With auditoria in Edinburgh getting bigger and bigger it is nice to find a venue that takes things back to basics. When the biggest shows are packing in thousands, there is nothing that says Fringe quite as much as a performance on the top floor of a double decker bus. Parked in the beer garden of the Three Sisters pub on Cowgate Top Deck on the Comedy Bus is an intimate and unusual space that is showing alternative and small scale productions all day from 10:00am right through to 2:00am.
The Comedy Bus at the Three Sisters, Edinburgh
Nadia Brooks, aka Brooksy is putting on her debut fringe show in the Comedy Bus. Until 7th August Tyke Rider is the first set of the day, a ten o’clock start for fifty minutes of spoken word, drawings and video clips. Last year Brooksy took off on a 6000 mile solo road trip around the USA. She wrote a book about her travels and in Tyke Rider she shares some of her adventures by reading, showing photos and displaying some naive art-inspired drawings.
Nadia Brooks with Yorkshire Tea and Eighties favourite ET
A lover of Yorkshire tea and all things Eighties, Brooks bought a black Ford Focus in LA and named it KITT after the famous car once owned by David Hasselhof. Then she set off around America, attracting adventures all around this film set of a country. Everywhere she went reminded her of an Eighties film that she loved, and she even got to act in a film scene with Dee Wallace – who you might know better as the mum, sorry, mom in ET. Amongst other things she was invited to perform at the huge SXSW festival in Texas, met the woman who may or may not have been responsible for a NASA space accident and discovered Elvis is alive and well and still making films.
Gently humorous, whether talking about her matchmaking grandmother, getting stopped by US cops or sharing a hot tub with potential serial killers, Brooks also does a mean Alan Bennett impression. She was inspired by poetry and the Choose Your Own Adventure books of her youth and wants to inspire other people to chase their dreams. Whatever yours are, get a 10:00 dose of encouragement every morning until 7th August.
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