EXETER COMEDY FESTIVAL
EXETER COMEDY FESTIVAL
JUNE 7TH- 8TH 2024
Mike Wozniak ~ Josie Long ~ Bec Hill ~ John Hegley ~ Spencer Jones ~ Louise Leigh ~ Jordan Brookes ~ Will Adamsdale ~ Kev Mudd ~ Amy Mason ~ Simon Munnery ~ Stevie Martin ~ Ed Tripp ~ Louis Burgess ~ Corpsing ~ Lulu Poppelwell ~ Ed Gaughan ~ Alex Kitson ~ Ben Moor ~ Burt Williamson ~ Amy Matthews ~ Joanna Neary ~ Mary O’Connell ~ Gavin Osborn ~ Lucy Pearman ~ Charlotte Evans ~ Comedy Club 4 Kids ~ Joe Mayo and Merry Martin ~ THE MIGHTY KIDS BEATBOX COMEDY GAMESHOW ~ Spork presents ‘Worst Poet Wins’
Great comedy in unexpected places.
loads of shows to catch, AND it’s all really close together…
Kev Mud: Homeless Sex Biscuit
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Join working class hero Kev Mud and a few other characters in his caravan, as he and his characters deliver a 'WORLD EXCLUSIVE'. Something never been seen or attempted before by any comedian in the history of the world.
He's bound to be good because he's shared the stage with the likes of Frankie Boyle, Russell Howard, Al Murray and Ed Gamble, as well has having done well with loads of awards and things. He's been on telly with Mark Steel and Josh Pugh.
He's been a Finalist at British Comedian of the Year, Finalist at Bath New Act, beaten the King Gong at The Comedy Store, and been described as "One To Watch" by Chortle, "Very Good" by Paul Foot and "Fantastic" by Bobby Davro. With a CV as impressive as that, what could possibly go wrong?
"Delivers jokes with charm and wit... One to watch!" - Chortle
"Honest, Charming, Humorous. A crowd pleaser" - British Comedy Guide
"Most original. Very exciting. One of the best new acts for 20 years" - Spiky Mike (Funhouse Comedy)
"Great set and so many killer lines!" - Adam Bloom
Winner : UK Pun Championship
Nominee : Leicester Comedy Festival Best Debut
Finalist : Bath Comedy Festival New Act Of The Year
Finalist : British Comedian Of The Year
Finalist : Comedy Store King Gong
Shortlisted : New Comedy
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Age restriction: 16+
Time: 07/06/24 @20:30
Venue: The Fat Pig
Content Warnings: Religion. Suicide. Poverty.
Burt Williamson: Riding Bareback Through Your Mind (WIP)
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With multiple critically acclaimed runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and a self-released hour comedy special available online, you might be thinking what’s next for the comedian Burt Williamson? The answer is simple, more comedy.
Join this Bristol favourite as he works out new jokes that will go on to form his next comedy hour Riding Bareback Through Your Mind. Comedy fans and casuals are all welcome as Burt shows off his densely worded punchlines with charm and aplomb.
As seen on NextUp
As heard on BBC Bristol, BBC Oxford, GoldFM
His first show 200 IQ Audience Only (No Munters) is also available for free on Youtube.
“His beautifully crafted set is clever in unguessable ways, unexpectedly hilarious at every turn and a great joy wrapped up in a big laugh, sprinkled with adorable.” - ★★★★ The Scotsman
“the funniest, most unlikely, rudest yet sweetest” ★★★★ - Entertainment Now
"Absurd and excellent" - Rife Magazine
★★★★★ Ed Fringe Review
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Age Restriction: 18+
Time: 07/06/24 @20:30
Venue: The Bootlegger
Content Warnings: Strong language
Louise Leigh: Distracted
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“****Hilarious” (The Wee Review) “Brilliant” (The Scotsman), “**** Go See this Show” (Funny Women) How do you want to be remembered when you die? Taxidermied in a brunch venue of course! Also covered: raising teenagers among llamas; which are the most boring nipples? Why is the menopause a cross between the climate crisis and World War 1? And biscuits. There’s always biscuits. Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year Finalist, Funny Women Semi-finalist, British Comedian of the Year Semi-finalist. 'Great performance, great confidence, great jokes' (Gary Delaney) Viewers may become fiercely aroused.
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Ben Moor & Joanna neary: BookTalkBookTalkBook
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I have seen this and it is brilliant. . .
It’s as if Jorge Luis Borges has written a parody of book festival events, a Russian Doll of a show that kaleidoscopes psychedelically into itself and then evaporates.
