Kate Saffin

Thinking of bringing your first show to the Fringe? Hear the experience of one couple just starting their Fringe journey. Phil and Denise are folk musicians and storytellers in Edinburgh for the first time with The Horse That Jumped At The Moon at The Space on the Mile.

In Hecuba: Why Am I In Your Country?, Palestinian Syrian actor Arwa Omaren combines Euripides’ ‘The Trojan Women’ with her own story of displacement in a powerful solo performance that weaves the words of Euripides’ Hecuba, Queen of Troy, into her own story of a perilous journey from Syria to the UK.

Lucy Stevens talks to Kate Saffin about the challenges of creating work about an historical character, the sources she draws on, and weaving it all together. Woolf’s clarity on women when ‘writing one’s mind’, championed writers from our past to inspire the voices of our future. This new solo show written and performed by Lucy Stevens draws on a withering critique of patriarchy delivered by Virginia Woolf in 1931 alongside many of the writers Woolf admired and was influenced by.