Jules Maxine will appear in her first one woman show at the Edinburgh Fringe this year – My Sister Says I’m Special.
Jules – originally from Eastcote and who has only been doing stand up since February – decided to bite the bullet and put together a one hour show of music and comedy for the largest arts festival in the world.
“I’ve always liked a challenge,” said Jules. “And this certainly is one.
“People in the comedy industry say you need 100 performances under your belt before you are fully mature as a comic.
“By the end of Edinburgh I will have had the equivalent of 100 of the normal comedy club 10-minute spots done in addition to the 20 odd I have already performed in London and East Anglia.”
Jules, 42, has lived in East Anglia for the last 14 years. She performed a lot of drama and singing when she was younger including appearing with the Ealing Young People’s Theatre Group, and in Amsterdam and Switzerland.
“I’ve always loved to perform but needed to get a job, so worked as a youth worker, senior manager in children’s services and then a hotel owner, but have now decided to go back to my first love.”
As well as performing at lots of comedy clubs in London, and co-hosting on the internet station Fubar Radio with Justin Lee Collins, Jules was compere at the East Coast Recovery Festival in Lowestoft, Suffolk, last month. She has also been working as a film extra and has auditioned for BBC’s smash Saturday night show The Voice.
In her Fringe show, Jules talks and sings about the things we all care about: relationships, sex, reality TV, social media, winning the lottery, payday loans – with a sense of absurdity, keen observation and passion ‘about the way families screw us up and the system screws us over’.
Catch Jules Maxine from 2.30-3.30 at Ryries Bar, Haymarket Terrace, Edinburg from August 2-24.
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