2011 Edinburgh Fringe

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Have you ever watched a romantic comedy and wondered "Could that actually happen in real life?" Lizzy Mace and Juliette Burton have. And what's more, they've decided to find out! Do they find love? And are the rom coms a con? Join them as they take the rom coms for a road-test in this light-hearted look at love on the silver screen.

Earlier this year Lizzy Mace had a summer calendar so filled with weddings, she felt like she was living in a certain Richard Curtis film. Meanwhile Juliette Burton had been asked to be a bridesmaid so many times, she began to feel like she was in 27 Dresses. Like their kindred spirit Bridget Jones, they curled up on their sofas in their pyjamas and began to sing along to All By Myself.

Somewhere between the second verse and the chorus, they both began to wonder; with all these happy endings around them, how on earth do you meet The One? It all seemed so simple in the romantic comedies...

Lizzy and Juliette set themselves a quest; to find out if romantic comedies hold the key to finding true love, or whether they are actually ruining our love lives. They decided they would road-test all the ways that guys and girls meet in the rom coms, and see whether any of them would bring them closer to a happily ever after of their own.

From being set up by her mother with someone whose paddling pool she used to play in, a la Bridget Jones' Diary, to tracking down her tweenage best male friend and chatting about love just like 13 Going On 30, Lizzy and Juliette have done it all...

About Mace and Burton

Lizzy Mace and Juliette Burton met as actor-members of the Cambridge scriptwriting forum, WRiTEON! They began writing together at a stand-up comedy workshop run by WRiTEON! in early 2010. Lizzy's 50-minute solo show, Crush, co-written by Juliette, was well-received by reviewers and audience alike at last year's Edinburgh Fringe, with one critic describing it as "a charming presentation into the nature of romantic crushes ... one of the more fruitful hours spent in the smaller rooms of the Free Fringe" (Chortle.co.uk). Since discovering a shared love of all-things-confused, and a shared confusion of all-things-love, a light-hearted romp through the rom coms was the natural choice for their first offering as a double-act.