STEWART LEE
Authors Jenny Nibbingley and Burton Mastrick truly need no introduction.
Their novels have long been secretly well-regarded by those in the know, but rarely bought or read by the general public.
Today's event promises to be an enlightening discussion of such titles as Why Reigate?, Randoms, Hatred of Broccoli, and Only If I Have To.
Tim Timminey will moderate.
Book signing afterwards.
Well, that's the plan anyway.
But when do things go to plan?
BookTalkBookTalkBook combines an absurdist parody of awkward live author events; an exploration of artificial intelligence and the creative process; a Beckettian live theatre experience, and an experiment in the limits of patience regarding card tricks. With jokes.
Funny and wise, imaginative and original; this is a show you can't put down.
Sorry, that was more of an observation than a question.
BookTalkBookTalkBook was a 100% Sell Out at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe, and has been a hit at bookshops and literary festivals around the UK.
Joanna Neary is a multi-award winning comedian and actor. She produces hilarious character comedy shows in the vein of Vic Reeves and Victoria Wood. Her credits include Darkest Hour, Man Down, and Ideal.
Ben Moor is a Herald Angel Award Winner, and has been writing and performing offbeat solo comedy pieces since 1993. He has appeared in The Queen's Gambit, The IT Crowd, and Knowing Me, Knowing You.
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Age Guidance: Suitable for adults and bright youngsters.
Time: 08/06/24 @14:00
Venue: School Room @ the Methodist Church, Exeter (Venue 3)
Lucy Pearman: Moon In Progress
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Lucy Pearman will be wobbling around in a costume, hoping for the best. We can probably expect a song, a cow, a couple of planets and ideally, you in the audience.
“There is much joy to be had in Pearman’s dedication to warmth and emotional connection through absurdity and very silly costumes.” ★★★★ The Skinny
“Pearman is otherworldly …She’s got us hooked|” ★★★★ Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
“Spending an hour in Pearman’s world is a true delight” ★★★★ The List
(Alternative, Clown)
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ED Tripp: No Man is an Ireland
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Edward Tripp combines absurd comedy, slick poetry and hysterically unhinged performances to entertain and disorientate the audience.
An awarding winning poet, comedian and former Bard of Exeter, Edward has brought his unique brand of stand-up poetry to comedy nights and spoken word events across the UK.
“Edward Tripp fires exceptionally written poetry at the audience like bullets made of comedy gold".
Clare Fergusson-Walker, Comedian and Poet
“A prose-soaked comedy assassin who's suit lapels are the only things smoother than his wordplay”
Kev Mud, Comedian and Writer
“Absurd and hysterical stand-up and poetry... a bizarre and enigmatic set that had the audience in stitches.”
Razz Magazine
“Ed Tripp is a genius…”
Will Adamsdale, Comedian and Actor
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Age Restriction: 18+
Time: 08/06/24 @19:30
Venue: The Bootlegger
Content Warnings: Occasional swearing and mature themes
Gavin Osborn: Misses and Hits
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Gavin Osborn is a singer-songwriter with six solo albums under his belt, having spent nearly 20 years touring the UK, Europe and Australia. Familiar to listeners of BBC 6Music and Radio 4 (The Now Show and more), Gavin’s tours and shows include support slots with the likes of Belle & Sebastian, Frank Turner and loads more.
His last album, Scrolling Home, completely sold out. Luckily, that was only because he didn’t order enough and now they are fully available (in CD form) at his live shows, which feature the multi-instrumentalist John Hare (from Nick Parker & The False Alarms) as The Comment Section.
Gavin co-wrote a trilogy of storytelling shows with comedian Daniel Kitson and during lockdown his viral hit ‘Born In The NHS’ was featured on Russell Howard’s Home Time on Sky One.
“a brilliantly accomplished singer-songwriter with touchingly quirky lyrics” – Chortle
“One to watch. Processes his anger into a kind of likeably grumpy bewilderment and uses it to unite his audience. A comfort blanket for post-Brexit alienation. One of the year’s most relatable releases” – The Observer
“Poignant, warm, storytelling that’s not afraid to be both very funny and very sad, and is at its best when it’s both” – Drowned In Sound
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Age Guidance: 14+
Time: 08/06/2024 @18:30
Venue: The Music Depot
Content Warnings: Moderate (and infrequent) bad language.
