Event type: Comedy

Georgie Carroll is best known as the UK born, Australia based Nurse turned comedian. She grafted for 20 years on the healthcare front line before swapping the pen torch for the spotlight!

Nurse Georgie has now retired from nursing but has taken with her an unparalleled comedy voice and a staunch online medical following that have made her viral, in the best way, many times over. The most viewed of her viral clips is the ‘3 stages of nursing’ – the terms dolphin, penguin, and orca used in the clip are now ingrained in international nursing vernacular!

Georgie is an undeniable live comedy powerhouse, having sold in excess of 75,000 tickets, selling out her debut Edinburgh Fringe Festival, touring four countries, and woinning the Best Comedy Award at the Adelaide Fringe. A versatile and dynamic performer, Georgie has swapped operating theatres for the London Palladium, the Sydney Opera house, and the Hammersmith Apollo.

Not shy of the camera, Georgie has released two comedy specials on Australian television and is a regular on the box, having been seen on ‘The Project’, ‘Would I Lie to You?’, ‘Have you Been Paying Attention?’, ‘Just for Laughs’ and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Allstar and Oxfam Galas. She recently stormed her UK TV debut by reaching the live semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent and was adored by audiences and judges alike.

Georgie also has a podcast because who doesn’t? Her hit podcast, The Swab, is now in its 3rd Season with over 125,000 listens and a nomination for Best Comedy podcast under it’s belt. Georgie said “The podcast didn’t set out to be funny, it was just me chatting to everyday nurses, staff room banter style. Turns out that this format is never not funny’’.

Georgie is also an acclaimed and best-selling author and wrote the best-selling nursing bible ‘Off the Charts’ (Pan Macmillan), which was nominated for the Russel Prize for humour writing.

Everything Georgie does is a genuine, hilarious, riotous celebration of the big hearted, no bullshit nurses that sooner or later play a part in all our lives.

“Very Funny…….Just Brilliant.” – Simon Cowell, BGT

★★★★★ “Nurse Georgie Carroll proves that laughter is the best medicine & you cannot miss your dose!” – Lost in Theatre Land UK

★★★★★ “Exceptional” – Mervyn Stutters Pick of the Fringe, Edinburgh 2023

★★★★★ ”Sublime comedy” – Glam Adelaide

★★★★★ “Rollicking, riotous comedy” – The Age, Melbourne

Age 14+.

‘Mummy, I love your boobies…they’re so long!’

Join the Funny Mummy for this hilarious one women comedy show, all about the bonkers world of parenting. From pregnancy to playdates, WhatsApp groups to school runs – if you’re a parent, and you need a laugh, then this show is for you!

Alyssa Kyria, aka The Funny Mummy, is the co-creator of Bring Your Own Baby Comedy and performs comedy to audiences across the country. Her comedy, music videos and sketches have gone viral on Netmums and Facebook and she has starred on BBC, ITV and SKY.

Age 18+

Queens of the Runway

Join a pick ‘n’ mix selection of your favourite RuPaul’s Drag Race UK stars for an exclusive spectacle of side-splitting laughs, breathtaking lip-syncs, jaw-dropping vocals and eye-popping outfits!

Just May (Drag Race UK Series 4), Sister Sister (Drag Race UK Series 2) and special guest host Sheela Vim sashay down the runway to The Atkinson this Autumn!

Age 18+ contains strong language and adult themes

Following an Edinburgh Fringe 2025 sell-out, the hilarious Cally Beaton is on tour with Namaste Motherf*ckers – a quick-witted, unexpected and unapologetic insight into life in midlife.

Cally combines her comedic and storytelling prowess with extracts from her provocative, stereotype-busting book of the same name, which has made the Sunday Times’ best seller list.

The show has at its heart her own story of radical reinvention – taking her from meetings in boardrooms to treading the boards, thanks to a chance conversation with the late, great Joan Rivers.

A funny show about a deadly serious subject, Namaste Motherf*ckers is a celebration of and for the female of the species. Invisible no more. The show includes a Q&A and meet-and-greet with Cally (who knows, Jeff the wonder dog may even be there too).

Age 16+

Welcome to THE DARK ROOM.

This legendary interactive comedy show fuses improv, crowdwork and gaming to create an insane live-action videogame! Come watch, and if you want – play – the choose-your-own-adventure madness…

Now its 13th year, this high-octane interactive show is the brainchild of comedian & cult leader John Robertson. Filled with stand-up, appalling prizes and more audience chanting than you’d get at a protest, The Dark Room is a gut-busting rock n’ roll comedy experience for everyone who buys a ticket.

