“I’ve made some amazing friends I wouldn’t trade for anything.” | Mabel Slattery on the unifying power of comedy done right

Tell us about you/your act. I am a slightly overeager and permanently sleepy lady with a penchant for history, literature and the giant pretzels you can get from Lidl. My act is very much just me talking absolute rubbish for as long as anyone can stand me. I genuinely thought this would fade over time … Continue reading “I’ve made some amazing friends I wouldn’t trade for anything.” | Mabel Slattery on the unifying power of comedy done right

“We’re drawn to things that are dark and weird.” | Your Aunt Fanny talk bringing their shameless sketch show Minge Unhinged to Vault Festival

Tell us about the show you’re bringing to the Vault Festival. It’s called Minge Unhinged. We wrote it last year. We took it on tour between May and August to a couple of places, mostly in the North East and we went down to London for the Wandsworth Fringe Festival and a couple of nights … Continue reading “We’re drawn to things that are dark and weird.” | Your Aunt Fanny talk bringing their shameless sketch show Minge Unhinged to Vault Festival

“I want people to find something they can relate to, whatever their identity is.” | Shelf talk gender, sexuality and performing Straight at Vault Festival

Tell us about the show you’re bringing to the Vault Festival, Straight. Ruby: Straight is a look back over our time as a double act since 2015, how our relationships to our gender, sexuality, and presentation have changed since then, and how this has affected our experiences of comedy and the world. It particularly focuses … Continue reading “I want people to find something they can relate to, whatever their identity is.” | Shelf talk gender, sexuality and performing Straight at Vault Festival