Out of Your Knowledge

We open Out of Your Knowledge on August 1st but are in Edinburgh from July 28th, setting off tomorrow morning. In the spirit of this show, we really should have walked the whole way, but have opted for train and MIMI the van instead! We previewed the show at Latitude Festival last weekend, competing with 50,000 watts from everywhere else - neither I nor our fiddle play, Denise, could hear each other, but it was a good training ground for the Pleasance. You'll get to know us very quickly in the Courtyard, as we'll be the ones taking pots of weeds through the yard each day in advance of each show. If anyone out there wants to volunteer their digging services when we start to run dry, we'd love to meet you!

It’s three years since actor Patrick Morris and I staggered exhausted into a rather dusty village North of Peterborough after a ninety mile walk along the margins of the A1. To what end you’re probably thinking. Well, I was too at the time, especially as the object of our pilgrimage, the poet John Clare’s cottage, proved to be a Teddy Bear shop, firmly closed and it began to rain torrentially. This was the good old days when the Arts Council invited you to apply for money rather than whisking it away from you, and I had conceived the idea of generating a play from a walk.