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The Scotsman Fringe First Awards Week Two - Niusia

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00:00I'm here with Beth Hustley Pat Yates, who are writer and performer and director of

00:10Nusha, which is just one of Fringe first. Hi!

00:13Hello!

00:14Hello, hello!

00:15So you come all the way from Australia for your first Fringe for this play.

00:18So how does it feel to get an award like this in your first play?

00:21Overachievers!

00:23Mind-boggling!

00:25Everybody comes to Fringe with a dream and an ambition, and to be able to come here with

00:29the most incredible support of teams.

00:31We wouldn't be here without my incredible producer, Araya Presentation, our design team

00:35back in Melbourne, our production stage manager team.

00:38We've had the most remarkable support from all people in Melbourne, La Mama Theatre,

00:42Must Theatre, the university student theatre we started out with.

00:45We're a really grassroots team, so to be able to come over here with a little show that could,

00:49because we started writing in 2019, the very end of it.

00:53So it's been a long journey, but one that has been filled with such laughter and love

00:59and support.

01:00And so it feels unspeakably special.

01:03Fantastic.

01:04And what is the play about it?

01:06Based on your grandmother?

01:07Yes, so Nusha was the name of my late grandmother.

01:10She was a survivor of the Holocaust.

01:12She was a prisoner in Auschwitz, and she saved her lives when she was in Auschwitz.

01:17So she was a hero.

01:18But I remember her as a bit of a bitch.

01:21So Nusha is about how all of those things can be true at once, and it's about the often

01:26difficult relationships that can exist between daughters, mothers, and grandmothers.

01:30And at the end of the day, it's a love letter to all the women that have come before me,

01:34and me stepping into a heritage that is about resistance and strength and pride.

01:42Great.

01:43Well, congratulations on your win.

01:44Thank you so much for joining us.

01:46Cheers.