Sat 22 May Award-Winning Variety Show

Venue:

Sixty Seven

comedians:

ALETIA UPSTAIRS , RAUL KOHLI , PRESIDENT OBONJO , JACK HESTER , MC MARTIN BESSERMAN

Upstairs at

67 Pizza & Lounge Bar

43 Chalk Farm Road NW1 8AJ London

(opposite Camden stables market )

A few mins walk from either Camden Town or Chalk Farm tube

( Free parking available in Primrose Hill area

Multi Award-Winning

ALETIA UPSTAIRS

Delivers a potent set with resonant clarity and a biting intent aligned with her stage persona, which is both formidable and wry.” – Ben Walters (The Scotsman)“Aletia gave a great performance full of passion and humour. The audience loved it.” ✭✭✭✭✭ – Patrick Harrington (Counter Culture)“Challenging and courageous. This lady in red shines like a newborn star.” – Kevin Short (International Times)“A Queer Love Of Dix is a quality piece of theatre and performance art…a well-crafted script and beautifully sung songs…a performance of mastery.” ✭✭✭✭✭ – Mark Calvert (Mumble)“Aletia Upstairs, a spectacular performance artist and scholar…masterly construct…skilful intermediacy.” ✭✭✭✭✭ – James O’Brien (Edinburgh Festival.org)“Important and inspirational work; The words, and songs,are spoken and sung with such thought-provoking purity and love.” – Kevin Short (International Times)“One of those little Edinburgh Fringe gems — Upstairs is joyful, sulky, sexy and seductive as Mata Hari. Do go and see this if you can.” ✭✭✭✭✭ – Carrie Gooch (ScotsGay)“A strong performance that includes attractive and evocative singing.” ✭✭✭✭ – Theatre Guide London“Strong, melodic and dramatic delivery…Evocatively punctuates the narrative with songs.” – The Stage“She can write, she understands the use of irony.” – BPM Magazine“Knows how to own a stage…her style was refreshing, moody and beautiful.” – The South African“Aletia was mind-blowing.” – Live Jam TV“She has an earthy, raw voice with a lot of potential and honest emotion. Her down-tempo songs are her true strength.” – London Music Blog + Highly entertaining drag queen RUBY VIOLET Ruby Violet burst on to the scene in 2018 and is making her mark up and down the county. From the deepest depths of Essex Ruby has crawled her way into showbiz. From touring the world singing on cruise ships to the pubs and clubs of the UK, Ruby will dazzle you with her own brand of campery. Last year she was nominated for a QX cabaret award for best drag queen.

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Award-Winning comedian

PRESIDENT OBONJO

of Lafta Republic "

President Obonjo the Idi Amin of St Albans is a strong comic premise.

President Obonjo is a great comic construct with lots of seized opportunities for playing the cliches" - Steve Bennett, Chortle

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Superb political stand up

RAUL KOHLI

Raul Kohli has fast become one of the most captivating acts on the circuit. As one of the few select Asians to have grown up in the far north of England (Newcastle Upon Tyne, he’s been blessed with a Worldview that upends ethnicity, culture and class. Combining ‘Superb political comedy’ (The Scotsman) with surreal storytelling, Raul Kohli has is a name in Comedy. His Edinburgh Fringe debut show Newcastle Brown Male was one of BBC Radio 4, The Huffington Post & the Skinny’s top picks of the Fringe 2016, while his most recent: All My Heroes Are Dead, in Jail or Touched Up Your Nan was nominated for Best Show at the Leicester Comedy Festivali2019. As well as several radio & TV appearances (Incl: BBC Radio 4, BBC Comedy Underground, RTV Netherlands & more), Raul is about to release his own 6-part comedy podcast about Hinduism on BBC Sounds’ (Comic Sanskrit 2019) and is a co-host on TalkRADIO’s Penny Smith’s Weekend Breakfast show. Raul is an award-winning comedian (NATYS 2017) and appears regularly at some of the biggest comedy clubs around the World (The Stand Edinburgh, Laugh Canvas India, Comedyhuis Netherlands). Raul is also teaching for Ultra Comedy in 2019, and now has a small role curating 2020 Utrecht International Comedy Festival. Raul also has a short yet ceremonious career in writing & acting too, having wrote the RTS nominated comedy sketch; Splitting the Bill, and having starred in the RTS winning sketch Gannin Oot as well as starring as a lead in the RTS winning series Uncommon

‘Hilarious’ – Judah Friedlander

‘Inspiringly Intelligent’ – Paul Sinha

‘A powerful, passionate, open-minded, intelligent voice. It is superb political comedy and commentary’ – The Scotsman

“Poisoning the minds of British children with pro-immigrant claptrap’ – Nigel Farage
As Featured in/on: BBC Sounds, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3, BBC Scotland, BBC Asia Network, BBC News TalkRADIO, The Guardian, the Telegraph and the Skinny
Film Credits
Uncommon 2020 (Ep 4: Takeaway) [Available on Prime Video], - Riz (Lead Actor & Script Writing/Editing Credits) [RTS Winner: Best Student Film]