August 18, 2018

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Mumble Comedy | Roman Fraden: Back In The Closet ★★★★

August 18, 2018

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Back In The Closet, Reviews, Press, Roman Fraden, Edinburgh Fringe

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is home to thousands of no-holds-barred acts that consistently push the boundary of what we might consider to be performance. From musicals about Brexit to a flight crash simulator show there’s no end to the weird and wacky at this year’s Fringe. Then there’s Roman Fraden’s show ‘Roman Fraden: Back in the Closet’ which seems to redefine the whole genre of comedy: bizarre isn’t a strong enough word for this one-man show filled with drugs, figure skating, Nutella, Tonya Harding, sequins and penises.

August 17, 2018

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BRITISH COMEDY GUIDE Roman Fraden interview

August 17, 2018

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Figure skating champion turned comedian Roman Fraden has a show at the Edinburgh Fringe this year titled Back in the Closet.

Why do you have to go back in the closet?

My dilemma: I want men, and I want them badly. Usually heterosexual men. Recipe for disaster? OF COURSE!

August 13, 2018

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ThreeWeeksEdinburgh.com Interview | Roman Fraden: Back In The Closet

August 13, 2018

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By Caro Moses | Published on Monday 13 August 2018

One of the things I like about the Fringe is the fact that while many performers arrive at it via a traditional route, loads of them seem to take a road less travelled, and that’s definitely the case for Roman Fraden, who, back in the early nineties, was a champion figure skater.

Since then he’s taken a fairly long and circuitous route to a career in comedy, but it seems as though he’s certainly found his niche. I arranged a chat to find out more about his life, his show, and the future.

July 30, 2018

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Broadway World | EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Q&A- Roman Fraden

July 30, 2018

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BWW catches up with Roman Fraden to chat about bringing Back In The Closet to the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Tell us a bit about Back In The Closet.

I'd been doing stand-up for a few years here in the US but had always felt somehow limited by the format. Because of my figure skating background, and having worked with music most of my life, I really wanted to find a new way to present my material more theatrically than the traditional 'standing in one spot and speaking into a microphone'. I wanted movement and absurdity, stagecraft and lighting, piano, maybe even back up dancers, whatever it took to paint a visual experience of comedy and to really take the audience on a ride.

July 27, 2018

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Fringepig | A Piggy Interview With Roman Fraden (Back in the Closet)

July 27, 2018

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Roman Fraden, Press, Edinburgh Fringe, Back In The Closet, Interviews

Tell me about your Edinburgh show.

‘Back in the Closet’ is a despicable new one man show which I wrote over the Holidays last year in 2017 and began previewing shortly after this past winter in Los Angeles. It is the creamiest and most personal and outrageous layers of my stand-up material which I’ve been touring the US with over the past year and a half- and so is certainly a comedy- but with this show I wanted to present that material more theatrically (and with more of a story line) than a typical stand up show.