Rose Coogan, whose play Rose + Bud features at this year’s Fringe, said it was a great opportunity to “get eyes” on her work.<\/p>\n
“It’s no secret that there’s a certain level of validity that doing the Fringe can give you.”<\/p>\n
She described her play as “a queer coming of age story about learning who you are and forgiving who you were”.<\/p>\n
She said it was more important than ever that “queer people make art”.<\/p>\n
“Hopefully people, who don’t know any trans people, walk away from the show knowing we are looking for the same things in life as them,” she said.<\/p>\n
Rose said she felt many artists left Northern Ireland because the local art scene “doesn’t know what to do with them”.<\/p>\n
“Belfast needs to treat itself just as important as Edinburgh or London. Sometimes working in theatre here can feel like screaming at a brick wall,” she said.<\/p>\n
“We need to strive to get our things put on here.”<\/p>\n
She added that people from working-class communities struggled to afford the costs associated with performing at the Fringe. <\/p>\n
“This would have been undoable if I hadn’t got the experiences and opportunities I’d been given,” she said.<\/p>\n
“We don’t give working class artists here enough room to grow. Art needs to be more accessible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rose Coogan, whose play Rose + Bud features at this year’s Fringe, said it was a great opportunity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-316044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114968081513999802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}