Character Comedian Vivienne Acheampong Makes Her Edinburgh Fringe Debut With RAINBOW CLASS

Character comedian and primary school teacher Vivienne Acheampong comes to the Edinburgh Fringe to debut her hilarious first solo show, Rainbow Class.

"All my kids came to Tiddlesworth, lovely little school it was back then. It's like the United Nations now."

Welcome to Tiddlesworth Primary School! Allow politically dubious dinner-lady (sorry, 'lunchtime supervisor') Sheila, 'challenging boy' Ty'Quan, the officious Deputy Head and chronically overworked teacher MisS Marshall take you on an extraordinary journey...

Vivienne Acheampong uses her experience as a primary school teacher to shed comic insight into life in an inner-city school in this one-woman character-led comedy show that combines verbatim text, stories and characters based on real-life people. Written and performed by Acheampong, and directed by Hannah Price, this show is a bonkers, hilarious and often poignant look into modern primary school life.

Vivienne Acheampong is an actor, character comedian and primary school teacher. Acheampong works in London primary schools for the past 6 years alongside her acting gigs - the people she met and situations she encountered whilst working as a teacher form the basis of Rainbow Class. Acheampong made her comedy debut at the Funny Women Awards in 2013 where she was a semi-?nalist. Rainbow Class premièred at 2015's Camden Fringe and later played at Bush Theatre's RADAR Festival. As an actor, her theatre credits include Monster Raving Loony (Soho Theatre), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Gielgud Theatre), Julius Caesar (St. Ann's Warehouse, New York), Titus Andronicus (Edinburgh Fringe), and Santa's Not Coming to Town (Hen and Chickens Theatre).

Hannah Price directs. She is co-Artistic Director and founder of Theatre Uncut. Her directing credits include Refugee(Teater Grob, Denmark), The Dead Monkey (Park Theatre), Boa (Trafalgar Studios), Cello/Fragile (The Yard), Call to Prayer(Southwark Playhouse), Bud Take the Wheel, I Feel a Song Coming On (Shaw Theatre/Underbelly), That Moment (King's Head/Tour/Underbelly), In a Very Real Sense (Soho Theatre), Portmanteau (Arcola Theatre, Bike Shed Exeter), and Loving Ophelia (Pleasance Theatre). For Theatre Uncut, Price has directed In Opposition (Paines Plough Roundabout), TU 2013: The Rise of the Right (Young Vic), The Cuts Plays (Southwark Playhouse/ Soho Theatre/ Latitude). She has won two Fringe First awards, a Herald's Angel award and the Spirit of the Fringe Award for her work with Theatre Uncut. In September, she will be Associate Director on John Malkovich's production of Good Canary at the Rose Theatre Kingston.

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