Bognor Regis film-maker back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

K4K Films and Shortcut Productions present Apartness, the premiere of what Kevin is calling a “multimedia show for tomorrow which will make you laugh, gasp, even tug at your heartstrings.”

It is showing at theSpace @ Surgeon’s Hall (Venue 53) from August 5-27.

Part live/part film, it features Sylvester McCoy and Linda Marlowe and introduces Eleanor May Blackburn in a new hybrid, a part moving-image and part vaudevillian-style comedy.

Apartness tells the tale of two isolated souls and their devilish comedian saviour.

“Funny, poignant, full of shocks and surprises, it is a near-true story of unexpected outcomes, based on and inspired by the actions of a comedian who believed art was more important than life,” Kevin says. “Whatever the truth may be, this is a real-life possibility.

“It is about this elderly couple that were in isolation during the third lockdown and they have been in isolation for about a year and a half.

“But they have a young provider, a young girl that does all their shopping and odd jobs, but who by night is a performer in an illegal comedy club and that is the live part of the show.

“It alternates. You start with the film and then it goes to the live performance and then it goes back to the film when this girl is once again the angel.

“Eleanor May Blackburn is absolutely fantastic (as the comedian).

"I was doing some research on one-woman shows and I wanted someone who could really attack the audience and do the comedy properly.