“Comedy is often the best way to make people sit up and listen.” | Ladylikes talk social pressure and sketch comedy in bringing Top Secret House Party! to Vault Festival

Tell us about the show you’re bringing to the Vault Festival. We are bringing our debut sketch show, Top Secret House Party! to the Studio theatre at VAULT Festival 2020. It’s a hilarious (and sometimes terrifying) look at modern-day party culture. Over the course of one hour, we take our audience on a journey through … Continue reading “Comedy is often the best way to make people sit up and listen.” | Ladylikes talk social pressure and sketch comedy in bringing Top Secret House Party! to Vault Festival

“Think Bright Eyes but sadder and less self aware.” | Matt Hutson on plunging the emotional depths for Softboy at Vault Festival

Tell us about the show you’re bringing to the Vault Festival, Softboy. It’s basically a show that makes fun of fragile masculinity. I ‘play’ a struggling singer songwriter that is very obviously desperate for approval. I put ‘play’ in quotations because sometimes it feels like a character and sometimes it’s definitely just me singing about … Continue reading “Think Bright Eyes but sadder and less self aware.” | Matt Hutson on plunging the emotional depths for Softboy at Vault Festival

“Every time I buy jelly beans I think I’m expressing the essence of who I am” | Joz Norris on distilling identity in You Build The Thing You Think You Are at Vault Festival

Tell us about the show you’re bringing to the Vault Festival, You Build The Thing You Think You Are. My last show was a sort of conceptual absurdist thing where I performed the entire show in disguise and didn’t actually really appear until the very end. It sort of deliberately kept the truth at arm’s … Continue reading “Every time I buy jelly beans I think I’m expressing the essence of who I am” | Joz Norris on distilling identity in You Build The Thing You Think You Are at Vault Festival