Comedian RACHEL PARRIS has a Cardiff date in the dairy on what will be her biggest live tour yet.
The tour, called Poise, follows her previous sell-out shows All Change Please and It’s Fun To Pretend. The BAFTA-nominated performer will get to the Glee Club at Cardiff Bay on Sunday 2nd June. Tickets are on sale from HERE.
The new offering is billed as Rachel at her best – a dazzling hour of her signature blend of stand-up and songs.
Rachel told us…….
“I’m very excited to bring this show to places I’ve never performed before.
This show is going to be a love letter to musical comedy – there’ll be standup, there’ll be satire, but I’m going back to where I started – at the piano singing funny songs – it’s what I’m best at, and I can’t wait to meet new audiences across the UK and Ireland and persuade them to sing along.”
She assured us that singing along was not compulsory, although we reckon it would be rude not to.
Rachel is not only an award-winning musical comedian, actor, improviser and presenter – she was nominated for BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance and beat Tiffany Haddish, Ellen DeGeneres and Amy Schumer to become Female First’s Comedian of the Year. Her incisive and hilarious segments on hit BBC2 series The Mash Report and as host of Late Night Mash (Dave), have been worldwide viral smash hits all across social media, firmly establishing her as a breakout comedy star.
In 2022, Rachel also published her first book Advice From Strangers: Everything I Know From People I Don’t Know, which was praised by Richard Osman as ‘warm witty and wise’.
There’s a fair chance you’ve seen her on TV, she’s appeared on Live At The Apollo (BBC 2), QI (BBC 2), Would I Lie To You (BBC 1), Mock The Week (BBC 2), Hypothetical (Dave), Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4), Harry Hill’s Clubnite (C4), The Big Narstie Show (C4), Comedians Giving Lectures (Dave), Richard Osman’s House of Games (BBC1) and The Graham Norton Show (BBC), as well as hosting Thronecast for Sky and A Girls Guide To TV on BBC2. She is also a regular on popular radio 4 show I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue.
Rachel is a founding member of acclaimed improv show Austentatious, which has toured nationally, enjoyed multiple sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and has a weekly West End residency at the Arts Theatre, recently extended due to demand and booking until July 2024.
Rachel has taken many critically acclaimed solo shows to the Edinburgh Fringe, London’s Bloomsbury Theatre and Soho Theatre, and on tour. Her last two tours It’s Fun To Pretend (2018-19) and All Change Please (2020-22) were both extended due to popular demand.
As an actor, Rachel has appeared in There She Goes (BBC 4), Trying (Apple TV) Plebs (ITV 2), Revolting (BBC 2), The IT Crowd (C4), Count Arthur Song (BBC 1), Murder In Successville (BBC 3) and Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC 3).
RACHEL PARRIS gets to the Cardiff Glee Club on Sunday 2nd June, for more details and tickets, go HERE.
