Sam Bain

Thanks so much - hope you enjoy!

Ah I like Greenside! I'm no longer the Fringe Central queen, but am scouting for 3 venues and have 2 shows - Spy Movie: The Play at Pleasance (family comedy but not children's comedy - does that count?) and Joe Tracini: Ten Things I Hate About Me at Underbelly.

Where's the show you're directing and how long are you in town?

A female spy stands centre, fingers pointwd like a gun. A pop-gun BANG flag sticking out. Around her a huge explosion, a matchbox car speeding away, a toy heicopter suspended from above, 2 toy parachutists descending, a phonecall being handed from one side and a clapperboard at the other sayong Spy Movie The Play

The clock is ticking, disaster is imminent… and the only hope left is a spy story held together with duct tape and sheer determination. SPY MOVIE: The Play! is a no-holds-barred comedy caper bursting with low-budget brilliance and big laughs.

www.pleasance.co.uk/event/spy-mo...

Joe, a man with dark hair and glasses, wearing a red & black leotard and dance shoes leaping in the air. A sparkly logo Joe Tracini: Ten Things I Hate About Me

How about a comedy show about hope. And also: mental illness, bad ideas, good liars, Lorraine Kelly... But mostly hope.

Joe lives with Borderline Personality Disorder. This show is what happened when he tried to understand it without exploding.

underbellyedinburgh.co.uk/events/event...

You know there's always one thing you forget to pack...? Just going to have to power through!

3 more hours Hamza!

It's not... it's Edinburgh.

That's a Jonny & the Baptists song I think

My Edinburgh train is full of scouts heading to a camp somewhere. Please god let it be somewhere 1 stop away....

It's silly season! Today I've already checked in with Emmy Happisburgh and the Second Summer of Love team in Stage Two, and Harry Baker who is doing 2 shows over at the Playhouse. Now I'm away on a 6-hour train journey to Chester to rehearse Spy Movie: The Play!'s hour-long version for Edinburgh.

If you think your work is a good fit please do let me know. I tend to get flooded with suggestions so may not respond to every one (though I do try!), but I do read them all and I frequently change up my diary if something looks like it has potential for us.

Show posters for Spy Movie and Joe Tracini. In Joe's, he is dressed in a sparkly dance leotard leaping in the air. In Spy Movie, a woman stands in Bond pose with her fingers held up like a gun. Around her, an explosion, a toy car driving away, two parachutists (plastic toys), a hand holding out an old-style brick mobile phone, a toy helicopter, and a clapperboard which says Spy Movie: The Play!

This year we are producing:

Spy Movie: The Play! At Pleasance Courtyard
Joe Tracini: Ten Things I Hate About Me at Underbelly Bristo Square

www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Lynn Faces poster image. Four middle aged women in snazzy cardigans holding musical instruments. Pink logo in punk style.

Last year we co-commissioned Lynn Faces by Laura Horton with New Diorama Theatre and Theatre Royal Plymouth. Laura won the Birds of Paradise Exceptional Theatre Award (Neurodiverse Review Awards 2024) for Lynn Faces.

Across all scales I’m looking to expand and diversify the programme in all directions and will be particularly looking for work that reflects the themes & issues relevant to our times and work made by people from backgrounds that have historically been under-represented.

Theatre Royal is 1,300 seats and mainly mainstream, commercial shows but with the occasional one-night Fringe production that has wide appeal. From EdFringe recently we programmed Brendan Murphy's Buffy Revamped.

Egs of a few of the theatre shows we programmed from EdFringe:
Rewind (Ephemeral Ensemble)
Failure Project (Yolanda Mercy)
It’s the Economy, Stupid (Worklight)
Revenge: After the Levoyah (Nick Cassenbaum)
You're So F**king Croydon! (Katie Hurley)
The Long Run (Katie Arnstein)

Stage Two. A black box studio theatre with tiered bench seating.

Stage Two is 120 seats and is a space to explore intimate stories and walk in other people's shoes. Particularly in that space I’m looking for storytelling shows, compact dramas and subjects with social impact.

Egs of just some of the theatre shows we programmed from EdFringe:
Chalk Line’s The Chaos That Has Been...
Still Hungry's Show Pony
Gerel Falconer’s Tones: A Hip-Hop Opera
Out of the Forest's Boris III
Temper Theatre's Home
Ugly Bucket’s Good Grief
201 Dance Company's Sad Book

Norwich Playhouse, a midscale theatre with a raftered ceiling. Lit in blue and purple, a band on the stage

Norwich Playhouse is 300 seats. Year-round Fringe vibe across all genres, mainly 1-3 day runs. We have one of the best comedy audiences in the UK and growing theatre/dance audiences. We also programme family shows, mainly primary-age.

I will be at #edfringe to programme shows and connect with artists/companies. A bit about what in particular I’m looking for 🧵

I programme 3 theatres in Norwich (more info below). We also produce, with ability to support development of new work, commission and co-produce.

EdFringe | Five years in the making, Joe Tracini is ready to share 10 Things I Hate About Me, at Edinburgh Fringe Actor, author, presenter, comedian and British champion magician, Joe Tracini, and Norwich Theatre bring his new show, Ten Things I

Five years in the making, Joe Tracini is ready to share 10 Things I Hate About Me, at #Edinburgh Fringe.

@paulsullivanpr.bsky.social @edfringe.bsky.social @mustseetheatre.bsky.social #edfringe

Please do! You'll love Edinburgh.

You’ve got to hand it to Tupperware. So versatile.

National Trust rangers do this year’s puffin weigh-in on the Farne Islands

Every Brilliant Thing to run in the West End with star cast The much-loved show will come to the newest West End venue @sohoplace

This is very much a Brilliant Thing.

www.whatsonstage.com/news/every-b...

Absolutely enormous plant which is way taller than I am and looks hungry

Also has no-one here read John Wyndham? This guy's going to eat me in my sleep....

I'm in a reet posh hotel (a million cushions/pillows on the bed, fancy coffee machine, etc) and all the telly apps. "Nev" has left his BBC Iplayer logged in. He likes Red Dwarf and Antiques Roadshow. What should I introduce Nev to that wasn't on tv in the 90s?

Could you be a 2025 Edinburgh Comedy Award judge? Applications now open for public judges

Could you be a 2025 Edinburgh Comedy Award judge?

First get-out of our 'Spy Movie: The Play!' tour done and I have given myself a lie-in. Which of course is why I've been wide awake since 6.30am.

Today's view from the train:
Wolves, polar bears and a couple of eland antelopes.