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...And coming to the conclusion she had nowhere left to turn, she decided to hit the road with her debut standup show!
Fiona is pretty long in the tooth when it comes to the business of creating comedy, rising to stardom in the dying days of the last millennium when she appeared as a regular in Channel Four sketch show Smack The Pony. Her acting CV, meanwhile, includes Skins, Waterloo Road and six months spent in Albert Square playing EastEnders character Michaela Turnbull. She visits Stourbridge with On The Run, ‘a show about family, marriage, and things that truly annoy her’.
It’s an evening for everyone, she says, “even those passive-aggressive school mums…”