Isabel Renner's Wyld Woman: The Legend of Shy Girl picks up the one-woman comedy baton from Phoebe Waller-Bridge's 2013 Edinburgh show-turned-BBC Three sensation Fleabag and Liz Kingman's brilliant 2023 West End hit, One Woman Show. It follows a frantically overthinking twenty-something-year-old as she tumbles through life with debilitating shyness. After a run (like Waller-Bridge) at Edinburgh Fringe, writer-performer Renner comes to London in this sparkly, pink-themed production directed by Cameron King (Butchery Lessons, 1 in a Chameleon) and produced by Catherine Schreiber (Burlesque, The Lehman Trilogy).
Every August Edinburgh's population swells to around a million for the hugely popular Fringe Festival - with everyone on the hunt for the must-see shows of the year. But what is it like to perform in one of the many productions where nothing goes right? I have just returned from a wonderful weekend at the Edinburgh Fringe, where thousands of performers have descended on the city.
You might have seen on the internet, and in a few papers, something a few knobheads wrote that I was at death's door. I'm very much alive and raring to go to the Edinburgh Fringe this year.
