My
first Edinburgh show is - at time of writing - still
popping up. I've performed it all over the shop - from
science festivals
(York, Cambridge, Newcastle, Brighton), to music festivals (Latitude,
Standon Calling),
and comedy festivals (including a performance at the National Space
Centre as
part of the Leicester comedy festival) and London's Science Museum
(three times
- most recently in the Space Gallery itself as part of the Moon Landing
celebrations!) The blurb goes something like this:
Helen
Keen loves space rockets. She brings their story to life with a fusion
of stand-up comedy and tinfoil in her debut solo show - a celebration
of stargazing, space-racing and the boundless possibilities of an
infinite universe. And temping
With
Space-Nazis! Satanists! And
Aeronautical Engineers! IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE! will take you on a
whistlestop tour around the Great Brains who put monkeys, ladies, dogs
and gentlemen into orbit.
"inspired... crisp, sophisticated comedy" (The Guardian)
"a jolly hour of geek fun, part way between the Royal Institution
Christmas Lectures, QI, Blue Peter and some dodgy Sixties
Czechoslovakian children's animation... it is, aptly enough, a blast."
(Chortle)
Winner
- Best Individual Comedy Performance, Buxton Fringe Festival 2008
