The Quinn Yurt

Secret Garden, Stour Street, Canterbury CT1 2NR

WORST. DATE. EVER. | Varjack & Simpson | The Quinn Yurt | 19:00 - 21:00 | £7.50

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Are you sick of swiping left and right?


Or filling out pointless online questionnaires only to message back and forth with people you are not even sure you want to meet irl?

Maybe you are sick of dating altogether?

Maybe you are seeing someone but would like to make new friends?

Well the makers of The Anti-Slam know that the best way to bond is over failure. WORST. DATE. EVER is a night of performances about dates gone wrong, mixed up with silly games for people of all relationship statuses, sexualities and genders. Featuring a fantastic line up of comedians, theatre makers, spoken word and performance artists.

Ticket price: £7.50
Tickets can now be bought at the on site box office. (Cash only)

Age: Adults

The Line Up

Ms Samantha Mann
Ms Samantha Mann is a multi-award-winning Librarian, Spoken Word Artist and trainee Agony Aunt. She is the holder of a Grand Prix from the Stockholm Fringe Festival, a ‘Merv’ Spirit Of The Fringe Award from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and an award for Best Individual Performance (Comedy) from the Buxton Fringe Festival.
“A minutely observed comic creation” The Scotsman; “Outstanding… incredibly clever… A class act” Buxton Fringe Review.
More info at HERE
James Harris
James Harris is a writer and comedian from Nottingham. He started stand-up in 2001, and has performed in eight different countries to date, as well as running Germany’s first-ever alternative comedy night. He is a Max Turner Prize Finalist 2016 and tweets @JamesHarrisNow.
‘Assured stage presence‘ – Sarma Woolf, TNT Comedy
Ira Brand
Ira is an artist, writer, performer, and curator. She creates live performances rooted in a fascination with what it means and feels like to be human. She has shown her work across the UK and internationally, including in Germany, Portugal, Japan, and New York. She is also one of the co-directors of Forest Fringe, and as such one third of number 88 in The Stage’s 2016 Top 100… you do the maths.
“a writer and performer of rare precision… language is wielded like a scalpel, words are polished into poetry, and the smallest gestures speak volumes.” – The Stage
“[Ira] now turns her intense, intelligent gaze on identity and gender… an hour of riveting, original theatre.” – Total Theatre
Helen Seymour
Helen is a spoken-poet-word-artist-human-performance-person who’s a bit obsessed with death but in quite a charming way and likes pretending to be bear…she has learnt the hard way that this doesn’t play well on Tinder.
Please note: she’ll of just come off stage after performing her solo show “To Helen Back”, will be off her tits on adrenaline and probably say more than she should.
Henry Maddicott
Henry Maddicott is a live wire spoken word artists who has been writing and performing poetry all over England and America for the last three years. Henry tries to find beauty and humour in the many difficulties that life throws at us and is influenced by folk, hip-hop and storytelling. He is part of the Wise Words Rough Cut Collective and will be competing in the Wise Words Festival Grand Slam.
Nick Field
Nick Field is a writer, performer and musician. His work has been produced and staged at major events and venues, and his residencies and commissions include Keats House, London Metropolitan Archives and Latitude Festival. His debut solo show The Cosmos, The Cosmetics has toured internationally and his second Adventure/Misadventure played a full run at Ovalhouse, where he was also Artistic Associate. In 2015 he performed two new pieces with Forest Fringe and he is currently touring his new show Work Play. As an arts educator and workshop facilitator he has worked with organisations including City Lit, The Poetry School, Ideas Tap and Apples and Snakes.
‘As a writer and creative talent Nick Field has a gift’ One Stop Arts
‘Nick Field creates theatre that is unique, unexpected, and absolutely engrossing’,
What’s Peen Seen
Ana Beecher
Anna is a writer, theatre maker and award winning poet. Her early years’ show Nest is about to premiere at Brighton Festival and her other recent work includes Glow, a poetry installation at Battersea Arts Centre and plays Skin Of The Teeth (Edinburgh Fringe, Vault Festival) and The Surplus, commissioned by Young Vic Taking Part. Her spoken word performances include Latituide Festival, Glastonbury and the Royal Albert Hall as a finalist in the UK National Poetry Slam.