Persistent And Nasty

ABOUT THE SHOW WATCHING GLORY DIE Judith Thompson’s riveting and exquisite portrayal of three women trapped in a broken prison system will leave you dumbfounded.The play is inspired by the shocking and true story of teenager, Ashley Smith, who – after five years of being misdiagnosed, and mistreated, hallucinating away in ‘therapeutic quiet’ – died by suicide in her prison cell because the guards were ordered not to interfere. When asked why she wrote the play, Ms. Thompson stated: “because Ashley is an outlier, like every artist. Ashley simply could not be a “good girl.” She could not shut up and do what she was told. She was wild, and reckless, and if she had been a boy, she would have been admired. The artist’s job is to throw those crab apples, to unsettle and startle conforming folks, to question everything. That is what Ashley was doing, in her way, and she paid with her life. Hers was not a suicide. It was a homicide. It was, in fact, ruled a homicide in civil court. Who was punished for her death?

In this episode we chat to the amazing and inspiring Jenny Foulds. Jenny began her career as an actress at 16 working in film, tv and theatre. Jenny moved to London from Edinburgh in her early 20's. A change in career happened in her late 20's when she became a PA in the city. However, the creative part of her was always there and Jenny started to collate Happy Graffiti which became a book in 2013. Jenny has now found her creativity in Spoken Word. Jenny is currently organising a Spoken Word night on 24th October 2019. It's called Rebel Soapbox and is in support of MacMillan Cancer Research and Battle Together. Tickets are available now. https://www.facebook.com/events/867715003628939/ This is a really important podcast bring up things that really need to be talked about. You can follow Jenny on the following Instagram: @jennywithwords Twitter: @jennywithwords Website: jennyfoulds.com As always we advise parental guidance for our podcast.

In this episode we talk to the awe inspiring Paula McFetridge, Artistic Director of Kabosh Theatre Company. Paula has so many words of wisdom we were so grateful to spend an hour with this incredible woman. Paula a freelance actor and director. A founding member of the Belfast Community Circus in ’85 and Tinderbox in ’88. As a performer Paula has worked with a lot of theatre companies from the Abbey Theatre [Dublin] to every independent company in the North of Ireland. In 2000 Paula took over as Artistic Director at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, the first female artistic director since the founder, Mary O’Malley. In 2006 Paula joined Kabosh Theatre Company as their Artistic Director and in her words they will have to carry her out. Kabosh's current production Green & Blue has just finished its month run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Green & Blue explores the painful and humorous realities faced by the individuals who patrolled the Irish border during the height of conflict. To find out more about Kabosh fo

This special episode of our podcast was recorded live on 15 August 2019 at inSpace at Fringe Central during the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We are grateful to the support of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society for making it happen. Featuring... Hannah Lavery Hannah Lavery is a writer and performer experienced in delivering creative writing and poetry workshops. The Drift, her spoken word theatre show, previewed at the Tron theatre in October 2018, as part of Black History Month, produced by The National Theatre of Scotland. The poetry from The Drift, will be published with Stewed Rhubarb Press in early 2019. She has been part of many spoken word nights including, Flint and Pitch, Sonnet Youth, Chill Habibi and has also performed at Electric Fields, CoastWord, the Gutter Magazine Party, Solas and Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival. Follow Hannah... On Twitter @HanLavery W: https://www.hannahlavery.com/ Kirsten Vangsness Kirsten Vangsness is a Los Angeles-based actor and playwright. She is best k

Erin McGee is a playwright, dramaturg and Company Administrator for Scotland's leading theatre company for work by and about women, Stellar Quines. Her recent play, Mooning, is part of the Traverse Theatre's Breakfast Plays series at the Edinburgh Fringe. At the heart of the Traverse is a past and present full of daring, forward-facing artists. This year’s Breakfast Plays give a glimpse of the now and new from four of the most exciting rising voices in Scottish theatre. You can catch Mooning - a play about cults, bats and the man on the moon - on the 21st and 25th August at 9am. Book your tickets via the Traverse website - https://www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/event/breakfast-plays-the-future-is Follow Erin on Twitter @errymcgee Mentored by established playwrights Zinnie Harris, Stephen Greenhorn, Linda McLean and Douglas Maxwell, four emergent women writers (Erin McGee, Eve Nicol, Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir, Diane Stewart) showcase the imminent future of Scottish new writing talent. Their plays; poetic,

