Multi award-winning comedian Lara Ricote is heading to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August with her highly anticipated show, Inkling, and she is arriving off the back of a wave of critical acclaim.
Fresh from a nomination for Most Outstanding Show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the new show explores what happens when life throws unexpected, awkward moments your way. According to the official release, the material was sparked by a hostile interaction at an art gallery:
“Maybe loads (British) of things have happened to Lara Ricote in the past year, and maybe they were all full of meaning, or it could also be that meaning is everywhere… IF you know How To Look (fine!). A man was mean to her in a Museum (classic) and she’s gotten a lot out of it (Hell Yeah), see: her stupidest and smartest show yet (alright!).”
The upcoming run marks a major milestone for Ricote, who was crowned the Funny Women Stage Award Winner in 2021 before winning the Best Newcomer 2022 in Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards for her debut show GRL/LATNX/DEF.
Described as a show about “mystery, messages, feelings and what happens if you pretend they’re not there,” Inkling sees the comic tackling how to hold that it is essential to both know thyself and believe in everything, but nothing in excess and surety then ruin.
Speaking about bringing her third show to Edinburgh, Ricote shared a characteristically candid, heartfelt message: “I went ahead and put my whole heart into this show and the result is that I am as honest as I can possibly fathom to be (turns out, that is, very), and I’ve learned how to make something beautiful out of something nasty. I will do that for the rest of time it is the Greatest Gift of My Life (grow up, I mean it).”
“I think you’re Actually Gonna Enjoy it. I did it for me but I very much did it for you. Thanks guys you have been kind to me to let me stretch myself far and wide so that I could find this show inside of me and, Newsflash, I Did It!”
The Mexican-American-Venezuelan comedian, actress, and writer has been on a meteoric rise across UK television. She starred in and wrote for the sketch series Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping, and will appear in Sam Campbell’s Channel 4 sitcom Make That Movie. Furthermore, Channel 4 has commissioned a full series of her Comedy Blap, Break Clause.
Ricote’s extensive broadcast credits already include BBC’s Live at the Apollo, QI, World’s Most Dangerous Road, and Mel Giedroyc’s Unforgivable.
Directed by Ricote’s “soul collaborator” and Funny Women Stage Award Finalist Abby Wambaugh, Inkling is shaping up to be one of the definitive highlights of the summer from a performer who simply “loves to do this with her whole heart.”
Lara Ricote will be performing at Monkey Barrel between 5th – 30th August.
Tickets and more information available here!
