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This project successfully funded on 18th December 2024, you can still support them with a donation.
Biscuit Barrel to Hollywood Fringe
Brighton, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom
Aim: What do you do when you have a sketch show featuring 69 sketches that is, by all accounts, quintessentially British? You take it to America!
"An excellent comedy show" ★★★★ Broadway Baby
"Non-stop laughs. This show delivers on every level." ★★★★★ The Mumble
"Most reliable sketch group in the game" ★★★★ Ed Fringe Review
Across the five Edinburgh Fringe Festivals we've participated in, we've had the honour of audience members coming up to us after the show to express admiration for the show. The twist? These individuals have predominantly been American.
Consequently, we've been encouraged to head to Hollywood Fringe! We have the ultimate show for short attention spans, and apparently that's exactly what they're looking for.
This will be our first non-UK festival which, to be fair, is a market we've very much covered. On top of six years of Edinburgh Fringe, we've done Brighton Fringe, Durham Fringe, Guildford Fringe, Greater Manchester Fringe, as well as Leicester Comedy Festival and Winchester Comedy Festival... Dat a lot of Fringe.
HOWEVER, as this will be an additional project for us, we're going to need some help with raising the funds for this exciting little stateside trip. We are also participating competitively, and consequently will not be profiting financially.
Alas, we've gone to the gallows of crowdfunding for the first time EVER!
By contributing to this fundraiser, you'll be helping us reach our initial goal of covering our travel costs, which means we can use the little budget we do have on marketing. If we exceed our initial target, we will then be looking to cover the marketing as well.
In all sincerity, which we don't have a lot of, this production is the culmination of almost eight years' work. We started out with the idea for a live comedy show that replicates the electric pace of snappy online videos.
Now over 160 full-hour performances down, we have got 'Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show' to a point where we are ready to take it on more ambitious horizons and see truly how far we can go with it.
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