ABOUT THE FULL MOON CABARET The Full Moon Cabaret is an immersive art party with vintage style on the full moon of every month. Mixing high art and low humour, the Full Moon Cabaret is a sexy and subversive evening hosted by Viva Lamore. Each show creatively explores a theme derived from the Native American name for the full moon that month. Full Moon Cabaret was founded by Victoria Linchong (aka Viva Lamore), an award-winning producer and director from New York City with very wide interests. After moving to Berlin in 2015, she became involved in several underground arts communities and felt that there should be a platform to unite them all. She remembered the Full Moon Show, a variety show hosted and produced by her friend Tom Murrin, which was a centerpiece of the avant-garde performance art scene in New York City from the 1970s until Murrin's death in 2012. Taking the DIY, all-embracing, avant-garde spirit of the Full Moon Show, Linchong began hosting the Full Moon Cabaret in 2016 to celebrate, catalyz

ABOUT THE SHOWS MARA MARA is an original, multidisciplinary piece, celebrating women through time by means of sound manipulation and electro-acoustic music, performed live by The New Victorians. An ensemble-driven piece starring an all-female Maltese company. From inventors and scientists, to artists and activists. From musicians and politicians, to writers, to fighters, to mothers. MARA is an audio-theatrical journey through time, highlighting the fact that every story is worth telling, and that no voice should be silenced. Running until 26-Aug at the Pleasance Dome (King Dome) at 2pm Buy tickets here - https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/mara ABOUT RAVE AND BEHAVE For musical sisters Bella and Blue, competition means serious business. So when The New Victorians announce they are running a songwriting competition to find their new support act, they have to enter and they have to win. This dynamic duo have just one day to make the ultimate electro-acoustic pop hit... but what does that mean and who tur

Strap in, lads. This one is truly a cracker. Team Nasty sit down for an utterly class chat with playwright, actress and bringer of all round good craic, Meghan Tyler. We discuss her insanely brilliant new play Crocodile Fever, witchcraft, finding your coven, and the strength of female friendship. ABOUT THE SHOW Northern Ireland, 1989. Rebellious Fianna Devlin crashes back into the life of her pious sister Alannah. Together for the first time in years, they are back at each other's throats in seconds. And when they are forced to confront their tyrannical father's hideous legacy, all hell breaks loose. Fuelled by Taytos, gin, 80s tunes and a chainsaw, it's the Devlin sisters versus the world. Like Thelma and Louise's punk daughter, Meghan Tyler's surreal new play is a grotesque, black comedy celebrating sisterhood whilst reminding us that the pressure cooker of The Troubles is closer than we imagine. www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com The show is smashing the reviews and is starting to sell out so book your tick

What a super chat Louise and Misha have with New York based comedian and actress, Molly Brenner. We talk about her latest show "I'm Coming" and her journey to finally having orgasm. Expect a pretty fascinating and funny chat about female sexual pleasure, consent and more. ABOUT THE SHOW Molly finally had an orgasm. What’s her secret? The answers may surprise you! I’m Coming chronicles comedian Molly Brenner’s long, harrowing and strangely expensive journey to the Big O. It is an honest, sex-positive and unnervingly funny take on pleasure and the ever-elusive female orgasm. Molly’s performed for sold-out crowds throughout the US and makes her (very satisfying) international debut here at the Fringe. ‘Enlightening’ and ‘boldly personal’ (TheaterInTheNow.com). Produced as part of the Civil Disobedience 2019 Edinburgh Fringe season. Find out more at www.wearecivildisobedience.com Running until 25-Aug (ex 14) at 17:30 at Sweet Grassmarket. Book your tickets here - https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/i-m-com

Louise and Misha sat down to talk to the extremely cool and talented Caitlin Skinner and Mel Jordon about their latest show, "A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego". They are both very lovely people. Well, Caitlin is lovely. Mel is secretly awful, but it's so secret no one ever sees it! ABOUT THE SHOW The multi award-winning Jordan & Skinner present a riotous new solo show that cuts to the bone of gender politics. Andrea has been giving her lecture but it's not been going well – previous events were marred by protests and she's hoping the open-minded audience at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe will hear her out. You see, half the world is suffering under the weight of a heavy burden. If we're not careful everything will smash. And we wouldn't want that now, would we. Running until 26-Aug (ex 14 + 21) at 16:00 at the Pleasance Dome (Ace Dome) Book your tickets here - https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/brief-history-of-the-fragile-male-ego ABOUT JORDAN AND SKINNER Jordan and Skinner are feminist theatre

