KAREN Bartke, best known as Scot Squad’s long-suffering desk sergeant, is a “complete coward” when it comes to ghost stories, she admits.
“I find it all very creepy,” she says, adding with a laugh: “It has made me a little reluctant to play games late at night. When you’re alone, and it’s dark - that’s when it’s easier to imagine a game might be haunted….”series, A Play A Pie and A Pint for Halloween week. It follows Biggs and Wedge as they play Killswitch and recount some of the most chilling digital tales ever told.
There is a twist to Playthrough, Karen explains - the audience gets to decide which haunting tales to hear and ultimately, the fate of the geeky protagonists. “I was petrified of improv,” she says. “So I joined comedy group Q-Fusion to get experience and Joe Hullait saw me performing, and invited me to audition.On the show, Karen quickly became half of one of Scottish comedy’s best double acts – permanently exasperated Officer Karen, and hapless but lovable Bobby .
“But I came to it quite late in the end. I moved to a new house, when I was in my 30s, and I found the programme for that show in one of the boxes. It brought it all back to me, seeing it again. I could remember exactly how it felt.”
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