Comedy

Ahir Shah: Control

Date: Friday, Feb 23 2018
Time: 7:45pm
Venue: The Comedy Box at the Hen & Chicken Studio

In Control (Best Show nominee – Edinburgh Comedy Awards), rising comic Ahir Shah explores the current global sociopolitical turmoil in a show about freedom, fascism, history, hope, and resistance.

Ahir’s last show enjoyed packed runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Soho Theatre, and a national tour. In it, he theorised that we were being tugged in contradictory directions by a potential brighter future and the resurgent worst of the past. He’s currently trying to work out what the future now looks like in a time when the past appears to be winning.

“A call to arms against political complacency” – The Guardian

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“Fiendishly clever and furious” – The Times

Read our interview with Ahir here.

8.30pm/doors 7.45pm, £12.50. For more info, visit www.thecomedybox.co.uk/site/301.asp?catID=1614&ct=date

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