PASSIONATE MACHINE At Edinburgh Fringe To Feature The World's First Female Time Travelling Doctor

At this year's Edinburgh Fringe Dr Rosy Carrick is set to become the first female time travelling doctor, pipping Jodie Whittaker's Dr Who by months. And Whittaker is just TV science fiction.

Rosy's show Passionate Machine won the 2018 Brighton Fringe Best New Play Award when it previewed there in May.

Audiences can see Passionate Machine's full premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe, from 3rd - 27th August (not 4th) at ZOO Charteris (Venue 124).

The show poses the question 'What would you change if you could travel through time?'

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Everyone writes instructions to their future selves. But what happens if the future starts writing back? Fringe first-timer Doctor Rosy Carrick is about to find out...

Rosy has been charged with the task of building a time machine. Why? Because her future self has already done so and is stranded 100 years in the past.

Thus begins a high-octane mission of science, sci-fi and serious attention to Arnold Schwarzenegger, as Rosy weighs up the glory of being a time travelling superstar against the fear that every decision she makes might take her into a parallel timeline and away from her predestined path. What if she's doing it all wrong?

Encompassing ideas around fate, destiny and self-determination, the narrative is told as a true story, weaving itself into real-life events until fact and fiction become indistinguishable. The magical realism of Passionate Machine does not require a suspension of disbelief - it invokes one.

Featuring a diverse cast of real-life characters including David Bowie, Russian revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and Rocky Balboa. It's et against the questionable theoretical framework of all your favourite time travel movies, Passionate Machine is an exhilarating, thought-provoking and terrifically funny story about letting go, having the courage to take the untrodden path, and finding yourself - literally.

Passionate Machine is directed by Kate Bonna, Fringe First winner and recipient of Most Promising New Playwright award at the 2018 Off West End Awards for All The Things I Lied About. In preview at Brighton Fringe it won the coveted Best New Play Award as well as Best Print Design.

Rosy Carrick is a writer, performer and translator. Her eccentric style, dense rhyme structures and forceful imagery have won her international acclaim, as well as firmly cementing her place as one of the UK's most unusual and exciting contemporary poets. Rosy has co-hosted the Latitude Festival poetry stage (now The Speakeasy) since 2010, and is co-curator, alongside Luke Wright, of the Port Eliot Festival poetry stage. She has a PhD on the poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky, and has published two books of his work in translation: Volodya (Enitharmon, 2015) and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Smokestack, 2017). Rosy's debut poetry collection Chokey was published by Burning Eye Books in June 2018.

http://zoofestival.co.uk/shows/passionate-machine/

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