EDINBURGH 2023: Bill O'Neill Q&A

BWW caught up with Bill O'Neill to chat about bringing The Amazing Banana Brothers to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Tell us a bit about The Amazing Banana Brothers.

This show is performed by two daredevils who promise to slip on 1000 banana peels in the span of an hour–or your money back guaranteed. Through both physical and emotional acrobatics, TABB will leave the audience with a sense of triumph, heartbreak and, possibly, the stench of stale fruit on their clothes.

Why bring it to Edinburgh?

The Ed Fringe is the biggest stage in the world. I’m not here to compete with the best of the best, just to steal from them and take all their tricks back home. I think the audiences that come to Edinburgh want to see something new, something bold and something stupid. And that’s what I hope to deliver.

Who else is involved in the creative process?

-Couldn’t have done it without my esteemed director, Natalie Palamides. In her own work, she continually shoves people over the edge and into the unknown. Needed someone with that kind of cunning at the helm. And every workshop of this show was done at the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles California, the great mecca of all things silly.

With this being your Edinburgh debut, do you think you know what to expect from the Fringe?

I know nothing. 

Who would you like to come and see it?

It’s somewhat of a Pain Olympics. An underdog story too. If you like those things then you should be taken care of. If you hate bananas then you may not like this show. If you love bananas, you also may not like this show.

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