Permanently on tour The Dark Room has headlined stages at Glastonbury, PAX, Download Festival, MCM Comic Con, Utrecht International Comedy Festival 2000 Trees, UK Games Expo and Bluedot Festival, and sold out at Edinburgh Fringe, Soho Theatre and hundreds of theatres around the world. 

Oh, and videos of The Dark Room roasting videogames and swearing at children keep popping up on people’s social media, which is nice.

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THE DARK ROOM

The crowd is trapped inside an inescapable dungeon with a sadistic videogame boss! Pick increasingly surreal options off the screen and try to escape. If you win – you get money! If you fail – YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE!

Now, will you; find the light switch, go North, abandon hope, or be sworn at by a man wearing spiked armour and a lot of leather? (This option is permanently set to “On”)

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Age 15+

In this short exhibition making up part of Abandon Normal Devices Festival in 2011, three artists make it their job to question our beliefs in a time where it has never been more relevant as belief systems around the world seem to be in collapse. 

Kirkby can be the town of the future! A symbol of regeneration in the 1970s! You know what Kirkby needs? A ski slope… 

Donald Storm is head of Kirkby Council and he’s got an eye on creating a new destination for tourists from around the world. And if he can make a few bob in the process, so much the better. Together with his mate Geoff, a builder who may as well wear a ten-gallon hat, he hatches a plan to use taxpayers’ money to build a ski slope right next to the M57. Well, I suppose it’s handy for skiing into town.

Standing in their way are a trainee journalist from the Liverpool Echo and her burnt out supervisor. Between them, they take on Don, the council and even the Echo itself by setting up a new free press so they can speak their minds.

Kieran Lynn has written a brand new comedy about one of the wildest chapters in Merseyside history. It’s all downhill from here!

Read the free show programme on IssuuClick here to check out the trailer.Click here to view the original BBC Nationwide piece about the true life events. 

Cast confirmed: Holly Mimi Bernice, Vicky Binns, Paul Duckworth, Elliott Kingsley, Hayley Sheen and Michael Starke

Writer Kieran Lynn

Director John Young

Performance Information 

Please be aware this show contains strong language and adult references. We advise that only those 16+ attend the show.

Stalls tickets are available with a meal (served at your table before the show) for an extra £14 for one course and £20 for two courses at evening shows, or an extra £10 for one course and £16 for two courses at matinees. If you are eating with us please arrive at least an hour before the performance. 

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Tickets are available for the show alone in stalls, circle and balcony. 

BSL performance is on Tuesday 7 July  (interpreter Karl Llorca) . Audio Described performance is on Wednesday 8 July (describer Anne Hornsby). To book please contact Box Office on 0151 709 4321 or email lauren@royalcourtliverpool.com. 

Captioning will be available for performances for the final week of the show. Please contact Box Office for more details. 

Circle and balcony will open at 6.45pm. There are bars in both areas for pre-show and interval drinks. Stalls will be open from 6:00pm. 

If you are bringing a large group, every tenth ticket is free. This ticket will be automatically added to your basket on purchase. Meals and building levy must still be paid on your free ticket. 

NO BOOKING FEES ON THIS SHOW 

Please note – the bar will close 15 minutes before the advertised start time. 

Each ticket price includes a £2 donation which is used to support maintenance of our building, our community engagement and new writing talent development.

Please contact Box Office to book if you are a wheelchair user as we can only accommodate 5 spaces in our stalls seating area downstairs

A new show from one of the funniest comics working in the UK today, Paul McCaffrey brings us a warm, charming hour of comedy in which he asks: “Modern life is annoying but was it really much better before?”

Star of Live At The Apollo, BBC Three’s Impractical Jokers and Russell Howard’s Good News, McCaffrey was also handpicked to tour the country in support of two of the great stand ups of recent years, Sean Lock and Kevin Bridges.

An award-winning comedian in his own right, he’s headlined at the biggest comedy clubs in the country and performed numerous critically acclaimed Edinburgh shows as well as major music festivals: Reading, Leeds, V Festival, Bestival and Latitude.

Tickets on sale now.

“a comic of adorably skewwhiff charm”The Times

New stand-up tour show from Mike Wozniak in which a story about a bench will be prominent. Previous experience of or strong opinions about benches not required. Let Mike worry about that.

As seen on Taskmaster, Man Down and Junior Taskmaster. As heard on Three Bean Salad podcast.