Our next pair of previews will showcase the incredible talent of two of Manchester’s funniest and loveliest performers. Join us on Monday 3rd July for brand new work-in-progress shows from:

Ben Hodge

It’s a Boy? is from the wildly creative comic mind of Ben Hodge, Liverpool Echo’s Top 30 under 30 and winner of Into Film Documentary of the Year 2020. ‘Ben is such an exciting act. Tonnes of charm and stage presence all topped off with killer jokes’ (Kiri Pritchard-Mclean). ‘Relatable and likeable yet infinitely self-aware’ (Blizzard Comedy). Ben Hodge debuts his first live one-man show exploring themes of gender expression and trans masculinity in relation to growing up in a world where his transgender identity was sought out through Yorkie bars and Closer magazine.

“Ben is such an exciting act. Tonnes of charm and stage presence all topped off with killer jokes” – Kiri Pritchard-Mclean
“Relatable and likeable yet infinitely self-aware” – Blizzard Comedy

And Tom Short

Occult cabaret horror stand-up show but none of the booked acts have shown up therefore it falls on our host, the spectral Tom Short (2019 Chortle student comedian runner-up, 2019 Leicester square new comedian finalist) to tell scary stories, fortune tell and channel spirits to make his way to the end of the show.

Imagine the Rocky horror picture show crossed with Basil Fawlty. Exploring themes of the occult and horror in many facets of life, such as politics, the cost of living and celebrity.

“Stupidly entertaining set, which was loose but impressively thought-through. And, most crucially, hilarious.” – Chortle