Feature: Fringe Therapy: Luke Wright
Dr Fest Psychoanalyzes funny man and poet, Luke Wright
Tuesday 21 August by Ben Judge
Tell me about your Fringe show and what it is really about to you?
Luke Wright: Poet & Man is a live-on-stage bildungsroman about an Essex boy's search meaning, truth and a marketable way of summing it all up in rhyme. Basically, I got married in the last year and it made me think "fuck, i must be grown-up now." The show is my response to that, trying to work out what makes a good man. I wanted to do a stripped down show this year, no visuals or lectures. I wanted to tell stories and really connect with the audience. The previews have gone well thus far, so I think I might pull it off.
When was the last time you were truly happy?
LW: I was at the Port Eliot Lit Fest watching my mate Tim perform one of his songs on a little ukelele, I was with my friends and drinking cider. It was top.
What are you most concerned about at the minute?
LW: Going away to Edinburgh and leaving my wife for a few weeks.
If you could be a country, which country would you be and why?
LW: Haven't the foggiest. I hate much of what is associated with Britain, but I could never feel anything other than British.
Describe a very vivid or reoccurring dream that you have had recently.
LW: I never remember my dreams. I think I had one about trying to run the Olympics in my back garden. Logistical nightmare.
What memories do you have of your first sexual experience?
LW: First sexual experience? Not sure what that was. I remember the first time (vaguely), but first 'experience' was probably some nasty little dance floor frig!
What is your earliest childhood memory?
LW: Trying to decide the name of my brother, aged 3. i liked Igor.
What would you describe as your biggest regret?
LW: Never having witty enough answers in Q&A interviews.
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