their website - fbombtheatre.co.uk/monumental

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Elaine chats with Katch Holmes Creative Producer and Programmer and steerer of Knockengorroch Festival. We chat everything from the beginnings of the festival, finding your North Star, music and how it makes you feel and much more.

KNOCKENGORROCH FESTIVAL 22ND -25TH MAY 2025

TICKET LINK

Link to hear Kuchke

Knockengorroch and The Green Gathering

Two of the UK’s longest-running grassroots festivals – Knockengorroch and The Green Gathering – are joining forces to create a pioneering partnership celebrating Celtic music, land, and nature. Launching at a time when independent festivals are under increasing pressure, Meet Us by the Fireside is a symbol of resilience and unity, offering festival-goers a unique opportunity to experience both events at a discounted rate.

Green Gathering Tickets

Knockengorroch Festival

Knockengorroch Festivals were born from a love of the land, excellent roots music and celebrating the good times.

We present unparalleled music, arts and workshops in a beautiful mountain riverside meadow.

For us location is key. We are one of the most beautiful and unique festival venues in the UK. Our festival commemorates and celebrates the history and the people that once lived in our valley, in former times an entire village…

We are a festival run by a family, for families, in the very broadest sense of the word.

We support rural regeneration in the Uplands of Scotland, creating local business and enterprise, and attracting visitors to a still surprisingly relatively unexplored region of Scotland, our ‘Hidden Gem’.

In times long past the native hills and streams of Scotland shaped its music. Stream becomes river, rural track becomes urban street, the musical landscape of today’s global village is diverse, both urban and rurally inspired. But all music speaks a universal language.

Knockengorroch establishes progressive linkage between sounds indigenous to its natural amphitheatre venue and the now far-flung Celtic diaspora, once rooted in such homely places.

We promote multi-cultural forms and musical genres, highlighting the connection between roots music and the lands and people that created it.

Music from all continents is presented alongside the best in Scottish talent to showcase music in both traditional and contemporary fields.

It is Knockengorroch’s unique remit not only to celebrate cultural diversity and fusion, but to make the music home amongst the hills once more, and give it up to the people.

Katch Holmes

Katch is a Creative Producer. She conceives of, synthesise and deliver international cultural activity, having worked in the sector for over 20 years. She programmes and steers the Knockengorroch music festival which takes place in the Southern Uplands of South West Scotland. Katch produces further creative projects that highlight people, landscape and heritage. For more details you can browse the projects page.She presents and represents exceptional music through my agency Off Site Productions. As a professional coach (Relational Dynamics ILM Level 7) she coach creatives to help achieve their goals. Katch is a director on the board of the Scottish Music Industry Association. She is a Clore fellow, having taken part in the Clore Cultural Leadership programme in 2012/13. Enjoys being a mum of a small human and a small dog.

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Wild Rose

Elaine and Louise chat with writer of Wild Rose Nicole Taylor along with Wild Rose herself Dawn Sievewright and co-stars Louise McCarthy and Hannah Jarret-Scot.

A beautiful chat during the press night celebrations talking about the joy of feeling represented on stage, seeing important and truthful working class Scottish stories and women finding themselves and following what drives them. An ode to home!

Wild Rose is currently running at

The Lyceum Edinburgh until the 19th April 2025

Tickets Here

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4 STARS ACROSS THE BOARD

This is our very first MAIL BAG episode. We asked the question via our Instagram stories if anyone had a topic/thought they would like us to discuss and we felt this question was one we had to answer.

The Question:

PERSISTENT AND NASTY WHAT ARE YOU TRUE THOUGHTS ABOUT SCOTTISH THEATRE CRITICS?

Elaine and Louise give you an honest and a little spicy answer.

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Send your hot takes, thoughts, questions or a topic you want P&N’s point on. All questions will automatically be treated as anonymous unless you specifically as for your name to be shared.

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THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH

Persistent and Nasty is & years old. We can’t believe it.

In this episode Elaine and Louise celebrate the achievements of the last seven years. We cover everything from how we started, the ups and downs, the hard truth that by advocating for everyone in our industry we might not work again, that even if we do work we can fall into the trap of wanting to been seen as “nice and easy” – we’re all human and none of this work is binary. We discuss our name it’s origins and how the meaning of it has shifted for us over the years.

We also mention the new edition to the podcast:

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Finally, we talk about what we hope for P&N for the next seven years. Happy Birthday to us!

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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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Elaine chats with actor, writer, Molly Geddes

We talk about Molly’s short film Where We Stop which was created to be part of an initiative for Glasgow Girls Club. The initiative aims to raise awareness of Violence Against Women and Girls among young women aged 16-21 in Glasgow as well as highlight information about the available support services.

We also chat about being a survivor and how it feels moving forward.

TW for this episode discussion of coercive control

You can watch Where we Stop here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoxPV6u--uA&t=6s

Glasgow Girls Club:

https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/11121/Glaswegian-Girl-Made-Multi-Media-Campaign-to-Combat-Violence-Against-Women-and-Girls-launches-today

Where We Stop

Is this your stop pal?’ Sophie gets the bus every day. Same seats, same route. With pals, on her own, from work, to college- She never misses her stop. After getting into her first relationship with Jack, who joins her on the bus, she could stay on with him all day. Sophie’s journeys are filled with love, banter and friendship as we see glimpses into the everyday life of a young woman in Glasgow. However, as we catch more and more glances into Sophie’s life, something doesn’t feel right. We begin to see the signs of a relationship that has become abusive- and a bus that seems impossible to get off. ‘Where we stop’ is a film that subtly highlights forms of violence against women and girls and the often-overlooked early signs of domestic abuse. Born from a lack of media that specifically centres young women’s experience of domestic abuse, this film aims to challenge the misconception that the issue primarily affect older women. Created in collaboration with young women across Glasgow, and inspired by the writer's own experiences, it is a film created to open eyes and start conversations.

Molly Geddes

Molly Geddes is an actor, writer and Graduate from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is also the writer of new short social impact film ‘Where We Stop’, a piece of work that aims to engage young women on the topic of Violence Against Women and Girls. As a young woman, Molly experienced intimate relationship abuse firsthand and knows how isolating navigating an experience like this can be. Molly’s main interest for creating this film was the lack of media around intimate relationship abuse, that specifically centred young women. She felt there was little to no media around this topic that resonated with her, and so she thought it was important to create something that can help other young women in the situation she found herself in. Using her own experiences and research from focus groups Molly created ‘Where we stop’. This is her first time writing for screen, having previously only written for theatre. Molly is buzzing to be part of this project especially with the unwavering support of the Glasgow Girls Club, a group she has been a part of since she was 14 years old. This is a massive full circle moment for Molly, both personally and professionally, and to see the impact this process has already had on young women is magic.

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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