Hotter Project (Mary Higgins and Ell Potter) join with their long-term producing partner and collaborator Ellie Keel, to bring their new show The Last Show Before We Die to this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe at Paines Plough’s Roundabout at Summerhall from 2 to 27 August.
Mary Higgins and Ell Potter are actors, writers, and ex-partners. They are the co-founders of HOTTER Project, a queer creative collective dedicated to creating radically honest (and silly) work about the stuff that no one wants to talk about. Their previous sell-out shows HOTTER and FITTER tackled sex, bodies and shame, and now the pair are applying their unique verbatim process to perhaps the scariest theme yet: endings. Other credits include audio romp Lem N Ginge: The Princess of Kakos starring Sharon D. Clarke and their highly successful podcast Life of Bi: a slippery history of bisexuality.
Ell and Mary have been dead for three years, but now the creators of HOTTER and FITTER have come back to life (and the stage) with one question on their minds: how do you know when it’s the end? Inspired by zombies, heartbreak, and the humble cockroach, The Last Show Before We Die is an existential verbatim cabaret about the big things in life. And death.
The Last Show Before We Die combines found audio with original interviews in a genre-defying tragicomedy. Expect answers to life’s existential questions both profound and profane from a 93-year-old, a former addict, a grief counsellor, a climate activist, and a midwife. And one of those people is already dead.
In a dark departure from their previous work, Hotter Project won’t bring you closure, or a happy ending. For reasons to do with the economy, unemployment, personal relations, the environment, and general apathy, this will be the last show Hotter Project ever does.
Welcome to the messiest breakup you’ve ever been through: live.
