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This show is so special, how often do you get a script birthed out of five different brains? The reason our production company is called Red Kitchen Collective is because Tall Tails was made by us, sitting in our kitchen, sweets around the table, talking out all of the details of the show all together. It is a show that is truly founded on friendship– and is, in a way, the purest form of “farm to table,” but make it “friendship to theatre.”

This year I arrived at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe during the last week of the festival. The energy was comparably different from my experience last year during the first week of the festival. Crowds were smaller (but not abysmal), performers were very tired, but the shows were still crackin’!

I have strong feelings about how comedy shows are categorized at Edinburgh Fringe. There is an abundance of stand-up comedians, which is lovely, and many people are down to see those kinds of shows. But what gets my goat is that all other comedy shows get lumped in the same genre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. You won’t find any stand-up on this list (in my world, that would be an entirely different post). Here we focus on theatre, clown, and improv.

NESTING is the newst play from Peter McCormick playing at Summerhall this August during the Edinburgh Fringe. Peter is the playwright and will be featured in the cast. Full of heart, laughs, and, I am sure, a few tears, NESTING is sure to stir up a reminder of the people who have raised you and the love you have for them.