Never Say Macbeth

Narrator/actress Rebecca Brokaw-Sands (no relation to Tom Brokaw, apparently) pops by to regale us with stories of her time on The Play That Goes Wrong, among others. What happens when there's a stage accident within an accident? What's planned and what isn't? What is this, Inception? 

And, surprise surprise, prop guns continue to be a nuisance. Who'da thunk!

Bienvenue! Today we're in Paris speaking with French performer / educator / writer / Beckett expert (Beckettxpert?) Matthieu Protin about : soliloquys with a mouth full of blood, title characters that go AWOL, saving ailing spectators, and the dangers of classical raked stages -- is it worse to be sliding off the stage, or in the audience waiting to get smushed? Roll with us on this one.

English comedian Paul Savage regales us with many tales of his time at the Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringes, as well as:
+ that time he kinda almost got kidnapped 
+ that time he kinda sorta freed a mental patient for a gig
+ those times his life was almost a rom-com
+ whether deli meats are romantic
+ how to murder a comedian
+ the search for the ever-elusive Lucy, among others.

Check out Hopes Under the Hammer at Just the Tonic: The Caves at Edinburgh Fringe.

Three rays of sunshine named Amy McClain, Molly Kittle, and Michele Korb take a brief break from their Edinburgh Fringe craziness to giggle over a beer and chat about their Wizard of Oz-inspired "midlife musical" After the Rainbow, and what happens when your journey into Oz doesn't go as smoothly as planned. What if you don't have the budget for a real flying monkey? What do you do when you bonk your guitar out of tune mid-show? And is a capo really a castrated male chicken*?

*Nope, that's a capon. Oops.

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In the next few episodes, we'll chat about onstage goofs with active Edinburgh Fringe performers during the most hectic and exciting theatre festival in the world.

What happens when your most important piece of tech fails you onstage, and the audience isn't too forgiving? This episode features Australian stand-up comedian Kurt Sterling, whose show Corporate Chronicles is playing at the Cabaret Voltaire for the full Fringe run.