Chip

This is a picture of me and my Dad. You can probably tell that this was taken in the 1980’s which means that he was in his late twenties and I was new to the world. At this point we didn’t know each other very well and didn’t really know what to expect. Twenty six years later we have a bit more experience and a whole new set of questions…

This is a show about fathers and daughters that stems from the real life experience of Jess Thorpe and Tim Thorpe.

Jess and Tim Thorpe’s Chip is a fabulously life-affirming and  beautifully-structured show featuring Jess and her Dad, about what we inherit, what we reject, the nature of parenthood, and perhaps the nature of goodness, transmitted from generation to generation  **** The Scotsman

Jess Thorpe and her colleague Tashi Gore have spent the past five years devising work that is rooted in people’s life histories and memories and this expertise – like the loving, teasing, unshakeable bond between Jess and Tim – shines through in every phase of Chip. **** The Herald

Join us at the Forest Fringe on Monday 9th or Tuesday 10th August at 5.15pm at the Forest Cafe in Edinburgh

3 Bristo Place
Edinburgh EH1 1EY

For Directions or more information visit: www.forestfringe.co.uk

Hope to see you there – thanks for all your support

Jess and Tashi x

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Title: Hand Me Down
Location: the Arches
Link out: Click here
Description: A photographic memory. Thick brown hair that goes frizzy in the rain. A cameo brooch that belonged to my grandmother. An obsession with list making and thank you letters. Small ears. Asthma. The ability to achieve ten things before breakfast. The knowledge that it’s always important to wear clean underwear as you never really know when you might have an accident… These are some of the things I got from my mother.

Hand Me down is an original show made with ten women from the same family
Start Date: 18/05/2010
Start Time: 7.30pm
End Date: 22/05/2010
End Time: 8.30pm

Mary Brennan, The Herald

Lyn Gardner, The Guardian