Southwark Playhouse Comedy
T190092300
Southwark Playhouse is striving to provide a platform for emerging artists - and this includes comedians. As well as the exciting productions happening it its main space, Southwark Playhouse is proud to present a regular comedy club based in its spacious theatre bar, designed to showcase the very best in up-and-coming comedy talent on the London circuit - and beyond. Fresh, new, cutting edge stand-ups and character comedians will be making their way beneath the arches - so come and join us.
Archive :: production:T190092300, comedy:S307025203, venue:V226
Production details
Ava Vidal' - With her striking looks this relaxed newcomer quickly commands the stage...' Chortle Ava Vidal started her comedy career as part of The BBC Talent Urban Sketch Show Team, where she not only performed but wrote a series of short sketches. She then transferred her skills from character comedy to straight stand up and quickly became successful getting her first paid gig within a week. She was then booked to appear in clubs all over the country and despite her short time on the circuit had no trouble in commanding the audiences' attention. She made her international debut within two months at Berlin's Blue Monday Club. She was the only female to reach the finals of the BBC 3 New Comedy Awards. James Kettle - "There's definitely a place for angry young men. James Kettle is desperately angry - but very good." Russell Howard, speaking in The London Paper James Kettle is a stand-up comedian and writer-for-hire. He is not a happy person. James likes to describe his comedy as "bleak" and "interminable", and says that the fact that people are willing to laugh at him on a regular basis is in many ways "the final insult". He believes everyone is out to get him, and employs humour as a defence mechanism. Ha ha ha. Kate Smurthwaite - Kate started performing as a comic (after work) in early 2004. She quit the day-job in finance and turned professional in June 2005. She has performed at over 1000 shows at venues across the UK and overseas. Clubs performed at include Backyard Comedy Club, Birmingham Glee Club, Jesters in Bristol, Brighton Komedia, 99 Clubs around London and Oxford Street Comedy Club, where she won comedian of the year in 2004
