2024
A Pinch of
THEATRE & CABARET | 12 - 25 FEB
COMEDY | 27 FEB - 10 MAR
A festival of brand new & work-in-progress performances from the UK’s leading talents in theatre and comedy. Taking place across Waterloo & Bankside at The Glitch, Sino Thai, Union Theatre and Alaska. Find venue and accessibility information here.
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Stevie Martin
Stevie Martin: Edinburgh Fringe Preview
Stevie Martin (8 out of 10 Cats, Guessable, A Thornton's Advert) is doing a live show after years of being online only. She's heard it's a really fun cheap and easy thing to do. Come see how it's going? 'Funny AF' - Time Out
28 Feb 2024
6 Mar 2024
Alaska
Funny
Ayisha Mi
Every Chinese girl is a Mulan
Stand up comedy with bubbling acting, interactive with audiences, storytelling includes detailed shocking real life drama when you live in London, discussing the cultural differences between China and UK.
2 Mar 2024
9 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Funny, Empowering, Interactive, Feel Good, LGBTQ+
Kayleigh Jones
Kayleigh Jones: I Fed My Dad to a Pelican
Join Kayleigh on her offbeat musical comedy journey that led to her finding her real dad and then feeding him to a Pelican shortly after.
6 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Funny, Thought Provoking, Offbeat
Eric Rushton
Eric Rushton: Real One (WIP)
Quick-witted crowd-work and razor-sharp material from one of the UK's brightest stand-up comedians, inaugural recipient of Channel 4's Sean Lock Award and previously Leicester Comedian of the Year.
6 Mar 2024
Sino Thai
Funny, Thought Provoking, Offbeat
Am Stubberfield
Self Tape
Join Am on a comedic journey as they ask for your help with the biggest audition of their life, to play themselves. But will they get the role?
6 Mar 2024
Sino Thai
Funny, Offbeat, Interactive, Feel Good, LGBTQ+
Avalon Promotions
Ania Magliano - Work in Progress
New jokes, thoughts and general chat from Ania Magliano. There will be some good jokes, some bad jokes, and some secrets she accidentally says on stage to fill the silence.
6 Mar 2024
Alaska
Funny, LGBTQ+
William Stone
William Stone / Jen Ives split comedy hour (wip)
Jen Ives (Joe Lycett's Big Pride Party) and William Stone (Dave's "Live At the Moth Club") bring you a sneak peak of their new shows (work in progress)
6 Mar 2024
7 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Funny, LGBTQ+
Rob Copland
Rob Copland: Wipidy DooDah
Brand new show from Comedian's Choice Best Show winner Rob Copland.
"Polished and Heaps of Fun" ★★★★ (the wee review)
6 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Funny, Offbeat
Eddy Hare
Eddy Hare (Work in Progress)
Eddy Hare (BBC New Comedy Awards Nominee) performs a relaxing work-in-progress stand-up show for his debut hour.
**** 'Sweet and absurd' (Broadway Baby)
'Expect to be laughing regularly at him in the future' (Evening Standard)
'Strong gag-writer... very strong payoff' (Chortle)
Half of duo Crizards ('Classic double act' **** - Guardian)
7 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Funny, Feel Good
Raj Poojara
Raj Poojara: Work in Progress
As seen on BBC’s New Comedy Awards, Raj’s work in progress explores what it’s like being a fair skinned Indian boy growing up in Britain... where does he fit in?
7 Mar 2024
Alaska
Funny, Gripping, Thought Provoking, Feel Good
Sian Davies
Sian Davies: Watch Me (WIP)
Brand new thoughts, ideas, stories and jokes from award winning, working class, queer comedian, Sian Davies. As seen on Comedy Central Live and Next Up.
7 Mar 2024
Alaska
Funny, Feel Good, LGBTQ+
Alex Stringer
Happy Hour (work in progress)
Alex Stringer brings her work in progress to Vault. In this work in progress, Alex talks dating, work, family & sobriety. Come & spend a happy hour.
7 Mar 2024
Sino Thai
Funny, LGBTQ+
Farah Sharp
Farah Sharp: Work-In-Progress
Be amongst the first to watch Farah Sharp (as heard on BBC Radio 4, 'One to watch' - Funny Women Awards) chisel her much anticipated debut solo show into being.
7 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Funny, Thought Provoking, Feel Good
CHELSEA BIRKBY
Chelsea Birkby: This is life cheeky cheeky (WIP)
Follows up her award-winning debut with a patented mix of pop culture, philosophy and heart covering everything from joy to despair and the semiotics of big butts.
