The Pleasance London Edinburgh Preview Season

Edinburgh Preview Season All Tickets ÂŁ5

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HUB 6TH JUNE & 11TH JULY 20:00 After an amazing 2015 Edinburgh Fringe run with sell-out shows and five star reviews, HUB is back in London with the best acts as they test drive their new material.

BELLA YOUNGER’S DELICIOUSLY STELLA* 22ND & 23RD JUNE 19:45 Deliciously Stella is not your average health guru. A devotee of the #eatclean phenomenon with a huge social media following, she’s hoping to share her diet secrets with the masses. The only issue is, her diet is anything but healthy… * Tickets £9 (Not included in discount offer)

TOM NEENAN & PHIL DUNNING 24TH JUNE 19:45 Tom Neenan: Backstage at the Vaudeville Theatre hear dark and hilarious tales of magic, malevolence and misfortune in this one-man portmanteau horror comedy.

Phil Dunning: Character comedy from a little gay lad who’s kissin’ everyone all over the place. So many characters, so little time! Come and see the guy that men wanna be, and women wanna be as well.

JAMES ACASTER 25TH JUNE & 15TH JULY 19:45 James Acaster finds himself with something to look forward to. Something he’s always wanted. Something we all want. Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show nominee 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

BEASTS

SARAH CALLAGHAN

26TH JUNE & 10TH JULY 19:45

27TH JUNE 19:45

Brace yourselves for an epic battle of intelligence, talent, guile and brawn, where the road to glory is paved with broken friendships and shredded dignity. Who will emerge victorious and be crowned Mr. Edinburgh 2016?

Award-winning stand-up with the follow-up to her debut hour Elephant, which saw her picked as one of the The Guardian’s top ten newcomers of last year’s Fringe. Twentyfour hours to change your life? Starts with a good snooze.

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STUART LAWS 28TH JUNE 19:45 Stuart Laws is the guy who does all the comedy at Turtle Canyon Comedy.

He’s also surprised everyone by getting onto his fourth hour. This one is about the summer of 2001, puffins, breweries and paper rounds. Just like every other comedy show at the moment.

ANDREW HUNTER MURRAY 28TH JUNE 21:00 Andrew Hunter Murray presents a sizzling slab of character comedy and high-stakes idiocy. Comes complete with outlandish wordplay and an extremely exciting music round. Bring the spirit of adventure, a thrilling sense of the possibilities of life, and a biro.

LUKE KEMPNER BEN HANLIN 29TH JUNE 19:30 Magician and star of ITV2’s awardwinning show Tricked, Ben Hanlin brings his debut show to Edinburgh. Proving that magic can be both jaw-dropping and laugh-out-loud funny, Trickhead is playful, fresh and will leave you mindboggled.

29TH JUNE 19:45 Impressionist Luke Kempner can’t wait to marry Judi Dench. But has Britain’s most-celebrated thespian only been acting like she’s in love? Our hero is joined by a stellar cast of celebrities on a quest in the name of love.

JAMALI MADDIX LLOYD GRIFFITH 29TH JUNE 21:00 What a year it’s been for this comedian/ choirboy/aspiring goalkeeper.

He’s travelled the world in the name of football and talked strategy with the greatest player on the planet. He’s also fallen for a 6 foot blonde (not Peter Schmeichel) and has turned vegetarian.

30TH JUNE 19:45 Rising star Jamali has been seen on BBC One’s The John Bishop Show and supported Jim Jefferies in Hyde Park.

Last year he performed as part of the prestigious Pleasance Comedy Reserve and in 2014 was crowned Chortle Student Comedian of the Year.

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RACHEL PARRIS 1ST JULY 19:45 Rachel Parris (Austentatious, The IT Crowd, Murder In Successville) presents a collection of songs, stories and standup about not having it all. No house, husband, child, wage? No problem!

Rachel Parris is an award-winning musical comedian and improviser.

KATE LUCAS 1ST JULY 21:00 On a particularly dull Tuesday afternoon, multi award-winning musical comedian Kate Lucas thought she was moments from death. In her highly anticipated debut show, this deliciously dark rising star dissects her final thoughts. Expect an hour riddled with what not to say, what not to think and how not to behave.

