It is festival season and that means that in the next month there is so many great comedy festivals to look forward to! This month we are looking at some of the great shows that you can see at the Edinburgh Fringe. So take note because we are going to give you all the information you need for just a handful of some of the great shows happening this year!

Pitch

Location:   Pleasance Courtyard – Pleasance Above (Venue 33)

Dates: Aug 2nd-8th, 10th-15th, 17th- 22nd, 24th-28th

Time: 15:45

Price: F£16.00 Concessions £14.50

Ticket Link: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/pitch

How did you come up with the name of your show that you’re taking to the Fringe?

Ha! Well… Having gone round the bends with the name for the show we ended up where we started: Pitch. Pitch came from the first application we ever did, when the idea was in its infancy. 

Ha! Well… PITCH came from our first ever pitch (geddit) for the show. Myself and my co-creator, Ellie, made a fan zine style pitch deck for the project titled PITCH PITCH. Even when the play on words was less relevant, we still loved Pitch. You can find pitches everywhere, you can make them yourself: they are the places we play. So, even after trying maybe 100 other names, Pitch was the one that stuck.

Tell us all about your show!

Pitch is a show about Football and the LGBTQIA+ community. In the wake of the controversial Qatar World Cup and eagerly awaiting the 2023 Women’s Tournament, Pitch will bring together a diverse group of queer artists and present a collage of historical and present-day queerness in relation to football. 

The show is a devised piece, with a documentary focus – created from interviews, objects and stories that emerge from the whole team training together as a 5-a-side squad and interviews with queer players and fans. The audience will watch us play (some of us for the first time), listen to us give a voice to those who couldn’t and still can’t be proud, ask why 30% of football fans admitted they’d find two men kissing at a match uncomfortable and help us imagine a future in which queer presence in football is more than just a debate over a rainbow armband.

What other acts are you looking forward to seeing at the Fringe?

Ooooh a good few…

Our fellow Charlie Hartill Winners, Stroud and Notes, have their new musical Public – The Musical. Liv Ello and Frankie Thompson are cooking up some goodness with Soho Theatre and their new show Body Show. Flawboard are up as Untapped winners with It’s A Motherf***ing Pleasure. Santi & Naz at Pleasance. Strategic Love Play at Summerhall. And that’s just the BEGINNING of the list… 

Have you done the Fringe before? What are the key pieces of advice you have been given or would give to new groups or people performing at the Fringe. 

Yes! November Theatre brought their UK debut show, how to build a wax figure, up with Assembly last year. 

Top tips: 

The falafel from elfalafel is a life saver.

Flyering hungover is awful but at least you’ll have solidarity.

Watch all the shows but also take time off from watching shows.

The love is everywhere. Everyone is shattered and a bit stressed. We’ve all got each other.

What have been some of your favourite shows to date and why?

At Fringe? 

• Sap – Jess Clarke and Rebecca Banatvala are a superb due, a beautiful story that also did incredible justice to the bisexual experience.
• A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings – the most inventive storytelling, some of the most magical puppetry I’ve seen in a long time, odd and heart-wrenching.
• Opal Fruits – surprising, charming, in your face and exciting.
• Brown Boys Swim – king of the fringe 2022 and you can see why; delicate writing and performances, brilliantly handled by the whole team.
  

What is the best way to enjoy yourself at the Fringe?

Laugh. See things that make you laugh, find the people that make you laugh, laugh at the ridiculousness of flyering in costumes that are slowly starting to smell. Cook food with your cast. Go to portobello beach and freeze in the sea. Buy small things in tartan to take home and forget. Hugs.

If people want to find out more about you, where can they follow you on social media?

@novtheatre on twitter

@novembertheatre on instagram 

http://www.novtheatre.co.uk

And finally, in three words – Why should people come and see the show? 

Fun, Flirty, FOOTBALL