Now that lockdown guidelines are allowing outdoor events Melton Mowbray comedian Jon Pearson (picture attached) has teamed up with The Geese and Fountain in Croxton Kerrial to provide fully socially distanced Comedy Night, in their amazing beer garden.
The Geese and Fountain in Croxton Kerrial on the 1st August. The night will be split into 2 separate sittings, an early and a late show, to allow for social distancing.
“As an industry Comedians have been discussing how best to bring comedy back, and the majority of us agreed, if social distancing reduces the audience by 50%, then we should just perform twice as much” said Jon.
“With an early and a late show format, it means the comedians perform twice, but to the same amount of audience members, it means the pub gets the same amount of punters and we get to finally perform to actual people”.
Jon contacted Nick Holden the landlord at The Geese and Fountain because of their amphitheatre layout with a stage at the bottom of the garden, which works perfectly with government guidelines on social distancing for outdoor events and gives it the proper feel of a Standup Night.
Jon has been successfully hosting Comedy Virtually Live, an online standup show via Zoom and streamed onto Facebook since the start of lockdown, but he is itching to get out and see real people again.
“My love of doing this for a job is by creating something in the moment, be that a heckle put down or just talking to the audience and creating something funny out of nothing, those have always been my favourite nights, in the moment”
Tickets are on sale for the two night here: https://www.jokepit.com/comedy-by/the-miners-arms
1st August 2020 – The Geese and Fountain
19:30 – Early Show
21:30 – Late Show
£7.50 each
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