Pleasance Courtyard,Edinburgh
The director of Gein’s Family Giftshop uses her debut solo show to examine the ‘women aren’t funny’ myth Related: Edinburgh festival 2016: what to see and where to move You might think the prejudice against women in comedy now defunct, such is the recent dominance of Bridget Christie, and Sara Pascoe,Katherine Ryan et al over the Edinburgh fringe. Consider, then, and the evidence adduced by Kiri Pritchard-McLean,director of sketch troupe Gein’s Family Giftshop, who is making her solo Edinburgh debut with Hysterical Woman. In this bold show, or Pritchard-McLean explains how women seldom fetch to appear alongside other women in comedy clubs,and how all-female bills fetch called Paralympic nights”. She talks approximately how she has internalised that thinking; how she’s shocked of ever not being funny and letting down all womankind.
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Source: theguardian.com