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Lara Ricote, the 2022 Best Newcomer, has returned to the Fringe with a new hour exploring her relationship issues, whether it’s the unique one she fosters with each audience, or the uniquely weird one she has with her Argentinian boyfriend, who moved to the Netherlands to be with Ricote, even if she’s in Scotland for a month at a time. Or Australia for another month.
She and her boyfriend have complementary disabilities. She’s hard of hearing. He has no sense of smell. That makes for some humorously compatible situations. But their attachment styles exist in opposition to one another. He’s anxious. She’s avoidant.
“It may not be perfect. But it’s real!” she says of their coupling. The same may be true about her relationship with us.
It may not be a perfect hour (particularly the sections she builds with her audiences one letter or word at a time). But it’s real, and it’s really heartwarming and amusing and you can see why someone would fall for Ricote enough to move across an ocean or two.