We could have chatted with the Mary's for hours. Their show Girl Bully celebrates feminist bitches everywhere and explodes the patriarchy this Edinburgh Fringe, confronting the mixed messaging imposed on young girls and women. ABOUT THE SHOW New York City-based Rock Rising Inc. presents Girl Bully, a new play by comedic duo Mary Clohan and Mary McDonnell that explores and explodes our use of the word “bitch.” With appearances from their childhood selves, Ann Coulter, and various other bitches past, present and future, these two longtime friends attempt to get to the bottom of the enigmatic word and how it has come to shape the female experience. Catch the show until 10-Aug at The Place at 20:00. The show is FREE. Find out more here - https://wearecivildisobedience.com/portfolio/girl-bully/ Follow them... on Twitter @GirlBullyPlay on IG @GirlBullyPlay W: https://www.rockrising.org/

We chat with ThickSkin producer Steph Connell, Associate Producer Carla Marina Almeida, Lighting Designer Zoe Spurr and Composer & Sound Designer Alexandra Faye Braithwaite about their work on the incredible How Not To Drown. ABOUT THE SHOW A painful yet uplifting true story of a child asylum-seeker arriving in the UK. At 11 years old, Dritan is sent on the notoriously perilous journey across the Adriatic to a new life in Europe, only to continue his fight for survival in the British care system. 'I don’t know why my Dad let me go... I was too young, too weak, to make this journey. He wouldn’t have sent me unless there was a reason'. Award-winning theatre company ThickSkin (Chalk Farm, The Static) returns to the stage with an action-packed, highly visual production. www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com Catch the show until 25-Aug (ex 12th + 19th) at various times (see the Traverse website for times on your desired date). Book your tickets at https://www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/event/how-not-to-drown Written by

Another fabulous afternoon was spent chatting with team behind Bobby and Amy. Bobby and Amy is a new dark comedy about foot-and-mouth disease by Fringe First winning Emily Jenkins. ABOUT THE SHOW It's the late nineties, Take That, Tamagotchis, Dip Dabs, and Pog Swaps. When 13 year old Bobby and Amy meet, hundreds of cows dot across the fields and the sun always shines. But when the cows begin to burn, Bobby and Amy’s sleepy Cotswold town faces a catastrophe that will change their home forever. Set amongst the devastation that hit farming communities in the late nineties; Bobby & Amy explores friendship, heartache, and what happens when our way of life is threatened by those who don’t understand it. Catch the show until 26-Aug (ex 12th) at 12:45 in Pleasance Upstairs at the Pleasance Courtyard. Book your tickets here - https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/bobby-amy ABOUT THE TEAM Bobby & Amy is the first collaboration for Emily Jenkins & Emma Blackman. The partnership is built on a shared passion for cham

We had an absolute ball chatting with Rachael Abbey, Jess Morley and Sarah Penney - the Roaring Girls and hilarious cast of Beach Body Ready. ABOUT BEACH BODY READY t's the season of cutting carbs, hitting it hard at the gym, and shaving everything from the chin down. Summer has rocked up and the media has us thinking about how our bodies aren't up to scratch and there are companies ready to capitalise on that. We've been shamed, dehumanised, and humiliated for how we look and we've had enough. Join The Roaring Girls for a defiantly feel-good show which sticks two fingers up at how the media says you should look. The Roaring Girls are getting Beach Body Ready. Are you? Catch the show until 25-Aug (ex 12th) at 1.10pm in Pleasance Above at the Pleasance Courtyard. Book your tickets here - https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/beach-body-ready Beach Body Ready is supported by Pleasance Futures as part of the Regional Theatre Partnership Programme with York Theatre Royal and in association with Hull Truck Th

Team Nasty sit down with director Madeleine Skipsey and lead actress Antonia to talk about their work on a new play - She Sells Sea Shells - by Helen Eastman. ABOUT THE SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS 'It ain't a fossil. It's fossilised dung. But if he wants to pop it in a cabinet I don't want to spoil his day'. In 1811, the daughter of a Lyme Regis carpenter discovered the world's first Ichthyosaur. She was twelve. Before she was thirty, Mary Anning made discoveries that transformed our understanding of the universe. Then she was written out of history. Nearly. Scandal and Gallows bring their blend of movement and storytelling to this extraordinary story of genius, gender and dinosaurs. Catch the show in the Iron Belly at Underbelly Cowgate at 1.30pm until 25-Aug (ex 12th). You can buy tickets here - https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/she-sells-sea-shells ABOUT SCANDAL AND GALLOWS Scandal and Gallows are a young theatre company who stage classic stories using intimate and innovative storytelling. Follow them

