EDINBURGH 2010: THAT MOMENT

Alicia is an actress; crap agent, profit shares, one line on casualty. Her latest role? Dog sitting. With an overactive imagination and only an increasingly spooky (and selectively incontinent) dog for company, Alicia sets about righting the wrongs in this funny, weird and compelling one woman show.

Following a sell-out tour of the South West and a three-week run at the King's Head Theatre in London, That Moment comes to Edinburgh for the first time in a new version adapted to reflect the trials and tribulations of actors performing at the Fringe.

Jenny Harold takes on the role of Alicia Harding, as well as the 12 other characters who populate this bizarre but oh-too-recognisable world.

That Moment is written by Dougie Blaxland, who recently won the Raising Voices New Writing Festival Award 2010 with his play Never Any Fruit/Infinity Plus One, which was staged at The Watermill Theatre in Newbury and had a three week run at the Pleasance in London. His previous work includes Moving in and Taking Over (Winner of the New Plays UK Festival 2004) and If I Were a Carpenter (Winner of the Oxford Drama Network Best New Play 2008). A Public Kind of Privacy was nominated for Best Play at the Brighton Festival 2007.

Reclaim is a multi-function Production Company that works in film, theatre and photography. That Moment will be directed by founder member Hannah Price, a graduate of the National Theatre Young Director's Course whose previous work includes Qissat at Oval House Theatre, Loving Ophelia at the Pleasance London and Confusions at the Brighton Festival. That Moment is one of two shows Hannah is directing for Reclaim at Underbelly this year, alongside Bud Take the Wheel I Feel a Song Coming On. Both shows are being presented by Reclaim in partnership with SPL, the original producers behind West End hit Into The Hoods and last Edinburgh's award-winning rap-theatre show The Rebel Cell.

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