
Troika Talent Management presents
Rachel Parris:
The Commission
Musical Comedy Awards Runner-Up 2012
Funny Women Runner-Up 2010
Hackney Empire New Act Of the Year Finalist – 2011
Leicester Square Comedian Of The Year Finalist 2011
So You Think You’re Funny Semi Finalist 2011
Rachel Parris presents her debut solo Edinburgh show, The Commission – a darkly brilliant hour of stand-up and musical comedy.
“venomously witty” – Evening Standard
“Tim Minchin in a frock” – The Londonist
Songwriter and comedian Rachel Parris gets asked to write songs for the Great and the Good, and the downright Ugly, in order to make a living. In The Commission she goes completely “off-brand”, performing the songs she would have liked to send in to the X-Factor, the Disney channel and Westminster education board, and the hardest song she’s ever been commissioned to write: the one that broke her heart. In this darkly twisted debut hour, the award-nominated musical comedian takes a shrewd look at the highs and lows of the entertainment industry, money, sex, love and all the notes in between.
“perfect timing of wryly funny lines” – Chortle
“impossibly, infuriatingly good” – Huffington Post
Rachel Parris has reached the finals of many national competitions and was placed runner-up in the Funny Women Awards and the Musical Comedy Awards. She was named in London Is Funny’s Top 10 Comics To Watch in 2012, and recently listed on the Huffington Post as one of their Funniest 50 Women on Twitter. She is also an experienced improviser, and is appearing in the acclaimed improv comedy show Austentatious – An Improvised Novel, at the Leicester Square Theatre throughout 2013. She is currently developing a TV pilot with Carly Smallman, filming shorts with Anna Morris and ComComedy and is a regular writer for the comedy section of the Huffington Post.
“like a Glee Club chick gone wrong” – The Stage
“bleakly brilliant punchlines” – Leicester Mercury
You can watch her music videos, including the viral hit “Amazing” at www.youtube.com/
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Edinburgh
Show: Rachel Parris: The Commission
1st – 25th August 2012 (Not 13th)
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
West Nicholson Street
16:00 (1hr)
Free
Previews in London and Brighton
Rachel Parris: The Commission
Leicester Square Theatre
6 Leicester Place, London
5th June and 21st June
19:00(1hr)
£6.00
Rachel Parris: The Commission
Cavendish Arms, Stockwell
128 Hartington Road London
20th June
20:30(1hr)
£7.00
Rachel Parris: The Commission
Caroline of Brunswicke
39 Ditchling Road, Brighton
17th July
19:30(1hr)
£5.00
Image Credit: Idil Sukan