<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%> JANEY GODLEY - Scottish actress, comedienne, author, playwright & journalist

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She is a member of
BAFTA and Equity
and is in
Spotlight

website by
John Fleming

Edinburgh Fringe - 2006
"Janey Godley & Ashley Storrie's Square Street"

Comedy sketches wholly written and performed by mother-and-daughter team Janey Godley and Ashley Storrie, featuring the streetlife surrealism and edginess of Scotland.

At 13, Ashley was the Fringe's youngest ever stand-up comic (“Barbed with cynicism beyond her years" - Sunday Telegraph). Now aged 20, she returns with her extraordinary mum, comedienne and bestselling author Janey Godley (“Compelling... ballsy personality... Were it not for the whiff of Semtex and laundered banknotes, you'll call Janey Godley a breath of fresh air” - Guardian).

“Ashley cut her teeth as a stand-up opening for comedian Phil Kay at Glasgow's fearsome Sloan's club... She has interviewed other comedians for TV, including the famously foul-mouthed Jerry Sadowitz.” (Guardian) On her last appearances at the Fringe, in 1999, aged 13, she “had stand-up fans rolling in the aisles” (Times)

As a small child, Ashley is a prominent character in Janey's bestselling (non-humorous) hardback autobiography Handstands in the Dark, which is released in paperback to coincide with her Fringe shows.

“When Ashley was a child she had to have a couple of bodyguards with her.” (Janey in the Sunday Times Magazine)

“There were some things I didn't want to know about my mum's life.... If I'm being honest, my mum's a Glasgow bird - she doesn't need anybody to protect her. But I can at least try to make sure she doesn't get into any trouble in the first place.” (Ashley in the Sunday Times Magazine)

This show is not suitable for police officers, who will be refused admission if identified.