Hotter Project bring new show The Last Show Before We Die to Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Hotter Project will return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with new show The Last Show Before We Die.

Hotter Project join with their long-term producing partner and collaborator Ellie Keel for the production at Paines Plough’s Roundabout at Summerhall from 2 to 27 August 2023.

Mary Higgins and Ell Potter make up OTTER 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

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.

Written and performed by Ell Potter and Mary Higgins, the production is directed by Sammy J Glover with sound designer/musical director Tom Foskett-Barnes and lighting designer David Doyle.

For more information and tickets, visit festival23.summerhall.co.uk