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!

Dough

Location:   Pleasance Dome – KingDome (Venue 23)

Dates: Aug 2nd-13th, 15th-20th, 22nd-28th

Time: 13:30

Price: £15 Concessions £13.50

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

Hello! Tell us about yourself? 

I’m David Lescott, a French Playwright, director, and musician. I’ve written more than 30 plays, and directed around 36 works, both in theatre, musicals and opera. The theatres I work with in France are The Theatre de la Ville, La Comedie-Française, and most of the theatres out of Paris. But I also travel a lot with my shows (USA, China, Argentina, UK, Japan, Cote d’Ivoire, Dubai, Spain, Italy, Germany, Great Switzerland…)!

I’m not typically French in my theatre I think, for I like to mix things, while French theatre is most well-known for separating them. The aspect I work on in theatre is rhythm; I think I create a very rhythmical theatre. 

Tell us all about your show!

It presents the whole life of somebody, from his birth to his death – but only the money stories. It is played by three fantastic young actors from New York. One of them plays the main character, the two others play all the other characters (more than 40!). It’s incredibly fast-paced and never stops, much like real life. This is an essential theatre based on the actors and the text, nothing else. There is much virtuosity on stage, it’s fun but also philosophic, and I think anyone can recognize there are parts of one’s own life. It’s about money but, not only money. It’s also a way to explore the question of relationships and choices we make to lead our existence. 

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. 

I’ve never done the Fringe before. But in 2007 I had one of my plays, The bankrupt man, created at the Traverse Theatre. It was already about money. It was a great experience to me, the play was created there, before being played in France in my own direction. I keep a very good memory of that. 

What have been some of the most unique and different comedy shows you have seen this year and why?

“A strange loop”, a musical in Broadway, about a young black gay composer that fights to be recognized in the world of musicals. Really powerful and new, with amazing interpreters.

The most challenging thing about performing at the Fringe?

For a French playwright, this is an absolute challenge to show work in another language. We already tried it with some success in New York with Dough, last year. I also have another one at Fringe, Portrait Of Ludmilla as Nina Simone, that we play in English. It is a huge challenge also because I’ll be on stage myself (I’m a musician too), with Ludmilla Dabo, an excellent actress and singer.

What would be your top three items every performer must take to the Fringe?

Magnesium for the memory. Good yoga routine to stand the pressure. Energetic beverage. 

What’s the secret to successful flyering?

Considering it as a game.  

Who would be your ultimate dream audience member?

Vanessa Kirby, Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, Christian Bale, Lucy Boynton (even only one of them). 

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

My own site: http://davidlescot.com. I’m on Facebook and Instagram too. 

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

This is pure theatre, that mixes the feelings of life, both comic, philosophic and dramatic, like in life, it is the discovery of three great actors.