Stand Up Tragedy - Tragic Heroes

We can be tragic heroes just for one night!

This March Stand Up Tragedy will celebrate Tragic Heroes at the Hackney Attic featuring: The Beta Males, Michelle Madsen, Samantha Mann, MJ Hibbett, Worry Dolls and more. All our performers will be searching for the tragic hero within themselves and ask you to do the same.

From Shakespearean heroes to Superheroes, the narrative of great people who have bad stuff happen to them, through stories, sketch comedy, spoken word, music, comedy and everything in between.

Expect each act to take you on new tragic quest while host, Sony and Radio Academy Award nominated podcaster, storyteller and writer, Dave Pickering, helps to navigate the audience through the cathartic twist and turns.

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 Pacoe, Simon Munnery and Helen Arney with new and upcoming acts in 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

To get a taste of the tragedy you can already hear our last two show’s Tragic Christmas and Tragic Beginnings in full on our podcast and Tragic Love will come out over the next few weeks.
https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sets/tragic-christmas

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