Nicki Hobday at the Edinburgh Fringe
Nicki Hobday Conquers Space
written and performed by Nicki Hobday in collaboration with Neil Mackenzie
supported by greenroom
Venue: Just The Tonic @ The Caves (Venue 88. 253 Cowgate)
Time: 2:30pm (1 hour)
Dates: 5th – 29th August (Not 16th)
Tickets: £7 / £6; Call 0131 208 0882
Winner of the Best Female Performer Award 2010 at the ACT Festival, Bilbao.
Nicki Hobday hasn’t arrived. The stage is empty and only the expectations of the audience and a load of possibilities are present. Things unfold nevertheless, complete with overblown soundtracks and performing raincoats, as expectations are fleshed out and romantic fantasies threaten to take over. Indeed it’s only when she does, finally, show up that it all starts to go seriously wrong.
Marking a new point where theatre and comedy meet, Nicki Hobday Conquers Space crams all time and all space into one theatrical moment, one that keeps feeding back on itself, in a desperate attempt to avoid facing the facts.
Award winning performer Nicki Hobday teams up for the first time with director Neil Mackenzie, in a hilarious mix of high ideas and low humour.
Nicki Hobday co-founded experimental company Trace Theatre in 2007, who have taken their latest show to several international festivals this year, most recently to Bilbao where Nicki was awarded Best Female Performer ACT festival 2010. Since Graduating with a degree in Contemporary Theatre and Performance in 2008 Nicki has been performing nationally and internationally both with Trace and other professional touring companies such as Proto-type Theater and Until Thursday.
Read review from The Stage.
