The Udderbelly has announced a new batch of shows for its 2015 season on London’s South Bank.
Just confirmed for the April 9 - July 19 Festival are the following: Sara Pascoe, Andrew Maxwell, Hal Cruttenden, Jason Byrne, Late Night Gimp Fight, Circus Maximus, The Dark Room: Arena Spectacularrrgh, Austentatious, Friday Night Freaks, The Noise Next Door, Shlomo, Wit Tank, Boom-Tish!, Comedy Club 4 Kids & English Comedian Of The Year.
They will be joined by ventriloquist extraordinaire, Nina Conti, kings of absurdist sketch comedy The Pajama Men and cult interactive hit of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Funz & Games, winner of the 2014 Fosters Comedy Award Panel Prize. Katherine Ryan has added two more performances of her breakthrough show Glam Role Model, at the Udderbelly on June 19 & 20.
This is in addition to the shows already announced in January here.
Udderbelly Festival has also added an extensive line-up of Circus and Family Shows, with the UK’s premiere competition and showcase for modern circus skills, Circus Maximus, returning for a third year, while Shlomo is also back with his sonic odyssey, Beatbox Adventure for Kids, and Comedy Club 4 Kids ensures that the whole family is in on the joke.
London Wonderground (7 May - 27 September) has also added to its 2015 line-up, with oddities, disturbances and downright astonishments including: Club Briefs, Between The Sheets, Black Cat Cabaret, Monski Mouse, Double R Club, Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art School & House Of Burlesque. There will be the return of ultimate cabaret desperados, Briefs Club Night, an Alternative Eurovision, a deluge of avant-garde melodic grotesque from Grammy winners The Tiger Lillies, an intimate and darkly hilarious journey Between the Sheets with Miss Polly Rae, vaudevillian noir from Black Cat Cabaret, the astonishing vintage Baby Disco Dance Hall from Monski Mouse and underground cabaret-cirque-mayhem from Double R Club, Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art School and House Of Burlesque.
Everyone’s favourite Pub Landlord, Al Murray, will also be transforming the Spiegeltent into his South London Saloon, juggling comedy, variety, good strong ale and common sense with his (by then) busy schedule as a Right Honourable Member of Parliament.
On the prospect of leading this double life, Al Murray said: “I can't wait to come back to London Wonderground, though obviously I'll be an extremely busy MP by then – but for these few nights Parliament can come to the people on the South Bank."
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