Amy Conway invites you to a controversial funeral

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Actor, playwright and civil celebrant Amy Conway's new one-woman show Catafalque opened at the Fringe last week and is soon to head off on a short tour of Scotland. In today's podcast, she's chatting to Hannah about funerals during Covid, the dilemmas celebrants can face and what it was like to write her own eulogy. Tickets for Catafalque at Summerhall are here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/catafalque Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.3	Hello and welcome to Friday's podcast and welcome to Friday
0:38.2	which may or may not be the end of the working week for you.
0:41.6	It's been a long old week, eh? And hot! I spent Wednesday afternoon in a theatre because I accidentally bought matinee tickets, which I thought made me an idiot, but as it turns out, if I'd bought the evening tickets that I meant to I've walked out into a riot.
0:57.4	Don't worry about the small mistakes I suppose is the lesson there. Sometimes things work out for the best. I'm going to tell you what's
1:04.5	coming up in this very podcast in a bit but first let me tell you what you can
1:08.0	expect next week. On Monday mixed chatting to US comedian Anna Akana about her Edinburgh show It Gets Darker, which is about, among other things, that time her dad ran off to fight in Ukraine.
1:21.0	On Tuesday I'm chatting about another Edinburgh show,
1:24.0	Fuck off and leave me alone, with its creator Juliet Cowan,
1:28.0	who you absolutely will recognise
1:30.0	from her acting roles in this life, back to life, back to black.
1:34.4	They all flow terribly well together, don't they?
1:36.8	And also pulling.
1:38.1	On Wednesday, we are rating or dating the karate kid.
1:42.4	And although there's no BT next week there will be
1:45.0	sport because on Friday Jen's chassing to modern pent athlete and and
1:49.8	2024 European champion Corinza Bryson so loath to look forward to.
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