Comedian brings BBC show to Artrix - The Bromsgrove Standard

Comedian brings BBC show to Artrix

Bromsgrove Editorial 6th Jun, 2016 Updated: 17th Oct, 2016   0

A COMIC guaranteed to have the audience in hysterics will be bringing the stage version of her BBC Radio Show to Artrix at 8pm next Saturday (June 11).

Ahead of her date at the School Drive venue, Deborah Frances-White spoke to Standard reporter Anu Shukla about her big life experiences which form some of the most powerful themes of her scintillating stand-up show.

 

MOST PEOPLE will know Deborah from The Guilty Feminist – the highly successful podcast she hosts with Danish partner in crime Sofie Hagen – a show which has already been downloaded more than 400,000 times but her current show, which is nearing the end of its tour, has also been getting some rave reviews.




She said: “It’s a story of how I found my biological mother.

“A couple of years ago I stumbled across information about her on the web and it soon became like an exciting internet treasure hunt.


“I got to the point where I really didn’t know what I was doing so I hired a private detective.

“I also couldn’t stop talking about my experience on stage so I accidentally developed a show.

“It has to be the most organic experience of my life.”

Deborah’s show has been hailed ‘gripping and compelling… hilarious and heart-breaking.’

She said the experience of telling her story has been therapeutic for herself and to audience members.

“Every show someone will tell me a story of how they found their mother, or how a child came back into their family – and I always like to hear it.”

Deborah shot straight from comedy improv to stand up – a natural progression she honed as a rebellious teenage Jehovah’s Witness who joined a secret comedy troupe before leaving to become an atheist.

About next week’s show she said: “It’s a story of family, it’s something everyone will relate to – many people have long lost family and will relate to it somehow, but even if they don’t, everyone relates to the show.

It’s very, very funny, at times it can be sad, in a moving way, and it’s a real gripping story.”

Tickets, at £14, are available at www.artrix.co.uk or by calling 01527 577330.

Visit www.bromsgrovestandard.co.uk for more on this story.

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