Alex Kitson: Must I Paint You a Picture (WIP)
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'Alex Kitson is an award-winning comedian with a secret. One he's fed up of keeping. Come find out what made this "incredible...so clever" (BBC Radio Bristol) "master of his craft" (Capers Comedy) perform the show he never thought he'd do.
A story from Tiverton's finest about hope, escaping the woods and jokes. Lots and lots of jokes.
Tour Support for Tom Houghton, Tom Ward and Vittorio Angelone.
"Bristol Comedy Legend" - The Kettle
BEST OF BRIGHTON FRINGE COMEDY AWARD 2023 - NOMINATED
HOST - AAA PLEASANCE SHOWCASE EDINBURGH 2022
BATH NEW ACT OF THE YEAR FINALIST 2022
CASTLE CUP WINNER 2022
BEST JOKE WINNER - BATH COMEDY FESTIVAL 2021
COMEDY BOX'S BEST ACTS IN THE WEST 2021
FIRST LAUGH FINALIST 2020
NEW UK ONLINE COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR FINALIST 2020
"Alex Kitson is not only very likeable from the moment he steps on stage but has some great observational comedy material which he delivers with supreme confidence, he is a natural and will go a long way in the comedy business. One to watch!" - Mirth Control
"A knack for making you burst into laughter...[a] comedic sensation" - Big Belly Comedy Club'
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Age Restriction: 18+
Time: 08/06/2024 @20:00
Venue: The Music Depot
Content Warnings: Sexual Assault.
Jordan Brookes: Work in Progress
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I recently had a near death experience. I was on stage at a mental health charity fundraiser and thought the black walls at the side of the stage were made of soft material. I turned to the audience, cheerfully asked “may I?” And then head butted it. Turns out it was solid concrete. The noise my skull made echoed round the room. In that moment, I thought it was game over. I finished my performance and spent the next few days in shock, waiting to die, going over and over it in my head. This show isn’t about that, but it is loosely inspired by it.
A new show from the Edinburgh Comedy Award winner 2019
‘profound and disgusting’
★★★★
The Skinny
‘majestic and challenging.’
★★★★★ List
‘demolishes the conventions of comedy’
★★★★
The Guardian
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Age Restriction: 18+
Time: 08/06/2024 @16:00
Venue: Little Mint @ The Methodist
Content Warnings: adult themes
Ed Gaughan: Words and Music
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First Solo show in 18 years from award winning idiot!
He’s the voice of Baron Greenback in ‘Dangermouse’, Gideon in Sky TV’s ‘Brassic’ and co-writer and star of the BAFTA nominated movie ‘Skeletons’ Ed has directed work for many of the UK’s most loved acts- including Milton Jones, Josie Long , Pappy’s, Barry Cryer and Spymonkey. Peter Sellers Comedy Award nominee.
“Original and intelligent” **** Metro
“Eccentric, heartfelt and very funny” ****Guardian
“A surreal hybrid of theatre, stand up comedy and jazz concert. hysterical” ****Independent
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Age Restriction: 16+
Time: 07/06/2024 @18:30
Venue: The Music Depot
Content Warnings: Strong Language
Amy Matthews: Commute With The Foxes (Work in Progress)
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Matthews brings a work in progress version of her latest show to the Exeter Comedy Festival!
A shift in lighting casts new shadows. That song you couldn’t stop playing now hurts when it comes on in Tesco. The smell of your high school maths classroom wallops you round the face decades later in the lobby of a hotel abroad. Do things have a place and how do they change if they find themselves in a new one?
Oh and it asks the really big questions, like, “where are all the frogs?” and, “no, like seriously, where are they?”
This is a show about love and home and class from the critically decorated comic:
“Insanely original” ★★★★★ Broadway Baby
★★★★★ One4Review
★★★★ Broadway World
★★★★ The List
★★★★ The Skinny
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Age Restriction: 18+
Time: 08/06/2024 @16:30
Venue: The Bootlegger
Content Warnings: contains swearing and adult themes
Lulu Popplewell: Yuck (Work in Progress)
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Stand up, Work in Progress
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Returning from her sell-out debut hour, Lulu brings you a new work in progress show about being a yucky young lad. Expect worms, sebum and blind angels.
