After 2009's fairytale transformation from Edinburgh debut to Festival favourite, the unforgettable urban mythmaker returns in RACHEL ROSE REID: I'M HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. This year, the city will need no introductions to her finely crafted tapestry of traditional storytelling, contemporary cabaret and innovative theatricality. 

With her career in steady upward spiral, Rachel has seen crowds and critics quickly flock to her cause since last August. Picking up where she left off, the mistress of myths will weave a bittersweet and unsanitised journey through the love stories we write, the ones we tell, and the ones we never finish. 

Trailblazing for a resurgent discipline, Rachel won early success as 2007 UK Young Storyteller of the Year and has scaled the arts scene with recent performances at the Barbican, Soho Theatre, the London Literary Festival, Latitude and Camp Bestival. 

She has been featured as the Crick Crack Club's Tomorrow of Storytelling and earned the coveted role of Curator of Tales at Time Out favourite 40 Winks. 

Sure to have something remarkable up her skull-patterned sleeves this August, Rachel has teamed up with Fringe First winning director Phillip Breen (Basden's Party; the Stefan Golaszewski plays) for her anticipated return to Pleasance, where she will also host late-night revelry at TALES FROM THE CROW'S NEST on the deck of the Ark. 

'Charismatic and engaging, she will have you lapping up every word' 

The List  

'A glimpse of magic' 

Guardian 

'Has the audience hanging on her every word' 

Times 

'Magical... all of London held its breath!' 

BBC London 

LISTINGS 

Production RACHEL ROSE REID: I'M HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 

Venue  Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh 

Dates  4th - 29th August | not 16th  

Time  2.05pm | approx 1 hr 

Tickets  £8.00-£10.00 | concs £6.50-£9.00 | prevs £5.00 (4th-6th Aug) 

Box office 0131 525 8200 | www.pleasance.co.uk 

CONTACT Will Young | +44 (0)7799 497497 | will@supportingwall.com