Kiri Pritchard-McLean will play the Gala Theatre in Durham on Saturday 12th March with her highly-anticipated new show, ‘Home Truths’.
The Welsh comedian and writer arrives boasting the staples of acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe shows and panel show circuit appearances, with turns on ‘Have I Got News For You’, ‘8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown’ and ‘Would I Lie To You?’ helping to fill up the UK comic bingo card. Notably, Kiri also co-hosts the popular and unconventionally styled true-crime podcast, ‘All Killa No Filla’, alongside Rachel Fairburn.
Pritchard-McLean is on a continuing hot streak as one of the UK’s fastest-rising comedians, undisturbed by the pandemic and the truncation of lockdowns. That is to say largely, at least, the reconfiguration of the 2021 Chortle Awards as a result of Covid-centric chaos meant normal categories were suspended, interrupting Kiri’s run of three consecutive Chortle Awards for Best Compere from 2018 to2020, not to mention Awards for Best Club Comedian in 2018 and Best Breakthrough Act in 2019, a stint of five gongs in three years, so she hauls a packed trophy cabinet as evidence of her creative momentum.
One of the finest additions to the resume is her position as a regular guest on ‘Frankie Boyle’s New World Order’, the jewel in the crown of the UK comedy scene’s televisual output in recent years, and one of the best shows of any genre currently broadcasting. The roster of comics to have graced Frankie’s armchairs over the years constitutes a veritable who’s-who of comedians, British and otherwise, to watch, for their opinions as well as their comedic material.
As an English-born artist raised in Wales, Pritchard-McLean is at the epicentre of the chasms and contradictions which surround identity in an age of the creaking, crumbling British polity, as views regarded chiefly as metropolitan and university-based in England take more widespread prominence in other countries of the Union; views which typically manifest in their most liberal form in the creative arts in general, but stand-up in particular.
As a writer, Kiri’s BBC radio pilot ‘The Learners’ was set in a Welsh-for-beginners class, and ‘Home Truths’ promises ‘jokes about skinny jeans, learning Welsh and white supremacy – something for everyone’ from the comedian who recently moved back to her home island of Anglesey, where she was originally raised on a farm.
Expect a fantastic, shooting star comedy talent in what is surely only the earliest stage of their prime on this date.
Tickets, priced at £15.00 in advance, are available from galadurham.co.uk.
