Live comedy is back! Damsel Productions and Bush Hall are kicking off one of the first live shows of 2021 with some of the funniest and wildest women performers on the UK circuit.
Returning to the stage with a fantastic line-up, Damsel in the Bush, is a riotous new comedy and cabaret show presented by Damsel Productions and Bush Hall. 2019 Funny Women Awards finalist Kemah Bob will host the evening with some fellow Awards alumni Rosie Jones, Sophie Duker, Elf Lyons, Siblings, Loose Willis (Pecs), Yuriko Kotani and Jordan Gray performing in front of real-life audiences on 10th and 11th June in one of London’s most thrilling venues. They’ll be joined by an all-women live band led by Anya Pearson of Dream Nails and followed by DJs.
Bush Hall said: “We are so delighted to open our doors up again and to kick off working with Damsel Productions and hosting this incredible line-up feels like the perfect way to bring comedy and theatre back to life.”
Damsel Productions said: “Damsel is thrilled to be bringing live entertainment back to audiences, with our ongoing mission to celebrate and give a platform to talented women artists. Having just dipped our toes into the world of comedy and cabaret, we look forward to continuing this trend, starting with this exciting new show at the iconic Bush Hall!”
Hannah Hauer-King and Kitty Wordsworth co-founded theatre company Damsel Productions in 2015 to produce its inaugural production of Ruby Rae Spiegel’s Dry Land at Jermyn Street Theatre. Damsel was set up with the key aim to develop scripts written by women, producing them with all-women creative and production teams to help address the misrepresentation and lack of representation of women in theatre, on and offstage. Damsel is intersectional in its outlook and feminism, and strives to work with diverse teams of women, putting as many lesser-told aspects of women’s experiences on stage. Damsel has produced six full-scale productions at theatres including Soho Theatre, The Bunker and Jermyn Street Theatre, sketch comedy, new writing nights, London’s first all-women directing festival, Damsel Develops, and Damsel Outdoors, a festival of commissioned new plays written for the outdoors (Damsel’s answer to the pandemic closing theatre down). Damsel has produced comedy and cabaret at Live @ Zedel, for which it was a resident company, and is delighted to continue to produce more comedy, cabaret and variety shows in the future.
For tickets to see the show on 10th June click here, 11th June click here!
