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Double Emmy Award winner and star of Smack The Pony, Fiona Allen, is doing her first-ever show.
Like most working mums, since her children were born she didn’t have a moment for herself. Now free, she has tried new hobbies, new places, even attempting to get fit.
Difficult when your spirit animal is a sloth. With nowhere left to turn she went on the road as a stand-up.
A show about family, marriage, and things that truly annoy her. It’s a show for everyone, even those passive- aggressive school mums.
Twice Emmy-winning actor and comedian Fiona Allen has been a mainstay of our TV screens over the past two decades as well as an excellent stand-up comedian. She has starred in various sketch shows, including Goodness Gracious Me and The All Star Comedy Show, but most famously Smack the Pony. Fiona has also appeared in television dramas such as Dalziel and Pascoe, Coronation Street, in Happiness alongside Paul Whitehouse, and on film as Sandra in the film version of the famous Viz comic strip Fat Slags, and Smirgut the Fierce in Gladiatress. Most recently she has been in that little-known soap Eastenders…
Fiona won a whole new generation of fans in the second series of the hit E4 teenage drama Skins, playing Maxxie’s mum, Jackie Oliver (her on-screen hubby was Bill Bailey). She has also played the role of Georgia Stevenson in the BBC drama Waterloo Road, while often appearing as herself on comedy shows like Mock the Week and 8 Out Of 10 Cats.
“Her candid and relatable humour creates an atmosphere of shared laughter making the entire performance an enjoyable comedic hour”
EdFest Reviews
“Allen makes for confident and appealingly barbed company”
The Guardian
“Punchlines delivered with a wicked, cutting execution”
The Scotsman
“Every woman in this audience cheers her on and secretly males plans to jump into a suitcase and join her!”
The List
“Allen sets to her job with unrelenting fluency, she is thoroughly professional”
The Times