‘Biting wit and playful punchlines’ (British Comedy Guide, 2023 Recommended Shows)
‘Incredibly bubbly - a genuinely lovely show’ **** (Broadway Baby)
‘Highly highly recommended’ **** (Pick of the Fringe)
‘Will soon be one of your favourite comedians’ **** (Funny Women)
30 Funniest Jokes of the Fringe ‘23 - The Telegraph
'Hilarious' - The List
'Highly recommended' - Stephen Fry
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Age Restriction: 16+
Time: 08/06/2024 @17:30
Venue: The Fat Pig
Content Warnings: swearing, sexual references, references to Eating Disoders
Louis Burgess: Definitely Ironically Unnamed Show
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Award winning musical comedian and online viral sensation Louis Burgess categorically despises hyped-up, gimmicky marketing blurb. So after he achieved OVER 50 MILLION VIEWS ONLINE, he vowed to never lower himself to such tactics to sell tickets.
This is definitely why perpetual underachiever and professional procrastinator Louis Burgess, AS SEEN ON ITV, decided that, in order to “bring down the system”, his show would be officially, and totally ironically, without a name, and not (as rumours have it) because he couldn’t think of one in time for the festival programme deadline.
Expect a show that avoids all cheap gimmicks such as meta postmodernism & mentioning his ADHD to appeal to the neurodivergent buzzword culture and instead delivers classic comedy values such as rap songs, contrived hyperactivity, gratuitous profanity and sound effects.
"Yes it's a show about life, fleeting mild fame, music, mental health, frustration, inability to meet deadlines. It's about all of that and more. But mainly it's about literally nothing at all."
- Louis Burgess
★★★★★ - Five Star Symbols in a Row
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Bec Hill: Work in Progress
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Bec Hill is an Australian comedian known for her flipcharts, arts-and-crafts, and podcasts ("A Problem Squared" and "Enemy in Paris"). Also seen on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and The Jonathan Ross Show. This will be a work in progress.
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Stevie Martin: Edinburgh Preview
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Stevie (8 out of 10 Cats, Guessable, A Thorntons Advert) is returning to the Fringe with a live show after five years of doing online comedy (45 millions views worldwide). It will be like her online stuff but she will be in the room on the stage, if that makes sense? You can’t pause her etc. “Funny AF” Time Out
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Age Guidance: 14+
Time: 07/06/24 @17:30
Venue: The Bootlegger
Age Guidance: 14+
Content warnings: Bad language and some adult content
Charlotte Evans: The farewell tour
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***THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS****
Hi I've been in London for the last 10 months so i'm obviously very cultured now. This show will be all of my cultural findings.
I am keeping this loose because I don't know what the show will be (a good idea)
In August, will be leaving Devon forever (a bad idea, and I think it's time to say goodbye.)
Expect an ode to Exeter (NOT SENTIMENTAL) and an auction of my things (because i only have space for one ornate cat vase in my shoebox-sized home in Islington*)
*Context for the reader: Islington is a very nice and expensive place in north london where I will live, just in case you are unfamiliar with London (because you live in Devon).
wow pints are so cheap here
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CORPSING
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Corpsing is a murder mystery comedy night! One comedian dies, and the rest are the suspects! Can the audience solve the case? A smash hit in London, it's now coming to Exeter for the first time!
“This is such a great concept for a comedy night and you should totally go” - Glenn Moore
“An eccentric, eclectic night that encompasses all that is good and wonderful about the London comedy scene” - Elf Lyons
“Corpsing might be the best idea for a comedy night ever. It’s unlike anything else on the comedy scene. I killed and I will kill again.” - Luke Rollason
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Age Restriction: 18+
Time: 08/06/24 @20:00
Venue: 1 Guinea Street
This show is PAY WHAT YOU WANT.
Get your free ticket here to guarantee entry.
Joe MAYO + MERRY MARTYN: NERD MENTALITY
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Work in Progress
Merry Martyn PhD and QI Elf Joe Mayo have a NERD MENTALITY. Come along to this delightfully silly show based on fun facts, mad maths, and daft chats which is guaranteed graph-a-minute (on average). Merry and Joe are collecting data on YOU to prove that everyone has the the capacity to be a NERD, whether you like numbers, letters, or even if you're neurotypical. If you spotted any of the three typos in this description, this is the show for youkaldjfk. Come join the dataset!
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Age Restriction: 12+
Time: 07/06/24 @17:30
Venue: The Roots Foundation
Content Warnings: Possible mild swearing, mild sexual references.
Amy Mason: Free Mason
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After divorcing her husband and coming out in her 30s, the Funny Woman finalist + BBC New Act nominee went wild (befriended some hedgehogs). ‘Charmingly poignant and funny’ The Herald. As heard on Radio 4 and Radio 1. ‘Brilliant’ BRIDGET CHRISTIE.
