Edinburgh Fringe Chats (#60): SecondAdolesence, BABY IN THE MIRROR

8 Jul

Conducted by Emmie for Theatre and Tonic

As anticipation builds for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, we’re catching up with a range of exciting creatives preparing to bring their work to the world’s largest arts festival this August. In this series, we delve into the stories behind the shows, the inspiration driving the artists, and what audiences can expect. Today, we’re joined by SecondAdolesence to chat about their show, Baby In The Mirror.

Can you begin by telling us about your show and what inspired it?

Lena’s wearing a pinstripe suit. Joey’s soaking wet

Baby in the Mirror is about queer baby making.

It’s kind of asking all the big questions that we ask, or most of the time don’t ask and probably should be asking, about what it means to make a baby and have a family. Especially when you’re queer.

It was inspired by our own conversations around family making. Especially considering the practical and political forces around us as queer people. In what ways do society’s legislations and expectations stand at odds with what we want to make and how we want to be? Given all of that, how do we make a family that is for us and by us?

What made you want to bring this work to the Fringe this year?

As a company, we want to make work that’s about queerness, gender fluidity and structures that tell us we’re one thing or another. This felt like a good place to start.

What do you hope audiences take away from watching your performance?

We want to overhear them in the summerhall courtyard having their own conversations about families and what that means to them and what it could look like.

For some, it will be cathartic. For others, they’ll learn something new.

What’s your top tip for surviving the Fringe?

In your free time do things that make you feel good. And sleep.

Where and when can people see your show?

3.15pm at Summerhall (Red Lecture Theatre) !!