“It really helped me look at life from a different angle.” | Ophélie Hocquard talks tackling the patriarchy through crystals

Tell us about the show you’re bringing to the Vault Festival, Crystal Clear. It’s an hour of stand-up comedy in which I explain why I’m quitting stand-up comedy to become a crystal healer. What inspired you to write a show about crystal healing? I got really into meditation around the time I started stand-up, it … Continue reading “It really helped me look at life from a different angle.” | Ophélie Hocquard talks tackling the patriarchy through crystals

Introducing your line-up for Blizzard #12, featuring headline act Tony Wright

Blizzard Comedy is a proud safe space with explicit content policies on Racism/sexism/homophobia/transphobia/ablism, and a general blanket ban on being a dick. We also make every effort to content warn any potentially difficult or triggering material ahead of time, and we keep audience participation to a minimal, and only with consent (signified by a sticker … Continue reading Introducing your line-up for Blizzard #12, featuring headline act Tony Wright

“We kind of stumbled our way through learning to write.” | Croft and Pearce on crafting narrative through sketch for Double Take

A bit about yourselves, what you do, why you do it etc... We met at school when we were 16 and started doing comedy together when we ran out of things to talk about (approx ten years into our friendship). We went from doing two minutes on a sketch night to taking a show to … Continue reading “We kind of stumbled our way through learning to write.” | Croft and Pearce on crafting narrative through sketch for Double Take