Award-winning writer, composer and actor Natasha Sutton Williams stars in her Gary Strange triptych Clown Sex at the Edinburgh Fringe from August 2 - 27.
Sutton Williams' one-woman show Freud The Musical has been a Time Out London and Time Out New York top pick and her plays have been produced at multiple London venues including the Pleasance, Arcola Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, and VAULTS. She has twice been a finalist for the Old Vic 12 playwriting programme and twice shortlisted for Soho Theatre’s Young Writers’ Award. She is a graduate of the Criterion Theatre’s New Writing and Story Development programmes.
The show contain three stories about sex which are funny, grotesque and surprisingly relatable. These tales are boundary-blurring rollercoaster rides of theatre, comedy, and performance art, bouncing from hilarity to tragedy and back again.
Long-time dweller of the London sewer system, Gary Strange has discovered a unique way to become intimate with his high-rise neighbours: listening to their innermost secrets through plug holes, drainpipes and washing machine fittings. They all have one thing in common - they are desperate for connection. Join Gary amongst the fatbergs and flushed pets as he basks in the joy of filth, encountering stories of bad sex, sad sex and even clown sex.
We meet Dead Lucy. When the sun rises, she’s a failed educator. When the sun sets, she’s a failed party animal, until a single misplaced child changes everything. JJ is a double bass-playing, drug-taking, sex-fuelled firecracker of a woman who keeps taking the wrong turns in life. Gary Strange recounts his fondest memory: the first time he had sex with a clown.
Clown Sex, Pleasance Courtyard, August 2 - 27
Tickets and info here.
Read an interview with Natasha Sutton Williams below
What is the last thing you do before you go onstage (apart from check your flies and/or check your knickers aren't sticking out of your skirt and check for spinach between your teeth)
I pray to the Jesus for strength.
What irritates you?
Other people’s irritation.
What is the most dangerous thing you have ever done?
Jumped into a drug dealer’s SUV. Lovely bloke though.
What is the most stupid thing you have ever done?
Did a pregnancy test not having had sex for over a year. Turns out I was just bloated.
What has surprised you the most during your career in comedy?
That I haven’t been invited onto Strictly Come Dancing yet.
Interview continues here.
