Writer of This Life, As If and Get Real débuts latest stage play at Edinburgh Festival

You Couldn't Make It Up, a satirical comedy by acclaimed This Life and Get Real writer Patrick Wilde, will début at this year's Edinburgh Festival in the UK.

Writer of This Life, As If and Get Real débuts latest stage play at Edinburgh Festival

You Couldnt Make It Up

4th -- 24th August '02, The Gilded Balloon (Venue 38), 2.45 -- 4.15 pm

You Couldnt Make It Up, a satirical comedy by acclaimed This Life and Get Real writer Patrick Wilde, will début at this years Edinburgh Festival.

A follow-up to Wildes Whats Wrong with Angry?, and the multi- award winning Get Real, You Couldnt Make it Up lifts the lid on the power-crazed world of entertainment, showing how some TV and movie executives dictate what we should watch, and therefore the way we view the world.

Central to the play is the theme of sexuality and the sexes, explored on an entirely different playing field. You Couldnt Make it Up closely scrutinises men and the way they screw up the world.

Amidst all this, the battle for gay rights goes on. In the UK there seems to be a feeling that gay is cool; that nobody has a problem with coming out any more; and that there are no more gay stories to tell," said Patrick Wilde You Couldnt Make It Up explodes these myths, against the backdrop of a society where Section 28 is still on the statute books, where there are no out" gay footballers, gay kids are still bullied at school and all parents, if asked, would gladly give their children a miracle pill to ensure their heterosexuality."

But is the battle for gay rights a red herring?

Performances run from 4th -- 24th August at The Gilded Balloon (venue 38), 2.45 pm -- 4.15 pm. Tickets are available from the Gilded Balloon box office on 0131 226 2151, or online on the Edinburgh Fringe website at http://www.edfringe.com.

Further information regarding the production are available on the official website, www.youcouldntmakeitup.com.

About Patrick Wilde
One of the most sought after writers in British Television, Wilde has written for This Life, As If, Monarch of the Glen amongst many other TV series.

Wildes first play Whats Wrong with Angry? opened to an audience of six people at a fringe theatre in Fulham in 1993. It went on to play sell out runs at the Oval House and BAC and eventually transferred to The Arts Theatre in Leicester Square in 1995. It has subsequently played in Copenhagen and Los Angeles, and plans are in progress to take it to Germany and Sydney.

A gripping drama told with so much high energy, passion, tenderness, wit and humour that youre completely hooked...popular theatre at its best... Dont miss it!" Time Out

Wilde was commissioned to write a film version that eventually opened at the Paramount Studios in America as Get Real. It was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999, and has won several awards around the world, including the audience award at The Edinburgh Film Festival, the jury and audience awards at The Dinard film Festival in France and The Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival.

I laughed, I cried, I bought another ticket."
Stephen Fry

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