Cheap Date: 10 Edinburgh Fringe questions

The Cheap Date Dance group answer 10 questions about their 2016 Edinburgh Fringe show...

Give us a quick overview of your comedy career so far. Are you happy with where you're at?

It was never going to be a one night stand for our Cornish threesome, we met six years ago as dance students and formed Cheap Date Dance in 2013 after graduating and realising our mutual love of oversharing and sexual innuendos. Since then we've confused, disgusted and delighted audiences in the South West and beyond, but this is our first time at the Fringe. We are beyond happy that our stories of humiliation, ecstasy and confusion strike a chord with our audiences, and we will continue to spread our message of honesty to the point of awkwardness until everyone is as comfortable with their nipple hair as we are!

Tell us two truths and one lie about yourselves (but mix them up, keep us guessing!).

1. Resident Cheap Date baker Grace is currently working on a cookbook written entirely in sexual innuendos.

2. The company was almost called 'Inflatable Wife'.

3. The Cheap Date warm up song is Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up

Describe your new show in exactly 23 words.

Spicy, strange, bananas. Women, sex, relationships, intimacy, awkwardness. No-filter. No-pants-dance. Private, public, honest, human. Schizophrenic, surreal, belly laugh. Cherry-popping fun, one night stand.

Any cunning plans to get more punters in?

Relentless tweeting, lunging in unlikely places, doing what we do best: approaching strangers and asking them to come back to ours.

What's your plan for trying to eat - and drink - healthily during the Fringe?

We started well with a salad, however we're staying opposite a patisserie and the tequila is already calling.

What will you miss most while you're away from home?

Grace's new puppy Ned. And a shower big enough to shave your legs in.

Aside from performing, what else are you looking forward to doing in Scotland's fine capital?

Deep fried mars bars, kilt-spotting, seeing and celebrating a city filled with amazing creatives doing crazy things.

If you took over programming a Fringe venue, what would your perfect line-up of comedians be?

Josie Long
Kevin Bridges
Liz Agiss
Trevor Noah
Amy Shumer
Lauren's dad Barry
Jim Jefferies
Miranda Hart
Rebel Wilson
Tina Fey
Melissa Mccarthy
Jennifer Saunders
Victoria Wood

Name the one person you'd rather not bump into during the festival.

Kelvin. You know what you did.

Why should audiences pick your show over the 1,800+ other Fringe offerings listed on BCG this year?

There is so much amazing work to see and we want to catch as much of it as we can ourselves! But we can promise you a totally new angle on contemporary dance, a damn good time, permission to laugh at three women in their underwear, and a walk of shame you will never regret.

'How We Lost It' is at Paradise in Augustine's at 7:55pm on 6-13 Aug. Listing