Fucked

As ill-advised titles go, Fucked has got to be up there with the worst of them. But whilst a pointlessly offensive title can often be what breaks rather than makes new writing, this offering from emerging playwright Penelope Skinner comes to the Fringe on the back of a sell out run at London’s Old Red Lion Theatre.

No longer holed up in that bijou establishment, Fucked will this year be luxuriating in the more capacious surrounds of the Assembly Rooms’ West Drawing Room for a full Festival run. The monologue examines a young woman’s journey from adolescent innocence to an adulthood filled with the regret of unintended promiscuity.

Director Daniel Goldman—leading light of the Tangram Theatre Company—will most likely enjoy a hectic Festival this year having brought four plays to the Fringe and, with Tangram coming to Edinburgh following on from an acclaimed run of Greig's Dr Korczak's Example, a successful one as well.