Red Imp Preview Season - Mark Watson & Rosie Holt
Red Imp Preview Season - Mark Watson & Rosie Holt at Walthamstow Trades Hall, London
About the show
Local star Mark Watson returns to Red Imp to work out his brand new solo tour show.
Rosie Holt is workshopping her upcoming new show and this time fighting her biggest foe yet. While Labour are trying to continue the Conservative government's work of stopping the boats, while also still appearing 'left wing', they have an even bigger problem when unwanted UFOS threaten to invade the UK.
Will the Labour government stand strong and protect the British people? Or will it insist they are “just waiting for the facts” as Aliens start to abduct and eat the British public?
"Can Holt's comedy career survive the advent of a Labour government? On this evidence, you'd fancy her chances” - The Guardian "Tightly crafted and brutal political satire with Orwellian flourishes" - The Evening Standard
Featuring - Mark Watson
A former Cambridge Footlighter, Mark Watson first made an impact on the comedy circuit in 2002 when he won the Daily Telegraph Open Mic competition and was a runner-up in So You Think You're Funny?
He has become known for his Edinburgh shows (2005's 50 Years Before Death And The Awful Prospect Of Enternity was nominated for the Perrier) and his gruelling shows that last more than 24 hours. Perrier's successor, the if.comeddies, awarded the panel award for best capturing the spirit of the fringe, in 2007.
Watson won the Chortle award winner for innovation in 2005, when he was also nominated for best breakthrough act, and was nominated for best compere in 2007.
He is also a novelist, with his debut Bullet Points, published in 2003; has written for TV and in 2007 landed his first radio series, Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better.
Rosie Holt
Rosie Holt burst onto the comedy scene 2013 when she won So You Think You Write Funny: The Sitcom Trials. She went on to write and star in Fall Girl at the Gilded Balloon in a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival 2014.
Charming and hilariously personal, Rosie's musical comedy is wonderful to watch.
'Refreshing and very funny' BroadwayBaby.com