Stand Up at Jewish Book Week
Jewish Book Week
| Frankie Thompson | speaker |
|---|---|
| Sarah Roberts | speaker |
| Sansha | speaker |
| Bella Narain | chair |
Jewish Book Week brings you up-and-coming stars of stand-up in this special partnership with Honk! comedy nights.
Kings Place becomes a place of hilarity on the penultimate night of the 75th Jewish Book Week, celebrating London’s vibrant comedy scene. Host Bella Narain welcomes a sparkling line-up: Edinburgh sell-out, JW3 panto star and clown Frankie Thompson (Guardian Top 5 Comedy Shows of the Year); stand-up and online sensation Sarah Roberts (Rolling Stone Rising Star of Comedy); and musician-comedian Sansha, praised by Sofar Sounds for “a voice that could melt your heart if it wasn’t rupturing your belly with laughter”. Presented in partnership with Honk! comedy nights and a highlight of our £5 under-30s ticket scheme.
This event will last approximately 75 minutes, with no interval.
Concessions & Under 30s tickets
Kings Place Concessions Tickets
We want to ensure that people who may be struggling financially to purchase a ticket can still enjoy visiting Kings Place. A limited number of tickets are allocated for certain events (if the ticket type does not show in the booking pathway, it means they are not available for this event or have all been sold). Concessions tickets are accessible for people on the following criteria (for more information visit our FAQs)
- Pension Credit
- Universal Credit
- Disability Benefit
- Income Support or Job Seekers allowance
- Students
£10 ‘Under 30s’ tickets
A limited number of £10 tickets for attendees aged under 30 are available for certain shows. To purchase an ‘Under 30s’ ticket, please choose the ‘Under 30s’ price type when selecting your ticket(s). If the option does not appear, this means all ‘Under 30s’ tickets have sold out or are not available for this performance. Please note that proof of age may be requested at the venue. The £10 offer does not apply to premium price categories.
Plan your visit
Getting here
Kings Place is situated just a few minutes’ walk from King’s Cross and St Pancras stations, one of the most connected locations in London and now the biggest transport hub in Europe.
Our address is:
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG.
The Venue
Our performance spaces are situated on the lower ground floor. Hall One, Hall Two and St Pancras are located in level -2, reached by stairs, escalator and lift from the ground floor entrance level.
Event Times
Door times indicate auditorium entrance times only. Visitors are welcome to enjoy the Kings Place seating areas, gallery-level art, canal-side terrace, café, restaurant and bar throughout the day and evening.
- Our events begin promptly at the advertised start time. Typically, there is no support unless otherwise stated.
- We recommend arriving in good time before the performance. The Hall doors will open 30 minutes before the performance to allow time to take your seats, or to choose a space for standing shows.
- Latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance where possible
Access
We aim to make your visit to Kings Place as comfortable as possible. For more information about the accessibility of Kings Place, including details about our Access Scheme, please visit this page.
If you would like to discuss your access requirements with a member of our team, please get in touch with the Box Office team at info@kingsplace.co.uk.
Food & Drink
Rotunda Bar & Restaurant
Rotunda, situated on the ground floor of Kings Place, offers a unique dining and drinking experience alongside Regent’s Canal. The concert bar in the venue foyer will also be open for select events.
Green & Fortune Café
Recently re-furbished and now open with a new look, the Green & Fortune Café is open for selected concerts. Serving hot and cold food and drinks, including sandwiches, salads, soup, stew and a pie of the day, alongside a choice of cakes made by the on-site bakery team. See here for selected concert dates and standard opening hours.
Frankie Thompson
Frankie is a trained clown, actress and theatre maker from London who graduated with a Drama and Theatre Arts degree from Goldsmiths. Her show Body Show (with Liv Ello) sold out at the Edinburgh Fringe as well as a subsequent three week run at Soho Theatre, and received a plethora of five and four star reviews. Frankie’s anarchic one-woman show Catts, a lip-synching adaptation of Cats (the musical), enjoyed a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022 to rave reviews which followed with a sell-out run at Soho Theatre in 2023. A BBC New Comedy Award nominee, she was nominated as Best Newcomer in the 2025 Pantomime Awards for her Baby Behr in JW3’s Goldie Frocks and the Bear Mitzvah.
Sarah Roberts
Sarah Roberts is a writer and comedian based in London. A finalist for the BBC New Comedy Awards and Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year, speaking at multiple Bar and Mitzvahs were her unofficial first gigs. Her five-star-rated 2024 solo Edinburgh debut Silkworm saw her named a Rolling Stone rising star and a Guardian Top 6 comedian of the Fringe.
Sansha
Sansha is a music graduate based in south-east London. She has written over 50 songs and self-produces them into electronic tracks in her bedroom. Live, Sansha has been described as a ‘Victoria Wood meets Lily Allen’ hybrid who on the synthesiser, launchpad and trumpet delivers her unique original songs with a charismatic ease. She has also worked up a comedic routine alongside her songs which she has performed twice at the Edinburgh Fringe. Classically trained on the violin and trumpet she has been featured on Radio 1, 6 Music and BBC Introducing and performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Ronnie Scott’s, Latitude and Sofar Sounds In seven cities across Europe.
Bella Narain
By day, Bella Narain is a real estate advisor for Chutzpah Property Connect. By night, she transforms into a stand-up comedienne with a knack for turning life’s challenges into glittering punchlines. Her ability to transform her insights into impactful action is what inspired the creation of Hot Girl Comic Incorporated—a platform dedicated to revealing the remarkable voices of women, spreading laughter, and making a difference in a world where they’ve too often been hidden. Oh, and her Jewish mother insists it’s on record that Bella graduated with a philosophy degree and a minor in Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptology from the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as a law LLB from the prestigious King’s College London School of Law.