In This Fleet, Funny Novel, a Writer Makes Art and Sells Out in Hollywood
The heroine of Danzy Senna’s new book is a novelist envious of the material pleasures all around her in Hollywood.
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Writer, composer and comedian Isobel Rogers will make her highly anticipated Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut this summer. She tells us how she got there… Isobel Rogers Isobel Rogers Published: Thursday 25th July 2024 Comedy My friend Thom wrote a very funny play at university that felt like The Thick of It – and I had a great part in that. I really wanted to pursue comedy at the time and hoped it would go up to the Fringe but people moved on to different things. I remember thinking I needed to start my own projects, and songs were something I could do on my own as I already played guitar and that meant I could go to open mics (music ones initially) and have my own job around it (tutoring, nannying, etc.). I think writing your own material is so empowering as you can work to your own schedule, harness your own voice, and it means my comic skills formed naturally out of songwriting. Scratch nights at the Peckham Pelican Camden Peoples’ Theatre I’d moved to London and my friend Saskia was running a scratch night at the Peckham Pelican. I’d been writing quite earnest songs about women characters who I didn’t feel had their own voice in the original plays and books I’d borrowed them from, and she asked if I’d like to perform some of them as well as some conversation around them on the theme ‘what feminism means to you.’ I’d always seen feminism as something I’d studied but that brief made me think about how I could use my own life to look into friendships and relationships. I remember performing a song called ‘Coffee Morning With The Girls’ based on the seemingly polite conversations that women can have while hiding how they’re really feeling, and found it way more fun to perform as it was relatable. Isobel Rogers Soho Theatre Writers’ course Soho I was so delighted when I got accepted onto this course as it really encourages writing outside the traditional play and experimenting with new styles of performance. It gave me the desire […]
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The heroine of Danzy Senna’s new book is a novelist envious of the material pleasures all around her in Hollywood.
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