EdFringe 2015 press release - Confessions of a Redheaded

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Rebecca Perry
[email protected] (905) 867-5878
Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl Travels to Edinburgh Fringe
Award-Winning Canadian Show Tours the World’s Largest Theatre Festival
Toronto, ON… Rebecca Perry Productions is pleased to announce that Confessions of a
Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl will be touring to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world’s largest
performing arts festival, from August 5 - 31, 2015. The show will be presented by the Gilded
Balloon, one of the largest and best known venues at the Edinburgh Fringe. In 2014, the Gilded
Balloon operated nine venues with over 120 shows from across the globe. Tickets are now on
sale at the Edinburgh Fringe website: www.edfringe.com
Meet Joanie Little: feisty redhead and anthropology graduate. She’s stuck working as a barista in
corporate coffee shop. Eager to use her vocational skills, Joanie turns her coffee shop upside
down and starts reporting her findings on the “creatures” (customers) of her “Coffee Shop Jungle”
as though she were Jane Goodall herself, bushwhacking through the African jungle to study the
chimpanzees! Hilarity ensues! Bosses are angered! The local news has a field day! Jazzy tunes,
co-worker showdowns and life lessons in under an hour. This is for anyone who’s ever had a job
they couldn’t stand.
Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl premiered in Toronto in 2013, and has since
travelled to Winnipeg, Edmonton, Victoria, Stratford, London, Saskatoon, Victoria and New York
City. It has been filmed for Bell On Demand and has won numerous awards from its sold-out runs,
including:
Best Musical - BroadwayWorld.com
Audience Choice Award - New York City Stage
Audience Choice - New York City Frigid Fest
Best Solo Performance - Canadian Comedy Awards
Outstanding Performer & Outstanding Production - NOW Magazine
Solo Performance Jenny Award - Winnipeg Free Press
Selected Press for Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl:
 CBC
 NOW Magazine
“Our eyes and ears are locked into Perry's performance!” NY Stage Buddy
“Solo performance at its best… I dare you not to fall in love with Joanie and, by extension,
Rebecca Perry.” Toronto Star
Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl by Rebecca Perry
Performed by Rebecca Perry with Quinton Naughton | Directed by Matt Bernard
Gilded Balloon, Teviot Row House, 13 Bristo Square, Edinburgh.
Aug 5 - 31 (not Aug 12, 19, 26), 6:30pm (60 mins)
For more info & press photos: www.redheadedcsg.com