by Bridget Christie · 1 Jul 2015 · 252pp · 85,441 words
pen routine. I just needed to get another fifty-five minutes together before August. I remember doing a terrible work-in-progress show at the Machynlleth Comedy Festival. Apart from the pen stuff it was awful. Every year, around April/May, when I’m starting to write a new show for Edinburgh, I
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to what we consider ‘Third World problems?’ On the May bank holiday weekend, I stopped at a motorway service station on my way to the Machynlleth Comedy Festival in Wales, where I was performing my most recent stand-up show, An Ungrateful Woman. Above the hand dryers in the ladies’ toilets were posters