MARK WATSON INTRODUCES…
AUGUST 1st, 2nd & 16th
Just arrived at the Fringe and absolutely no idea how to choose between the 23,000 shows? So bewildered that you feel like going home again? In this one-hour afternoon showcase, Fringe legend Mark Watson introduces a few of his recommendations. Enjoy them, choose a favourite or two, see their shows that evening, or the next night. The perfect aperitif, in the beautiful setting of the Summerhall.
1st August: with Amelia Hamilton, Mary O'Connell, Emma Holland and one more!
2nd August: with Lulu Popplewell, James Trickey, Lachlan Werner, Sam Nicoresti
16th August: TBC
JULIA MASLI & PAULINA LENOIR IN FORMER GENT’S LOCKER ROOM
AUGUST 4th - 10th
Julia Masli & Paulina Lenoir (b.1995/1992)
in Former Gentlemen’s Locker Room, 2025
On June 2015 Paulina and Julia met for the first time at an afterparty in France. Paulina thought she would be sleeping at Julia’s, due to a miscommunication. Julia offered the floor of her bedroom in confusion. Paulina had been promised a bed, so that didn’t sound right. Paulina did not stay on Julia’s floor.
Ten years later they’ve shared a bed, meals, peed together, dressed each other, betrayed each other, made up, grieved together, went out dancing, shopping, met each other’s families, analysed each other’s dreams, shared therapists, brushed teeth together, spent Christmas together, wore each other’s dirty socks, learnt to sing together, got rejected from a nightclub, sat in silence in cafes crying, started ambitious projects that didn’t materialise and kept each other’s secrets.
Today they ask you for 60 minutes of your time, regarding a matter very close to their hearts. What they mean to say is sharing their work with you may just make everything ok?
SAM NICORESTI: WOKEFLAKE SCREENING
AUGUST 13th & 15th
Sam Nicoresti's YouTube special 'Wokeflake', released to viral success in 2024, is a vivisection of trans identity in our culture war-ridden times; a unique hybrid of standup, to-camera narration and more besides. In this intimate setting, Sam introduces a screening of Wokeflake and has the awkward experience of watching it with you.
MARK WATSON’S SECRET SHOW
AUGUST 14th
Normally you’d do a work-in-progress if you were planning a Fringe show next year. But Mark isn’t even doing it next year. 2027 would be the earliest. So this is just trying out ideas that are nowhere near ready. You’d hardly want an audience at all for something like that. So this is a secret show. Only forty people can get in and perhaps fewer than that will ever notice this.