Women's March Born SAJEELA KERSHI: FIGHTS LIKE A GIRL! Comes to Edinburgh Fringe

Edinburgh Fringe Solo Show

Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, Edinburgh
August 3 - 27 (Not 7, 14 or 21) @ 6.15pm

Fights Like a Girl! is a reflection of everything Sajeela Kershi has fought for and against. The show was born at the Women's March in London, chanting against Trump, travel bans and global injustices, with Sajeela fighting to keep her prime position on the frontline - even if that means elbowing Harriet Harman out of the way, and not allowing a man to push in at the front, who, it turns out is Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.

Sajeela looks at her own upbringing, telling true stories of fitting in, fighting bullies, fighting for a life on her terms. She looks at universal misogyny in culture, including a true story of how she and a group of women in her family were kept hostage but managed to fight of their extremist captors - a tale of unexpected hilarity!

Finally we learn of Sajeela's personal challenge happening right now, to march through the Edinburgh Fringe in spite of a sudden inexplicable rapid hearing loss. Its a fight against time, can she make it to the finish line of the Edinburgh fringe...to the sound of rapturous applause or deafening silence?

'What and who will we fight for...and why?' Join Sajeela as she puts up her dukes and picks her battles. Find out if you are a fight or flight by nature, why you are to Blame for Brexit and Trump and if you are ultimately failing to fight for a productive society...whilst in hysterics.

Sajeela has been performing stand-up internationally since 2006, infamously getting her big break starring in Brendon Burns's 2007 Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show, So I Suppose This is Offensive Now? which played in venues across the UK such as the Pleasance Grand Edinburgh, The Garrick Theatre, The Soho Theatre and The Duchess Theatre where the DVD was recorded. She made her Edinburgh Fringe solo debut in 2009 and was Hackney Empire New Act Award Finalist in 2011. In 2015 she won the Asian Women of Achievement Award for Arts and Culture, the Angel Award for Artistic Excellence and the Chortle Award for Best Comedy Club for the second time. She has been voted as one of the Huffington Post's Top 50 Funniest Women to Follow on Twitter (@SajeelaKershi).

Aside from stand-up, Sajeela was commissioned to write and perform a series of four comedy monologues for BBC Radio Scotland around the theme of holidays and recently wrote for a Muslim/Jewish collaborative sketch pilot for BBC Radio 4 comedy. Earlier this year Sajeela was commissioned by Southbank Centre's Alchemy to devise and write a spoken word theatre show Mother Tongues From Father Lands which was performed as part of the Alchemy roadshow to great acclaim. She is a regular on BBC London 94.9, BBC Asian Network, BBC Surrey, BBC Sussex, LBC and was featured on Clive Anderson's BBC Radio 4 show, Loose Ends, BBC Scotland's The Kaye Adams Programme as well as making television appearances on Comedy Central and ITV2's Comedy Cuts, ITV's The Big Debate with Nina Hossain among other things. Sajeela also contributed to and appears in the UK's first ever daily viral topical comedy show, Britain's Got People - brainchild of BAFTA Award-winner Dave Cohen.

Title: Sajeela Kershi: Fights Like A Girl!
Venue: Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 112 Hanover Street, EH2 1DR
Tel: 0131 225 2022
Web: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/sajeela-kershi-fights-like-a-girl
Dates: August 3-27th (Not 7, 14 or 21)
Time: 6.15pm
Reviewers welcome from: August 4th
Duration: 1 hour
Entry: Free (Donations)
Age: 18+

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