Play Date
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Comedy for queers
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If you’ve ever been to an open mic night you’ll know that roughly 100% of comedians are straight white men in chinos. Why?
Well drag performer Sue Gives A Fuck has dedicated her time to understanding how privilege is amassed, in the hope of getting some. So she’s got some opinions. And she’s going to make those opinions the basis of a comedy show, in the hope that this will create a strange funny valuable queer space for play. And that that will be lucrative for her.
So if you’re a pansexual in mink, a POC in velvet or, yes, even a straight white man in chinos, come explore the idea of what’s funny. All are welcome.
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With guest performances by:
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Lucy McCormick
‘Joyously depraved’ ***** (TimeOut)
'Visceral, punk, emotional, challenging and I don’t know, transcendent.' (Daddy himself, Jonny Woo)
I (Sue) normally write these little bio’s in the third person, coz I’m professional like that, but Lucy McCormick’s debut solo show ‘Triple Threat’ has made it impossible for me to be anything other than effusive. So I’ve had to change my policy. The show was crafted for Edinburgh 2016, has since enjoyed TWO separate runs at Soho Theatre, and is one of the best shows of any kind that I’ve ever seen. To create something anarchic, and for that anarchy to be powerful and meaningful rather than tiring, you have to have really mastered your craft, and they don’t come more anarchic than Lucy McCormick. She’s a God damn icon.
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Mae Martin
'Infectious laughs…deftly delivered' **** (Evening Standard)
'Quietly radical… the Canadian stand-up’s show expertly splices comedy, opinion and enlightenment' (The Guardian)
Only the second performer to be booked twice for Play Date, Mae Martin is one of the most exciting comedians working today, and a stage presence it’s impossible not to warm to. Her 2017 Edinburgh show ‘Dope’ was nominated for the Best Comedy Show award which, if you don’t know, is the big one. Her vulnerable, honest style and deeply personal story telling guarantee that her set at Play Date won’t be nearly long enough.
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Felix le Freak
Felix Le Freak is a degenerative skin condition originating in High Wycombe and specialising in the dissolution of patriarchal hegemony. When she's not fixing rips in the spacetime continuum or playing instruments with her genitals, Felix enjoys long walks on the beach and quality time at home with her elderly Cornish hostages, Errol and Babs. She’s also a finalist of Meth’s ‘Not Another Drag Competition’, a winner of Halfway II Heaven’s ‘It’s a Knockout’, and was cheated out of a place in the Drag Idol final because her car broke down.
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And a bit about your host:
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Sue Gives A Fuck began drag life as a finalist on Rupaul's Drag Race UK Ambassador. It was literally her first time in drag, she was out of her depth and she didn't really enjoy it. She was, however, immortalised by Katie Price in the lines "Can I have a porn star martini? No? Ugh. Fine, my favourite's Sue". Since then she's gone on to host sell out shows including Camposphere and Play Date, won The Glory's Lipsync 1000, and has performed with Charlotte Church and to Ian McKellen. Now she's abandoned her adoring fans in cabaret and performs on the stand up circuit, because someone has to educate straight people.
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Thursday 5th April 2018
doors 7.30pm, show 8pm
The Glory