Amy Hoggart

Amy Hoggart started writing and performing comedy with the Cambridge Footlights, participating in Smokers as well as their 2008 summer tour show. Since then she has taken part in a number of pilots, including BBC3's Laughter Shock, where she met Sarah Campbell, with whom she formed the sketch act Christmas For Two. Amy also performs solo characters, including the social misfit Pattie Brewster.

Amy Hoggart Videos

Reviews

Pattie Brewster's Friendship Venture (For Some Friends)

Banshee Labyrinth

The introduction is one of the most desperate openings to a show that you may ever see, with Pattie Brewster literally hyperventilating in a creepy, desperate nature to win the audience over. It’s good and also, if read between the lines, a total and impressive act to get the audience to buy into the theme of the show. Pattie, in her short life has supposedly only had one friend, Tanya, who will be an ever present strand during the show.

After about ten minutes we are shown a video on the big screen taped before her journey to Edinburgh which graphically portrays the sad and lonely life of a young woman whose only trusted friends are her cats. Pattie – or her creator Amy Hoggart – is obviously one of the most adept users of PowerPoint on the Fringe. The projector is in constant use throughout the hour, and the fact that she delivers her set from directly in front of the screen adds and eerie lighting effect which, whether deliberate or not, is very striking.

On stage she wears what appears to be a pair of slippers as if we are being entertained at her own house. It’s a nice touch. Adding to her theme of desperation is the bag of sweets being handed round the 40-strong audience and even cold hard cash in the form of a handful of loose change. Neither of these made it to the back of the room.