Edinburgh Fringe Pre-Festival Stand-up Comedy Festival – New Street Market, Woodbridge
New Street Market Brings Edinburgh Fringe to Woodbridge with a Three-Day Comedy Festival.
This summer, New Street Market is bringing a taste of the Edinburgh Fringe to their table in Suffolk, giving audiences the rare opportunity to enjoy dinner and see four of the UK’s most exciting emerging comedians perform their brand-new shows before they head to Scotland for the world’s largest arts festival.
Running from Thursday 30 July to Saturday 1 August, the Edinburgh Fringe Pre-Festival Festival will showcase four critically acclaimed comics as they put the finishing touches to their Edinburgh Fringe performances just days before the festival begins.
Usually only seen in preview venues across London and Edinburgh, these intimate work-in-progress performances offer comedy fans a unique chance to experience cutting-edge stand-up before almost anyone else, after enjoying a great dinner at New Street Market’s restaurant.
Hosted inside the vibrant surroundings of New Street Market, the festival also reflects the venue’s growing reputation as one of Suffolk’s most exciting independent cultural spaces. Open six days a week and set inside a beautifully converted carriage works in the heart of Woodbridge, New Street Market is a cafe and restaurant that combines food and drink with cultural events. They aim to create a welcoming space where people can spend an hour – or happily lose an afternoon.
ABOUT NEW STREET MARKET
New Street Market is an independent café, kitchen, bar and creative events space in the heart of Woodbridge. Created by a small team passionate about hospitality, NSM brings together exceptional food and drink with art, music, workshops and community events inside a beautifully restored carriage works. Designed to be joyful, creative and authentic, New Street Market has quickly become a destination for everything from morning coffee and brunch to yoga, live music, exhibitions, weddings and now, stand-up comedy.
MORE EVENT DETAILS – Edinburgh Fringe Pre-Festival Festival
Friday 31 July
Ben Pope – Page Boy
Bookseller by day and stand-up comedian by night, Ben Pope combines a love of literature with razor-sharp observations. Expect jokes about everything from Where’s Wally? and airport thrillers to Sylvia Plath and performative readers.
Described by critics as “superb company” (Evening Standard), Pope is one of the UK’s most distinctive comedy voices.
Saturday 1 August
Marty Gleeson – Dog Ear
Fresh from more than 40 million online views, BBC New Comedian finalist Marty Gleeson brings her acclaimed debut hour to Woodbridge. Blending surreal observations with moments of genuine humanity, Dog Ear has already attracted praise from comedians including Joe Wilkinson and Rolling Stone.
Saturday 1 August
Andy Barr – A Comet Appears
Leicester Comedy Festival Best New Show nominee Andy Barr closes the festival with a new hour exploring medieval monks, comets and the relentless pace of change. Described by comedian John Kearns as “your new favourite comedian”, Barr is one to watch before his Edinburgh run.
Event Information
Edinburgh Fringe Pre-Festival Festival
Venue
New Street Market
70 New Street
Woodbridge
Suffolk IP12 1DX
Performance Schedule
Thursday 30 July
7:45pm – Zoe Brownstone: How To Be Happy All The Time
Friday 31 July
7:45pm – Ben Pope: Page Boy
Saturday 1 August
7:00pm – Marty Gleeson: Dog Ear
8:30pm – Andy Barr: A Comet Appears
Tickets
Tickets are available now via www.newstreetmarket.com.
