Stand Up Tragedy: Tragic Martyrs

On April 10th, Stand Up Tragedy will focus on the subjects you’re not supposed to talk about as we take on the theme of Tragic Martyrs.

Highlights will include past Jehovah’s Witness and current stand-up comedian Deborah Frances-White, Alice Bell from the Guardian and New Left Project taking on Galileo, and John Henry Falle from the sketch group The Beta Males talking about the Catholic Saints. The line-up includes true storytelling, spoken word, comedy, magic and lectures, with music provided by The Sound of the Ladies.

Expect each act to take you to a completely different place, while host, Sony and Radio Academy Award nominated podcaster, storyteller and writer, Dave Pickering, guides you through the cathartic twists and turns.


What is Stand Up Tragedy?

It "takes in everything from music to comedy and is characterised by an emphasis on truth."
The Independent

An "entertaining bunch of melancholic oddballs"
The London Word

Stand Up Tragedy aims to make audiences laugh until they cry and cry until they laugh. It’s a monthly live show and podcast where people stand up and tell tragedy. We make you sad; we make you think; we make you smile. Expect music, comedy, fiction, spoken word, true stories and more, all playing up to the tragic form but not always taking it too seriously. The night ends, not with a whimper, not with a bang, but with a cathartic sing-a-long.

At Stand Up Tragedy, we combine established acts like Robin Ince, Josie Long, Ben Target, Grace Petrie, Sara Pascoe, Helen Zaltzman, Simon Munnery and Helen Arney with new and upcoming acts, creating evenings of variety based around a theme. Performers often write new material especially for our nights and relish the opportunity to put a tragic spin on what they do. The nights are recorded and put out into a weekly podcast.