2010 Edinburgh Fringe

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Using animation and storytelling, a tale of perfect couples that never quite reach their perfection. By the writer / star of Radio 4's Dad Designs, Chortle Innovation Award Winner and Time Out Top Ten Comedian, Terry Saunders.

"They say it is better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. Nigel wouldn't agree..."

Adapted from Saunders' self-animated YouTube series of the same name (which has amassed over 70,000 viewers) Six And A Half Loves charts the fortunes and misfortunes of three of the most perfect couples who have ever existed in the world, ever. Three couples that would make people smile by their very presence.

Only they never make it. Because sometimes even destiny isn't enough.

"Wonderfully inventive. A first class storyteller and raconteur. Before you know it you are immersed in his beautiful, bizarre world" Time Out Critics' Choice

"Creating moving, yet richly funny results" The Guardian

"One of the top sixty must-see shows of the Fringe 2008" The Scotsman

Show Notes

- Six And A Half Loves debuted at the London Word Festival in March 2010, headlining the festival's centrepiece show 'The Art Of Storytelling' which also featured Ian Macmillan and Daniel Kitson.

- Terry Saunders is a comedian and writer who has amassed five Fringe solo shows to date.

- His last outing on the Fringe was in 2008, a year which also saw him voted amongst Time Out's Top Ten Comedians and starring his own self-penned Radio 4 show entitled Dad Designs (which featured Kevin McCloud of C4's Grand Designs).

- Also in 2008, he was nominated for three Chortle Awards (Best Breakthrough Act, Best Solo Show and Best Innovation) - winning the latter for his work on a co-project called 'laughterinoddplaces' - that staged secret gigs in churches, museums, launderettes and comedy critics' houses.

- More recently, he has written for Radio 4's The Now Show, run the London Marathon and adopted a cat with AIDS.