Stand Up Tragedy Presents: Previews of The Selkie – A Song of Many Waters and Last Dance With My Father

As everyone is warming up for Edinburgh and beyond Stand Up Tragedy presents two nights previewing some of our favourite performers at The Dogstar on 13th and 14th of July.
13th July:

8pm: The Selkie – A Song of Many Waters by Fay Roberts (spoken word)

9.15pm: Last Dance With My Father by Njambi McGrath (comedy/storytelling)

Doors open: 7.30pm

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The Selkie – A Song of Many Waters

The seal woman’s skin has been stolen, stranding her on a reef of rage and tragedy. Can she find her true home, freeing her voice? Fay Roberts (Other Voices, Allographic, Hammer & Tongue) navigates a modern mythological sea journey of hiraeth, poetry, and music, in this haunting solo show.

“We need more poetry like this… funny, confident, modest and a really bloody good poet to listen to.” Hollie McNish

“… her poetry combines lyrical flair with a solid emotional core… there is no one quite like her…” Tim Clare

“… gorgeously sensuous…” Sabotage Reviews

Fay Roberts:

Fay is a classically-trained singer from Cardiff who has been getting on stages since the early 80s. She was finally bitten by the performance poetry bug in Spring 2006 after a favour to a friend turned into a place in the final of a poetry slam. These days she describes herself as “a performance poet and peripatetic percussionist who by day pokes projects and by night projects across a microphone…” Fay’s poetry is both thoughtful and heartfelt, with plenty thrown in about love, relationships, the perils of getting older, illusion, delusion, and problems with the colour orange. Fay has performed poetry in pubs, clubs, theatres, tents, shopping centres and stately gardens, in Open Mic, showcases, features, support, collaboration, competition and costume. Sometimes she bangs a drum, and sometimes she performs in silence, while the words flutter in front of her.

http://www.fayroberts.co.uk/

Twitter: @fayroberts

Last Dance With My Father

Twenty years after he beat her and left her for dead, Njambi is forced to confront her deep-seeded anger for her father when their paths unexpectedly cross again at her brother’s wedding. The presence of this unexpected ‘guest of honour’ creates a night to remember, and an Edinburgh show never to forget. This is an hour of dark comedy guaranteed to make you laugh and cry.

Njambi McGrath:

Kenyan-born Njambi appeared on the UK comedy circuit in 2010 and was soon voted Top 5 Up and Coming Female Comedians 2012 by The Sun’s Fabulous magazine. She has been profiled on several media platforms, including The Guardian, Scotland on Sunday, The Conversation (BBC World Service), ITV’s 6 O’clock News and Sky News, and last October was invited to do a two-women show at the Durban Playhouse Theatre which received rave reviews. She also hosted a 5* charity event in Park Lane.

Njambi is currently writing a memoir and is represented by Blake Friedman Literary Agents. She is a contributor to the Glam Africa fashion magazine and, an avid blogger, one of her blogs, When Homosexuality Was Normal, is currently in the process of being turned into a documentary.

http://www.njambimcgrathcomedy.co.uk/

Twitter: @Njambi1

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