In Athens, a handful of novice standups are at the mic after taking part in a series of comedy workshops. One of the organisers, Vasileia Vaxevani, compares the experience to the first time you have sex. “It ends quickly. It hurts a little. But you definitely know that you want to do it again.”
Migration is the uncharacteristically hilarious topic at the heart of this show which is produced by Counterpoint Arts and performed by refugees and asylum seekers as part of Refugee Week whose theme this year was “healing”. In an audience as diverse as this gig’s, and in a country that has seen its communities divide as a result of polarised responses to migration, the versatility of that theme is manifest.
