Shazia Mirza brings The Kardashians Made Me Do It to Exeter
Award-winning comedian Shazia Mirza brings her critically acclaimed 2015 Fringe show The Kardashians Made Me Do It to the Exeter Corn Exchange on Saturday 30th April.
Following a sell-out run at London’s Tricycle Theatre this autumn, award-winning comedian Shazia Mirza takes her critically acclaimed 2015 Edinburgh Fringe show on a nationwide tour.
The Kardashians Made Me Do It is a searing and urgent exploration of life, love and Jihadi brides.
The Kardashians Made Me Do It is inspired by three girls who left Bethnal Green to join ISIS, and an unrelated radio piece Shazia contributed to the BBC which subsequently received a record number of complaints. The show tells of the confusion it caused as she looks into the nature of offence, the dangers of politically correct liberalism versus the sinister and terrifying intrusion of ISIS into the lives of young British Asian women, and explores the phenomenon of jihadi brides.
The revered, applauded, loved and reviled comedian and columnist has appeared on various TV and radio shows including Have I Got News For You (BBC), F*** Off, I'm a Hairy Woman (BBC) for which she spent seven months in the service of hirsutism, NBC's Last Comic Standing, Beautiful People (BBC2), The World Stands Up (Paramount Comedy), and a regular slot on Radio 2’s Vanessa Feltz Show and Radio 4’s The Now Show. She has performed internationally from Texas to Kosovo and has been a regular contributor to The Financial Times, The Daily Mail and wrote a weekly column in The Guardian entitled 'Dairy of a Disappointing Daughter’.
In 2008 she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy, won 'Columnist of the Year’ at the prestigious PPA Awards for her fortnightly column in The New Statesman and won The GG2 Young Achiever of the Year Award.
★★★★ “Shazia Mirza is provoking laughter and large intakes of breath once again … brave and urgent” THE TELEGRAPH
★★★★ “As brave a piece of comedy as you’ll see” MAIL ON SUNDAY
“Her laconic one-liners represent something quite unique in modern comedy" THE GUARDIAN
Further details and tickets available from: http://sites.exeter.gov.uk/cornexchange/
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