🍍London’s Juiciest Alternative Comedy Night 🍍 is rounding out the year with a stellar line-up of award winning, sketch performing, 'rom-com'-ing, radio & TV accredited hilarity that promises to tickle your funny bones without ever punching you, The SquashTM, in the face. Every month we bring you something delectably different from the Alt Comedy Scene, whilst welcoming you into our fruit basket of frivolity: velvet-lined to keep your peaches from bruising. So peel your grapes and take a gander at this FairTrade (uncertified) bounty.
ZOË TOMALIN
Whilst growing up on a small Scottish island, Zoë Tomalin once caught fleas from a dying crow. This is the kind of relatable story telling, shot through with cosmic dread, you can expect from this comedy writer (BBC’s NewsJack, Have I Got News For You & Succubus magazine) struggling under the oppression of being labelled a ‘kooky girl’.
★★★★★ "Side-splitting and shot through with very dark humour' – Bunbury Magazine.
★★★★ “A great piece of alternative comedy” - The Skinny
LULU POPPLEWELL
'Chortle Student Comedy Award' and 'Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year' winning stand-up, Lulu Popplewell was on our dream board for acts to book in 2020 - and we scored her for 2019! Recently seen contemplating bumholes and life after Love Actually, this "scorching, charismatic, refreshingly free" (Marbles Magazine) comic will charm & disarm you.
★★★★ "Quick lines and sharp gags. Such a funny and warm performer" - Plays To See
SHELF
Comedy double act and lifelong friends, Rachel WD (“exhaustingly gay”) and Ruby Clyde (“bookish”) have honed their “winning hybrid of sketch show and standup” (EdFringe Review) over 4 years, picking up a Sketchfest Best New Act nomination and Funny Women 2019 Stage Award finale along the way. Check out this hilarious BBC II! Short, written and performed (in part) by Shelf.
Headliner: SARAH KEYWORTH
Fresh from proving that being funny and nice wins out over 90’s pop cred and reality TV stardom in E4's Celebrity Coach Trip, Sarah Keyworth is also winning at comedy. With a triptych of recent awards (Edinburgh Fringe Herald Angel 2018 & Pleasance Theatre Best Newcomer 2018 for Dark Horse, Chortle Awards Best Newcomer 2019) to prove her bona fides, Sarah will be performing her second one hour show Pacific at The SOHO Theatre in January 2020. Exploring gender, class and relationships with a dry style and sharply observed, slick gags, Sarah draws empathy as well as belly laughs from her audience, although she might, occasionally, actually make you gag: Melbourne Comedy Festival Opening Night Comedy Allstars Supershow. It’s no surprise to discover that Hannah Gadsby chose Sarah to open for her on the first night of her 2019 UK tour.
★★★★★ “Powerful, poignant and achingly funny stuff” - Herald Scotland
★★★★★ “You might just find yourself with a new favourite comic” - Young Perspective
★★★★1/2 “It's refreshing to see something so generous & outward-looking” - Chortle
★★★★ “The most hilarious visual images” - The Scotsman
★★★★ “An absolute gem” - Evening Standard
★★★★ “Utterly engaging” - The Telegraph
★★★★ “Her humour is razor sharp” - The Skinny
Hosted by:
SIÂN DOCKSEY
Comedian / Hag.
★★★★ “Joy and bewilderment in equal measure” - The Skinny
★★★★ “Siân Docksey has got her weird in order.” - Funny Women
★★★★ “I ain’t never seen anything quite like that!” - Mumble Comedy
Featured in The Telegraph’s Funniest One-liners of The Fringe 2017.
PLUS: Visions and Tarot Readings from our in-house mystic, Maryam Hashemi
Early Bird Tickets (on sale until Nov 18th only): £8
General Advance: £10
On The Door: £12
Permitted Fruit is delighted to have a home at The Apple Tree pub in Clerkenwell, a unique LGBTQ+ friendly venue and host to all things beautifully unconventional. The Apple Tree serves a delicious selection of Vegan Sunday Roasts, alongside small platters until 4pm and gorgeous cocktails and mocktails till closing. Toilets are gender neutral and the gig is on the ground floor, with full wheelchair access. Please email us for reserved seating/ wheelchair space and for carer support tickets or for discounts available to the low/ no waged. The show wraps up by 9pm so you have plenty of time to hang out, soak up the good vibes and/or head home before the wage slavery on Monday can recommence.