WHAT’S IN GRACE’S SATCHEL THIS WEEK?
Hot gossip, holy habits, and some truly unholy thoughts at the Edinburgh Fringe…
Right, picture this: you’re a bright-eyed fresher at Cambridge, ready to swan about like you’re in an Oxbridge rom-com – and suddenly, WHAM! You’re having a breakdown, flirting with monks (well, sort of), and accidentally starting a new religion based on bad dates and trauma responses. Sound familiar? No?
“Me and My Year of Casual ‘Monasticism’” is the debut one-woman riot from Emily Knutsson, and let me tell you, she’s not pulling any holy punches. It’s raunchy, it’s irreverent, it’s got more biblical baggage than the Book of Revelation, and it’s all happening this August courtesy of Ready or Knut Productions.
Loosely based on Emily’s own chaotic entry into Cambridge’s hallowed halls – think less Brideshead Revisited, more Sex and the Psalms – this brilliantly blasphemous play asks the big questions: Am I a Madonna? A whore? A monk in an academic gown? Or just someone who’s had it with exes and existential dread?
Emily – Swedish-American, ex-New Yorker, NYT alum, and former president of the Marlowe Dramatic Society (yes, that one) – has basically conquered the Cambridge theatre scene like Henry VIII on a power trip. Now she’s bringing her soul-baring, sex-positive, medieval-meets-modern storytelling to the Fringe stage.
And if that wasn’t enough, she’s also a filmmaker (of course she is) with not one but two shorts doing the festival rounds. Both shot in historic buildings because, well, if you’re going to bare your soul, you may as well do it under a 15th-century archway.
So get thee to the ticket booth, my holy sinners – this is one confessional you won’t want to miss.
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Me and My Year of Casual ‘Monasticism’
Written & performed by Emily Knutsson
Presented by Ready or Knut Productions
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
First came Pembroke. Then a sold-out run at the Corpus Playroom. Now? World domination.
Me and My Year of Casual Monasticism | Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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