Everything I Own Presents RÉMY as Part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festiva Throughout August

Written and performed by East 15 graduate Claire Gaydon, Rémy is the story of an ambitious boy with a dangerous hero. Aptly set in the atmospheric vault beneath St Augustine’s church, we find Rémy, years later, in his prison cell where he relives his dreams, horrors, friendships and experiences of love. Tumbling from rustic France, through the Iberian Peninsula and spilling out into the English Fens, Rémy breathes his story to life by transforming the ordinary objects around him into the extraordinary people and places which have shaped his past.

Rémy tells a story from a forgotten fragment of history offering a rare opportunity to taste the Napoleonic Wars at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Tracing the map that Napoleon carved, Rémy encounters the horrors of guerrilla warfare for the first time, a development which has influenced the style of war today. As a victim of a dictator’s charisma, power and ultimate abandonment, Rémy is a relic of the damaged men left behind.

Rémy honours simple, powerful storytelling. Performed by a young English woman who engages the audience as a French thirty-something male, Rémy celebrates the storyteller within us and our ability to share experiences we can all relate to. 

Founded in quiet rural Lincolnshire, new young theatre company Everything I Own aims to make a splash with their first artistic venture to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Having grown up in the small town of Lincoln Claire Gaydon is passionate about retaining links with Lincolnshire and the East Midlands.

 For more information, visit www.everythingiown.co.uk.