2012 Edinburgh Fringe

Jessie Cave: Bookworm

Jessie Cave: Bookworm. Jessie Cave
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61: Underbelly, Cowgate

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Welcome to Book Club. High levels of effort have gone into making this the best Book Club session in the history of Book Club sessions. Your host is Jessie Cave, fresh from worming her way into the Harry Potter films. She would like to share with you five of her five most inspirational fictional characters and promises you a fun ride, via specially selected and thoroughly researched wizards, vampires, elephants, giant beavers and twins. Refreshments provided for fellow bookworms.

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My Edinburgh: Jessie Cave, comedian/actress

My family are here to help me. I managed to get them Underbelly passes with their roles on. For example, Mum: Main Assistant. Brother: General Assistant. Brother's Girlfriend: Bonus Assistant. They help me with props and pep talks.

Jessie Cave, The Independent, 22nd August 2012

Jessie Cave interview

Former Harry Potter actress Jessie Cave on the film's fans and how they inspired her Edinburgh fringe debut show, Bookworm.

Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, The Observer, 29th July 2012

Jessie Cave gets family involved in 'Bookworm'

Lavendar Brown from Harry Potter in 'prop-heavy, slightly strange' debut.

Laura Ennor, The List, 25th July 2012

Jessie Cave interview: 'I make stuff, that's what I do'

Ahead of her first full-length stint at Edinburgh, we spoke to Jessie Cave about her show Bookworm, working with her sister on Mike Newell's upcoming Great Expectations, and of course all things Potter.

Mayer Nissim, Digital Spy, 25th June 2012

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Star of the Harry Potter films and Mike Newell's forthcoming adaptation of Great Expectations, Jessie Cave brings her debut comedy show, Bookworm, to the Edinburgh Fringe.

Having developed an ardent, vociferous following in London, Jessie - a preserver of the noble art of reading - is opening the doors to her non-fictional but fictional Book Club 'Bookworms United' and welcomes you to join her as she travels through some of the finest female literary characters known to man, whether they be elephants, beavers or computer hacking vampires.

She would like to share with you the inspirational fictional characters that have shaped her formation as a semi-capable woman and who have led to her creating what she believes is the best Book Club in the history of Book Clubs.

Jessie is a writer, performer and illustrator. She played Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter film series, and will play the role of Biddy in Mike Newell's adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations alongside Helena Bonham-Carter, Ralph Fiennes and Jeremy Irvine, due for release in Autumn 2012.

Jessie founded www.pindippy.com, a home for comedy sketches and illustrations that has featured the likes of Evanna Lynch, Katie Leung and several other Potter co-stars. She devised Project Amstell, an online series with Simon Amstell for The Guardian looking at his foray into the world of social media, whilst she appeared in his BBC2 series Grandma's House as the bespectacled Zazzie.

Alongside her comedy work, Jessie is an OFFIE award winning theatre actress, and she recently played the lead in the Riverside Studio production of Mary Rose. Bookworm will also feature Jessie's sister, Bebe Cave, herself an actress who will appear as 'Young Biddy' in Great Expectations, and in ITV comedy Mrs Biggs later this year.

Performances

Date Time Venue
2nd Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
3rd Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
4th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
5th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
6th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
7th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
8th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
9th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
10th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
11th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
12th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
14th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
15th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
16th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
17th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
18th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
19th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
20th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
21st Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
22nd Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
23rd Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
24th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
25th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate
26th Aug 2012 14:30 Underbelly, Cowgate

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