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Daisy Boulton - Edge of Time - Edinburgh Fringe Interview

As part of our Edinburgh Fringe 2024 coverage, we are running a series of interviews with artists and creatives that are taking part in the festival. 

In this interview, we speak to Daisy Boulton about her Edge of Time.

Where did your arts career begin? 
At Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the National Youth Musical Theatre when I was 12 years old with a musical version of A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream called The Dreaming. And then properly at The Almeida Theatre, after writing a letter to Michael Attenborough asking to be a runner, file papers or bring coffees, he answered and was very generous with his time and I tried my luck and asked him if I could audition for his next show and wound up getting cast alongside Rory Kinnear, Anna Maxwell Martin and Ben Miles before then training at RADA.


What can you tell me about your show?
 
Edge of Time is a hybrid of a music pop concert, one woman show and Pina Bausch inspired movement piece about a contemporary woman in a crisis who discovers the story of a prominent sociologist and pioneer of feminism in the 1960’s who tragically took her life aged 29 in 1965. It is ultimately about the conflict between pressures to conform to societal expectations and the pull to connect and follow one’s north star.
How would you describe the style of the show? 
hybrid of a music pop concert, one woman theatre show and Pina Bausch inspired movement/dance piece which feels new and different in its exploration.
 
How have you approached developing the piece? 
I wrote the songs first and gigged them to get a feel for how people responded and how it felt to share them. I read loads of Greek myths, stories, Carlo Rovelli’s books on Quantum physics to connect to the spacetime aspect and get rooted in how to convey the feeling of our interconnectivity and made two music videos, asked people to read versions of the script, R&D’s it last year, until I got to this point.
 
How do/will you prepare yourself for a run at the Fringe? 
Aside from the mountains of admin and juggling it takes to put on a show at the fringe; lots of walks in nature, meditating, moments of release with friends and family, eating well, not drinking, watching other people’s shows – music, theatre and dance and sleeping lots!
 
Other than the show, what’s something you’re looking forward to doing in Edinburgh this year? 
Walking, going to the sea – you can get to the sea easily right!? And going to loads of shows!
 
What keeps you inspired? 
Other people’s work, nature, reading other people’s ideas, stories, swimming, dancing.
 
What do you hope an audience takes away from seeing the show? 
I hope they take away a feeling of sadness and hope and a sense of something new and daring having just taken place with a huge heart at its core and having learnt about an extraordinary woman and a reminder of how hard life can be but how resilient and interconnected we all are as well.
 
Where can audiences see the show? 
At Cowgate – Underbelly 1-25th August (except the 12th) at 12.50pm

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