DTF: Doing The Fringe – Details, episodes & analysis

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DTF: Doing The Fringe

Apropos Theatre

Arts

Frequency: 1 episode/43d. Total Eps: 27

In this series we’ll chat with the people who work behind the scenes to make this all happen. We’ll speak with reviewers, people in charge of running venues, we’ll look at the marketing side of things, as well as speaking with actors, writers, and directors who are taking work to the fringe.

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🇨🇦 Canada - Performing Arts
18/08/2026
#82
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Performing Arts
30/09/2025
#74
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Performing Arts
10/12/2024
#87

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Robbie Gordon & Jack Nurse - Wonder Fools

Saturday, March 22, 2025 • Duration 32:46

Wonder Fools is Robbie Gordon and Jack Nurse. They met at RCS and make work that is socially engaged – working with communities to help putting on a work. Over the past few years they’ve worked with David Greig, told stories about Scottish involvement in the Spanish Civil War, won awards, and written stories about the Homeless World Cup.

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Orla O’Loughlin - Director

Season 2 · Episode 6

Saturday, March 15, 2025 • Duration 44:00

Orla O’Loughlin is currently the Vice Principle and Director of Drama at Guildhall. Before that she was the Artistic Director of The Traverse and Pentabus Theatre, and Associate Director of The Royal Court.

Her list of directorial credits is extensive. She’s worked with The National Theatre of Scotland on Enough of Him, Traverse with Mouthpiece which then transferred to Melbourne and Auckland, and What Girls Are Made Of travelled around Scotland as well as Adelaide and Sao Paulo.

She’s been named in the Observer as one of the top fifty cultural leaders in the UK, and the List’s top 100 women in the arts.

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David Greig - Playwright

Saturday, January 25, 2025 • Duration 34:12

David Greig is a playwright, producer, artistic director, and dramaturg, the list goes on. After studying at Bristol University, David Greig started his career working with ‘Suspect Culture’, writing most of their shows. From there, he focused on playwriting, with his work being picked up by The Traverse, Paines Plough, the RSC, and the Edinburgh International festival.

He worked with the National Theatre of Scotland when it was founded in 2006, as well as taking roles in the Traverse, before becoming Artistic Director (a decade later) at the Lyceum Theatre, alongside Zinnie Harris.

He recently announced that he’ll be stepping down from the Lyceum to focus more on his own writing.

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Isobel McArthur - Theatre-Maker

Season 4 · Episode 4

Saturday, January 4, 2025 • Duration 34:31

Isobel McArthur is a writer, director, and actor, best known for doing all three in Pride and Prejudice (Sort Of), her award-winning adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, from the perspective of the servants. The show started off at the Tron in Glasgow, before transferring to the West End and going on multiple tours.

She has also adapted Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped with NTS and The Fair Maid of the West with the RSC.

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Finn den Hertog - Director

Season 4 · Episode 3

Saturday, December 7, 2024 • Duration 44:58

Finn Den Hertog is a Glasgow-based theatre-maker. He trained in acting at the RSC and went on to have a series of roles across tv, stage, and radio. Now, Finn spends more of his time directing, and has worked with NTS, Young Vic, The Traverse, and the National Theatre, to name a few. In 2024, he has directed Morna Young’s adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s novel, Sunset Song, as well as directing Jack Lowden and Sean Gilder in The Fifth Step, David Ireland’s latest play for the Edinburgh International Festival.Credits include: The Enemy (NTS), Square Go (Francesca Moody/Paines Plough), Squash (Traverse), The Last Dictator (Oran Mor), Amadeus (National Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire (Young Vic).

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Laura Keefe - Wise Children

Season 4 · Episode 3

Saturday, November 9, 2024 • Duration 29:07

Laura Keefe is an Associate Director and Head of Training at Wise Children, the theatre company led by Emma Rice.

Part of Laura’s role is overseeing Wise Children’s training programme.

Before working for Wise Children, Laura worked with Watermill Theatre, the North Wall in Oxford, Kneehigh, and the National Theatre, amongst many others.

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Alex Bird - Tortoise in a Nutshell

Season 4 · Episode 1

Saturday, October 26, 2024 • Duration 30:30

Alex Bird is one of the founding members of Tortoise in a Nutshell, a Leith based theatre company with a focus on making creative work that often uses puppetry, physical theatre, and cameras.

Credits include: The Lost Things, Feral (Winner Scotsman Fringe First, Winner Kotorski Festival Grand Jury Prize, Nominee Total Theatre Awards, Nominee Drama Desk Awards), The Last Miner (Nominee Arches Brick Award), Grit (Nominee Arches Brick Award, Nominee Total Theatre Awards) and Fisk (Winner Outstanding Performance Kotorski Festival).

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Sophie Swithinbank - Writer

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 • Duration 27:19

Sophie Swithinbank is a London-based writer whose 2018 play, Bacon, was developed through Soho Theatre, resulting in her winning the Tony Craze award. When this play was staged in 2022, it won several Off West End awards, before transferring to New York and coming to Edinburgh in 2023. That year she also won the Peggy Ramsay/Film4 Award.

This year, she’s worked with Phoebe Ladenburg on Surrender, a play that explores prison, motherhood, and abandoned love.

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Tony Mills - Artistic Director of Dance Base

Saturday, July 27, 2024 • Duration 41:32

Tony Mills, the artistic director of Dance Base, joins us to explain what’s happening at the fringe this year.

Dance Base was started as a charity in 1993 to encourage and develop dance of all styles. In 2001, the purpose-built centre was opened in the heart of Edinburgh’s Grassmarket, becoming Scotland’s National Centre for Dance.

Fast forward to September 2021, when Tony Mills was appointed artistic director. Dance Base Festival 24 (in partnership with Assembly) is the first full programme curated under his tenure, and the second in partnership with Assembly. This year they will present 274 performances of 29 shows by 33 companies from 2-25 August.

Tony’s background is in break dancing, but he has also turned his hand to choreography and studying to become a vet.

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Aisling Galligan - Senior Programmer at Underbelly

Saturday, July 27, 2024 • Duration 33:39

Aisling Galligan is a senior programmer for underbelly, working across the fringe festival as well as at the company’s other events and their new Soho Boulevard venue. This role covers programming a range of different venues, as well as acting as a point of contact for artists thought the festival and beyond.

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