AWARD winning comedian Bridget Christie returns to Colchester with her latest show, this time at the Mercury Theatre.

For her last few shows, both of which were at the Colchester Arts Centre, Bridget has been laying bare some of the terrible (and often bizarre) misogynistic attitudes which prevail in the UK and further afield.

From companies making pens that fit into a woman’s hand to the tax on sanitary products and degrading sexist statements made by prominent public figures, with new touring show, A Book For Her, Bridget is keeping the pressure up.

"I’ve only actually done two full shows about feminism," she says, "maybe two and a half hours in total. It’s a drop in the ocean. You could just write about issues affecting women and girls for your entire career, and you still wouldn’t run out of things to talk about. Last year I widened it out a bit and talked about the wider politics, but I never know what I’m going to write about from one year to the next. It just depends on what happens in the world and which stories I connect with. So I’m led by events, really.”

For this tour, Bridget is also promoting the paperback publication of A Book For Her and so will be giving a post-show signing.

“People are so nice and friendly and I do genuinely enjoy meeting them," she adds. "I’m not on social media, so this is an opportunity with me to interact with my audience on a more personal level and I prefer that kind of face-to-face contact. I’ve avoided social media so far because I like to have a clear distinction between my personal life and my work life and if I was constantly interacting with my audience all the time I’d never feel like I was “off” as such."

Billed an overnight success after becoming the first woman to pick up the biggest prize in comedy, the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award, since Laura Solon in 2005, Bridget has actually been a regular on TV radio and the fringe for many years.

Her credits include Radio 4’s Bridget Christie Minds the Gap, BBC’s Have I Got News For You, and Channel 4’s Cardinal Burns, not to mention nine Edinburgh

shows.

She says: “I’m fully aware some of the subject matter, especially some of the more serious issues, might not fit in with a lot of people’s idea of a night’s entertainment, but I’d like to reassure any potential punters there will be jokes, funny walks and many different types of amusing facial expressions to keep things ticking along."

Bridget Christie

Mercury Theatre,

Balkerne Gate, Colchester.

Tuesday, May 3. 7.30pm.

£18. 01206 573948.

www.mercurytheatre.co.uk