Awaken Communications Associate, Matt Wake is taking a show to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Along with seven other actors from the Hideout Theatre group, Wake, who was born at Stoke Mandeville and raised at the Court Theatre, Tring (now the Dembe theatre) will be staging the Players of Diadon, an original comedy, at the Gilded Balloon during the world famous Fringe festival this August.
The Players of Diadon follows Rick, the newest member to the royal acting troupe – forever destined to perform King Diadon’s own epic story back to him. For eighteen-thousand-three-hundred-and-thirty-seven performances, nothing has changed. But now, the king wants a brand-new masterpiece – and if he doesn’t get it, they’ll face the chop.
As the troupe scrambles to meet his impossible standards, chaos erupts and egos clash. And Rick, in over his head, begins to uncover unsettling truths about the kingdom and its ruler – forcing him to question everything he thought he knew.
Audiences can expect silliness, peril, and a world of eccentric characters that feels both bizarre and strangely familiar. “It’ll make you laugh, it’ll make you cry,” (London Pub Theatres).
Staging a show at the Fringe nowadays, especially for an ensemble cast, is financially challenging to say the least. So the cast has set up a crowdfunding page to cover the basic costs of travel, accommodation and all those promotional flyers. Rewards are available for supporters. All the info, including a cool promo video, is on the link: