Respondent: Phoebe Perry (Writer/Performer)
Show: @PCP
“The fear of creating something new and getting feedback got me baking pies, vacuuming under the bed and anything other than writing a play. Now I have baked the pies, vacuumed under every surface, and made something I can press “submit” on.”
1. Why should people tune in to your show?
@PCP is cringey, navel-gazey, and sweet.
2. What about festivals intrigues you? Any why the Atlanta Fringe?
I’ve missed the feeling of everyone doing one thing at one time: concerts, poetry readings, drinks with friends. Festivals give that feeling.
Atlanta Fringe Festival is organized by thoughtful and creative people. I’m grateful to be a part of it and see others’ work.
3. What inspired you to create this?
@PCP comes out of a year of FOMO. Which is strange considering no one was doing anything I could be miss out on. Though my endless hours scrolling through TikTok and Instagram watching other people share, create, thrive, fall apart, get canceled, get nominated, rock and suck would say otherwise. I love getting sucked into people’s drama and daily musings.
4. This year ain’t normal and there’s no sense pretending it is. How has Covid affected what you’re doing for this festival?
I’m making the moves with editing and character dialogue that I never could make work on stage. Whether they click or not is the joy of putting in front of a festival audience!
I’ve changed my show completely. I don’t even remember what I submitted last year. It was probably a show I’d done for years at other venues. The fear of creating something new and getting feedback got me baking pies, vacuuming under the bed and anything other than writing a play.
Now I have baked the pies, vacuumed under every surface, and made something I can press “submit” on.
5. What have you learned from working on your show so far?
I’ve been researching the self-portraiture of Maria Lassnig, Cindy Sherman, Vivian Maier, and Lois Mailou Jones. Learning about other people painting their faces and looking at themselves as palatable has expanded me.
6. There’s a mysterious, anonymous little square watching your show and sticking around for the talkback. In your WILDEST dreams, who is that mysterious stranger grooving on your work? (Please note, this question is inspired by us recently learning that Neil Patrick Harris has been doing this.)
A future collaborator! Someone who doesn’t mind the distance and wants to write together while eating snacks.
7. Fringes are the place to really push the boundaries so we gotta ask: are your parents getting the link are or you gonna be like, “Uhhhh, I dunno, the website doesn’t seem to be working, Mom…”
My mom is IN this show. So, yes! My mom and everyone she has ever met is receiving a link.
8. We’ve asked this question every year for the past nine years or so but it hits different this year: Will your show change the world?
No way. It may slowly melt into the world’s fabric making a small stain but it won’t resew or mend or alter it in any way.
9. Zoom meetings: dress up head to toe or Daffy Duck it?
Daffy Duck it!
[Ed. note: we screwed up and said “Daffy” when we meant Donald Duck, but if Phoebe’s that excited we’re not about to dissuade her.]
10. We’re making an excellent Spotify playlist. Describe your show in two or three songs we can add to keep the jams flowing.
Lonely by Mean Lady
Ik Wil Dansen by Froukje
Mood by Tabitha
Sounds dope, right? Be sure to reserve your tickets now, and tune in to Phoebe’s live watch party on Sunday, June 6 at 2:00 PM!
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