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Sarah Roberts is delighted to take in favourite places including Brighton on her debut stand-up tour. Silkworm brings her to Komedia, Brighton on April 14, following an acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run.

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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Really lovely

00:06this afternoon to speak to Sarah Roberts. Now, Sarah, momentous times really, because

00:11you are embarking on your debut tour, stand-up tour, with a comedy show called Silkworm,

00:17and you're heading to Brighton, which is lovely. But debut tour, that's significant, isn't

00:21it? That's really important.

00:22Yeah, yeah, thank you so much for having me. It definitely feels significant. It feels

00:29really nice to be, especially coming back to Brighton, I did a really nice competition

00:36at Comedia, their new act competition a couple of years ago, and I was a finalist, so it

00:43feels really nice to be back in that space doing my own tour, like a nice full-circle

00:48moment.

00:49I was asking about the expectations for this debut tour, and you were saying really lovely

00:53that really you just want people to be there and you want them to laugh and have fun. It's

00:57as simple as that, isn't it?

00:59Yeah, I mean, that's kind of the reason why I'm doing it, is just to squeeze all of the

01:06fun out of this show, which I loved doing in Edinburgh. But I've now added some extra

01:15fun bits. Yeah, to kind of like bring it back to life a little bit. Yeah, so I'm really

01:21excited about that.

01:22I know, it sounds so intriguing. You're talking about some quite serious things, but obviously

01:26it's going to be very, very funny. But you're talking about our own sort of sense of expectations

01:31of ourselves and the way we try and identify ourselves, and often it doesn't really apply.

01:37Yeah. Yeah, it's sort of about like the things that we attach our sense of identity to, whether

01:45that be like where we're from, or our achievements, or the way that we look. And I guess the show

01:53for me is definitely about being like, I'm bored of doing this. What if I wanted to be

02:01just a horrid girl? Yeah, for an hour, I'm just gonna be a horrid girl. Yeah, so the

02:12show is really fun, but there's definitely like some more, I think someone called it

02:16like an ode to womanhood. And I definitely feel as though it's, which was very nice.

02:23I don't feel like it, you know, that was necessarily like anything that was in my head, but it

02:29definitely was born out of kind of a frustration of, yeah, expectation. And yeah, kind of always

02:39waiting or wanting to be like a perfect girl and then just kind of having enough.

02:44Have you shed those expectations now? Are you who you are now?

02:49I mean, I think so. I don't know. I feel like, you know, even doing the show, taking

02:54the show on tour, after doing it in Edinburgh last year, it still feels like there's been

03:00so much growth and change since then. But I guess maybe that's the point. Maybe you

03:05just never know. And maybe you don't need to attach so much meaning to like who you

03:15feel like you are, or how you feel like people should perceive you.

03:18Maybe it's the thing that everyone goes through early on, that they sort of define

03:21themselves by what's around them and what they like. And then somehow they shed all

03:25that and they're just themselves, aren't they?

03:27Yeah. Yeah, I think so. I think people generally get more comfortable with themselves as they

03:32get older.

03:33That's the idea, at least, isn't it? Brilliant. Well, congratulations on the debut tour. I

03:39hope it goes brilliantly. And lovely to speak to you.

03:42Thank you so much.

03:44Lovely to speak to you too.

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