Singer Camille’s Edinburgh double will be a first

This month, O’Sullivan will act in Rape of Lucrece at the International Festival, and perform her album at the Fringe, says Richard Fitzpatrick

SINGER Camille O’Sullivan will be the first person to perform in the Edinburgh International Festival and the more renowned Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the same year. She will make the crossover this month. .

Camille, as the Cork performer is known, was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company to adapt (with her musical collaborator, Feargal Murray, and director Elizabeth Freestone) The Rape of Lucrece, which she first performed in a solo production last year.