Gein's Family Giftshop Returns to Soho Theatre

Multi-Award winning Gein's Family Giftshop make their highly-anticipated return to Soho Theatre following a critically acclaimed Edinburgh Festival Fringe season and their second successful UK tour.

Like persistent dandruff; Kath Hughes, Edward Easton, Adam Scott-Rowley and Kiri Pritchard-Mclean (the silent member in name only) are back, and they are itching to show you what they've come up with. Skin ailments aside, the 4 strong, 5 star sketch group can't wait to hawk out their third hour. What nobody anticipated was that the four would become three and then four again two weeks before the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year.

Roping in some assistance from "the arts"- an "actor" from "LAMDA"- Gein's invite you back into their world so you can see their latest sketches stitched together with a heavy dose of inner turmoil, fragile mental health and one dead mum (it's very funny). Par for the course for two PE kit wearing idiots from Salford University, and a trained actor on minimum wage. Don't worry, you don't need to have seen the first two volumes, it's like Toy Story 3 but with more fake blood.

The inventive quartet are young in years but rich in plaudits including; London Sketchfest Best New Sketch Act Winners 2014 and Audience Choice Award Winners; Chortle Best Newcomer Award Winners; and Noise Festival Curator's Choice Award Winners. They were also nominated for Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer and Chortle Best Sketch Act Award.

They took time off from the fringe in 2016 and embarked upon a successful UK tour, the quartet recorded a further series for BBC Radio Wales, Ed's moved back into his dead mum's house, they've been threatened to be sued for libel and battled with mental health problems. But we're pretty sure none of that will come up in the show, or if it does it'll be a heavily veiled allegory and it'll look like it's just a sketch about jizz or bumholes.

With a third Radio Wales series in the bag the group have also found time to appear on Comedy Central's Russell Howard's Stand Up Central, Sky's Christmas Shorts, a lawyers meeting room, BBC2 Inside No 9, BBC Radio 4s Now Show, the waiting room of a psychiatrist and Dave's Crackanory, among others.

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