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A Bad Taste Show
Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Aim: We are raising funds to take A Bad Taste Show, a comedy sketch show, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2025.
About A Bad Taste Show
Aaron 'Skip' Bartlett, Jim Glaister, Corinne Strickett and Poppy Lowles present an irreverent sketch show that pays homage to the style of classic late 80s to early noughties TV comedy. Sometimes dark, sometimes silly, the show is guaranteed to tickle the funny bone.
A Bad Taste Show began life as a TV concept, and two episodes have already been filmed and are available on YouTube, with the proof of concept pilot episode available to purchase on Amazon Prime Video. The stage show presents a combination of adaptations of filmed sketches and brand new, never before seen, material.
The purpose of the stage show is to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2025, in the hope of obtaining good reviews and perhaps attracting interest from promoters. The ultimate aim beyond the August performances is to create a pitch pack, incorporating scripts, reviews and previously filmed material, to present to TV networks and providers with a view towards obtaining a commission for the whole series.
A Bad Taste Show will be performing in Theatre 2 of the Surgeon's Hall at 4.45pm from Monday 18th to Saturday 23rd August.
The purpose of this crowdfunder is to raise funds to assist with the financial burden of putting on the show at Edinburgh. The production has been written, produced and performed by actors who have been working for the love of the project and without any financial gain. All expenditure is coming out of our own pockets. Therefore, anything we can raise to help meet the costs of the production would be gratefully received. The breakdown of our budget can be seen below. We are looking to raise as much as we can to cover our costs of around £6,700.
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Cast Biographies
Aaron 'Skip' Bartlett
Aaron ‘Skip’ Bartlett grew up with a love for acting and performing, studying drama at secondary school. He was part of youth theatre productions of ‘The Rocky Horror Show’, ‘Bugsy Malone’ (where he played the lead) and ‘Harry Potter’. He has performed at theatres such as The Mayflower in Southampton and The Chesil Theatre in Winchester. In 2016, he started his first film business, Wildtex Network, as actor, writer, producer and editor, creating a number of short films. In 2020, Jim Glaister joined the company. Some of their subsequent short films have been nominated for awards in film festivals, with ‘Fear Within’ winning Best Editing at the Europe Film Festival UK in 2022. In 2023, 'Skip' started a second film company, Hatchet Films TV, with Ian McIntyre. They are currently working on their first short film, ‘Seven Minute Minds’. He has also collaborated with many local film makers, as well as Zoe and Claire Lewis on a short film about mental health. In 2020, 'Skip '& Jim created ‘The Bad Taste Show’. Following the success of the pilot episode around the local community, they brought on additional writers and producers to assist them meet the demands of increased production. To help push this project to the next level, 'Skip', Jim and ‘Bad Taste Show’ regulars Poppy Lowles and Corinne Strickett worked together to adapt ‘The Bad Taste Show’ for the stage to take to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Jim Glaister
Jim Glaister is an actor, writer, director, filmmaker, songwriter and musician. His many roles on stage have included Edouard in the Feydou farce ‘The Music Lovers’, Puck in ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’, Fadinard in ‘An Italian Straw Hat’, Biff in ‘Death of a Salesman’, Dennis in ‘Loot’, Athos in ‘The Three Musketeers’, Bill Sykes in ‘Oliver!’, Howard in ‘For Services Rendered’ and Osip in ‘The Government Inspector’. He has appeared in several Ayckbourn plays, including as Peter in ‘Time and Time Again’, Greg in ‘Relatively Speaking’ and Eddie in ‘Season’s Greetings’. He has directed productions for the stage, most recently ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ for the Chesil Theatre in Winchester in 2024. In 2010, he created Burning Barn Films as a means to provide an opportunity for people from within the local community to gain filmmaking experience. With BBF, between 2010 and 2015, he served as writer, actor and director for the short films ‘The Visitor’, ‘The Visitor II’, ‘The Shot’, ‘Escape’ (winner Best Film at the Winchester Film Festival 2012), ‘Always’ (winner Film with Greatest Emotional Impact at the Winchester Short Film Festival 2013), ‘A Serpent’s Tooth’, ‘Surprise’ and ‘There Are No Monsters’. He joined Aaron ‘Skip’ Bartlett at Wildtex Network in 2020 to work on a number of short film projects, leading to the creation of ‘The Bad Taste Show’. Jim also rocks out with ‘Skip’ in the band Hornblower Down.
Corinne Strickett
Corinne Strickett returned to professional acting in 2017. Since then, she has worked on six feature films, a large body of short film projects and many theatre productions. In 2024 she worked on two BFI funded short films: ‘Happy Snaps’ was screened at the London Film Festival and the London Short Film Festival, and ‘In His Name’ will be released this year. The feature film ‘Derelict’ had its world premiere at the Odeon Lux, Leicester Square, as part of Frightfest, where Corinne experienced her first media wall. The feature film ‘The Girl with the Fork’ is available to watch on Amazon (UK, US, Spain, Mexico), AppleTV and Tubi. For her work on ‘Housewarming’, directed by Martin Lloyd, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Artisan International Film Festival 2021 and was one of the recipients of Best Ensemble Cast at the Golden Reel International Film Festival 2021. Other awards have been Best Performer for ‘The Loft’ at the Pastel Wasteland Film Festival 2019 and Best Actor for ‘The Vampire Theory’ at Pompeywood Film Festival 2024. Theatre work includes ‘Blueberries for the Rainbow’, ‘Attagirls’, ‘The Mortality Cure’, ‘Home Sweet Home’, ‘Check-Ins’, ‘Vulnerable Voices’, ‘The List’, ‘An Enhanced Taste of Eden’, ‘Snow’ and, during the period 2016-2021, ‘Ghost Stories for Christmas’ at the Lantern Theatre, Brighton. Most recently she has performed in ‘Lame Sisters’ by Meryl Walker.
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Poppy Lowles
Poppy Lowles trained with the National Youth Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Since moving to Portsmouth, originally to develop plays and workshops with Stand Tall Theatre about mental health awareness, she has appeared in numerous productions and projects across the region. These include playing Ariel in ‘The Tempest’ and Witch 1 in ‘Macbeth’ in outdoor Shakespeare productions at Portchester Castle. She also took part in immersive events at historic venues in London (Natural History Museum, Apsley House) and across the South Coast (Roman Baths - Bath Spa, Ightem Mote, Dover Castle, Wymering Manor). After working with Portsmouth University as an actor for their Director's course, she has been in several short and indie films, including ‘The Writer’, directed by Riyadh Haque, and ‘The Gift’ for Purgatory Pictures. Having just completed a tour with People and Stories, where she played Irene Hunter in 'A Summons in the Night', she's currently devising a play – ‘Bringing the Outside In’ – about climate change with Theatre for Life, which is due to tour Hampshire and Dorset in 2026. For the past 3 years she's been working with Wildtex Network on bringing 'The Bad Taste Show' to your screens and now 'A Bad Taste Show' to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Budget Breakdown
Accommodation: £3,250
Venue Hire: £1,200
Marketing: £500
Props/Costumes, etc.: £200
Transport and fuel: £1,500