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The Clown Jewels will bring you a unique variety of multi-talented clowns performing their distinctive acts to make you laugh. Join us in the River Room with host, Athena Amoret, emerging multi-disciplinary artist, provocative clown, silly person, as she guides you through this inclusive new show, appreciating the absurdly serious business of clowning. You’d be a fool to miss it.
South London born clown, Athena Amoret trained at Circomedia, studying Contemporary Circus and Physical Theatre and shortly after joined a monthly clown night Friday Flop, created, and directed by Jon Davison. The company performed at Rosemary Branch Theatre, Blue Elephant Theatre as well as running workshops at London Metropolitan University and Rose Bruford College. Athena then went on to create her one-woman, feminist, provocative clown show, CHICK-IN SHOW, which debuted at the Wandsworth Arts Fringe 2023 and in February 2024 was staged at Riverside Studios, part of Bitesize Festival 2024 to a great reception.
ON THE LINE-UP FOR THE 19TH:
SHABS
Shabs is a comedy writer, singer/songwriter and neo-burlesque performer, birthed by the world of clowning and her desperate need to be loved. Her latest persona, Mrs Applebee, debuted at the Soho Comedy Plus Lab ’23 showcasing the result of succumbing to an intrusive thought in the absolute worst of all settings. Her previous acts, “Wine For The Newly Dumped” and “Diva in a Heatwave” have been a hit across the London comedy & cabaret scenes such as Kemah Bob’s FOC It Up and Soho Theatre.
ROB DUNCAN
Rob Duncan is uncomparisingly ridiculous has performed at fringe festivals worldwide and extended runs at Soho theatre. Best known as one half of the Duncan Brothers. From hit shows Legs, Logs, Jeremy Segway and Blood Sword. Malcolm Hardee award for Comic Orginality nominee 2024, Winner 2019.
HEADLINER: SONJA DOUBLEDAY
Multi award-winning comedian Sonja Doubleday is a Mancunian and performs as Cheekykita, whose show in Edinburgh was Longlisted for Best Show Award, (ISH) Edinburgh Comedy 2023.
'Hilarious, bizarre and endearing all rolled into one absolute delight of a show'(★★★★★-Reviews.co.uk).
★★★★DarkChat.co.uk).'It's brilliant' (BBC Radio 4).
'Like stepping through 2001, A Space Odyssey's stargate' (Comedy.co.uk).
'There’s a real sense of absurd originality here. Its a weird, daft, mad chunk of comedy, a very funny, very silly, and very enjoyable work(
★★★★'Somewhere in the universe of Boosh' (Chortle.co.uk).
'Go see Cheekykita, mental!' (Tony Law)