Description

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2022 Edinburgh Fringe First Award

A permanently single, professionally neurotic stand-up comedian finally meets his Mr Right - and then does everything wrong.

Is Mr Right quite what he seems? And just how far will the comedian go to get a laugh?

Marcelo Dos Santos's play Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen is a dark and biting one-man show about vulnerability, intimacy, ego and truth. It premiered in the Roundabout at the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, produced by Francesca Moody Productions, directed by Matthew Xia, and starring Samuel Barnett.

The play received an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, and Samuel Barnett was named the first winner of The Stage Edinburgh Awards 2022 for his performance.

About the Author

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Marcelo Dos Santos is an award-winning playwright and scriptwriter. His adaption of the novel Lionboy for Complicite toured the UK and internationally. Other plays include: Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen (Summerhall, Edinburgh, 2022); New Labour (RADA, 2014, directed by Richard Wilson); Lovers Walk (Southwark Playhouse); and Cheer Up, This is Only the Beginning (Liverpool Playhouse).