Comedy performer Arabella Weir asks Swindon 'Does My Mum Loom Big In This?’

Actress, writer and comedy performer Arabella Weir will be appearing at Swindon’s Arts Centre next month in her touring show Does My Mum Loom Big In This?

Star of The Fast Show and Two Doors Down, Arabella has recently embarked on her first UK tour with her comedy show which she describes as ‘a game of two mums’. She’s taken the show on the road after its sell-out success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year. 

“The show is funny and it’s also quite shocking,” Arabella said. “I share stories of my dysfunctional childhood with my mum in the first half and then, in the second half, I talk about what I’m like as a mum myself. In my mission to be the most perfect mum ever, I laid down many traps for myself.”

The tv comedy star and bestselling author will share stories from her dysfunctional childhood and her decade as a single working mother to her 22 year old son and her 20 year old daughter. She says now that her children are both at university it felt right to explore her relationship with her own mother and its impact on her own role as a parent. The result is a fearlessly honest show which explores all the pain, pitfalls, embarrassment and unintentional hilarity of motherhood. 

Arabella says her mum, who passed away several years ago, wasn’t really cut out to be a mum. While not giving too much away, she said: 

“Feeding me was not a task that my mum really felt fell to her and I do talk about one occasion when she gave me food that was not food – well, it was not for humans!”

Arabella is known for being one of the stars of The Fast Show, for which she wrote all of her characters, as well her BBC2 series Posh Nosh, which she wrote with Does My Mum Look Big In This? co-writer Jon Canter, starring alongside Richard E. Grant. She has also appeared in Doctor Who and One Foot In The Grave (both BBC), Pure (Channel 4), Skins, Drifters (both E4) and can currently be seen playing Beth in BBC’s Two Doors Down, which returned for its fourth series earlier this year. 

She also wrote the international bestseller Does My Bum Look Big in This? (with its title taken from her The Fast Show catchphrase) and since then has published various other works including the memoir The Real Me Is Thin. 

Does My Mom Loom Big In This? Will take place at the Swindon Arts Centre on Friday March 6 and tickets are available from www.swindontheatres.co.uk or by calling 01793 524 481. 

Arabella is then moving on to  The Performing Arts Centre in Bristol on Saturday March 7 – for tickets visit www.chucklebusters.com / 0117 259 1532 and a week later in Bath on Friday March 13 at Komedia. For tickets visit www.komedia.co.uk/bath or call 01225 489070.

Alternatively you can find out more information from Arabella’s own website at www.ArabellaWeir.co.uk