Edinburgh Fringe preview: Devon Loves ME! Productions on Time Travel Postman

Devon Loves ME! Productions (Brooklyn-based Queer director Melissa Ingle and clown Sevrin Willinder) bring their show Time Travel Postman to the Edinburgh Fringe this summer.

“A clown (Sevrin Willinder) needs the audience’s help to deliver letters across time and space. Through joyful participation, you are invited to embrace the unexpected, explore the beauty of human connection, and make sure the postman completes his galaxy-spanning paper route.”

Where: Snug at Gilded Balloon Patter House

When: 5-31 Aug

Ticket link: https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/time-travel-postman

What can you tell us about your show?

The center of the show is all about having fun and appreciating the people around you in the moment. What is it about and where did the idea come from? It’s about a Time Travel Postman delivering mail across his paper route. The idea came about iteratively.

Originally, I wanted to make a solo show about the friends I made while living and traveling abroad, and the best way to do this was through time travel. Eventually the friends became characters in different time periods, and they needed mail. 

How would you sell it to audiences in one paragraph?

The show is called Time Travel Postman, and that’s also what it’s about. It’s very clown-y, silly, and fun. It’s very interactive, and also very sensitive to if you don’t want to interact. I try to deliver at least one piece of mail to every audience member. 

Do you enjoy participating in the Fringe? And do you have any moments you particularly remember?

My collaborator Melissa and I both love it! It’ll be our third year at the festival, and we can’t get enough of it.  Last year we did a work-in-progress version of the show under a different title, and on our third night we only had one audience member. I was so scared that the show wasn’t going to work, but Melissa convinced me to still do it, and it ended up being our favorite performance that whole festival. 

What are you looking forward to the most in Edinburgh?

To hopefully catch some really inspiring theatre that I’ve never seen before. I say hopefully because doing a show takes up a lot of time. 

What’s next for the show?

Our dream is to perform it in places where people don’t speak English. The show is wordless for exactly that reason.