Kuan-wen: Tinker, Tailor, Soya, Spy (WIP)

Kuan-Wen Huang brings a work-in-progress stand-up show to London, built around a suspicion that a romantic encounter may have been with a Chinese intelligence officer. The show is a comedy set in the performer's own voice.

Tinker, Tailor, Soya, Spy is a stand-up comedy show in development, and the title signals the material's spy-thriller angle. The premise is that the comic suspects a night spent with a stranger was in fact an encounter with a Chinese intelligence officer, and is not certain. The comedy follows from that doubt: what a foreign agent could want from a performer with a small online following, and why someone who over-shares would keep such a story to themselves.

Kuan-Wen Huang is a Taiwanese comic whose work has been heard and seen on Comedy Central, BBC Radio 4 and Amazon Audible. The show is delivered as stand-up, with the performer speaking directly to the audience, so the material rests on the comic's own voice, timing and storytelling rather than on a staged production with other performers.

The Bill Murray is a London venue that mainly hosts live comedy, with a programme centred on stand-up shows and comedy performances, which places this work in progress within a setting dedicated to the form.