Soho theatre, London
The Funny Women award-winner’s debut tour combines the personal and the political with varying success – but always with enthusiasm and charm

Should Kate Cheka be saving the world – or performing comedy? She grew up with a messiah complex, thanks to her feminist, socialist mum and an absentee dad serving in the Tanzanian government. This is a woman reared to make the world a better place, so what’s she doing telling jokes on stage – and winning 2023’s prestigious Funny Women award, no less?

Well, there was once a time – if you can believe it, Gen Z’ers – when we thought art might save the world. Maybe Cheka has come among us to be political comedy’s salvation? Her debut touring show isn’t the finished article, but it showcases a comic unafraid to combine the personal and the polemical, in occasionally provocative ways.