Comedy: Funny Afield
Take a short train journey to some of the best comedy around this week
Life feels so much more Enid Blyton in the Summer (minus the period racism) when you’re speeding along through the countryside to explore a little further afield than your usual backyard. As much as Winter is about hunkering down and bedding in for hibernation, it’s well worth checking out the listings of a few venues a little further afield for a day out, dinner and a show. This week I would recommend those things happen in Worthing.
Two very funny and very different comics are in Worthing this week, with the caustic wit and razor sharp brilliance of Katherine Ryan in town on Wednesday at the Connaught Theatre, followed hotly by the poetic, poignant and whimsical thoughts of Alex Horne.
Horne’s show is fully formed and was Foster’s Comedy Award nominated last year at the Edinburgh Fringe, meaning that this is the business. Promising something akin to MB Games’ eternal favourite ‘Mousetrap’ and that clever Honda ad that brought all of the bits of a thing together to make a… well, a car – this is the show that Horne has wanted to make for the last ten years and his wing and a prayer in putting it together with precision has already paid off with critics and audiences alike.
Ryan’s show is pop-culture obsessed and a unique perspective on many things, from the Canadian on the world’s first crack-smoking mayor to well-publicised death threats to Ryan herself. It’s a mad old world we live in, and sometimes the sanest thing to do is simply point that out.
Plus, of course, there’s all the other fun things to do in Worthing in the middle of the week. Never done it? Well, maybe that’s the reason to start now. After all, what’s the point of simply doing the same thing all the time. Surely the point of comedy is to bring a little (or a big) change to the old routine.
Alex Horne: Monsieur Butterfly, Thursday 25 June show has been rescheduled to Wednesday 23 September; Katherine Ryan: Glam Role Model, Wednesday 24 June, Connaught Theatre, worthingtheatres.co.uk
