Fans are in for a treat as a popular comedian is set to return to Eastwood Theatre.

Performances by Ali Park will take place on March 14 and 15 - as part of the Glasgow Comedy Festival. 

Ali wrote her first one-woman show in 2009, ‘Ali Park, in the Company of Women’ and ever since, the COW acronym has followed her.

The first show was the beginning of an autobiographical journey "of being a wumman".

Now, in 2024, a long break from performing live comes to an end.

Her COW shows were born from writing and performing sell-out shows as a double-act with her great friend, Jan McSkimming.

All material was based on their experiences of childbirth and the aftermath. As ‘Mother's Unleashed’, they toured the hilarious ‘PERINEUM INTACT-A’ followed by ‘PUMP UP THE PROZAC’, and completed the trilogy with ‘AT YOUR CERVIX’. 

Ali said: “Performing this material made me realise the degree of empathy women share; they love to talk, compare experiences, and offer up some remarkable confessions. 

"When women have a problem, we rarely buy a book to find the answer, we phone a friend. We pass on words of wisdom - the good, the bad and the ugly. Women love the company of other women.”

Her past performances include sell-out shows at Oran Mor as part of the 2010 Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival.

She enjoyed repeated success later that year, with performances at a sold-out Eastwood Theatre.

In 2017 Ali returned to the Eastwood Theatre with another two sell-out shows: COW ‘The Sandwich Years’ - which detailed her roller-coaster ride of hitting fifty, flushing, and finding herself ‘filling’ the proverbial 'sandwich years’.

Now in 2024, facing the trials and tribulations of menopause, Ali sees a perfect opportunity to delve again into comedy.

She said: "Forget HRT, creams and counselling - there's no better therapy than laughter on a night out with your pals.

"Take a walk on the UDDER side, as we talk friendships, menopause, ageing and empty nests."