Highlighting some home-grown expertise, we’ve got Super starring Charlie Vero-Martin who’s from Leith and performs a Scottish character within the present (despite the fact that it’s set within the USA).
Starring Max Dowler (Line of Duty, BBC; Emmerdale, ITV) as Rick and Edinburgh-born Charlie Vero Martin (Sketch Off 2023 and Funny Women Comedy Writing Award 2021 finalist) as Catherine, Super sees two not-very-super heroes share their story of ambition, love and overwhelming failure.
Presented by RBM Comedy and written and directed by Matthew Radway (BBC Audio Award-winning, Please Use Other Door, BBC Radio 4), Super is impressed by a real fascination surrounding uncanny heroes and developed from interviews with the true folks behind the masks.
On Hollywood Boulevard, a gaggle of actors are posing as well-known characters for photographs with vacationers. It’s 100°, Batman has simply smacked Robin within the face and the entire thing is about to be on TMZ. Captain Jack Sparrow has fainted and Catwoman is screaming – it’s all gone a bit mistaken. When Rick (Batman) and Catherine (Catwoman) are interviewed about an previous colleague who lastly made it Big, the dialog retains returning to their failed marriage and the story of how all of them met.
As tensions construct, every little thing involves a punchy finish, and Rick’s entire life falls aside. Some would possibly name his blind optimism delusion – however that doesn’t imply it’s not a life-saving superpower.
Super is for anybody who has saved tabs on the successes of the folks they went to highschool with and the folks they began within the business with. It’s for anybody who has felt a stab of inadequacy or panic at their Facebook feed of acquaintances’ private {and professional} milestones. This new darkish comedy, impressed by actual folks and true tales, is about accepting that everybody’s life occurs uniquely at its personal tempo, and in its personal manner. Underlying Super is a way of optimism within the face of overwhelming odds and seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
Matthew Radway feedback: “This play has been knocking around my head for ten years, ever since I first saw superhero performers on Hollywood Boulevard. Travelling there again last September, I found myself seeking out and interviewing some of those performers. When I set out to write Super, I thought it was about tragic characters, but the more I met the real people, behind the costumes, the more I realised how utterly uplifting and life-affirming they were and are instead. I’m looking forward to showing audiences their world”.
Super
Performance Dates: Wednesday 2nd – Monday twenty eighth August 2023 (not 14th),
13:45 Running Time 50 minutes
Location: Pleasance Courtyard (Cellar), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh, EH8 9TJ
Tickets can be found from http://www.pleasance.co.uk Previews: £6 Weekday: £10.50 (£9.50) Weekend: £11.50 (£10.50)
