SWEET MOONBABIES, DOES MAMA SIÂN HAVE A GIG LINED UP FOR YOU.
Maybe it’s moonshine, maybe it’s Maybelline - either way, that is a sweet-lookin' line up of stand-up, sketch and alternative comedy. Siân Docksey (“One to watch” – Funny Women) gleefully serves up four nights of double Edinburgh Fringe comedy previews, lovingly curated for you and your mates.
Join Siân as she turns the basement of The Glory into a mystic lair, brings her mate Cher along to do Tarot card readings, and previews her new Edinburgh Fringe show alongside a different brilliant comedian each night. Two full shows with an extra dose of magic for the freakishly reasonably price of six shiny whole pounds. We bring the funny, you bring yourself, your pals, Paul from accounts, and your Mum.
8-10pm at The Glory, Haggerston on the 18th, 19th, 21st and 27th of June.
FEATURING:
SIÂN DOCKSEY: Interdependent Woman
Siân's mum is worried about her. So Siân has told her she's a successful stand-up comedian on a cruise ship. This is a show that aims to maintain that lie. A fresh stand-up show about neoliberalism and being at sea from an avocado-carrying member of the millennial snowflake brigade.
Featured in The Telegraph’s Funniest One-Liners of the Edinburgh Fringe 2017
**** “Fresh and thought-provoking” – Mumble Comedy
“Silly, nonsensical, political, feminist and weird.” - One4Review
"Very funny” – The F-Word
JOINED BY:
JUNE 18TH
ELF LYONS: ChiffChaff
The Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee (Best Show 2017) presents her one-woman musical about the economy. You read that right. Let’s get fiscal. The queen of clown is back and she’s making the dismal science fun with a whole orchestra and an Invisible Hand.
BBC New Talent Hotlist 2017
Fringe World Best Comedy Show 2018 nominee
British Vogue's '20 Names of Now'
'A fast talking, smart-thinking stand-up for whom the adjective 'kooky' could have been invented for' – Guardian
***** 'Hysterical tour de force'- ThreeWeeks
***** 'A fantastic comedic success' - Fest
**** - Scotsman
JUNE 19TH
JODIE MITCHELL
2018 Funny Woman Awards Finalist and good human Jodie Mitchell chats class, queerness and daddy issues until she feels a bit better. Behold her mouth as it makes audible comedy, and her brain as it processes an all-consuming desire for your approval.
‘Jodie Mitchell…left me with actual tears of laughter running down my face’ – DIVA
‘Blindingly obvious comedic talent’ – The Skinny
‘[Her] set is so funny it makes all the comedy in my life up to this point redundant’ – Theatrebubble
JUNE 21st
SOPHIE DUKER
Fresh stand-up from a rising star and sexy-cerebral comedy underdog. Bigots better watch your back!
“A sparky proposition” – The Independent
BBC New Comedy Award Shortlist
Funny Women Awards Finalist
Pleasance Comedy Reserve 2017
Writer on Famlam, BBC2’s The News Quiz, The Now Show, BBC Radio 4 Extra’s Newsjack and Cartoon Network’s The Amazing World of Gumball.
JUNE 27th
LOOSE BRIE SOLVE EVERYTHING
In real life, Loose Brie (Martin and Phil) live together in a tiny flat. It can be tough. A lot goes unsaid. In this show, they’re going to solve everything... else. The world’s ills. All of them. In an hour. It can't be that hard, right?
"Promising twosome" - Evening Standard
"Bold performers... following their own path" – Chortle
**** 'I laughed – a lot' - Mumble Comedy
So You Think You’re Funny Sketch Finalists 2017
As seen on Comic Relief and BBC3.
Also featuring: CHER
Cher is known for things like winning Oscars, being a Pop Goddess and showing Twitter how things are done. She was also in a comedy double act with her husband Sonny Bono from 1971-1974, and ex-husband Sonny Bono from 1976-1977. Now she's come back to London to help you live your destiny and gently steer you into the occult. You may ask her to read your Tarot cards for a small fee, and whatever you do, don't be basic.