Festival City is a podcast from Edinburgh, the world capital of theatre and comedy, and home to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe — the largest arts festival in the world. Hosted by theatre editor and critic Gareth K Vile, we welcome guest performers, directors and writers into The List's attic recording studio to talk theatre, comedy, dance and anything else that takes our fancy. As well as sharing the world of the Edinburgh Fringe with our far-flung listeners, we’ll be talking to arts programmers and curators around the world about their own festivals and institutions.
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Festival City #2 | Demystifying trans at the Fringe
It's here folks, the city is awash with lanyards, Spiegeltents (yes, plural) have been erected, the purple cow is upside down and the circus has most definitely come to town, literally and figuratively. For episode two of Festival City our intrepid host Gareth K Vile headed to National Theatre of Scotland's new, multiple purpose venue Rockvilla for two conversations on plays showing at the Traverse Theatre during the Festival. His first interview is with Jo Clifford on her autobiographical play Eve in which they discuss the lack of trans-narratives in the arts and how these pieces have universal dimensions, after all, we're all just trying to figure out who we are. After critic Lorna Irvine stops by with some theatre recommendations, Gareth is joined by director Cora Bissett to discuss Adam, which tells the story of a boy born in a girl's body in Egypt and who travels to Glasgow in search of liberation. There may also be some Glasgow spruiking in a podcast about the Edinburgh Fringe... cheeky.
Show notes:
00:00:00 – Introduction from Gareth
00:01:47 – Jo Clifford interview for Eve
00:11:57 – Music, Derailed 'Oxytosin' Pleasance Dome
00:13:23 – Lorna Irvine, theatre picks from Fringe. Lilith the Jungle Girl, To Be Me, Staging Wittgenstein
00:16:59 – Music – Behind the Mirror, Go (company) C Venues
00:19:41 – Cora Bissett interview for Adam
00:30:12 – Outro
Further reading:
Rebecca Monks article 'A look at the trans shows of this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe'
Lilith: The Jungle Girl preview
Read more of Lorna Irvine's work on The List and follow her on Twitter @LorIrvine
Festival City is now on Stitcher
Credits:
Festival City Podcast is co-created by Gareth K Vile (host) and Scott Henderson (producer). Intro music by The Joy Drops. Supported by SGSAH.
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