Joanne McNally

Ireland’s comedy sweetheart (self-titled) and Dublin Fringe Best Performer nominee Joanne McNally is returning to Edinburgh on The Prosecco Express, fresh from her sell-out Irish tour and Soho Theatre run. As seen in Sharon Horgan’s Women on The Verge (UKTV) and The Tommy Tiernan Chat Show (RTE).

Joanne is lost (not physically, she knows exactly where she is: she’s in Leith). But adopted at six months old, she has no real sense of who she is. She has never looked like anyone and the life she’s wearing doesn’t fit very well, so Joanne wants a rock-solid blueprint to follow. What is she supposed to be doing with herself?

What if she actually comes from an incredibly powerful pastry dynasty and is missing out on her fate to invent the new cronut? Or what if she comes from a long line of successful alcoholics, and that’s why she horses Prosecco like a steam train? In the words of our great Big Brother philosopher Nikki Grahame: WHO IS SHE?!? She needs to find her bio parents – surely they'll have all the answers and that will fix everything.

What Joanne doesn’t realise, however, is that once she opens that big, strange door she can't close it again. Mainly because she’s double jointed in both hands (and while we’re on the topic, whose fault is that?) Joanne's on a mission to find out how DNA and destiny works, and now so are you.