Adam juggling spaghetti in Edinburgh, 2011
We first came across Adam Taffler aka Adam Oliver during the Edinburgh Fringe couple of years ago whenever I had been organising – if that’s the expresse word – spaghetti-juggling when you look at the Grassmarket.
He had been marketing their show that is own joined in. This impressed me.
The the next time we encountered him is at the Fringe this present year, once I saw him as 1 / 2 of Almond Roca: The Lost Cabaret with Nelly Scott aka Zuma Puma.
But he could be not merely a performer. He could be also a promoter. On the weekend, he could be staging a show and workshops by US work Red Bastard, whom got lots of attention plus A malcolm that is increasingly prestigious hardee Award nomination during the Edinburgh Fringe.
Then, on twentieth October, Adam’s Adamotions company – motto: Cultivating Hilarity & Humanity – gets along with comedian Bob Slayer’s Heroes company – motto: Let’s have another drink! – to stage a performance of Malcolm Hardee Comedy Award champion Adrienne Truscott’s Fringe reveal Asking for It: A One-Lady Rape About Comedy Starring Her Pussy and Little Else!
Yesterday evening, however, Adam enticed me along to see one of his true Shhh Dating activities – which are basically speed dating you aren’t permitted to talk. Final it was for 35-45 year olds night. I happened to be way to avoid it of my age groups.
“You’re gaining Red Bastard this Friday,” we believed to Adam a while later. “So you’re not only a performer. You’re operator.”
“Well, if i like an act,” he said, “then i’d like other folks to notice it. Initially, we had been likely to do one workshop and another show with Red Bastard, however the bookings went so well we’re doing two programs and three workshops now. Continuer la lecture de « Adam Taffler on mute speed dating, experiencing goats & a nomadic sauna that is naked »