Love is in the air on the fringe as romantic partners put their private lives in the spotlight through daft sketches, acrobatics, folk songs – and a real wedding
Some people blow their wedding budget in Las Vegas or on Venice’s Grand Canal. But the actors and writers Linus Karp and Joseph Martin will be tying the knot at the Edinburgh fringe, walking down the aisle of the Pleasance Grand on Saturday. Tickets to attend are £12 a pop – and they hope to avoid getting star ratings.
“It’s surprisingly affordable,” says Martin. “We’d been looking at doing it in London and that was ‘the first Tuesday of every month at 8.30am, only bookable three years in advance’. Our work is loud, queer and joyous, and this felt like a good way to represent that side of us. It’s silly and ridiculous, but it feels right.” There will be a dramatic entrance and special-guest speeches, but their vows will be real. “We wouldn’t ever do anything for attention,” deadpans Karp.
It will, however, do no harm in raising the profile of their other show, The Fit Prince (Who Gets Switched on the Square in the Frosty Castle the Night Before [Insert Public Holiday Here]). The show grew out of their binge-watching of romantic films during a bout of Covid and, like their previous tributes to Princess Diana and Gwyneth Paltrow, is served with a mixture of camp irony and genuine affection.
