Electra Kolb to Bring FATHER, AWAY SHE GOES To The Edinburgh Fringe
The tragicomedy, described as 'Fleabag with teeth,' follows anti-heroine Sarah Jones at Summerhall.
People will give you exactly what you want if you tell them what they need to hear. Father, Away She Goes is a bold, caustic new tragicomedy by Electra Kolb that asks how far you would go to achieve your dream. Narcissist, compulsive liar, art school hopeful and social exile, Sarah Jones is a magnetic and deeply unsettling anti-heroine navigating ambition, identity and survival at any cost.
Described by The Scotsman as "a masterclass in the 'love-to-hate' character. Think Succession. Think Fleabag, with teeth", Sarah is not here to be liked - she is here to win.
Rejected from every institution she applies to and cast out of the family home, Sarah stumbles through a chaotic world of parties, lies, fractured friendships and compulsive reinvention. As her ambition begins to curdle into something darker, the stakes sharpen in a final, devastating twist.
Written and first performed at just 17, Kolb's play is a fearless interrogation of female ambition and the cultural discomfort surrounding it. Why are ambitious women still labelled 'too much', while men are celebrated as leaders? Why is female ruthlessness treated as something shameful rather than powerful? Sarah Jones embodies these tensions in their most extreme form; consumed by desperation, she is a 21st century Lady Macbeth whose drive to succeed overrides morality, loyalty and even self-preservation. Father, Away She Goes is a portrait of a young woman shaped as much by the system around her as by her own choices.
It is not a story about redemption. It is a story about refusal and the consequences that follow.
Electra Kolb, writer and performer says, People ask why I created a character as extreme as Sarah Jones. My answer is simple: don't hate the player, hate the game. The system creates the monster - I just put her on stage. I'm tired of stories that punish ambitious women. So, I wrote one about a girl who refuses to shrink herself. Performances will run from August 7-30.
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