Every Monday our editors bring you their personal highlights of the week ahead. Emma McAlpine selects her top three comedy nights.
From Thursday 18th February
Isy Suttie @ BAC
The Battersea Arts Centre’s comedy festival kicks off this week and one of the highlights is 2008 'Best Female Newcomer' Isy Suttie (you might recognise as Peep Show's IT geek Dobby). Her latest musical show, Love Lost in The British Retail Industry, features a bored check-out girl, her vegan love interest, a scary American singer-songwriter and an ancient fairy godmother.
Saturday 20th February
Storytellers' Club @ BAC
Sarah Bennetto’s story club returns to the BAC with a host of skilled yarn-spinners and comedians telling tales around a fake log fireplace. At Storytellers' nights you might hear comic tales, ghost stories, travel anecdotes, mysteries, horror stories, adventure stories, stories set to music, and of course, the odd love story. A friendly, bohemian atmosphere that provides a haven for comedy-lovers, rapscallions and the literati alike.
From Sunday 21st February
Nina Conti @ Basement @ Leicester Square Theatre
If you think ventriloquism is a) dead or b) rubbish – you need to check out Nina Conti. Aside from her funny dialogue with her puppets, what really impresses is her deconstruction of the ventriloquism process, analysing the schizophrenia of her act. Tonight she brings a host of new characters alive in a special preview of her latest show Talk to the Hand.
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