Celia Pacquola's Ed Fringe Festival Debut

CELIA PACQUOLA in AM I STRANGE?

FRINGE FESTIVAL 2009 GILDED BALLOON - BILLIARD ROOM

7.45pm (Ends 8.45pm) 5th - 31st AUGUST 2009 (not 17th)   

Stand up comedy inside your head and behind your back

Award winning Aussie comic Celia Pacquola is delighted to be making her Edinburgh Festival debut after a hugely successful run at The Melbourne International Comedy Festival earlier this year where she won the coveted Critics Award for Best Australian Act with her show Am I Strange?

"Finally, a stand up show about a relationship breakdown! Wait! Don't leave. This is the anti ‘my boyfriend stopped loving me wah'. Yes.   My boyfriend cheated on me. Well, not ON me, they went somewhere. This show takes you inside my head, to reveal how the mind can crumble, triumph and plain be weird, through the story of the most bizarre, unbelievable tale of infidelity, in an attempt to answer the question, Am I Strange? There will be a quiz. (There won't be a quiz)" Celia Pacquola

Join Celia inside her mind  - don't worry it's not weird or anything - as she traverses the end of a relationship exploring issues of betrayal, revenge and love through brutally candid and richly funny observations.

Celia burst onto the Melbourne comedy scene in 2006.  After only a handful of gigs she was crowned the Raw Recruit, winning the prize for Best First Time Entrant in the Raw Comedy open Mic competition as part of the MICF.

Since then Celia has performed throughout Australia on the Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow, on TV and stage alongside Australia's comedy elite including Adam Hills, Rove McManus and Dave Hughes.  She recently stormed a performance on Rove, the biggest TV show in Australia and has been seen writing and performing on Spicks and Specks (ABC TV Adam Hills hosts) Good News Week (Network Ten) The Comedy Hour (ABC Radio) and heard on Red Hot Go on Fox FM. 

Am I Strange? is Celia's first solo show, it has been awarded the Melbourne International Comedy Festival  Critics Award and the Melbourne Fringe Festival Best Comedy.

Don't call a wah-mbulance. Book a ticket.

"Jaw achingly funny. Her delivery is sharp and her timing just right... like a cat with a dead bird, this intensely likeable comedian hunts the funny...has the audience eating out of her hand. Pacquola is in control from start to finish" The Age

  "Pacquola adroitly mixes warm self-depreciation, barbed asides, astute insight and a dash of whimsy to fashion a delightfully witty hour.. Great" Chortle.co.uk

  "..a bit strange, but a lot brilliant" The Age

  "What a performer, what a journey, what a great storyteller..if Celia has another story to tell I'll be the first in line" Arts Hub

  "Easy to see why people why people were raving.  I want to rave about it too. I loved this show" The Groggy Squirrel

Check out the official 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival website