Bart Simpson is to appear at the world’s biggest arts festival this year. Nancy Cartwright, the voice behind the character, is to launch her debut one-woman show in Edinburgh this summer. The three-week run will be based on Cartwright’s best-selling memoir about her role as the spiky-haired tearaway, My Life As A Ten-Year-Old Boy. Her performance at the Assembly Rooms this August is expected to be one of the festival’s hottest tickets. It will be the actress’s second appearance at the Fringe – she starred there in 2000 but with the entire cast of The Simpsons. The show with Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner and Yeardley Smith was one of the fastest-selling ever at the Fringe. Mary Shields, associate director of the Assembly Rooms, said, “When the cast of The Simpsons appeared in 2000 they were doing excerpts from the cartoon with projections of the cartoon behind them on a screen.” Read More >>>
