Stage talents join forces at Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Glummer Twins, Ray Globe and David Harmer

A chance meeting in an Edinburgh restaurant last year has resulted in a set of shows from South Yorkshire heading for this year's Festival Fringe in the Scottish capital.

At last year’s Fringe the cast and crew of Sheffield stand-up poetry double act The Glummer Twins visited a restaurant to celebrate a successful opening night.

They got chatting to Rose Condo and Victoria Sawka of plush tiger productions who were in Edinburgh performing Doncaster-based Clara-Nel Haddon’s play Desert Bloom.

The following day, Rose, Victoria and Clara-Nel went to see the Glummer Twins’ show.

They got chatting after the performance and Clara-Nel discovered that Glummer Twin Ray Globe and his friend Mick Connell have been directing theatre shows together in and around Sheffield for as long as they could remember.

So on their return from Edinburgh, a meeting was convened in a Rotherham pub and a plan was duly hatched.

Clara-Nel Haddon was already developing two new plays to take to this year’s Fringe, so it was agreed that Mick and Ray would direct them.

Sheffielder Ray and his comedy partner David Harmer from Doncaster were already planning to revisit the Fringe in 2016 with The Glummer Twins.