Mickey Dolenz’s mother invented the glue gun!
Cats can’t hear vowels!
Before Foreign Ministers meet David Miliband they are made to sign a document stating they will not try to touch his lovely hair!
These are all lies (except the last one, obviously)
What is true is that multi-award-winning comic DANIELLE WARD (Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe, BBC FOUR) is back with her second solo stand-up show. Following hit runs with her acclaimed cult play Take-A-Break Tales, the Chortle Award-nominated musical Psister Psycho, and her debut stand-up hour Danielle Ward in Glorious Technicolor, she now brings to Edinburgh a show about lying.
DANIELLE’s inability to lie is ruining her life. She can’t pretend to like her friend’s idiot husbands, she can’t feign interest in her ex-colleagues children and she can’t have a conversation with someone she despises without looking like she wants to punch them in the face. This is a girl who pretended to have one eye in order to get a boyfriend and who told the South Korean Ambassador the reason she broke his special tea cup was because she’d seen a ghost. Neither of these excellent lies actually worked, for some unknown reason.
Presenting a show that is not only an hour of "honest" comedy, DANIELLE also examines the very nature of stand-up: an art form whose audience demands the veneer of truth even if what’s being presented is, in fact, all lies.
DANIELLE WARD is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and has appeared on NBC’s Last Comic Standing and BBC ONE’s Mock the Week. She has also written for Harry Hill’s TV Burp (one joke - it still counts), Not Going Out (BBC ONE), The Now Show (BBC Radio 4) and is currently working on a new BBC THREE sitcom We Are Mongrels. Danielle is bass player in Ward and White’s Karaoke Circus. Working once again with Psister Psycho collaborator MARTIN WHITE, this sell-out London show which sees comics sing Karaoke favourites backed by a live band will transfer to the Festival Fringe for one night only on 24th August.
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"Like a Nick Cave album recited by a cheerful would be Dorothy Parker."
Stephen Armstrong, The Sunday Times
LISTINGS INFORMATION
Venue: Pleasance Hut
Date: 5th - 30th August 2009 [excluding 18th Aug]
Time: 21:45
Box Office: 0131 556 6550
For more information and press tickets, please contact: Jo Cross, Ben Nolan, Jenny Stewart or Dan Lloyd. Tel: 08700 70 50 50 [Edinburgh office] or 020 7598 7222 [London office]. Email: joc@avalonuk.com, benn@avalonuk.com, jenny.stewart@avalonuk.com or danl@avalonuk.com
WHAT THE PRESS SAID ABOUT:
…DANIELLE WARD IN GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR
"Ward's assured stand-up debut suggests the emergence of a future star."
Jay Richardson, The Big Issue
"A naturally gifted performer."
Dan Geary, Time Out
"Pacy set that's both clever and funny."
Emma Lennox, The List
"There's real craft to Danielle Ward's stand-up routine. She seduces her audience into an exploration and appreciation of the world as seen by a Portsmouth bad-girl with a fascination for decapitation and conjoined twins."
Thom Dibdin, The Stage
"Danielle Ward is a brilliant black sheep in this daring comedy show."
Kimberlee McLaughlan, Three Weeks
"One to watch, a big name of the future."
Ian Phillips, The National Student
…PSISTER PSYCHO
"There are spirited performances, moments of supreme randomness, and a clever script that flits between filth and felicity to great effect… Psister Psycho is - shock! - a ‘Good Comedy Musical’. The rarity of this concept alone makes it worth seeing."
Sam Healy, The List
"The sharpness of the script matches the exuberance of the performance; making for a uniquely pleasurable ride that’s in turns silly, sick, surreal or just plain showbiz glitzy. Great fun."
Steve Bennett, Chortle
"The vibe throughout is upbeat and feel-good, with a talented young cast hamming it up admirably… The majority of the songs are inspired pieces of musical comedy, reducing the audience to helpless giggles whenever the on-stage keyboard and drums start playing, and justifying the ticket price on their own. With wicked subjects like how a nun lost her eye and the inadvisability of sleeping with certain celebrities for hygiene reasons, they truly need to be heard to be believed…With such an enthusiastic and talented cast, it’s hard not to be won over."
Caroline Whitham, Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
"This great late night musical is a hoot from start to finish, with full-scale orchestration, a cast of thousands and a tongue very much in cheek."
Sheila Jack, One4Review
AVALON PROMOTIONS
Avalon Promotions Limited is one of the leading promoters of live comedy in the UK. Productions include: NEWMAN & BADDIEL in the first comedy show ever to be staged at Wembley Arena; FRANK SKINNER’s record-breaking performance to an audience of 6,000 at the Battersea Power Station; Jerry Springer - The Opera at the National Theatre, at the Cambridge Theatre in London’s West End, on national tour and at New York’s Carnegie Hall; HARRY HILL at the Palace and Dominion Theatres in London; and Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure at the Sydney Opera House, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, on national tour and at the Village Theatre, New York (nominated for Drama Desk Award 2004).
The last 12 months has seen Avalon Promotions: present multi-award winning comics JENNY ECLAIR, RICHARD HERRING, RUSSELL HOWARD and FRANK SKINNER on sell-out runs; produce AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD live at the O2 and RUSSELL HOWARD at Wembley Arena; introduce some of the fastest-rising stars in comedy such as RUSSELL KANE, KRISTEN SCHAAL & KURT BRAUNOHLER and ISY SUTTIE; produce stage shows, such as Frank Skinner’s Credit Crunch Cabaret and Grumpy Old Women Live, which has toured the UK three times and performed a highly successful run in Australia; and present 23 acts at the Edinburgh Festival, where it has promoted a total of five Perrier Award winners and 17 Perrier Award/if.comedy Award nominees in just 20 years.
