Sat 10th Feb 2015. Time: 8:00pm (doors open 7:30pm) Tickets: £5 http://www.wegottickets.com/event/303889
COMEDY PICK IN METRO & EVENING STANDARD!
The next in our season of intimate, playful Stand Up & Slam special shows at Camden Comedy Club! This is Stand Up & Slam with a twist! Every month we’ll introduce a new act or host, play a new game and just generally shake it all up a bit.
But the main point of the show remains the same. Performance poetry: comedy’s boring cousin, right? Stand up: poetry’s idiot relation, yes? Let’s find out.We’re mashing up the two artforms for one night of spoken word: Stand Up & Slam! Six phenomenal acts from the worlds of comedy and poetry go face-to-face for your approval in a killer night of Stand-Up VS Performance Poetry.
TEAM CAPTAINS:
Poetry – DAN SIMPSON
Comedy – RICH WILSON
TEAM POETRY:
SOPHIA WALKER
(BBC Slam Champion, ‘a powerhouse of spoken word… a phenom of a performer’)
LEWIS BUXTON
(Burn After Reading)
TEAM COMEDY:
JESS FOSTEKEW
(★★★★★ Three Weeks, ‘intensely funny’ Time Out)
DEBORAH FRANCES-WHITE
(Radio 4’s ‘Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice’, ★★★★★ The Gay UK, ★★★★ Three Weeks, ★★★★ Fest, ★★★★ Chortle)