“After a big daft silly show I wanted to do something a bit more personal.” | Edy Hurst on finding depth with a loop pedal at Vault Festival

CW: Mention of suicide. Tell us about the show you’re bringing to the Vault Festival, Hurst Schmurst. Hurst Schmurst is my debut full length show, which means that it’s about an hour long. It’s filled with my finest songs, loop pedal nonsense and a puppet that is the physical embodiment of my self-doubt, so there’s … Continue reading “After a big daft silly show I wanted to do something a bit more personal.” | Edy Hurst on finding depth with a loop pedal at Vault Festival

“It’s kind of a trashy, camp comedy fever dream.” | Jack Mosedale and Laura Curnick on bringing Mother to Vault Festival

Tell us about the show you’re bringing to the Vault Festival. J: We’re bringing our sketch show to VAULT this year. It’s an hour of sketches and characters that we wrote and developed and then took to Edinburgh in 2019. It’s kind of a trashy, camp comedy fever dream that came out of locking Laura … Continue reading “It’s kind of a trashy, camp comedy fever dream.” | Jack Mosedale and Laura Curnick on bringing Mother to Vault Festival

“I couldn’t get enough of reading about them.” | Harriet Braine on the women of science that inspired Les Admirables

Tell us about the show you’re bringing to the Vault Festival, Les Admirables. It’s my third hour of comedy songs, but instead of being about dead men (see previous shows Total Eclipse of the Art, about famous artists, i.e. men, and Apocalibrary, about a library during an apocalypse caused by men), it’s about dead women … Continue reading “I couldn’t get enough of reading about them.” | Harriet Braine on the women of science that inspired Les Admirables