Kate Cheka & Lachlan Werner: The Last Funny Woman / Sleeper Hit (Works in Progress)

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KATE CHEKA: The Last Funny Woman (WIP)

Last year Kate (The News Quiz, The Naked Week) attempted to save the world or as The Guardian put it… ‘political comedy may yet have found its new messiah.’ Now she thinks perhaps it is time to burn it all down. Everything is falling apart. What does it mean to be a woman (and a feminist) in the midst of an apocalypse? Expect stories about the farmer she could have married, an awards ceremony after party, appearing on BBC Radio 4 and Berlin STI tests interspersed with razor sharp political comedy on colonialism and the rise of fascism. ‘A skillful mix of raunchy, raconteurial energy and cutting social commentary, which seems to reflect the delicate modern balancing act of fighting the good fight whilst having a bloody good time before the whole thing goes up in flames’ (European Comedy Review)

LACHLAN WERNER: Sleeper Hit (WIP)

Welcome to the world’s first ventriloquial hypnotherapy session.

Lachlan Werner is the UK’s favourite “zeitgeisty” (★★★★ Guardian) ventriloquist, clown and live artist. But he is also quite a lot of people in one brain. Over 26 years, a lot of people seem to have got lodged, jammed inside Lachlan.

Brew is a small squishy witch, and his best friend, and she believes she can extract, suck out and expell all of the other people living inside Lachlan to find out who he really is.

Lachlan will use genuine witchcraft to mine his no-longer developing brain for a new hour full of stupidly clever and cleverly stupid horrid ideas. Expect rotten characters, queerings of ancient traditions and literal skeletons in closets from “the funniest new ventriloquist on the block” (★★★★ Telegraph)

“The definitive queer puppet show” ★★★★★ LostInTheatreland

“A new star. Unimaginable hellish power” ★★★★ Chortle