Live at the Chapel: Bridget Christie

This March, Bridget Christie - winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award 2013 - headlines the last in the current series of Live at the Chapel: the most atmospheric night in the London comedy calendar. 

Christie is the latest in a veritable constellation of stars to grace the Invisible Dot's spectacularly popular monthly mirth-fest since it opened in 2007: including Stephen Merchant, Adam Buxton, Reginald D Hunter, Tim Key, Simon Amstell, Stewart Lee and Noel Fielding.

In 2013 Christie’s acclaimed BBC Radio 4 series (Bridget Christie Minds the Gap) - and a TV act on Comedy Central’s Alternative Comedy Experience - bolstered the feathers in her already heftily-plumaged cap. She comes to the Chapel off the back of a sell-out run of her award-winning Soho Theatre show A Bic For Her: a sophisticated takedown of institutionalised sexism from which not even ball-point pens are safe. This is intelligent, silly and unapologetically feminist fare with touches of the absurd. 

Joining the mixed-bill lineup are rapper-turned-comedian Doc Brown, a hotly-tipped collaborator of Ricky Gervais whose shows mix musical meditations on race with satirical takedowns of hip-hop culture; as well as rising star Mike Wozniak, whose new show Take The Hit narrowly missed out on the Edinburgh Comedy Award 2013 but this year launched a wonderful run at the Soho Theatre.

The Union Chapel is a huge space but its gorgeous, vaulted, ecclesiastical aesthetic means its shows are worlds away from the atmospherics of large scale stadium-fillers. There’s a subtle charge in the feel of the place that is incredibly focussing, and makes it the perfect space in which to appreciate the verbal sophistication of the Invisible Dot’s acts. Comedy clubs don’t get much more special than this.