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Short Works: Edinburgh by Kieran Hurley

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What is Edinburgh Festival to the 22-year-old who grew up there?

One dreich morning during Edinburgh Festival, a student is back home handing out flyers. Written and performed by Kieran Hurley.

It's a dreich August morning during Edinburgh Festival and a 22 year-old student is home for summer, handing out flyers.

What does it feel like to have your home town turned into a stand-up comedy theme park for tourists every August? 

It's a story of soggy flyers, disappointing encounters and splitting headaches. It's also about that transient moment when teenage memories and adult hopes are as raw as each other. 

Original short work for radio written and performed by Kieran Hurley.

Kieran Hurley is a writer, performer and theatre maker based in Glasgow. His Fringe First-winning play Heads Up won Best New Play at the Critics' Awards 2017 for Theatre in Scotland. Other plays include Rantin: a ceilidh-play with music; Hitch: an autobiographical story with a live band, and Beats: a monologue performed with a DJ.

Producer:  Eliza Lomas 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2018.

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