Almost 10 is a darkly comic monologue about being a child.  Rachel is celebrating her ninth birthday but nobody comes to her party except for her best friend Hortense. So Rachel decides to call up the mothers of all fourteen girls who did not show pretending to be her own mother. She soon finds out that they all went to Eugenia's birthday party - a party to which she was not invited!

Clearly Rachel is not the most popular girl in school her mother calls her "Little Mowgli" because of her unruly hair and her art teacher won't let her draw her own picture for Mother's Day, she has to give somebody else's work to her mother who promptly adds it to the growing collection of paintings in the toilet. In this outrageously funny and touching show Rachel talks about her life and the poeple in it, aptly impersonating every single character to great comic effect - her vicious teachers, her obnoxious Bulgarian nanny, her overbearing mother, even He-Man!


(Carolin Kopplin)


For tickets visit the official Edinburgh Fringe website  http://www.edfringe.com