“Nothing brilliant happens in my comfort zone.” | Ali Woods talks tackling friendship and masculinity in his debut show at Vault Festival

Tell us about the show you’re bringing to the Vault Festival. It’s a stand-up comedy hour about male friendships and how much we choose to value them or not. I personally find it difficult to summarise a show especially before it is fully written but I believe that’s the main crux of it.  What’s exciting … Continue reading “Nothing brilliant happens in my comfort zone.” | Ali Woods talks tackling friendship and masculinity in his debut show 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

“It’s about turning base functions into something of worth.” | Pope Lonergan talks drugs, death and dementia ahead of Incontinence Pad Disposal

Tell us about your new show, Incontinence Pad Disposal. It’ll be about working in elderly care and how this was inextricably bound to my abuse of prescription opioids such as Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, Morphine and Dihydrocodeine. (I set a moral threshold for myself which was I’d never deprive the elderly of painkillers. They need them to … Continue reading “It’s about turning base functions into something of worth.” | Pope Lonergan talks drugs, death and dementia ahead of Incontinence Pad Disposal