Louise has a fantastic chat with some of the incredible women of brand new play, Drowning. She was in the stellar company of playwright Jessica Ross, producer Kendell Shaffer and actress Aurora Henning. Louise had an absolute blast with these talented, inspiring and powerhouse ladies. They chat all things feminism, pursuing your goals, the #WomenOfFringe initiative and murder! This is definitely a killer episode. Pun intended

In the first of our series of 2019 Edinburgh Fringe podcasts, we talk to the brilliant Cat Hepburn. Cat is an award-winning script writer, spoken word artist and educator based in Glasgow. She holds an MA with distinction in TV Fiction Writing from Glasgow Caledonian University, and an MA Hons in Theatre and Slavonic Studies from the University of Glasgow. Her passions are working with marginalised voices, exploring feminist issues and using contemporary storytelling to empower, provoke and make people laugh. She is the co-host and producer of Creative Scotland funded spoken word events organisation Sonnet Youth. She has story-written for BBC’s River City and Lime Pictures’ Hollyoaks. Cat's debut poetry book #GIRLHOOD (Speculative Books) is available to buy now. #GIRLHOOD is Cat Hepburn's debut Edinburgh Fringe show and adaptation of her hit poetry book. Nostalgic, hilarious and heartbreaking, her performance deconstructs and satirises the milestones, conventions and pressures that girls and young women fa

In episode 11 all of our Nasty gals have a great conversation with Jemima Levick the Artistic Director Of Stellar Quines Theatre Company The conversation covers everything from Jemima’s beginnings as a director to changing the narrative our young people see on stage and screen with her current production of This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing to what the future holds for all of us. Jemima was previously Artistic Director and Associate Director at Dundee Rep Theatre for seven years until she joined Stellar Quines in May 2016. She trained at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and also on a Scottish Arts Council Director Traineeship. She is an extremely successful director and has won and been nominated for a number of awards. While at Dundee Rep she directed more than 18 productions, including, The Tempest, The Glass Menagerie, The Tempest, Time and the Conway’s, The Elephant Man and Beauty and the Beast. As a freelance director and producer she worked with a number of companies, incl

In episode 10 Louise chats to the more than a little bit impressive Sarah Rose Graber. Sarah-Rose is a performer, director, teaching artists and occasional unicorn with a fascinating resume. She's always off an exciting new creative adventure, so it was a lucky delight to catch her for a coffee and a blether. Originally from Miami, she moved to Chicago to study theatre at Northwestern University and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London which piqued her interest in the international theatre scene. Graber is a Circumnavigator Scholar Grant winner having traveled around the world to England, South Africa, Kenya, Mauritius, Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina exploring theatre for social change. She was awarded a prestigious US-UK Fulbright Grant in 2013 to work with professional theatre companies across the UK researching devising based practices and making interdisciplinary theatrical experiences. Sarah Rose was named “One of 15 Women to Watch” in 2015 by Today’s Chicago Woman Magazine and

In today's episode Elaine sits down with Jennifer Bates. Artistic Director of the DH Ensemble. They chat about Jen's most recent work and what she has coming up. Covering everything from Breast milk to taking up your own space. Jen's daughter makes a few guest vocals throughout the podcast as well. Enjoy. Co-founder and Director of the DH Ensemble, Jennifer has directed each of the Ensemble's projects to date. Other theatre credits include companies such as The Tron Theatre, Glasgow, The Byre Theatre, St Andrews, Poorboy Theatre, Bard In The Botanics, Glasgow Rep and The Royal Shakespeare Company Studio. Film and TV include Ickleflix Production 'Fast Romance' and Belle and Sebastian's music video 'White Collar Boy'. She has worked extensively with Solar Bear Theatre Company and Youth Arts Scotland/National Theatre of Scotland. She has directed several works with Solar Bear’s Deaf Youth Theatre including a collaboration with electronic duo, Tigerstyle and The Arches. She completed her Masters (with Distinctio