Careering When Your Profession Is A Sh*tshow. Hiya everybody, I hope you might be nicely. In right this moment’s publish, I will probably be sharing a Press Launch of a brand new comedy present by Stokes & Summers. Stokes & Summers are Kate Stokes and Claudia Summers. Their comedy partnership started in 2015 on the College of Bristol, the place they studied BA in Drama: Theatre, Movie and Tv. Their debut present was A Actually Actually Huge Fashionable Telly (and Different Actually Actually Huge Fashionable Tales), which they toured to festivals together with Brighton Fringe in 2016 and 2018.
We’ve all been there. A dream job that seems to be a nightmare. While the remainder of us have been pranging out about it, Stokes & Summers have been making a present about it – one which went viral in the course of the lockdown. Within the immortal phrases of Britney Spears: ‘You need a Lamborghini? Sippin’ martinis? Look sizzling in a bikini? You higher work, bitch.’ Stokes and Summers don’t essentially need Lamborghinis. They need to pay hire.* Night Normal TikTok Star and Humorous Girls Award nominees, Stokes & Summers, current a brand new present concerning the quirks and perks of the trendy office.
Careering When Your Profession Is A Sh*tshow
“They take an enormous swipe at modern-day life and present us the ludicrousy of our obsessions” – LondonTheatre1
You might need seen them on TikTok. Probably watched their Comedian Aid sketch with Richard Curtis. Caught them on stage in Bristol or London. I puzzled who that lady was within the IKEA advert. Now could be your probability to see the a number of award-nominated, viral smash hit Stokes & Summers on the Edinburgh Fringe.
“An abundance of comedy expertise” – Broadway Child
Within the immortal phrases of Britney Spears: ‘You need a Lamborghini? Sippin’ martinis? Look sizzling in a bikini? You higher work, bitch.’ Stokes and Summers don’t essentially need Lamborghinis. They only need to pay hire.* Night Normal TikTok Star and Humorous Girls Award nominees, Stokes & Summers, current a brand new present concerning the quirks and perks of the trendy office. ‘Two extremely gifted actor-comedian which have the potential to take the world of comedy theatre by storm!’ (FringeReview.co.uk on A Actually Actually Huge Fashionable Telly). *They’d additionally wish to sip martinis, however that’s inappropriate.
We’re all promised a dream of swanky places of work and colleagues who really feel like your finest mates. Thrilling work that will get your mind buzzing and utilises that hard-earned schooling, shortly climbing the gilded profession ladder to some starry success.
Careering
Careering is the sort of present you would like you had seen earlier than you began working. Life in an workplace generally is a bit tedious, particularly if you’d fairly be on a stage, on a yacht, or a publicity tour of your best-selling novel. However when you didn’t snigger about it, you’ll cry (probably whereas hiding within the stationery cabinet). So Stokes & Summers are right here to make us snigger.
Careering is ready in a multi-company workplace block the place all types of corporations work. Kate and Claudia convey to life an assortment of eccentric characters across the constructing. From the grumpy receptionist to the extreme workaholic CEO to the mysterious musical raise operator. The chalk and cheese receptionists on the entrance desk are each grappling with the problem of pursuing their true ambitions.
A story culminates in a showbiz canteen expertise present finale. A dog-walker who’s by accident employed as a wellbeing marketing consultant and who finally ends up serving to a cripplingly nervous accountant discover ways to say no. These narratives sit alongside stand-alone sketches which are completely relatable however completely bonkers, together with horoscope-based interviews and the perils of hot-desking etiquette.
Began in 2015
It began in 2015 when Kate and Claudia collaborated on a present as a part of their dissertation on the College of Bristol. Nonetheless, the pandemic put Stokes & Summers on the radar of tens of hundreds of individuals. They began making comedy movies on-line (as a result of what different possibility was there in 2020?), which quickly blew up on TikTok, and a number of other of their sketches have been featured on BBC Radio Bristol. In 2021 their 60-second film parodies turned very fashionable on TikTok (and now Instagram, too), seeing them shortlisted for the Night Normal TikTok Breakout Star Award and the Humorous Girls Comedy Content material Creator Award. In addition they collaborated with Comedian Aid on a parody of Notting Hill for Purple Nostril Day 2022, on the request of Richard Curtis, who additionally made a cameo look.
Careering explores the pressures and challenges of the trendy office in a enjoyable and foolish manner that can make you marvel in case your texts to your finest mate have been hacked. As Claudia says, “Following goals might be tough on this fashionable world, however everybody deserves to present it go, and we’re right here to snigger about it with everybody alongside the way in which.”
Particulars
Venue: Gilded Balloon Teviot in The Turret, Edinburgh Fringe, 13 Bristo Sq., Edinburgh, UK.
Dates: third – twenty ninth August (besides fifteenth)
Time: 15:00
Period: 60 minutes
Tickets: Monday – Thursday | Full Value £10.50, Concession £9.50
Friday – Sunday | Full Value £11.50, Concession £10.50
Hyperlink: https://tickets.edfringe.com/
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Artist bio
Stokes & Summers are Kate Stokes and Claudia Summers. Their comedy partnership started in 2015 on the College of Bristol, the place they studied BA in Drama: Theatre, Movie and Tv. Their debut present was A Actually Actually Huge Fashionable Telly (and Different Actually Actually Huge Fashionable Tales), which they toured to festivals together with Brighton Fringe in 2016 and 2018. In 2018 they made a brief comedy movie referred to as Felicity & Fran. In 2020 they made their first podcast pilot, The Stokes & Summers Sketch Present.
Web site: stokesandsummers.wordpress.com
Instagram: @stokesandsummers
Twitter: @stokesnsummers
TikTok: @stokesandsummers
