Edinburgh Festival Fringe Series 2024 - Ep219: Jobsworth

Today Elaine chats with Isley Lynn and Libby Rodliffe the co-writers and performer of Jobsworth. We chat the inspiration for the show, shame around debt and our lack of honestly when it comes to finical maters, the comedy of bad bosses and we have a great laugh. Jobsworth - Pleasence Courtyard - Upstairs Dates: 31st July - 26th AUGUST (not 14th) @ 1.45 pm Tickets available here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/jobsworth Jobsworth Bea's secretly working three full-time jobs. All at the same time. And she's still financially f*cked. Between looking after luxury flats and dogsitting the world's ugliest pooch, she's neck-deep in employers and it's only a matter of time until someone finds out she's breaking all her contracts. Armed with nothing but her smarmiest boss' dirty secret, can Bea get herself out of the red and into the black (and into the fit intern's bed)? Or will the plates she's been spinning come crashing down around her and her dysfunctional family? A riotous comedy about snakes and surviving capitalism. Libby Rodliffe Libby trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre credits include: JOBSWORTH (Vault Festival), Skin a Cat (Assembly Rooms: Edinburgh Fringe & UK Tour), Who Are We Now? (Southwark Playhouse), Trapped (Cockpit Theatre), Mr Kolpert (Lion & Unicorn Theatre). TV credits include: Best Interests, Call the Midwife and His Dark Materials (BBC). Feature film credits include: Spencer (Komplizen) and Big Boys Don't Cry (Six from Eight). Isley Lynn Isley is an American-born, London-based playwright and poet. Their play THE GLUE opened at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and transferred to the Young Vic this year.They won the ‘Most Promising Playwright Award’ at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2023 for their play THE SWELL, which opened to great acclaim at the Orange Tree Theatre and received a 2024 Olivier Awards nomination for Outstanding achievement in affiliate theatre, as well as being nominated for Best New Play, Best Director and Best Production at the 2023 Offies. Isley’s play SKIN A CAT played at The Bunker as their premiere production in 2016. It was nominated for four Off West End Awards, including Best New Play. It was originally performed as part of the Vault Festival in London in January 2016, and was awarded ‘Pick Of The Year’ by the festival. It was picked up by Playground Entertainment for TV adaptation.Isley is currently under commission to Vicky Graham Productions, Chichester Festival Theatre, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, and is writing a new musical with Emmy The Great and Tom Hughes. They are a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme (2012), the Royal Court Invitation Studio Group (2013), the Soho Theatre Young Company from 2011-2012, and The Bush Theatre’s Emerging Writers’ Group. HIPA GUIDES: HIPA GUIDES OUR WEBSITE - www.persistentandnasty.co.uk Persistent Pal & Nasty Hero - Pals and Hero Membership Email – [email protected] Instagram - @persistentandnasty Twitter - @PersistentNasty Coffee Morning Eventbrite - Coffee Morning Tickets LINKTREE - LINKTR.EE Resources Samaritans - Rape Crisis Scotland - Rape Crisis UK ArtsMinds - BAPAM Freelancers Make Theatre Work Stonewall UK - Trevor Project - Mermaids UK Switchboard LGBT+ - GATE PLANNED PARENTHOOD DONATE - DONATE ABORTION SUPPORT NETWORK UK - ASN.COM- DONATE