Lemonade written and starring Heather Litteer will be at the Assembly Rooms Drawing Room on George Street @ 4.30pm for the month of August.

1 Tell us about your Fringe show

Lemonade is a little slice of my life. Swirling through my experiences of being an actress in New York City. Continually getting type-cast in an array of salacious film roles always  playing junkies and hookers most notable the Requiem For a Dream sex scene opposite Jennifer Connolly. How it feels to be the girl on the other side and the one with no name. 

This is all peppered in with phone calls back home to my ill but Steal Magnolia mother in Georgia whose traditional southern values could suffocate and against my wilder adventures in the city that never sleeps. How art really art does equal life. Does it?  Navigating the misogyny in the film world, A Mother Daughter Relationship and how the choices you make can sometimes follow you around for life but always picking your self back up again and never letting go. 

Because when "Life Hands you Lemons you just just gotta make Lemonade" 

2 How does it feel to be playing the Fringe for the first time?

I am thrilled to have this opportunity to bring Lemonade overseas to

Edinburgh to and be able to  reach an international audience as well as being  part of the super group at Assembly. 

I have been working hard and sometimes get overwhelmed with all of the administrative work that goes into taking a solo show over.

Since Lemonade is a solo show I am playing all the parts just like I do in the show Creator, Producer, Tour Manager, Writer and Actress. Here we go again with  that whole Art equals Life thing. I'm really learning more about the business 

side of things I am hands on with everything. I am lucky to have some super bad ass and smart woman that have been helping me get there my dear friends Jill Pangallo, Callie Jane Farnsworth, Lucy Sexton & Ellie Heyman and of course HOWL!. Some days your like what is happening? 

I am an  emotional person so everything comes in waves. The Tide is High and The Tide is Low. It all part of the process.

 3 Best live act you’ve seen at a Fringe?

Sven Ratzke's , Starman

4 Best thing about the Fringe?

I love the fact that I will be a living and working artist in Edinburgh for almost a month. To be around a vibrant community of artists and making new friends seeing new shows from around the globe. To be able to do Lemonade 23 times in the same venue is a luxury. It will give me the chance to push myself   and make new discoveries within the writing ,the tempo and acting . I have to really remain focused. Also I want to havespaghetti diner parties at my flat with all my new friends !   

5 Worst thing about the Fringe?

The hardest part for me is not being able to be in the theatre in advance.

 I wish I was able to rehearse in the theatre for a day or two before opening and get connected  to a new space. To actually have time to do a Que to Que and a dress rehearsal. Especially before an audience comes in, I am a rehearsal fanatic. 

6 If you were not a performer what would you be doing?

Well today, I would like to buy a farm upstate NY and house dogs and cats that need homes. Get them healthy and help them find new homes. As I type this I also think about building out the Red Barn on the backproperty into a performance space. See I have been bitten by that performance bug. She is always hanging around in my head.   

7 How do you combat pre-gig nerves?

Pre-show when I get nervous. I rehearse I go over  my lines tirelessly. I go through the Que's of the show as if it were a dance. I make up dances for each show. I sing out loud. That is what my mother taught me. It relaxes your body .  

8 Worst on stage experience?

I was doing a show in Rome with Big Art Group and I was under a lot of pressure  so nervous and forgot my lines for like a minute. Just standing there and everyone looking at me and me looking at them. It's out of every ones performance nightmare. A minute in a collaborative high tech real time film piece is an eternity. Everything you do not only has an effect on the technology the people running the video but all the other actors. Like a domino effect. Yes, I  and we all survived but I did throw up after the show and almost pass out.     

9 What do you love about Scotland?

Scotland, She is so green with all her beauty the dew on the moss and rivers that run through . The legends of monsters in her Loch and the Heather that rolls in her hills. The birds that fly high by the sea proclaiming the birth of a new day by the seaside mist that curls and spits lil drops of mystery. 

Just a lil poem for you Scotland. Well, I am a redhead and my name id Heather so I must  have some sort of connection in my blood to the this beautiful country. I always looked at pictures of Scotland when I was little because I would look up my name in the dictionary, which I thought was the coolest and there is was the definition of Heather small purplish pink bush growing he hills of Scotland , Something like that . So guess we have always had a connection.   

10 What do you like about Edinburgh?

I came to visit  Edinburgh for the first time last year to check out the Fringe. I have never seen the color green quite like that in my life and the sea gulls as so charismatic I would imagine there conversations and just what were they talking about. I loved waking though the street and just feeling all of the history the witchery and the beautiful castle just watching over the town walking  between those great grey stones. I climbed half way up Arthur's Peak  and hope to go all the way up this year. I even saw a real fox on my way, so cute. I love  people of the town really lovely And Yes , I did fell like I was in an old movie. My friends said it was like Harry Potter and it was

11 What’s the most Scottish thing you’ve ever done?

I once wore a very short Scottish Kilt for a method go-go performance at Jackie 60 in the meatpacking in the 90's.

Oh and lets not forget a Scottish tartan hat with a feather that was pretty much the extent of my costume. 

12 Favourite Scottish food/drink?

Walker's Scottie Shortbread cookies and as for drink I'm not really a Scotch drinker what kind of wines are available?

13 Sum up your show in three words

Humorous, Heartbreaking,Feminist

Lemonade written and starring Heather Litteer will be at the Assembly Rooms Drawing Room on George Street @ 4.30pm for the month of August for tickets go to www.edfringe.com