Episode 256: Edinburgh Fringe Series - Elysium with Milly Blue & Jessie Maryon Davies

Persistent and Nasty

It’s the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 series Today Elaine chats with writer creators Milly Blue (Basement Jaxx, BBC Radio 4) & Jessie Maryon Davies (Kate Nash, Lips Choir) about their new show Elysium - Ruby Gilded Balloon @Appleton Tower 4 - 24 Aug 12:20 An comedy horror with music by Ghouls Aloud. It’s another must see. Elysium Meet Elysium Court’s newest arrivals - an aspirational couple in their late thirties who’ve recently escaped central London to start family life in earnest. The woman plans to spend her maternity leave happily cultivating vegetables…and hopefully her online presence. But from the moment she pulls up her narrow new garden’s standard-issue astroturf, their haven turns to hell. From multidisciplinary artists Milly Blue (Basement Jaxx, BBC Radio 4) and Jessie Maryon Davies (Kate Nash, Lips Choir), Elysium is a moving, modern horror, full of humour and spine-tingling truths, with a haunting live score and original songs. A satirical, suspenseful nightmare inspired by modern gothic literature and speculative fiction, Elysium will linger in the memory long after the lights go up. Milly Blue and Jessie Maryon Davies are Ghouls Aloud, lifelong friends, and an exciting creative partnership which perfectly blends music and theatre through provocative writing which both challenges and entertains. Elysium is their debut work. TICKET LINK HERE OUR WEBSITE - www.persistentandnasty.co.uk Persistent and Nasty join the CEC community to create a safe space & build a community for those who are marginalised in any way in the arts. Link for our Zoom meeting with Creative Entrepreneurs Club https://creativeentrepreneursclub.co.uk/ MAIL BAG – you can write and ask us industry related questions or general questions or maybe you have a hot take you want to chare, some tea you want to spill or a topic you want discussed on the podcast. To be included in the Mail Bag podcast email [email protected] with subject line MAIL BAG or slide into the DM’s. IPA GUIDES: HIPA GUIDES Equity Toolkit: Link Stellar Quines: Link Persistent Pal & Nasty Hero - Pals and Hero Membership Email – [email protected] Instagram - @persistentandnasty Twitter - @PersistentNasty Coffee Morning Eventbrite - Coffee Morning Tickets LINKTREE - LINKTR.EE Resources Samaritans - Rape Crisis Scotland - Rape Crisis UK ArtsMinds - BAPAM Freelancers Make Theatre Work Stonewall UK - Trevor Project - Mermaids UK Switchboard LGBT+ - GATE PLANNED PARENTHOOD DONATE - DONATE ABORTION SUPPORT NETWORK UK - ASN.COM- DONATE