7 Mar 2024
Sino Thai
Funny, Thought Provoking, Empowering
Chaos Theory
Lady Chatterley's Liver
Sketch and character comedy. Two women, two men. Sketches vary from light hearted and silly to dark and disturbing to kinda weird. But in a good way. Always funny.
8 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Funny, Offbeat
Jay Bennett
Jukebox, The Musical
You may well have forgotten 80s musical diva The Gorgeous Diva but that’s never stopped her before. Now she's back with a jukebox musical featuring all of her hit (sic).
8 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Funny, Feel Good
Lulu Popplewell
Lulu Popplewell: Work in Progress
Following her sell-out hit debut Fringe show, Lulu brings you a work in progress hour full of yucky jokes.
8 Mar 2024
9 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Funny
Will Robbins
With the best Will in the World
Will is a short man living with a tall family. He unpacks why even though he is the odd one out in his family, he is the most normal.
8 Mar 2024
9 Mar 2024
Sino Thai
Funny, Empowering, Offbeat, For a Big Night Out!, Family
Trifle
Trifle
There’ll be action, music, laughter and tears. Oh, no, just laughter. Just laughter. And sponge cake. Metaphorically. Or literally. There will be cake. And custard... And cream... Jelly...
8 Mar 2024
Sino Thai
Funny, Offbeat, Feel Good
Alex Kealy
Alex Kealy: The Fear (WIP)
The 'almost sexily cerebral' (★★★★ (Daily Telegraph)) stand-up presents a show about fear (probably), after 2022's 'wonderful new hour' (★★★★ (The List)). As heard on BBC's The Now Show.
9 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Funny, Thought Provoking
Nathan Cassidy
Nathan Cassidy: International Man of Mestory
Multi award-winning comedian with a time-freezing new stand-up show - 30 years is no time at all! Best Stand-up Winner Brighton Fringe 2022/23. ‘Star in waiting...untouchable’ ★★★★ The Times
9 Mar 2024
Sino Thai
Funny, Thought Provoking, Feel Good
Andrew White
Andrew White: Young, Gay and a Third Thing (WIP)
Andrew White has been described by Joe Lycett as “very exciting and very funny”, and by teachers as “a pleasure to teach” (gay). Watch him develop a hilarious new show!
9 Mar 2024
10 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Funny, Thought Provoking, LGBTQ+
Mattia Sedda
Mattia Sedda: CHOIN
A super highly trained actor, rejected by the norms of the British entertainment industry, will try his hardest to recreate the magic of the old theatre with his absurd craft.
Is he gonna succeed?
9 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Funny, Interactive
Ben Target
Ben Target: Keep Holding On (A Work In Progress Show)
A bedazzling evening of heart-warming, brain-hugging, show-stealing stories about kissing, not kissing and non-sexual hand-holding. Brought to you by Ben Target, the multi-award-winning comedian and critically-acclaimed performance artist (yawn).
9 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Offbeat, Poignant, Feel Good
Nightbulb LTD
The Little Ritual
Do you dream of being a vampire? The Master and Gregor, once the spookiest vampires of all, have lost their powers. Help them rediscover their spookiness through play and games!
9 Mar 2024
10 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Funny, Interactive, Family
Tal Davies
Britain's Got Tal (Davies)
Join deadpan brummie Tal Davies (Funny Women finalist, as seen on BBC Three) in this latest bid for attention. Expect oversharing, witty observations and a root vegetable shaped head.
10 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Funny
Dee Allum
Dee Allum: Work in Progress
New material from comedian Dee Allum.
Dee was a finalist in the 2022 BBC New Comedy Award competition and started her career performing with the Cambridge Footlights.
10 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Funny, LGBTQ+
Low Effort Sketches
Low Effort Sketches: The First Effort (WIP)
Join award-winning double act Low Effort Sketches for some silly sketch comedy! These lovable scamps will provide "an hour of endless laughs" (Varsity). Sketch Off Winners 2022. "Unfollowable. Hilarious" (Chortle)
10 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Funny, Offbeat
Pete Strong
Vicious Cycle
Poet & comedian Pete Strong gets on his bike. Veering through traffic, and his own worst memories, it will take all his energy to get home safely.
10 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Funny, Thought Provoking, Offbeat, Poignant
David Hoskin
A Haunted House! aka AHH!
Performing as over twenty characters this is a tale about one hair-raising night in a haunted house. A mime show that is both absurd comedy and jaw dropping horror!
10 Mar 2024
The Spacement at The Glitch
Funny, Gripping, Offbeat