Already storming all across the circuit, this bright, bold and ever so slightly disturbing new star is most definitely one to watch. Winner of the Leicester Mercury 2014.

AART WITH MIKEY 2ND JULY 19:45 Get inside your now, and journey into art with Mikey. “A show that makes me laugh, feel good and leave my nostrils filled with that reassuring smell of plasticine - just about the greatest thing ever.” ★★★★ Skinny

MARK SMITH & RICHARD GADD 3RD JULY 19:45

JOEL DOMMETT 4TH & 18TH JULY 19:45 Joel Dommett returns to the Pleasance to preview his new Edinburgh show. As seen on Russell Howard’s Good News & Impractical Jokers.

Mark Smith (Russell Howard’s Good News) previews his new Edinburgh show and Lord have mercy is he excited. Expect to hear him cram as many funny, stupid and potentially dangerous observations into the show as possible on topics as diverse as bowling, going bowling, and do you like bowling? There’s also a couple of dick jokes, in a nutshell then, something for everyone.

Richard Gadd: The underground comedian returns, following in the footsteps of the “undisputed buzz comedy of last year” (Guardian) Waiting for Gaddot, which received rave reviews, sell-out crowds and an Amused Moose Best Show 2015 Comedy Award.

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SEAN MCLOUGHLIN 4TH JULY 21:00 You can’t keep a flawed man down.

Sean McLoughlin returns. Another hour of supreme stand-up from “the best comedian you haven’t heard of yet.”

Time Out

EMMA SIDI & TWINS 6TH JULY 19:45 After last year’s critically acclaimed debut, Emma Sidi is back and with her she’s bringing passionate, obsessive and revengeful character comedy. Think Mexican passion, soap operatic pain and transglobal heartache. We’re talking intercontinental emotion on a fringe comedy scale. With dancing. Yeah, there’s that too. This is no soap opera. This is Telenovela.

Twins: Identical twins Annie McGrath and Jack Barry (as seen on ITV2’s @ elevenish) preview their upcoming Edinburgh Fringe show, Two Balls In A Bag, with their trademark hybrid of sketch and stand-up comedy.

FELICITY WARD

KIERAN HODGSON & LOU SANDERS 5TH JULY 19:45 Kieran Hodgson: In 2003 Kieran Hodgson heard the music of Gustav Mahler and decided to write a symphony.

13 years later Kieran returns to the Fringe with a violin and a story about falling in love and attempting something far beyond your abilities.

Lou Sanders: People tend to like comedy and this show will have some of that for sure. A big show for a nice audience.

She really brings a can do attitude to the whole thing. Credits include As Yet Untitled, Russell Howard’s Good News & Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle.

Recommended in Elle, The Guardian & Vogue.

BRENNAN REECE 8TH JULY 19:45 Hello! I’m the English Comedian of the Year and this is my debut show.

In Australia it sold out - I know that sounds like bragging, but I don’t know another way to explain that people liked it. I’ve also appeared on BBC, ITV, E4 and supported Joe Lycett on tour. Still bragging. I just really like doing comedy and if you come and see me, I reckon you’ll like it too.

12TH JULY 19:45 In 2015 Felicity wrote a show about mental illness and her bumhole (IBS).

Much to her surprise more people saw it than her immediate family and a guy called Gavin.

At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival it was the 3rd best reviewed comedy show. Always one to flog a dead horse she is writing another show about mental illness called: 50% More Likely To Die.

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JOHNNY COCHRANE 12TH JULY 21:00 Multi award-nominated comedian Johnny Cochrane knows how to nail an Edinburgh debut. He’s sure of it.

Join the rising star as he presents this outlandishly inventive and daring experiemental stand-up show. Prepare yourself.

TEZ ILYAS 13TH JULY 21:00 Last year Tez Ilyas experienced something that turned his world upside down. In this hotly anticipated follow up to his 2015 smash hit debut, TEZ Talks, this smart and subversive rising star is back with another bold and deeply personal show.

NISH KUMAR 13TH JULY 19:45 Nish Kumar returns to the Pleasance to preview his new show. As seen on Live at the Apollo & Have I Got News For You. Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee 2015.

