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Do you believe in love at first sight?
CANDY is back!
Long overdue due to Covid, CANDY’s debut performance at Edinburgh Fringe is finally coming up at the Underbelly Bristo Square, 5-29 August 2022.
CANDY also has its dedicated webpage at candytheplay.com.
Tickets from £7 are available at Underbelly Edinburgh website.
CANDY
A new comedy about masculinity, identity, and love.
WRITTEN BY TIM FRASER DIRECTED BY NICO PIMPARÉ
Will is struggling with a secret.
He’s fallen hopelessly in love with the seductive, unattainable Candy — she’s an epiphany, a revelation, and just happens to be his best friend Billy dressed in drag.
With his life crumbling at the fringes, Will struggles to make sense of his newfound feelings. Can he ever be with her? And what does loving her really mean?
★★★★★
“Excellent writing, brilliant staging and a superb performance”
London Theatre 1
What is Candy?
Candy began as a 15-minute short play at Reboot: Shorts 2 (Bunker Theatre, 2018), being selected from over 1000 submissions. RTC immediately fell in love with the play and with ‘Will’, and found a deeply personal and moving connection with his story. Over the past 12 months, Michael Waller worked closely with Tim Fraser and Nico Pimparé on a unique journey to develop the story into this full-length play.
Candy’s debut production at the King’s Head Theatre on January 2020 coincided with the theatre’s 50th birthday.
The writer’s journey
CANDY started life as a ten-minute monologue in 2017, and for a long while I thought that’s all it’d ever be, at least on stage. I had been developing it into a short film script when Mike first performed the monologue at the Bunker Theatre in October 2018. It was with his and Nico’s encouragement that I saw that there was more story to explore, and that the character of Will had more to say. And as soon as I got Will talking again, I found I couldn’t get him to shut up!
Tim Fraser, January 2020
★★★★
“Fantastically written and beautifully performed”
Theatre Weekly