Stand Up Tragedy: Tragic Autumn

Tragic Autumn is falling: This last of Stand Up Tragedy’s seasonal tragedies

‘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

This year sprinklings of tragic seasoning have spiced up the Hackney Attic where we have presented Tragic Winter, Tragic Spring, Tragic Summer. Now as the memories of our Edinburgh Festival season wither away on the vine it’s time for our last show of the year: Tragic Autumn.

On October the 16th we will celebrate the melancholy, death and transitions of autumn. We’ll start the night with an act of Tragic Changes featuring Adam Blampied from The Beta Males, brilliant spoken word from Adele Hampton and the always enigmatic Ben Target (“One of very few comics who manage to do something new with the art form while keeping an audience thoroughly entertained”, Guardian). Next we’ll have an act of Tragic Schooling put together by Liz Bailey from LSE; this act will involve academics coming out of their comfort zone and into the spotlight. They’ll be getting personal and sad about the welfare state. And the night will end (as many nights do) with a Tragic Fall featuring comedy and storytelling from James Harris, Jorik Mol and Brydie Lee-Kennedy. At the show’s 10.30pm conclusion, everyone’s invited to join in a cathartic sing-a-long or show off their tragic dancing into the early hours of the morning.

Stand Up Tragedy aims to make audiences laugh until they cry and cry until they laugh. It’s a regular 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 performers like Stewart Lee, Robin Ince, Josie Long, Grace Petrie, Sara Pacoe, Rob Auton and Andy Zaltzman with new and upcoming acts to create long-form evenings of tragic variety. 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 as a podcast.