“Hopefully it will bring back that festival buzz to city” | Alex Petty on booking Brighton Fringe’s first post-lockdown live comedy

Tell us about show scheduling the comedy festival would usually work? Normally for the Brighton Fringe, we’d take applications from shows through October, November to sort out our programme in line with the deadlines in December and January. We’d take applications from shows we know, acts that would like us to come see them and … Continue reading “Hopefully it will bring back that festival buzz to city” | Alex Petty on booking Brighton Fringe’s first post-lockdown live comedy

“The fundamental horror we’re exploring is ‘consequences’.” | Charlie Dinkin and Zoe Tomalin on their comedy-horror sketch series, SeanceCast

Tell us about your podcast, SeanceCast SeanceCast is an extremely haunted sketch show, which follows two beautiful women (spoiler alert: it’s us) as we hold seances in order to find otherworldly content for our podcast. Each episode has its own story, as well as four “scenes from the beyond” performed by some of the best … Continue reading “The fundamental horror we’re exploring is ‘consequences’.” | Charlie Dinkin and Zoe Tomalin on their comedy-horror sketch series, SeanceCast

“What’s come out of it is something more than we ever imagined.” | Maria Oshodi on bringing Eye Say, Eye Say, Eye Say to Bloomsbury Festival

Tell us about your show. Maria: The show is called Eye Say, Eye Say, Eye Say, taken from the old music hall comedy slogans. We’ve changed the original ‘I’ to ‘eye’ because we’re a visually impaired theatre company. It’s a stand up comedy show with fifteen acts at the last count. Everyone comes from a … Continue reading “What’s come out of it is something more than we ever imagined.” | Maria Oshodi on bringing Eye Say, Eye Say, Eye Say to Bloomsbury Festival