Fringe Room: The Full English

Ever wondered where the word ‘hoo-ha’ comes from? Why there ain’t no party like a double negative party?  And why ‘bead’ doesn’t rhyme with ‘bread’, ‘machine’ doesn’t rhyme with ‘nine,’ and don’t get started on ‘yearly’ and ‘early’?  

From gangs of gung-ho Anglo-Saxons and smelly Vikings to Covidiots and Instagram influencers, from enormous vowel movements to katsu curries self-isolating in the Twitterverse, this one-woman show by spoken word artist and linguistics nerd, Melanie Branton, explores the history of the our lovely language through the media of performance poetry, silly hats and dad jokes.

A celebration of the good, the bad and the downright bizarre in the history of our glorious, multicultural tongue.

“A masterclass in diction, delivery and engagement” – Midlands Fringe.