Edinburgh Festival Series 2024- Ep 216: Catafalque

Persistent and Nasty

Today Elaine chats with Stephanie Katie Hunter, theatre maker and Artistic Director of Scissor Kick about one of the 3 shows they are producing at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Catafalque, which is written and performed by Amy Conway is on at Summerhall until the 11th August before going out on tour across Scotland. We talk the creation of the show, The premise of the show - how do we Eulogise someone who has committed awful acts and how we deal with that and much more. Catafalque - Summerhall Dates: 1st-11th August @ 12:25 pm Tickets available here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/catafalque Tour Dates : https://www.scissorkick.co.uk/tour Catafalque Fern doesn't get invited to dinner parties anymore. They used to love her tales of the macabre. But now? The mask is slipping. Written by Amy Conway and directed by Beth Morton, Catafalque is a one woman eulogy to death through the lens of a civil celebrant. How do we grieve the ungrievable? How do you speak of death when no-one wants to look? A show about love, loss and a lifetime of secrets. Join Fern as she navigates the complexities of a grieving family and learns to tell the truth when it repels the bravest of us. Stephanie Katie Hunter Stephanie Katie Hunter is a producer and theatre maker based in Glasgow, Scotland. Working across art forms and contexts since 2013, highlights of Stephanie’s career include working at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as the Associate (formally Creative) Producer for six years, and independently producing the national and international tour of ‘Drone’, the Fringe First winning ‘LipSync’ for Cumbernauld Theatre Company and delivering ‘Playing with Tales’ for The Royal Lyceum Theatre in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Amy Conway Amy Conway is a Playwright, Theatre Maker, Actor and Community Artist. She works solo and alongside other artists with text, physicality, clown, cabaret, site specific and street theatre to make bold, confronting and inclusive performance. Her award-winning interactive solo show, Super Awesome World [Summerhall/Riotbox], exploring her own experience of depression through the world of 90s video games, has toured theatres and festivals across the UK (and NYC). As a playwright, The Warhol Assassin was awarded Fire Exit’s Pyromania bursary for experimental playwriting and Mountain was longlisted for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting. As a community artist she was Associate Director and Artist for Loop Theatre who make inclusive physical theatre with Learning Disabled Performers and delivers therapeutic drama for those in addiction recovery with Creative Change Collective. Recently she was writer, performer/devisor on Shrill [Scissor Kick/Surge], a radical cabaret of the female and femme voice, premiering at a Glasgow nightclub, and co-creator of Blood Moon [Magnetic North/Manipulate], an outdoor physical theatre response to the spectrum of menstrual experience performed with a community cast EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE 2024 LIVE PODCAST REQUEST https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YVQ1q1cVkPmqqQ_q6VP24-r44dfr7CZkonoxpRZHa88/edit EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE 2024 SCOTTISH BASED ARTITS PODCAST & BLOG REQUEST FORM https://forms.gle/6obqxzCCWyY9aVSS6 Please Note: podcast slots are not assigned on a "first come, first serve" basis. We select podcast guests based on relevance to our listenership. HIPA GUIDES: HIPA GUIDES OUR WEBSITE - www.persistentandnasty.co.uk Persistent Pal & Nasty Hero - Pals and Hero Membership Email – [e-mail] Instagram - @persistentandnasty Twitter - @PersistentNasty Coffee Morning Eventbrite - Coffee Morning Tickets LINKTREE - LINKTR.EE Resources Samaritans - Rape Crisis Scotland - Rape Crisis UK ArtsMinds - BAPAM Freelancers Make Theatre Work Stonewall UK - Trevor Project - Mermaids UK Switchboard LGBT+ - GATE PLANNED PARENTHOOD DONATE - DONATE ABORTION SUPPORT NETWORK UK - ASN.COM- DONATE