Mettle is her biggest yet

Jessica Fostekew has announced her biggest tour so far, with 40 dates of her new show Mettle across the UK next year.

It is described as being about ‘passion, pace and purpose’ and describes how she’s ‘hustling harder than ever for the things that she wants’, despite her son having joined a cult and her cat having learned to talk /

She said today: ‘I’m properly giddy about sharing this show. I've spent the last year feeling increasingly passionate about so many things from the state of the world to the state of the monsters on Married At First Sight. 

‘I’ve had a big birthday and it's come with a torrent of life-bending revelations; the biggest of which is that even if something seems impossible, it might not be. I'd been spending too long giving up too easily. This is a show about shamelessly caring about things a huge amount and turning that passion into positive action.’

The tour opens at The Y Theatre in Leicester on February 18, during the city’s comedy festival, and winds up at London’s Leicester Square Theatre in June.

Fostekew’s last show, Wench, played a sold-out Edinburgh Fringe run and UK tour. Her previous show, Hench, was nominated for best show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards and won Best Show at the 2020 Chortle Awards where she also won the breakthrough award. It’s available to stream now on Amazon Prime.

Tickets for the Mettle tour go on sale at 10am on Friday.

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Published: 25 Oct 2023