Caitlin Cook - The Hero We (Sort of) Need

Caitlin Cook is at The Attic on Monday 5 October, bringing her new comedy hour The Hero We (Sort of) Need to Southampton. It's a full hour built around a theory she's had since childhood: that everyone has a superpower. The show carries that idea through new songs, stories and projected visuals, so it's not just stand-up in the usual sense.

Cook is a Brooklyn native who first made her name with The Writing on the Stall, a musical inspired by bathroom graffiti. This new hour is a fresh start, and the reviews she's picked up along the way give you a good feel for what she does. David Cross called her 'inventive and hilarious'; TheaterMania described her as 'delightfully irreverent, gleefully vulgar, slyly intellectual'; and the Edinburgh Fringe Travel Guide called the show 'a gem'.

Opening for her is A.J. Holmes, best known for playing Elder Cunningham in The Book of Mormon and as a founding member of Team StarKid. Between the two of them, you've got a night that leans as much on music and performance as it does on the jokes.

The Attic is the Southampton Comedy Club, based at River Studios, 32 Winsor Road, Totton, SO40 9HQ. Doors open at 7pm, with the show starting at 7.45pm. Tickets are from £18 in advance online, and the bar and beer garden are open from 6.30pm if you want to get in early. Seating is unreserved, and entry is by name on the door.