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.
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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.
Event Details:
Sajeela Kershi: Fights Like A Girl!
Venue: Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 112 Hanover Street, EH2 1DR
Tel: 0131 225 2022
Dates: August 3-27th (Not 7, 14 or 21)
Time: 6.15pm
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