To reconcile with water, through fear and grief
Elete N-F responds to How I Learned to Swim by Somebody Jones, embracing the darkness of water and its properties of healing and communality.
Abandon God restored my faith in comedy as a remedy for despair
Memuna Konteh responds to Fringe comedy split-bill Ayo Adenekan and Alvin Bang: Abandon God, putting expectations aside to enjoy stand-up that adapts to important societal moments.
How Diana Feng and Sierra Sevilla are interrogating norms that define culture
Rho Chung interviews theatremakers Diana Feng from Don’t Call Me China Doll and Sierra Sevilla from For the Love of Spam about their Edinburgh Fringe shows, unpacking racial stereotypes, tropes, and the histories that have maintained them.
Embodying the climate crisis and reckoning with the body
In this Response to Sleeper by Korean dance group Jajack Movement, Alycia Pirmohamed interrogates the architectures of the dancers bodies amidst the climate crisis, and of her own body in an Edinburgh studio.
Excavating childhood from the chaos of conflict
Anthony V. Capildeo responds to Precious Cargo, a story about the children affected by Operation Babylift during the Vietnam war, by Australian writer-performer Barton Williams (Huynh van Cuong) and Hebridean composer Andy Yearley (Nguyen Tang).
Longing for a child and waiting for a moment
In this Response to Rat Tails (WIP) by Jeremy McClain, Eilidh Akilade details the journey of art criticism, from the inception of an idea in June, to the witnessing of an Edinburgh Fringe show, before the long bus ride home in August.
History repeats itself at the Edinburgh Fringe
Katie Goh responds to A History of Fortune Cookies by Sean Wai Keung, looking back on previous iterations of the performer’s work and of her own writing to find value in repetition.
Charlene Kaye: A Rockstar breaking generational moulds
Xandra Sunglim Burns responds to Charlene Kaye’s show ‘Tiger Daughter or: How I Brought My Immigrant Mother Ultimate Shame’, on music, mothers, and breaking the generational curse of assimilation and propriety.
To fall and find a country in the home of your body
Anahit Behrooz responds to Cosmos, a solo performance by Palestinian contortionist and aerial acrobat dancer, Ashtar Muallem. “My body is my country,” she explains, minutes into her Edinburgh Fringe show. “After all, the first place we live is our bodies.”
Demi Adejuyigbe side-steps perfection and lands on his feet
Arusa Qureshi talks to comedian and ex-Vine creator Demi Adejuyigbe about developing his first Fringe show and chasing the process over perfection.
Editorial: Fringe of Colour returns with a new (and old) mission
Founder Jess Brough reflects on the value of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for Artists of Colour and announces a new focus for the Responses project.