Alice Fraser: Ethos is on at Underbelly, Bristo Square - Friesian, during August.
- What is your Fringe show about?
Failure, artificial intelligence, fatherhood.
- How many times/many years have you appeared at the Fringe?
I sprang fully formed from the top of Arthur’s seat, untold generations ago.
- What’s your most memorable moment from the Fringe?
I forget.
- What’s the worst thing about the Fringe?
You never go to sleep at a normal time, and you think you’re fine and then you have a nervous breakdown.
- If you were not a performer what would you be doing?
Nursing orphaned hyenas on the brutal plains of sub Saharan Africa. Gotta get laughs somehow.
- How do you prepare for a performance?
I write a show, and then I do it badly for many weeks or months until I have worn down my self-loathing into self-acceptance. Then I take it to the Fringe.
- Favourite thing about being in Edinburgh?
Being in Edinburgh. It’s a lovely city.
- What’s the most Scottish thing you’ve ever done?
My Jewish grandfather changed his name from Friedenberg to Fraser. That’s pretty Scottish, right?
- Favourite Scottish food/drink?
I mostly live on late night peanut butter and toast and tea during the Fringe.
- Sum up your show in three words
Beginning, middle, end.
Show summary
Humans have always been fascinated by non-human minds. From the Golem, to Frankenstein's monster, to artificial intelligence – computers who could think, and threaten civilisation. Imagine an AI: a brilliant but naive mind, newly created. Now imagine that mind learning about our world by watching a comedy show. Alice Fraser (The Bugle and BBC Radio 4) explains our society of contradictions to a new robot mind. A silly, funny, smart show that explores what it is to be human.
Alice Fraser: Ethos is on at Underbelly, Bristo Square - Friesian, during August. For tickets, please visit www.edfringe.com
You can follow Alice on Twitter at @aliterative and visit the official wbsite at www.alicecomedyfraser.com
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