Comedy WIPs - KATE CHEKA & HANNAH PLATT

Two comedy work in progress shows from Kate Cheka and Hannah Platt

Doors 7pm

Show 7.30pm

Kate Cheka - A Messiah Comes (WIP)
Funny Women award-winner of 2023 Kate Cheka fleshes out an hour where she wonders why she is always trying to save everything.
Where does this messiah complex come from? That would've been a better title for the show but another (!!) comedian got there first so maybe it is also a bit about problematic predators in comedy and the burnout that comes trying to fix it and also my mother who has admitted to thinking she had and I quote ''birthed the messiah". A show for anyone who is anxious about the state of the world and wonders what to do about it. While the birth of a man who thinks he's god is not that rare event... behold a woman who thinks so too.

BBC New Comedy Awards regional finalist 2022

Berlin New Stand-up Award finalist 2019

BBC Radio 4 Introducing New Comedy Award 2019 nominee

Hannah Platt - Defence Mechanism (WIP)

'Voice of a generation' (The Skinny) Hannah Platt is a refreshingly honest and distinctive voice with an unflinching outlook on the world and, as she details in her debut show 'Defence Mechanism', how she feels the world looks back at her.

After a diagnosis of body dysmorphia, Hannah aims to unpick the defence mechanisms we all accrue through bad experiences - what makes us keep people at arm’s length? What is so uncomfortable about being sincere and vulnerable? And are you really a people pleaser if no one is pleased with you?

Nominated for Best debut Show at Leicester Comedy Festival.

BBC New Comedy Awards Finalist

As seen on BBC Three and heard on BBC Radio 4

Host or Publisher Hannah Platt