CONFESSIONS of a Warwickshire mum could be one of the comedy hits of the Edinburgh Festival this summer. Ginny Davis will be taking her one-woman show 10 Days ... That Shook the Kitchen to the world-famous arts festival next month and cannot quite believe it is really happening. The award-winning writer will be giving 21 performances of the show that began life as a short sketch eight years ago at a school revue. She's now hoping she will be able to steal the limelight, for once, from her rather successful children. "They've achieved more fame and fortune on the stage than I ever will," she jokes. Daughter Rosie, aged 15, has played Pip in Radio 4's long-running soap The Archers and 12-year-old son Ralph played the Duke of York in Richard III with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Ginny, who took a secretarial and languages courses at Coventry Technical College early in her career, reworked her original script and added some new material when she visited the Edinburgh Festival last year and decided she would love to have a go herself. "I have visited the festival several times and last year I was so inspired by the shows I saw that I felt I had to be part of it," she says. "The show, which is a comic monologue about the highs and lows of motherhood, has evolved from a sketch I first wrote when I was the producer of a parents' revue at Warwick Prep School and we needed some extra material. "From there I developed it to a full-length show called Confessions of a Stay at Home Mum, which I have performed several times with live songs sung by Hilary Lester." Hilary is unable to make it to Edinburgh so the show has evolved again into 10 Days ... That Shook the Kitchen. Ginny, from Wellesbourne, says: "It is an unashamedly middle-class exposé of the life of a middle England, midlife mother, complete with embarrassing husband, critical in-laws, whingeing children and 34DD friend." * The Edinburgh performances runs from August 1-24 and tickets are available from SWEET box office on 0870 241 0136 or the Fringe box office on 0131 226 0026. | 
