My Brain is Soup, Your Hands Are the Spoons

Comedy (character comedy, clown)

  • Hoots @ Potterrow - Wee Yurt
  • 13:55
  • Aug 25
  • 1 hour
  • Suitability: 14+ (Guideline)
  • Country: United Kingdom - England
  • Group: Chris East
  • Warnings and additional info: Audience participation, Strong language/swearing. Pay What You Can in advance to guarantee entry or donate any amount at the end of the show. Your Pay What You Want in advance options are: £5, £7, £10 and £15.
  • Babes in arms policy: Babies are not allowed in the venue
  • Policy applies to: Children under 2 years

Description

An absurdist character-comedy show from a helpless clown. Chris East's brain is overflowing, like a chunky idea soup filled with unformed thoughts, bizarre plots, plans, ambitions, celery and characters, so many characters. Expect 'something weirder and more surreal with glittering flashes of comic gold' (TheSpyInTheStalls.com). 'With hearty and well-versed humour, East prompted a roaring response' (The Student Newspaper). A Soho Theatre Labs alumni, as seen on SkyTV, Disney+ and Reading and Leeds Festival. Fresh off sell-out shows at Camden Fringe and Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022.

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Lora 84 days ago

Brilliant character comedy crafted with care that had the whole tent laughing! Surreal, silly and deadpan - I'll never look at wotsits the same way again!

Max Kreisky 98 days ago

Chris rolls out a parade of wonderful and strange characters. With a genuinely unique imagination and impeccable comic timing, I can think of no better way to spend an hour in a yurt

Patrick Scott 102 days ago

Funniest show I've seen. Please please please go and see this if you value your time at the fringe

Shaun Maurice 106 days ago

Definitely go see please please. Very good

Lila Wattis 110 days ago

I saw this a week ago and I haven't been the same since. I don't really know what to say other than "you must see this".

Barnaby Webb 111 days ago

Chris East playing Chris East is the role of a lifetime and we are the lucky audience that gets to see Chris East putting down his marker for legendary status. Absurd show of characters pulled from the left of the dial that is highly enjoyable. What a poster and a show everyone should be checking out!!!

Andy 111 days ago

Loved this show! It went to places I didn’t see coming, and I got to request my favourite character (I didn’t even know I had one before). So great and the room was full, I can’t stop telling people about it. The poster is great and the name alone should get butts in seats! It lives up to the crazy name. Sausages.

Louis Beer 111 days ago

Brilliantly funny show hidden away in a yurt - everybody should be seeing this! Some of the best character/alternative comedy at the Fringe this year.

Samuel W 112 days ago

Chris serenaded my wife and I'm not even angry - definitely deserves to be packing that yurt everyday, LOVED IT

Sarah 112 days ago

Bonkers in the best possible way. Can't stop repeating parts of the show. A hidden gem of the fringe!! Thank you Chris East!

Fab 112 days ago

It's too easy to walk past the Wee Tent as you head to the bigger venues of Bristo and George Square. But the point of the Fringe is to uncover new talent like this show (and sure, see Hannah Gadsby as well). I bought the ticket on a bit of a whim to fill a gap and am glad I did. The comedian was funny, weird, the balloon was surprisingly fun and the end very satisfying! Highly recommended!

Vini C 114 days ago

One of the best shows I’ve seen at the Fringe over the years. As absurd and nonsensical as you’d expect! Had me laughing throughout and still saying one of the character’s catch phrases 2 days later. If you’re thinking about it, book it now!

Ben G 119 days ago

This is a brilliant piece of work. Chris has made a hilarious show that straddles the boundary between character and clown perfectly.

The guy is a huge talent, and the best kind of superfreak. He keeps you guessing too -- each new character has their own reality and their own rules: they can be sweet, funny, scary, tender, brash or playful. Or a dog.

What a show. Check it out immediately.

Gaby 119 days ago

I will be his spoons any day of the week.
Go treat yourself to a laugh and see this cracking show!

Aram B 119 days ago

Absolutely absurd in the best way possible! Had me cracking up the whole way through and always found ways to suprise. Give me more of Chris East’s brain soup please! 5 Stars.

Alex B 120 days ago

I had such a great time at Chris's show. He is a really joyful performer and connects with the audience beautifully - there's lots of feel-good (non-intimidating) audience interaction, which I loved. And you really do feel like you've entered his mind in the best way.

Katie 121 days ago

This show is delightfully silly and one-of-a-kind - a journey through Chris East's mind with so much unexpected delight - make sure you catch this guy's silly debut show!

tiggy bayley 121 days ago

Chris is SO funny! I loved this show. So many blunt one liners that had me howling. Fab characters too

Grace 121 days ago

Some of the finest character comedy known to man. Chris will undoubtedly make you giggle, he will ask you questions (you don’t necessarily have to answer) and he will take you by the metaphorical spoon-hand and show you the weird and wondrous contents of his soup-brain. Run don’t walk, to the yurt.


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Starburst Magazine (4/5 stars) 104 days ago


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