Double act Stokes & Summers are bringing their hilarious new show ‘Careering’ to Quay Arts in Newport after delighting audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022.
Fresh from working with Comic Relief for Red Nose Day 2022, the multiple-award nominated duo created their second stage show, Careering, which celebrates and satirises the quirks and perks of the modern workplace.
Kate Stokes, who grew up in Portsmouth, and Claudia Summers, originally from Reading, first performed together in 2015 as Bristol University drama students. They earned rave reviews for their first touring show, A Really Really Big Modern Telly, with critics hailing them as “highly talented actor-comedians” (Fringe Review), “definitely ones to watch” (Funny Women), and “an abundance of comedy talent” (Broadway Baby).
Since 2020, their audio sketches have featured on BBC Radio Bristol and BBC Radio 4 Extra, and their online 60-second film parodies have garnered over 15 million views and earnt them 80,000 followers across TikTok and Instagram. In 2021, they were shortlisted for the Evening Standard TikTok Breakout Star Award and the Funny Women Content Creator Award. Last year they collaborated with Comic Relief on a parody of Notting Hill, ‘Not-Notting Hill’, which concluded with an appearance by the hit film writer, Richard Curtis.
In Careering, Stokes & Summers play a variety of colourful characters and combine narrative and sketch comedy to explore the peculiarities and pressures of the modern workplace in a playful way that is “painfully relatable” (Entertainment Now) as well as “charming and feel-good” (Varsity). The main storyline follows a chalk-and-cheese pair of receptionists and their struggle with the conflict between following their dreams and paying the bills. As Summers says:
“Following dreams can be difficult in this modern world, but everyone deserves to give it a good go, and we’re here to have a laugh about it with everyone along the way.”
Careering at Quay Arts will be on Saturday 27th May 2023 at 20:00 with doors open at 19:30. Tickets are £14 in advance from https://www.quayarts.org/event/stokes-summers-careering/ or £16 on the door.
Even their expresions made me smile. Good luck, Ladies, wish you both very well!