Alison Spittle: Soup lands in The Plough’s bowl this April

Spittle on Soup is often preferable to spittle IN soup so sit back and enjoy a visit to The Plough Arts Centre by quirky comedienne Alison Spittle this April.

The show on Friday, April 5 in Great Torrington will see Alison plumb the depths of soup and other topics (but always returning to soup) in her witty and joyous stand up show presented by Impatient Productions.

Fast-rising comic Alison takes aim at a range of topics and her complex PTSD forms some of the basis of this brand new tour, fresh from a critically lauded run at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Her career has seen her become a regular co-host of the enormously popular Guilty Feminist podcast as well as finding mainstream success with BBC Sounds’ Wheel of Misfortune, a project she created herself.

But don’t forget the soup. Alison’s enthusiasm for soup is at such a level that she was invited to join a WhatsApp group devoted to the subject (she is frustrated that it isn’t called WhatSoup).

The show also touches upon her balcony/refuge in a rented London flat, where she cultivates fruit and vegetables with, somewhat mixed, results.

But many of the escapes we seek for our mental health are less reliable, and – among other things – the industry of ‘self-care’, the scam of face masks and the misery of hen parties come under Alison’s sweet-but-vicious spotlight.

Few comics combine the innocuous with the psychologically probing quite as distinctively as this joyous, unusual performer.

Alison Spittle: Soup starts at 8pm. For tickets call The Plough on 01805 624624 or visit www.theploughartscentre.org.uk.