Odds Are

Smita Russell is an award-winning storyteller. In Odds Are, she unravels a true-life mystery with wit, heartbreak, and impossible odds.

A bold, genre-blurring solo show about what happens when we lose control and rewrite the story anyway. Smita Russell is an award-winning storyteller who fuses myth, memory and math to make sense of chaos. In Odds Are, she unravels a real-life mystery with wit, heartbreak, and impossible odds. A bold, genre-blurring solo show about losing control and rewriting the story anyway. Coming to Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025.

29/08/2025

✨ ODDS ARE has been the journey of a lifetime and it wouldn’t have been possible without the most extraordinary creative team.

Huge thanks to:
🎭 Playwright & Performer – Smita Russell
🎭 Producer – Lee Seymour
🎭 Co-Producer – Shinzong Lee
🎭 Director – Katherine Wilkinson
🎭 Dramaturg – Matthew Robert Gehring
🎭 Associate Producer – Arianna Rabin
🎶 Music & Sound Design – Katie Jenkins
🎨 Scenic Design – Micaela Bottari
💡 Tech Lead – Josh Morgan
🖌 Graphic Design – Emily Barratt
📱 Social Media – Emma Ferrier
📰 Edinburgh PR – Chloé Nelkin Consulting

Your artistry, care and brilliance turned a story into a living, breathing performance. I’m endlessly grateful.

And to our audiences - thank you for listening, laughing, crying and sharing.

27/08/2025

🎭 And that’s a wrap for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025!

What a journey - standing ovations, sold-out crowds, unforgettable conversations… and the perfect ending: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ from The List.

Huge thanks to everyone who came, listened, laughed, wept and shared their stories with us. ODDS ARE began as a whisper on a small stage and grew into something bigger than we could have imagined.

Until next time 💜

📸 Giulia Ferrando

25/08/2025

✨ All stories must end… and today’s the last chapter. Catch ODDS ARE one final time at Assembly Festival. Smita Russell’s story has lit up the Fringe with laughter, tears and standing ovations. Today’s your last chance to see why!

One story. One hour. A lifetime of impact. Don’t miss it.

🎭 14:55 | Assembly Roxy Edinburgh Festival Fringe

📸 Giulia Ferrando
🎶 Katie Jenkins

23/08/2025

✨ “A gifted storyteller with a hell of a story to tell, Russell weaves imagery and insight, with startling presence and clarity, in this engaging new solo show. “Odds Are” is a testament to the human capacity to dare and endure - especially when the odds are stacked.” Desiree Burch

🎭 Final performances this week Assembly Roxy Assembly Festival Edinburgh Festival Fringe

22/08/2025

💫 Then and Now....

From NYC ➡️ Edinburgh in under 2 years.

🖤 Nov 2023 - Story Collider at The Kraine Theatre
🤍 Aug 2025 - Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Assembly Festival

Smita Russell shared a 20-minute story at The Story Collider on 13th November 2023. The very next day, she started writing what would become ODDS ARE. Now it’s here at the world’s biggest arts festival and getting standing ovations.

From a black-box in the East Village to the global stage of Edinburgh… it’s been the journey of a lifetime.

Stories don’t just connect us - they can change everything.

🙏 Huge thanks to Story Collider for giving this show its very first stage.

21/08/2025

❤️ Stories shape us.

ODDS ARE has lit up the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with humour, heartbreak and hope - moving audiences to laughter, tears and standing ovations.

🔥 Final performances. Forever memories. This is your last chance to be part of the story everyone is talking about.

🎭 Assembly Roxy Assembly Festival | Until 25th August | 14:55 daily

📸 Giulia Ferrando

20/08/2025

🎲 What are the odds you’ll miss it? Pretty high… unless you book now.

It’s the final week of ODDS ARE at Edinburgh Festival Fringe - audiences are raving, standing ovations keep rolling in and the eats are filling fast!

📍 Assembly Roxy Assembly Festival l Until 25 Aug | 14:55

19/08/2025

✨ Don’t just take our word for it…

💬 “Raw, touching, impressive! The best show I’ve seen at Fringe.” – Audience member
💬 “Incredible show.” – Audience member
💬 “A truly remarkable one-woman show – intelligent, heartfelt, and unexpectedly funny.” – Elaine Wherry, Audience member

Final week to catch ODDS ARE at Edinburgh Festival Fringe - don’t miss it!
📍 Assembly Roxy Assembly Festival l Until 25 Aug | 14:55

18/08/2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “A thrift-shop Marc Jacobs dress, said to have once belonged to Anne Hathaway, sparks a run of strange coincidences… Funny, uncanny, almost mystical.” EdinburghGuide.com

ODDS ARE: a heartrending, wry, and deeply human one-woman show you won’t forget!

Read the full review: https://edinburghguide.com/festival/2025/odds-are-assembly-roxy-roxyboxy-review-21814

Join us for our last week at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe!
📍 Assembly Roxy Assembly Festival Until 25 Aug | 14:55

📸 Giulia Ferrando
🎶 Katie Jenkins

16/08/2025

✨ Edinburgh Evening News has named ODDS ARE one of the most thought-provoking shows of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Come see why audiences are raving about Smita Russell and ODDS ARE.

📍 Assembly Roxy Assembly Festival | Until 25 Aug | 14:55

📸 Giulia Ferrando
🎶 Katie Jenkins

15/08/2025

💬 "A truly remarkable one-woman show – intelligent, heartfelt, and unexpectedly funny… Smita Russell commands the stage with wit, warmth, and disarming honesty… A standout performance of this year’s Fringe not to be missed." – Elaine Wherry, audience member

From Greek mythology to improbable true-life events, ODDS ARE turns life’s toughest moments into magnetic, deeply human storytelling.

📍 Assembly Roxy Assembly Festival Edinburgh Festival Fringe | Until 25 Aug | 14:55 daily

📸 Giulia Ferrando

14/08/2025

💬 "A brave, harrowing journey. Beautifully delivered. Haunting and hopeful… See this. You will be better for it." – Lee, audience member

💬 "Incredible. Fantastic storytelling, heartbreaking and beautiful. 1000% recommend!" – Asha Trivedy, audience member

Audiences can’t stop talking about ODDS ARE – Smita Russell’s powerful, funny, and deeply moving story of love, loss, and finding meaning in life’s toughest moments.

Have you booked your tickets yet?

🎭 ODDS ARE | Assembly Roxy Assembly Festival Edinburgh Festival Fringe
📅 Daily at 14:55 | Until 25 Aug

📸 Giulia Ferrando

Address

Assembly Roxy (Roxy Boxy), 2 Roxburgh Place
Edinburgh
EH89SU

Website

https://bit.ly/oddsare, https://www.smitarussell.com/

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