Comedy
8 – 24 February 2013
A great mix of stand-up, theatre, discussion and children’ children’ss shows just for Dave’ Dave’ss Leicester Comedy Festival
Ollie Smith: 27
Pic: Tom o Edson
Friday 8 February at 8pm £9 / £7
Real rockstars die aged 27. Ollie Smith is 26. He is not a rockstar rockstar.. Y Yet. et.
Theatre
Balancing on a knife-edge between hilarity and poignancy poignancy, y, and armed with nothing but dry wit and fading dr dreams, eams, Ollie speculates on his own untimely demise in this darkly-comic solo show show,, as he struggles to secure secure his own legend alongside such gr greats eats as Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Amy W inehouse. www .OllieSmiths27.co.uk Winehouse. www.OllieSmiths27.co.uk 1 hour (no interval). 16+ years. May cause of fence. Some flashing lights (not str offence. strobe) obe) Supported using public funding by the National Lottery thr through ough Arts Council England; cir circuit cuit Live Art Festival (Leicester) and Emerge (Leeds)
Abnormally Funny People
Stand-up
Saturday Saturday 9 February at 8pm £12 / £8
A gr group oup of gifted stand-up comedians strut their funny stuf stuff. f. Some sit down and stand-up, others stand on chairs and stand-up, others simply stand up and stand-up. All but one of them is disabled. They ar aree all funny people. TTonight’s o onight’’s bill includes Steve Da ayy, Liz Carr, Carr, Day, Don Biswas and Steve Best. www .abnormallyfunnypeople.com www.abnormallyfunnypeople.com 2 hours. 16+ years. May cause of fence offence
Funny Bones Discussion
Sunday 10 February at 2pm
There has been a huge increase increase in the profile profile of disability and disability There awareness recently. recentlyy. This di explores what this means for awareness discussion seminar explores y, and tthe experiences and aspirations of comedians the comedy industry industry, www.makemehappy-online.co.uk and audiences. www.makemehappy-online.co.uk
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