As part of our Edinburgh Fringe 2024 coverage, we are running a series of interviews with artists and creatives who are taking part in the festival.
In this interview, we speak to the Drop Dead Theatre team about their 100% My Type On Paper.
What can you tell me about your show?
100% My Type On Paper is a look at love in its most modern form: with dating apps, relativity TV and current dating culture, the definitions of love and dating have been twisted and toyed with to create something not so cut and dry. Our show zooms in on these principles through a totally current lens, framed in the context of a typical first date, that seems to happen again, and again, and again…
How would you describe the style of the show?
Our show sits in a comedic, natural space at its opening and descends into something more uncanny and intense as it goes on: we think it's best to go in blind and let the play take your expectations and smash them to pieces.
Our show sits in a comedic, natural space at its opening and descends into something more uncanny and intense as it goes on: we think it's best to go in blind and let the play take your expectations and smash them to pieces.
How do/ will you prepare for the Fringe?
This script itself has been in development for quite some time and the rehearsal process is well underway. We have been focussing heavily on studying these characters inside out, using tests of instinct, music and many other exercises to do this. We have also had our eyes on the current reality and online dating world, to truly immerse ourselves in the subject matter.
Other than the show, what’s something you’re looking forward to doing in Edinburgh this year?
Some of our company have friends and family at the Fringe and living in Edinburgh, so we are really looking forward to seeing them! We will no doubt be trying to catch as many other shows as we can, and exploring the cabaret and night scene as well.
If your show was a biscuit, what would it be and why?
Our show would be a jaffa cake- it looks like you know what you’re getting but the second you dig your teeth in, that’s all uprooted! We hop from style to style just as jaffa cakes hop from biscuit to cake classification… is a jaffa cake even a biscuit? Is 100% My Type On Paper more than what meets the eye?
Give me a random fact about you/ the show?
This play was inspired by a 5 minute piece I had to write overnight in a rapid write project based on an article about reality television purposefully depriving their contestants of sleep to cause more drama.
What do you hope an audience takes away from seeing the show?
We hope it gets audiences to reflect on modern attitudes to not only romantic love, but our relationships with eachother and ourselves in a current climate that expects perfection and uses love as a commodity. Although this piece isnt necessarily ‘happy’, we also want an audience to come out feeling hopeful- to laugh at the absurdity of the expectations set out for us by social media and reality television, to look at themselves and know they are fine exactly as they are, in all their complexity. We don’t want to answer any questions with this piece, but instead present something that will make people think.
Where can audiences see the show?
1:20pm from the 12-25th, at the C Alto Studio! If you enjoy the show and fancy a chat after, we’ll be hanging around so please do come and say hi!
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