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Sue Stand Up Edinburgh Comedy Festival

When Mermaids Go Bad!

In August 2010 Susan will be taking her next comedy show Creatures to the Edinburgh Fringe, starring five brand new characters and one recycled tail…

About Creatures

Following the success of her 2009 Edinburgh Show “Five Characters in Search of Susan” Susan returns with five more deeply troubled and slightly ridiculous characters. Join a washed up mermaid, a dyspraxic fairy with low self esteem, a horse who longs to be a unicorn and a drug addicted borrower as they give you a seminar on equality for all creatures. A silly, dark and ultimately uplifting hour of character comedy.

Surprise guest cameos from up and coming comedians and comedy actors every day!

Edinburgh Details!

Venue: Creatures will be on at Space uk @ Jury’s Inn. This is a lovely venue, seconds away from the Royal Mile.

Dates: August 6th and 7th (10:00pm) Previews, August 9th-21st (10:05pm), August 23rd-28th (9:05pm). 

Tickets: £6/£5 concessions.   

Go to www.thespaceuk.com/edinburgh/tickets to book tickets!

Aya Nakamura

Aya Nakamura is a theatre-maker and performer, specialising in puppetry and puppet design/making, having trained in the UK and France. Her passion lies in incorporating puppets and objects into the performance, weaving their presence together with that of the puppeteer. She has worked on many children and adult puppet productions for a variety of large and fringe theatres, short film and various site-specific projects. Theatre credits include Twin Stars (Unicorn Theatre), Fold Your Own (doo-cot), Double Negative (Camden People’s Theatre), 1000miles Footlight Show (events) and Furies (Bialystock Puppetry Festival, Poland). Her puppet-making credits include Christmas Carol (King’s Head Theatre, Islington) Hippity Hop (Oily Cart), The Adventure of Jason and Argonauts (Steam Industry, More London) and Urban Dreams (London Bubble). She also works as a theatre designer and scenic painter. Aya is a core member of Rouge28 Theatre (www.rouge28theatre.co.uk) which has been awarded a residency at The Puppet Centre Trust and have toured thier works nationally and internationally. She is currently touring her solo puppet piece Urashima Taro as well as starring as Bat Cat in Charlie and Lola’s Best Bestest Play at Polka Theatre.

Urashima Taro

Tooting Comedy - the Selkirk Pub, 60 Selkirk Rd, London, SW17 0ES

Tooting Comedy - the Selkirk Pub
60 Selkirk Rd, London, SW17 0ES

A regular comedy night in the heart of tooting, this comedy night is hosted in the nicest pub in the area! It really is one of tootings greatest secrects! If you are looking for a comedy night, you can’t go too far wrong with comedy at the Kirk.

Details:

The Selkirk, 60 Selkirk Rd, London, SW17 0ES

Nearest tube is Tooting Broadway (Northern Line) .

Exit the tube and cross the road. Selkirk Road is the first left turn from Tooting High Street, opposite TK Maxx.

Full Details of the line up on the main website: www.comedyatthekirk.co.uk

Sanjay Shelat

Sanjay Shelat is Charlie

Sanjay Shelat is Charlie

Trained at Italia Conti, Sanjay has been enthusiastically throwing himself at Drama projects most of his life. From performing as an actor in BBC’s “Boot Street Band” and “Uncle Jack” with the lead singer of Manfred Man, through to interviewing Shilpa Shetty and Ansly Harriot as a presenter, Sanjay feels lucky to be doing what he loves. Recently he has toured Twisting Yarns production of ‘Life of Pi’ – winner of the MAN booker prize 2002, appeared as the lead in German cinema’s in the film “Pleasure Marriage”, and was thrilled to play the son of someone he grew up watching on telly, Pauline Quirk from Birds of a feather!

His sister - his inspiration for this role!

When a barely standing baby, Sanjay used to pretend to sing in front of guests using a metal spoon as a microphone… until every time his sister used to get a little jealous and take him from under the arm pits and drag him off. He’s hoping that his sister won’t affect your enjoyment by doing the same thing during today’s performance.

Sanjay Shelat Does Story Telling

Mohsen Nouri

Mohsen Nouri is Soren Laurenson

MOHSEN NOURI

PUPPETEER / PERFORMER

Mohsen graduated from The Central School of Speech and Drama. Credits include Gods, Mortals and Mayhem!, Tsar Sultan, Romeo & Juliet, King Arthur and the Quest for the Grail, The Secret Garden and Karagoz (Little Angel Theatre).
Doctor Dolittle (David Ian Productions). In One Ear, Unfolding Anderson, The Thought That Counts, Lighten Up, Salt and the award winning Mischief (Theatre-Rites). The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Mostly Harmless Productions).
Mohsen can also be seen in Beth Orton’s music video Conceived (Black Dog Films). He also appeared in the original production of Charlie & Lola’s Best Bestest Play (Polka Theatre) as well as having also appeared in the hit London production of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and the O2 (PPKG Ltd.). Mohsen can currently be seen in
the much acclaimed In The Night Garden (Ragdoll Ltd) for the BBC.

