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We made it £2.5k! Our corpses are twitching with electricity! This stretcher target ...
We made it £2.5k! Our corpses are twitching with electricity! This stretcher target ...
Hotter Project is back with an existential cabaret about endings and death. We need your help to bring it to life at Ed Fringe 2023.
We are Ell & Mary, the co-founders of HOTTER Project, a queer creative collective dedicated to creating radically honest (and silly) work about the stuff that no one wants to talk about. Our previous shows HOTTER and FITTER tackled sex, bodies and shame, and this time we’re applying our unique verbatim process to perhaps the scariest theme yet: endings.
For reasons to do with the economy, unemployment, personal relations, the environment, and general apathy, we haven’t made a show for three years. But now we’re returning to Edinburgh Fringe with one question on our minds: how do you know when it’s the end? The Last Show Before We Die is an existential verbatim cabaret about the big things in life. And death.
We’ll be performing at Paines Plough’s Roundabout for the whole month. We were first offered this prestigious slot in 2020. For obvious reasons, we didn’t end up going. We were offered the slot again last year, but we simply couldn’t afford to say yes. This year, we’re dragging ourselves out of the grave to stage the world premiere of our latest (and last) show on a shoestring budget.
Why £2.5k and what’s it for?
This £2.5k represents an eighth of our overall budget. We know that many people are skint right now, so we’ve been working behind the scenes to raise as much funding as possible before asking you for help. £2.5k is the remaining sum we need to raise in order to pay for:
accommodation for our creative team during tech and previews
basic subsistence costs during fringe eg/ food and travel
train tickets to Edinburgh
SOS
Going to the Fringe is harder than ever, and we know we’re not the only production company trying to raise money through Crowdfunder. The system is broken: we’ve already been working on this show for 3 years and so far we’ve been paid less than one month’s rent. We’re grateful for that month’s rent, it just didn’t last very long. In any case, there’s no chance that our fee will represent the work that we’ve done. The chances of us making profit from the Fringe are extremely slim: without this Crowdfunder, just breaking even would be impossible. Even if we sold out every show. By supporting us, you’re making sure we’ve got just enough money to make this whole thing work.
SO:
If you like our work;
If you think we should be paid for it;
If you understand that the arts need money to survive;
If you think endings and death seem like a fairly relevant theme right now;
If you’d prefer that this wasn’t the last show before we die…
You know what to do.
We thank you from the bottom of our dead, dead hearts.
This project successfully funded on 21st June 2023