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Worst poet wins
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Join us for a night of brilliant comedy & truly terrible poetry.
Spork! Poetry & Edward Tripp are teaming up to present another Worst Poet Wins; a poetry slam competition where only the very worst will win.
Prepare to be amused, revolted and bored, as eight comedians and poets perform their most stupid, cringe-worthy & pretentious poems, in a bid to find the crappest poet of all time. Featuring some special guests, including the Bard of Exeter and Worst Poet Champion Ceri Baker, and a headline set from surreal stand-up poet and judge, Edward Tripp.
Edward Tripp is an award-winning stand-up poet, with a penchant for all things dark and surreal. A frequent performer on comedy and poetry stages alike, he’s taken his work around the UK from A Press of Suspects to Milk Poetry, to WOMAD Festival. Whether screaming about spatulas or soliloquising about Uncle Connor “who isn’t in the IRA,” Ed’s an always hilarious, prop-heavy and provocative performer.
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mike Wozniak: Work in Progress
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Mike is at the early stages of building up a new stand-up show so it's worth knowing this hour will very much be at the work-in-progress end of the spectrum. Whether or not it will even technically qualify as "stand-up" or "a show" remains to be seen but we can at least guarantee that Mike will be on stage, talking a bit and largely facing the right direction. Bonus warning: strong chance the show could be quite a long story about a bench.
Photo credit: Matt Stronge
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Mary O’Connell: Money Princess
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Stand up, storytelling
Mary O'Connell is conflicted: she hates capitalism but she loves to shop.
‘One of the most relatable shows of the Fringe… O’Connell is one of us’
★★★★ Telegraph
A hotly anticipated debut show of observational annoyance from a blunt and disturbed perspective, straight from a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe.
The star of Stand Up for Live Comedy (BBC Three), Funny Women runner-up 2020 and OnlyFans Content Creative Fund Winner 2023 considers money, pop culture and trying to be a good person while living in London (if that’s possible).
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John hegley: Peace, Love and Potatoes
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There's a looking back in hunger, with a side portion of spud, there's Rothko and the Daleks, and those with whom I've common blood: my Folies Bergère Grandmother, my brother who would put his socks under my pillow once he'd peeled them off his foot. There's the man who liked to drive in an imaginary car, there are amorous encounters, on the bus and in the cinema. There's trains. There's John Keats. There is Joan of Arc. There are trucks and boats and ships. With Chips.
"A Triumph" - Motorcycle Mechanics.
"Scandalousley talented"- Sunday Times
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Josie long: A Work In Progress About Extinct Gigantic Animals
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This is a new show I'm developing about extinction, time, charismatic megafauna and giant sloths, it's a work in progress but will be fun!
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Age Guidance: 14+
Time: 08/06/24 @17:00
Venue: School Room @ The Methodist Church
Content Warnings: Swearing, climate grief
Will adamsdale is doing a show but he doesn’t know what it is yet
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COME AND SEE A SHOW ABOUT SOMETHING BY WILL ADAMSDALE.
Will Adamsdale is doing a show but he doesn’t know what it is yet. (It will be very funny).
More info soon...
WINNER: PERRIER AWARD, 1872*
FRINGE FIRST WINNER
UNDER 11 HIGH JUMP WINNER 1987
*Sorry Will, I can’t remember the exact date, but I know it was a long time ago.
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Alasdair Wallace: (s)he who delights
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Alasdair Wallace (Leicester Mercury New Comedian of the Year nominee, BBC New Comedy Awards Shortlist) proudly presents a retelling of the Greek myth of Iphis and Ianthe interwoven with the very real story of a disasterous trip to Swansea. It's a story about the human, the divine and a pair of leather dungarees.
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Time: Friday 7th June @ 7:15pm
Venue: The Roots FoundationAge Guidance: 14+Content warnings: mild swears
The mighty kids beatbox game show
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Featuring Award-Winning Comedian, winner of Chortle’s ‘Best Compere’ Award and Star of CBBC’s ‘The Joke Machine’ and ‘The Dog Ate My Homework’ Jarred Christmas & Member of World Champion Beatbox Crew, ‘The Beatbox Collective, Voice of Juke on Cartoon Network’s ‘The Amazing World of Gumball’ and Current 2 x UK Loopstation Champion Jack “Hobbit” Hobbs.
Direct from sell out shows at the Southbank Centre in London, and the Edinburgh festival.