Susan Harrison Comedy Characters

Susan Harrison Comedian - www.susanharrisoncharacters.com

Character Comedian

Click below to watch the trailer from Susan’s last show!

Five Characters in Search of Susan

Actress

Writer

Susan Harrison is a character comedian and professional actress. She has performed as two of her creations Jennie Benton Smith and Shakira Evans at stand up clubs in Edinburgh and London and in 2009 she took her first one woman show “Five Characters In Search of Susan” to the Edinburgh Fringe, Underbelly and received fantastic reviews. She was a Semi Finalist in the National Funny Women Awards, 2009.

Click Here for main Website

Susan Harrison Play’s Lola

Actress Susan Harrison Plays Lola

Susan Harrison’s Main Biog

Susan Harrison trained at RSAMD.
Susan’s work includes; Five Characters In Search of Susan (Underbelly), The Gathering (Theatre Abandon), Hansel and Gretel (Barbican), The BFG (Polka Theatre), Triple Threat Live!(Gilded Balloon Edinburgh), Flying Home (Theatre 503), Home East Lothian, (Scottish National Theatre & Catherine Wheels Theatre Company), Men Should Weep (Oxford Stage Company), Little Women (Theatreworks), The Fence (Howard Barker’s Wrestling School), Bad Girls (Polka Theatre), Too Far to Walk (King’s Head), The Melancholy Hussar (Etcetera Theatre), Battered Hearts and Missing Socks (Theatre Abandon), The Seagull, Pants, Abody’s Aberdee, Mince, Puss in Boots, Nightflights (Dundee Rep) Urban Gothic (Channel Five).

She is very pleased to be back at Polka performing in Charlie and Lola once more!

Susan Harrison’s Comedy Work

www.susanharrisoncharacters.com

As well as being an accomplished puppeteer, Susan Harrison also has been working as a professional stand up for many years now. Focussing on character comedy, she will be performing at this year’s Edinburgh festival. For more information on her comedy connections, please choose from one of the following links:

Susan’s Comedy Characters - Sue is a fantastic comedian, check out her personal stuff!

Comedy in tooting - If you are living in South London, there is some great comedy to be had here, featuring our very own Sue - check it out!

Sue’s Edinburgh Festival Show - If you are going to the Edinburgh festival, Sue is a must see. Read about her show here, and book tickets in advance if you want to!

Charlie & Lola Show Details

I have this little sister Lola. She is small and very funny…

Based in the best selling books by Lauren child, and following on from the hit BBC TV television series, Charlie and Lola come to the stage with the help of four talented actors and a director with a very clear vision!
Using a combination of puppetry and music, this stage adaptation leaves its young audience having had a magical theatrical experience. With background of working with Jim Henson and on shows such as spitting image, the director Roman Stefanski knows how to put together a truly magic show. With actors such as Sanjay Shelat and Sue Harrison, not to mention the highly skilled hands of professional puppeteers Mohsen Nouri and Aya Nakamura, this is a show that will leave both adults and children quoting the lines for weeks to come.
For more information on booking tickets for Charlie Lola please go to the main Polka Theatre Website.

The main Team:
Director: Roman Stefanski
Designer: Sophie Charalambous
Music: Julian Butler
Stage Manager: Nick Graham
Lighting: Natasha Chivers
Carlie: Sanjay Shelat
Lola: Susan Harrison
Bat Cat: Aya Nakamura
Soren Laurenson: Mohsen Nouri

Actors & Actresses

The Cast of Charlie and Lola

The current cast are all very happy to be part of the show that they are doing! As well as having various adventures during the rehearsal period and run of the main show, they also have both lives and other shows outside of this! I would urge you to click on the links below in order to read more about each of the actors involced in the show:

Click NOW for Sanjay Shelat

Click here for Susan Harrison

Click here for Mohsen Nouri

Click Now for Aya Nakamoura

Click here to read Roman Stefanski

More information on Sue Harrison here.

More information on Sanjay Shelat here.

Aya Nakamura plays Bat Cat -  More information on Aya Nakamura here.

Mohsen Nouri plays Soren Laurenson - More information on Mohsen Nouri here.

For more information on the director Roman Stefanski click here.