SuZanna GonZo and Friends

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What if Mrs Merton met Pauline Calf and reared the orphans of Royston Vasey? 

Well, the children have grown up and arrived.

Katie O’Brien brings you her five star show, SuZanna GonZo and a new set of characters and guest performers to create a truly silly theatrical funfair of comedy at its bizarre best, including some very special and silly guests…

SuZanna’s guests are:

NICK HELM
"the human car crash of light entertainment" Nick Helm will be sharing some new material. SuZanna is delighted her friend Nick is coming to try out some new shit (material)!

Nick stars in BBC Three’s ‘Uncle’ and won the 2014 South Bank Sky Arts The Times Breakthrough Award.

TESSA WATERS
★★★★★ "Side-aching laughter!" Three Weeks
★★★★  ‘A powerhouse of Physical Comedy!’ Arts Hub

THE GRANDEES
The Times – “Sublimely silly, brilliantly performed”
★★★★★ one4review “Intense and concise…utterly surreal…a touch of the tragic and lots of the comic and all of it dances gleefully on the edge of ridiculous without ever descending"
★★★★★ What’s Peen Seen  “enough physicality, satanically hilarious dialogue and obscene facial movement to steer us into an undeniably unique explosion of idiosyncratic bliss”.

…''This show is beyond twisted and side-splittingly funny…a tantamount to a work of genius.' 5 stars – Everything Theatre

‘the girl's got balls…skill and charm to nab a podium position…One to watch!’ – London is Funny, Alternative Comedy Awards

Catch the show on Saturday 26th April at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club. For more information and tickets click HERE! 

 

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