'Ballad of a Lost Cat'

Saturday 11th July 2026

14:30

Bridge End Social

Bridge End
Leeds
LS1 4DJ

 Big Duck Energy Presents... Ballad Of A Lost Cat & Balls of Fun - a comedy double bill

Big Duck Energy is an all female and non-binary comedy night in Leeds. Winner of the 2025 Yorkshire Comedy Award for Best Independent Gig.

Shows run on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, and we pride ourselves on showcasing the very best up and coming female and non-binary comics around.

Jenny Lockyer: Ballad of a Lost Cat
Jenny Lockyer has been performing her original comic numbers and playing about with comedy for over 20 years. ‘Ballad of a Lost Cat’ is a warm and welcoming world of surreal character comedy and witty guitar-based numbers inspired by The Goons and the Ealing Comedies.

Original ditties such as, 'You Make Me Steal Things', 'What Have they Done With the Children?' and the eponymous 'Lost Cat', are interspersed with quick-fire comic characters, in a mix of nostalgia and contemporary satire. 

Imagine Noël Coward on Facebook, Joyce Grenfell in Aldi or Katherine Hepburn on the school run…  

This is a one-woman comedy musical revue with original songs, intrigue, and a little bit of opera! 

‘You were brilliant Jenny. Jaw dropping ’ - Nick Helm

Arancini Productions: Balls of Fun
Whether it’s trying to find a dentist, work-shy pool attendants, or the Grim Reaper with a linguistic gripe, Arancini’s Balls of Fun presents life from a slightly wonky angle. Combining humour with poignant observation, expect a melting pot of wordplay where the mundane marries with the absurd in a mix of comedy sketches and spoken word brought to you by two middle-aged women who really should know better.

…’wonderfully silly sketches…’ The Comedy Writers' Club

…’wit and imagination’...Buxton Fringe 2024

Arancini: Balls of Fun - nominated Best Comedy Show Buxton Fringe 2024

Arancini consists of Helen Rice and Sarah Carratt, who are both experienced comedy writers / performers. They have been performing together since 2023 and their first show was nominated Best Comedy Show at Buxton Fringe in 2024. Helen, who performs as Helen Rice is Showing Off, writes quirky songs and poems exploring life's essentials like grief and sex, drawing from her experiences as a bread-loving middle-aged disabled woman. She has supported acts such as Tom Wrigglesworth, Justin Moorhouse, and Nathan Caton, and co-wrote, co-produced and starred in Sheffield's legendary Fish Pie Cabaret. Sarah was part of I’ll Have What She’s Having, a sketch comedy act dedicated to fostering opportunities for older female actors and writers. As a writer, Sarah has had her work performed at the Crucible Studio, Sheffield; Chesterfield’s Pomegranate Theatre; the Studio at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre; the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough and on BBC Radio Sheffield.

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