It was announced today (10 June 2009) that Perrier Award winning comic LAURA SOLON will have a two-week run at the Soho Theatre this autumn with her first live solo show since her 2005 award-winning debut. The acclaimed writer and performer of Talking and Not Talking (BBC Radio 4), Laura, Ben and Him (ITV2), Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder (ITV1), and star of Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul (BBC ONE), will perform her brand new multi-character narrative comedy Rabbit Faced Story Soup between 6th and 17th October.
Rabbit Faced Story Soup is set in the world of Black Publishing. With the company in trouble and the star author gone missing, publisher and heroine Diana Lewis embarks on a three day quest to save her career. Along the way she is helped and hindered by twenty different characters, all played by LAURA, including: millionaire business mogul Sir Michael Black, call centre worker Gwyneth, her P.A. Pam, a feminist sci-fi writer, a French Anti-novelist, a diversity officer, a superwoman, a superfan and a rabbit called Ian.
LAURA SOLON won Edinburgh Festival Fringe's highest accolade with her debut solo show in 2005, and has since established herself as one of the fastest rising writers and performers working in comedy. Series three of her Radio 4 series, Talking and Not Talking, is to be broadcast later this year, whilst her television work has seen her perform prominently alongside the UK’s leading comic acts such as HARRY ENFIELD, JESSICA HYNES, AL MURRAY, DAVID TENNANT and PAUL WHITEHOUSE. She is currently developing a new scripted comedy for Radio 4 which will pilot later this year.
“Seemingly poised for stardom for creating instantly memorable and grotesque comic characters, one might dub Laura Solon the next Catherine Tate. What makes her different is that she specialises in brilliantly written verbal comedy... Almost every sketch is a showcase for ultra-deft characterisation and surprising gags.”
James Kettle, The Guardian
“Her magnetism comes from her ability to physically change herself on stage, her taut, controlled performance and most importantly her high-quality lines.”
Julian Hall, The Independent
Laura Solon’s Rabbit Faced Story Soup is at the Soho Theatre from Tuesday 6th to Saturday 17th October 2009 (not 11th & 12th)
Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, London W1D 3NE
Box Office: 0207 478 0100 or www.sohotheatre.com
For more information please contact: Jo Cross or Dan Lloyd at Avalon on: 020 7598 7222 or email: joc@avalonuk.com / danl@avalonuk.com
AVALON PROMOTIONS
Avalon Promotions Limited is one of the leading promoters of live comedy in the UK. Productions include: NEWMAN & BADDIEL in the first comedy show ever to be staged at Wembley Arena; FRANK SKINNER’s record-breaking performance to an audience of 6,000 at the Battersea Power Station; Jerry Springer - The Opera at the National Theatre, at the Cambridge Theatre in London’s West End, on national tour and at New York’s Carnegie Hall; HARRY HILL at the Palace and Dominion Theatres in London; and Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure at the Sydney Opera House, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, on national tour and at the Village Theatre, New York (nominated for Drama Desk Award 2004).
The last 12 months has seen Avalon Promotions: present multi-award winning comics JENNY ECLAIR, RICHARD HERRING, RUSSELL HOWARD and FRANK SKINNER on sell-out runs; produce AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD live at the O2 and RUSSELL HOWARD at Wembley Arena; introduce some of the fastest-rising stars in comedy such as RUSSELL KANE, KRISTEN SCHAAL & KURT BRAUNOHLER and ISY SUTTIE; produce stage shows, such as Frank Skinner’s Credit Crunch Cabaret and Grumpy Old Women Live, which has toured the UK three times and performed a highly successful run in Australia; and present 23 acts at the Edinburgh Festival, where it has promoted a total of five Perrier Award winners and 17 Perrier Award/if.comedy Award nominees in just 20 years.
