One-woman show by poet and spoken word artist Melanie Branton exploring the history of the English language through performance poetry.
Melanie Branton brings her one-woman show The Full English to Down By Here on Thursday 19 November, from 19:00 to 22:30. It's a performance poetry piece that traces the history of the English language, and it doesn't take itself too seriously — Branton works her way through the subject with a mix of performance poetry, silly hats and dad jokes.
Branton comes to the stage from a few different angles. She's a poet and spoken word artist, but she's also a former A level English lecturer, so the whole thing sits right in her wheelhouse. She's played festivals like Womad, Shindig and Valleyfest, and represented Bristol at three national slam finals, so she's used to a live room. Her published collections are The Full English (2023), Can You See Where I'm Coming From? (Burning Eye, 2018) and My Cloth-Eared Heart (Oversteps, 2017), so if you're into her writing, there's plenty to look back through before the night.
Critics have described her as energetic and kinetic, and they've drawn comparisons to a few different names: the enthusiasm of Joyce Grenfell, the incisiveness of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and the wit of John Hegley. That's a broad spread to cover in one go, but it gives you a fair idea of the tone — a mix of high energy, sharp observation and a bit of the absurd.
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It's a one-woman show, so it's just Branton on stage for the full run. The show runs from 19:00 to 22:30 at Down By Here, 210 High Street, Swansea, SA1 1PE.
