Catherine Bohart - Borrowing Trouble

Catherine Bohart brings her new show, Borrowing Trouble, to the Auditorium at Exeter Phoenix on Wednesday 25 November, starting at 8pm. It's a stand-up comedy hour that turns a very familiar feeling into the main event: all-encompassing, generational worry. Bohart describes it as her birthright, and the whole set works around that—the kind of anxiety that doesn't just belong to you, but feels like something handed down through the family.

If you haven't come across her before, Bohart is a comedian, writer and actor who started stand-up in 2015 and has moved quickly through the UK and Irish comedy scenes. In 2016, she was a finalist in both the BBC New Comedy Awards and Funny Women, and she's since become a regular on the telly: Live at the Apollo, QI, The Last Leg, A League of Their Own, Mock the Week, The Mash Report, The News Quiz and Last One Laughing Ireland. She also starred in her Amazon Prime special Immaculate and co-hosts the podcasts Tonsil Hockey and Trusty Hogs.

Borrowing Trouble follows her previous show, Again, With Feelings, which drew strong praise, and it's an Edinburgh Comedy Awards nominee. The new material stays close to that same territory—the internal noise and the constant worrying—and works it out on stage. It's a new show, so this is one of the dates you can catch it in the room rather than hearing about it later.

Tickets are £18 for a seated spot, with the show open to ages 16 and over. There's a £1.50 ticketing system charge on top, so it's £19.50 in total. It's on Wednesday 25 November at 8pm in the Auditorium at Exeter Phoenix.