ADAM KAY 14TH JULY 19:45 Amateur Transplants frontman and Crims creator Adam Kay returns with three years’ accumulated smutty songs. “Filthy at best, depraved at worse. Great, guilty fun.” ★★★★ Telegraph

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JOHN HASTINGS 14TH JULY 21:00 John’s visa is expiring, his friends are fighting, and there’s been a murder (YES, an actual murder). This deft show about one disastrous day is a compelling piece of comedy storytelling.

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LARRY DEAN 19TH JULY 19:45

BIRTHDAY GIRLS 15TH JULY 21:00

Foster’s Comedy Award 2015 nominee and gallus Glaswegian Larry Dean returns with a show about emotional detachments and an absent love life.

It’s essentially jokes about intimacy in a bigger room.

Party people assemble! Birthday Girls are back with a brand new, balls-out, body-rocking sketch show that will leave you pumped and ready for a night out.

Birthday Girls are Beattie Edmondson (the funny one), Rose Johnson (the funny one) and Camille Ucan (the funny one).

LOLLY ADEFOPE 20TH JULY 19:45

GARRETT MILLERICK 19TH JULY 21:00

After a sell-out Fringe debut, Lolly Adefope presents her second hour of character comedy. “The sort of natural charisma that can’t be held back.”

Guardian

On his misguided quest to follow his dreams, Garrett Millerick got locked in a shipping container by Eminem, directed hip-hop videos for deluded city traders and once made a feature documentary about a ballroom dancer trying to save all the children of Birmingham from certain destruction. This is his story.

RHYS JAMES 20TH JULY 21:00 Don’t worry about it. Honestly, it’s fine.

Just get a ticket to see Rhys James bash out another hour of splash-hit, classic stand-up and definitely cool and not pretentious poetry and all will be forgiven.

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KIERAN BOYD & TIFF STEVENSON

NAZ OSMANOGLU & AHIR SHAH

21ST JULY 19:45

22ND JULY 19:45

Kieran Boyd: Kieran presents his debut stand up show about how weird we all are. Featuring stupid jokes about his exponentially worsening hangovers, warped eulogies to his mad uncle, and a far-too-thorough examination of public toilet etiquette. He likes heavy metal and grammar, so this will be wild, but also correct.

Tiff Stevenson is a stand-up comedian, actor and writer. Her thought provoking and engaging style have seen her consistently play to packed audiences; Tiff ’s latest solo show Optimist received rave reviews at the Edinburgh Festival 2014.

Naz Osmanoglu has hit the London comedy circuit running. Already a fringe veteran with acclaimed, irreverent sketch trio WitTank, he is now diverting his angry Anglo-Turkish energy to stand-up as well as sketch comedy.

Ahir Shah is, at the time of writing, a funny and extant comedian. His sharp, intellectual brand of stand-up features a blend of emotional frankness, poetic language, and jokes.

IAIN STIRLING & JARLATH REGAN JACK BARRY & ADAM HESS 23RD JULY 19:45 Jack Barry is probably the only stand up on the circuit with a degree in Chinese.

What a waste. After excitedly stumbling his way around the stand up and sketch circuits, performing at nights for CKP, Knock 2 Bag, the Invisible Dot and the BBC Comedy Tent in Edinburgh, Jack then went on to support James Acaster on the UK tours of Edinburgh Award-nominated shows Prompt and Lawnmower.

Adam Hess: Starting his stand-up career in 2011, Adam showed himself to be one of the most exciting new acts in the country, winning the Chortle Student Comedy Award and taking a runner-up place in Leicester Square Theatre New Act of the Year award that same year.

24TH JULY 19:45 Iain Stirling burst onto the comedy scene whilst studying for a Law degree at Edinburgh University, reaching the finals of both the Paramount Funniest Student competition, and the Chortle Student Comedian of the Year competition.

Jarlath Regan: Award-winning comedian, writer and broadcaster, Jarlath Regan has gained a reputation with the industry and audiences for his uplifting, inventive and relentlessly funny stand-up.

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HAYLEY ELLIS & CARL DONNELLY 25TH JULY 19:45 Hayley Ellis: Hayley has performed at the Edinburgh Festival as part of The Comedy Zone, the Fringe’s longest running and most prestigious stand-up showcase.

Carl Donnelly: “Excellent, fast-rising comic with pacy anecdotal routines” Sunday Times

ANNIE MCGRATH & ED GAMBLE 26TH JULY 19:45 Annie McGrath is a comedy writer and performer who made her debut character comedy and stand-up solo performance in Edinburgh in 2015. She has been shortlisted for the Funny Women comedy writing award.

Ed Gamble is a stand-up comedian, writer and actor. “An ability to open his mouth and spontaneously say something hysterically funny.” Guardian

MATT WINNING & ANDY ZALTZMAN 27TH JULY 19:45 Matt Winning is one of the most exciting, unique and imaginative new stand-up and character comedians in the UK. The Scottish comic’s eccentric and idiosyncratic act is a whirlwind of ideas, combining an original approach to one-liners, acute observations and shouting loudly.

Andy Zaltzman: Don’t miss your chance to see Andy try out new material for his Edinburgh Fringe show! ”The best political comedian in the business.”

Time Out

MARK COOPER-JONES & MATT FORDE 29TH JULY 19:45

KIERAN BOYD & CARL DONNELLY 28TH JULY 19:45 Kieran Boyd: He’s the one who played all the girl parts in Fringe sketch veterans WitTank. “Impressively funny... Terrific material” Scotsman Carl Donnelly: “Donnelly has developed a style that is the antithesis of the loud, sweaty, manic comic so prevalent on the telly and live tours at the moment. This is stand up with valium: near horizontal levels of louche that take the mundane stories of everyday life and turns them into stretches of self deprecating silliness.”

Guardian

Mark Cooper-Jones: With much of his material derived from his past experiences of teaching Geography, Mark (Sir) is an authoritative stand up with a penchant for rules, countries and capitals tests.

Matt Forde is one of the country’s most in-demand satirists. “Thank goodness for Matt Forde.” Mail on Sunday

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MATT FORDE & TIFF STEVENSON

STEVE BUGEJA & BILAL ZAFAR

30TH JULY 19:45

31ST JULY 19:45

Matt Forde is one of the country’s most in-demand satirists appearing on Have I Got News For You (BBC One), Rory Bremner’s Coalition Report (BBC Two), 8 Out of 10 Cats (Channel 4), Question Time (BBC One), This Week (BBC One) and Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC Three).

Tiff Stevenson is a stand-up comedian, actor and writer. “Mouthy, cynical and sexually frank, she left us wanting more.”

Guardian

Steve Bugeja: Fresh from supporting Russell Kane on his national tour, this is the highly anticipated debut show from Steve Bugeja, the winner of the BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2013.

Bilal Zafar is the 2016 winner of the prestigious New Act of the Year (formerly Hackney Empire award) and was also the runner up in the Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year competition.

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BOX OFFICE

Carpenters Mews, North Road, London N7 9EF 020 7609 1800 www.pleasance.co.uk Mon - Sun 10am - 6pm

On performance days the Box Office will remain open until the start of the final performance.

FIND US UNDERGROUND Caledonian Road - Piccadilly line (5 minutes walk), Holloway Road - Piccadilly line (15 minutes walk).

OVERGROUND Caledonian Road and Barnsbury (15 minutes walk).

TICKETS

BUS Bus 393 stops right directly outside the theatre with buses 17, 91, 259 and N91 all stopping at Caledonian Road Underground Station, 5 minutes walk.

Please note tickets sold are nonrefundable and cannot be exchanged.

Latecomers may not be admitted.

PARKING Metered on-street parking is available outside the theatre Mon to Fri 10am 4:30pm with free parking evenings and weekends.

Tickets can be collected anytime during Box Office opening hours or posted to you for an additional £1.

ACCESS

Pleasance Theatre strives to provide access for all. Our Main House is fully accessible via a lift from street level, we have infra-red hearing system in both performance spaces, accessible toilets and Guide Dogs are welcome. Sadly at present our StageSpace does not have step free access. Our aim is to make your visit as enjoyable as possible for further information or to discuss any access requirements please contact the Box Office.