Kitten Brides!
06 Feb 2009 -
08.00 pm
Tickets: €18/15
Maeve HigginsMaeve Higgins is a firebrand. Well, more like a sparkler. She is controversial and doesn't care who gets hurt. Except that she does really.
Since beginning stand up four years ago, she has performed in comedy festivals around the world, including Edinburgh, Melbourne, Adelaide and Kilkenny.
In her 2006 debut show, 'Ha Ha Yum', at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Maeve did stand-up while her sister Lilly made cakes. The show went on to a season in Dublin’s prestigious Andrews Lane Theatre, followed by a sold-out stand-up tour around Ireland. In 2008, the show was invited to Melbourne for their comedy festival. In between that, Maeve wrote and performed two more solo show in 2007 and is set to bring her brand new show ‘Kitten Brides’ to the Edinburgh festival this year.
Maeve rapidly rose to an uncomfortable level of notoriety on Irish television in the past three years, on the most watched comedy show in the country, RTE's Naked Camera. She is also a regular contributor to the Ray D'arcy Show on Today FM.
“Throughout the whole hour the room is filled with laughter at Maeve’s risqué and highly intelligent act." The Irish Independent,
‘Charming and iconoclastic Irish stand-up’ The Age, Melbourne 2008
"Higgins is a great relief from the big loud boys and will win many people over with her quietly charming quality of comedy." The Skinny, 2007
"Maeve Higgins is here to demonstrate how to do Irish charm. She’s not daft, she doesn’t lay it on with a trowel, dimpling and twinkling away, hers is probably the most natural and uncontrived performance you could wish for." Chortle, 2007
PAPPY’S FUN CLUB
2008 CHORTLE AWARD WINNERS (Best Sketch, Character or Variety Act)
2007 IF.COM AWARD nominees
“EXTRAORDINARILLY FRESH AND FUNNY… GLORIOUS STUFF." Times
Following the huge success of their 2008 show, Pappy, the award-winning Fun Club’s mysterious benefactor is sending them back on tour this year with a new show filled with post-sketch silliness.
"TURBO-CHARGED...GREAT JOKES...AN EFFECTIVE COMBINATION OF INTELLIGENCE AND IDIOCY" The Guardian
“IF YOU LIKE YOUR COMEDY LIGHT, FROTHY AND SUPREMELY DAFT, THESE BRIGHT-EYED BOYS ARE EXPERTS...A SHOW THAT PAIRS CLEVER, WITTY SKETCHES WITH BRILLIANT CLOWNING.” Metro
Hooray! The Fun Club's in town! Expect historical characters, mythical creatures and the eternal battle between good and evil. Will Pappy's Fun Club save the day?
If you consider identifying the problem and then singing about it to be saving the day - then yes.
"INGENIOUS…THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THE ONLY DIRECTION THEY ARE HEADING IS UP” Evening Standard
Since their show was nominated for the if.com Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Pappy’s Fun Club have enjoyed phenomenal success. They have appeared in their show on Channel 4 and on BBC3’s Comedy Shuffle and ITV2’s Comedy Cuts. They also recorded their own show for Radio 4, enjoyed various appearances on Radio One, won the Chortle Award for Best Sketch Act and performed at the Melbourne Comedy Festival as well as comedy venues across the UK.
http://www.pappysfunclub.co.uk
Maeve Higgins
Maeve Higgins is a firebrand. Well, more like a sparkler. She is controversial and doesn't care who gets hurt. Except that she does really.
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