Jo Clifford's new show, Eve, is on at the Traverse Theatre during August.
1. Tell us about your Fringe show
It’s called EVE and it plays at the Traverse right through the Festival.
It’s radical and loving.
2. Best thing about the Fringe?
It’s the openness that enabled me and a friend to put on a show way back in 1980. And that’s how I learned I was a playwright.
3. Worst thing about the Fringe?
it’s a cattle market. I hate being prodded by men and women with sharp critical sticks.
4. How many years have you been coming to the Fringe?
37!!
5. Favourite Fringe venue?
The Traverse.
6. Best Fringe memory?
Watching front of house staff shoe-horning more people into the seats of the old Traverse in the Grassmarket in 1985 because so many people wanted to see my LOSING VENICE.
7. Best heckle?
People don’t heckle. They walk out sometimes. And then I think: well there’s someone I’ve touched.
8. How do you wind down after a show?
By cooking something delicious.
9. What do you love about Scotland?
It’s one of the best places in the world to be queer.
10. What do you like about Edinburgh?
The fact that it’s my home.
11. Sum up your show in three words
Love, resistance, freedom.
Jo Clifford's new show, Eve, is on at the Traverse Theatre during August.
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