📮 Grace’s Satchel Dispatch from Venue 16 📮
Hello duckies, it’s me — Grace Hatchell, your friendly Fringe postie with a satchel full of secrets and a nose for drama (the stage kind, not your neighbour’s break-up, though I do clock that too).
I’ve been pounding the cobbles around Edinburgh like a woman on a mission — which I am, thank you very much — and let me tell you, Venue 16 (that’s Greenside to the uninitiated) is bursting at the seams. I’d count the shows if I had more than two hands and fewer Greggs pasties weighing me down.
So instead, here’s your wink-wink, nudge-nudge on the shows that made me stop mid-delivery and say, “Ooh, now that’s a bit tasty…”
🍟 Call Me Crazy – Good Potato Productions
This one’s for anyone who’s ever been called “hysterical” for daring to say “Er, I’m actually in pain?”
It’s dark, it’s sharp, and it’ll have you questioning what happens when the system gaslights you and labels it “diagnosis complete.” Expect fireworks — emotional ones, mind you, not the tattoo kind on Calton Hill.
Call Me Crazy | Edinburgh Festival Fringe
🎠Electra Kolb
Ambition. Rejection. Total psychological detonation.
Sarah’s spiralling and she’s taking us with her — into a world where the Electra Complex meets job interviews and dreams gone sideways. If you’ve ever thought “Maybe I am too much,” this tragicomic dive might just be your mirror.
📚 Me and My Year of Casual Monasticism – Emily Knutsson
Sex, saints, and syllabuses.
What happens when a Cambridge fresher breaks down and realises that monks and modern academics might just be two sides of the same stressed-out coin? Expect existential crises, and one hell of a Middle Ages meltdown.
Me and My Year of Casual Monasticism | Edinburgh Festival Fringe
🔫 Saving Sophie – Newcastle University Theatre Society (NUTS)
Imagine Tarantino made an episode of Come Dine with Me, but with tuna sandwiches and hitpeople.
This chaotic crime caper’s got bullets, banter and a mysterious suitcase. Also, a rather concerning moral dilemma: is it okay to eat the tuna sandwich of a dead woman? Fringe, baby. Anything goes.
Saving Sophie | Edinburgh Festival Fringe
🧹 Belladonna Theatre –The Scold’s Bridle
Agnes has sass, smarts, and a dangerous tongue. Unfortunately, that last one lands her in a torture device for women who speak their minds (sound familiar?). But don’t worry — our girl’s cooking up something spicy for old Witchfinder Hopkins. Period drama meets feminist fury. Count me in.
The Scold’s Bridle | Edinburgh Festival Fringe
And there you have it — just a handful of juicy picks from Greenside’s theatrical buffet. If I had time, I’d see ’em all. But alas, someone has to deliver the post and the piping hot goss.
See you at the stage door.
– Grace x
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