Are you a kid? Do you like music, laughing and whack-a-doodle-noodle craziness?Grab your pet adult and join us! Award-winning comedian Jarred Christmas and world champion beatboxer Hobbit bring a brand-new show packed with interactive jokes, silly billyness, beatboxing, and epic sounds created by you!
It’s the hottest ticket in town; so pop on your oven gloves, get involved!
AGE GUIDANCE: 4+
PLEASE NOTE, THERE IS NO PARKING AT THE VENUE, UNLESS YOU HAVE ACCESS REQUIREMENTS. THERE IS A PUBLIC CAR PARK ON OKEHAMPTON ROAD, A 4 MINUTE WALK FROM THE VENUE.
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Age Guidance: 4+
Time: 2pm Saturday 8th June
Venue: Theatre AlibiAge Guidance: 4+
Content warnings: n/a
COMEDY CLUB 4 KIDS
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COMEDY / FAMILY / VARIETY / COMPILATION
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups, sketch acts and cabaret stars from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and their families… but without the rude bits!
Almost 20 years later, the company has expanded from one London residency to being countrywide, running shows and workshops all over the UK from Peebles to Portsmouth, even producing a book on how to write and perform stand-up, and hosting our own Radio Nonsense podcast to bring the siillies to families all over the world.
The show is family friendly, but without any patronising idiocy. In fact, it’s just like a normal comedy club, but it’s on in the day, kids are allowed in, and thus there is a higher than usual chance of the entire audience claiming to be called Bob.
Adults to sit with children in their party (and help explain anything they get stuck on). Group bookings to contain at least one adult for every three kids. There will be audience participation.
HOSTED AT ALIBI’S CENTRE FOR THE IMAGINATION (EX4 1EJ).
PLEASE NOTE, THERE IS NO PARKING AT THE VENUE, UNLESS YOU HAVE ACCESS REQUIREMENTS. THERE IS A PUBLIC CAR PARK ON OKEHAMPTON ROAD, A 4 MINUTE WALK FROM THE VENUE.
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Age Restriction: 6+
Time: 4pm, 8th June
Venue: Theatre Alibi
Content Warnings: Adults to sit with children in their party (and help explain anything they get stuck on). Group bookings to contain at least one adult for every three kids. There will be audience participation.
Spencer Jones: The Downfall of Spencer Jones
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I make noises and shapes and other humans react to the experience.
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Age Guidance: N/A
Time: Saturday 8th June: 5pm
Venue: 1 Guinea StreetAge Guidance: n/a
Content warnings: Crisps
simon munnery’s jerusalem
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Using William Blake's poem (B-side to the English national anthem) and The Fall's take on it as a springboard, I endeavour to serve up satire, comedy and poetry with one eye on the distant past, and the other locked laser-like on the future.
It's clearly a recipe for disaster, but what's wrong with that? Something will come of it and you can call it art.
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Joanna Neary: Wasp in a Cardigan
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Written and Performed by Joanna Neary with additional material by Joseph Nixon, Glen Richardson and Heather Minor.
All music is original. We might offer/include a live musician for this show, availability pending.
Celia takes the WI’s Variety Show on a tour of village halls, presenting ‘What Is A Wife?’ with the aid of a puppet show, Celebrity Impersonations, and mechanical engineer Chris celebrating her divorce with an interpretive dance.
Hosted by Brief Encounters’ Celia Jesson (A pitch-perfect impression’ – Observer) and former WI committee member Joanna Neary.
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Age Guidance: N/A
Time: Friday 7th June @ 7pm
Venue: The Little MintContent warnings: mild swears
Ben Moor: Pronoun Trouble - Miscellaneous subjects that crossed my mind while listening to a lecture about Chuck Jones’s Hunting Trilogy (1951-53)
(which was nevertheless really good).
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A lecture concerning cartoons, friendship and lectures. Ben is sitting in a talk about a series of Chuck Jones cartoons, but his thoughts travel in various directions. There's his favourite mugs and T-shirts, words and books. Meanwhile the lecturer is following her own sweet way, quoting obscure academics, and offering a different way of looking at the world. Using Powerpoint and stand-up, Pronoun Trouble is a hilarious fact-adjacent lecture about three extraordinary short films, friendship, and a whole ton of other topics. Ben Moor has been described as "an English Wes Anderson. His dulcet tones are a paintbrush filling his world with a bright pastel colour palette” BROADWAY WORLD
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Age Guidance: N?A
Time: Friday 7th June 5:30pm
Venue: The Little MintAge Guidance: n/a
Content warnings: n/a