Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin Archives

Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin’s latest live stand-up project has taken its first steps in the capital and Manchester before finding its way to Sheffield, where I was fortunate to catch it. ‘Good News! It’s Been Destroyed’ is a full-length stand-up comedy show that orbits around the hopelessness of current affairs, allowing ourselves to be angry and use the energy of that anger to laugh. It takes on serious topics but is never too serious to be misinterpreted as a reductive polemic. That said, it is full of comical diatribes and carefully crafted anecdotes that will leave your face worn from laughter. Tyzack-Carlin makes our lives easier. He goes by ‘Brogan’, as opposed to the Irish pronunciation and spelling of his name (which he likes to remind us has never caused him any difficulty in his...

Created at the intersection of stand-up comedy, spoken-word poetry, and theatre, Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin’s Turtle entertained the audience for an entire hour at a cozy and warm Hens and Chickens theatre. Bróccán’s energetic and zestful entrance gripped the audience right at the beginning and he successfully managed to keep them rolling in the aisles throughout the show. Without adhering strictly to one form, Bróccán boldly explored multiple genres of performance and spoke about all kinds of topics- his life in North-East England, his education at Durham University, sex toys, politics and statues, juxtaposing Marxism and Spice Girls, and his obsession with Tim Westwood and turtles. These explorations were supported by strong characterisations performed with distinct accents, felicitous ...

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Good News! It’s Been Destroyed – The Beaten Track, Sheffield

Turtle – Hens and Chickens Theatre