"The Silly and the Surreal..."
Rhys Edwards sits down with StammerMouth’s founder Nye Russell-Thompson to find out more about their forthcoming performances of CHOO CHOO!
The Sherman Theatre recently announced that StammerMouth were to be their chosen company to support at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. With eight Fringe preview performances set to play at the venue across next week, the company is preparing to reintroduce themselves with their first production since the pandemic: CHOO CHOO! – (or to give it it’s playful full-title: CHOO CHOO! Or… Have You Ever Thought About ****** **** *****? Cos I Have!)
Nye Russell-Thompson started StammerMouth in 2015, aiming to produce work that accurately reflects subjects that are intrinsically difficult to express. This was an ambition informed by Nye’s early experiences growing up with a stammer.
‘I have a memory of someone calling me a little stammermouth when I was younger… at school or something.” Nye tells me as we meet at the Sherman Theatre bar.
He says that this was intended as a straight-up insult rather than simply being one of those retrospectively regrettable nicknames that people tend to pick up in childhood. His brisk confirmation of this implying it is just one of many examples of adversity he has faced over the years related to his stammer.
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