FROM THE MOSS-COVERED DESK OF HOGAN GRIMSBANE
Official Troll Correspondent, Theatre Village
“FORGET ME NOT” BLOOMS AT THE 2025 EDINBURGH FRINGE (WHETHER I LIKE IT OR NOT)
Right. Another show about motherhood, music, memory, and misery. You lot just can’t help yourselves, can you?
But even I must admit… this one sounds like a bit of a corker (don’t tell Grace I said that).
Forget Me Not is a brand-new two-hander premiering at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Brought to you by the formidable duo of Julie Lake (yes, her from Orange Is the New Black – not just your average Netflix wanderer) and Annie Macleod, a hauntingly talented musician who plays both strings and heartstrings, sometimes simultaneously.
The premise? Two childhood best friends reconnect in the midst of nappy changes and sleepless nights. But don’t expect kumbaya and cupcake chats. This reconnection gets delightfully messy — we’re talking infidelity, artistic crises, and enough emotional fallout to make even a stoic gargoyle like myself shift uncomfortably on his plinth.
Armed with just two chairs, a guitar, a keyboard, and the kind of harmonies that make your nose itch from feelings, Forget Me Not is raw, gutsy, and quietly devastating. It doesn’t need bells or whistles (or projection mapping or flying rigging, thank the goblins). Just two women, a few broken dreams, and the strange, tangled beauty of trying to create and connect when everything around you is leaking or screaming.
There’ll be songs. There’ll be secrets. There’ll be at least one moment where someone in the front row regrets not bringing tissues.
So go on then — be brave, book a ticket, and see Forget Me Not. It might just stay with you longer than your ex’s hoodie.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a cursed kazoo recital to attend.
— Hogan Grimsbane
Grumbling Loudly from Beneath the Box Office
https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/forget-me-not
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