Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, critically-acclaimed Topanga writer and performer Stacie Burrows brings her award-winning solo musical play Fool’s Goldmine to Corazon Topanga for one night only, October 17 at 7 pm.
Burrows is known for her raw, music-forward solo theatre works that explore family dysfunction, mental health, addiction, and now, financial recklessness. Her performances blend Southern Gothic storytelling, original music, and multimedia elements.
In Fool’s Goldmine, Burrows goes from well-to-do to well-to-don’t, exploring her family’s relationship with debt. Burrows grew up in 1980s Houston, Texas, blissfully unaware of her family’s financial problems, although the house phone rang constantly, and no one would answer. She was raised under the assumption that they were rich, only to discover that it was all a façade.
Her father, whom she idolized, had made every financial blunder under the sun. This created a bit of an identity crisis for her. Following this revelation, Burrows vowed to avoid debt in her own life, only to find herself deep in debt, raising her own family in Los Angeles, where wealth is readily on display. She finds compassion and understanding for her father, now that she’s the parent.
“I’m just a girl from a long line of credit,” states Burrows, who, rather than keeping up with the Joneses, is just trying to keep up with herself! Audiences will learn how Burrows ‘got poor quick’ in this serious but humorous solo show, which features an original soundtrack.
Burrows is no stranger to the Edinburgh Fringe, and audiences and critics alike have previously enjoyed her offerings including Bulletproof Unicorn (2022), Laughable (2024), and the award-winning No Good Drunk (2025), which performed at Pleasance Courtyard, and received multiple five-star reviews, before transferring to London for a run last Autumn.
Tickets for Fool’s Goldmine are $20. The performance is scheduled for October 17 at 7pm at Corazon Topanga. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit:
https://www.stacieburrows.com/buynow/fools-goldmine-at-corazon
