If you are going to be at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, make sure to catch Francesca in Olympic Hopefuls by Hortense Gerardo and directed by Kat Yen!
OLYMPIC HOPEFULS
by Hortense Gerardo
Directed by Kat Yen
An in vivo Production at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
The Royal Scots Club - Venue 241
August 10-15 15:20-16:35 GMT
CAST:
Cheryl Daro
Francesca Fernandez
Tomo Lovrić
Susan Ly
Elizabeth Pan
Olympic Hopefuls is a sharp, funny and unexpectedly moving new play about four Filipina women of a certain age who decide, against all logic and gravity, to qualify for the Winter Olympics in curling. Armed with grit, group chat loyalty and a suspicious amount of delusion, they train on borrowed ice while wrestling with identity, ambition and the quiet ache of being underestimated. As Olympic fever rises, so do long-buried rivalries and impossible dreams. Part underdog sports saga, part diaspora comedy, Olympic Hopefuls asks: who gets to chase glory, and who’s told to sit in the stands?