EDINBURGH 2022: Myra Dubois Q&A

BWW catches up with Myra Dubois to chat about bringing A Problem Shared to the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Tell us a bit about A Problem Shared.

Picture the scene, BroadwayWorld. February 2020. I was in my slumber at Myra Towers when I was jolted awake by a pan-global cosmic grumble in the ether. Screams of anguish carried themselves across the winds. I sat bolt up-right in my four-poster bed and clutched the leopard-print eider-down. "My next show shall be an Agony Aunt format" I proclaimed. I could feel that the human race needed my sage and soothing advice. Little did I know just how much they needed it because a few short weeks later we were PLUNGED into lock-down as the Pamela Demique unfolded. Undeterred from my calling, the show (which I'd been working on for the 2020 Fringe) went online. We streamed every Wednesday at 8pm across the lockdown. It became an anchor for people, it gave us routine. I used to sit and watch everyone join the chat with my heart brimming. People were greeting each other in the comments like old friends. It was a lifeline for us all! Since then, we've been doing the show every month live in London's Royal Vauxhall Tavern with a new celebrity wellness seeker each month. Now, finally, three years later, the show is finally arriving at the Fringe!

Has anything changed about the show since it was written for 2020?

Of course! Anything would change over a period of two years, especially the two years we've just had! The show has found its focus; the AUDIENCE. Yes, dear reader, this time around my show is all about YOU. It's called A Problem Shared, not A Problem Retained. It's all about you, and what's wrong with you.

Do you feel fully prepared to take on the woes of your audience?

I do, and I've been assured by my own personal wellness guru the Dr. Rev. Guru Malcolm via Zoom (he's currently incarcerated) that I'm at peak serene, he's never known chakras as balanced as mine.

Where else might we know you from?

As part of my efforts to reach each corner of this planet in pain I did consent to a little cameo on Britain's Got Talent, so perhaps I've been glimpsed on there? I've also been on Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side, The John Bishop Show, and Pointless Celebrities; but I do wish people would stop going on about my television work: it erases my film career. Last year I STARRED (in two scenes) of the very major motion picture Everybody's Talking About Jamie so perhaps you saw me in that? Hard to narrow it down really when one is as famous as I.

Who would you like to come and see A Problem Shared?

YOU, dear reader. The very person whose eyeballs are pouring over these words right now.

Photo Credit: Holly Revell

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