To consider going to a show alone?

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I have tickets to filming of an episode of a BBC comedy but I have no one to go with. It is an awkward time in early evening so as my friends are working they would struggle to get there and dh will be with the kids. I would like to go but feel it might be a weird experience, as a comedy is best enjoyed with people and though I will be in an audience I will also be alone... It's not so much being alone that bothers me as I don't mind my own company, but in this situation will it be more awkward or less than sitting in a pub nursing a pint and reading the paper, which I don't really mind doing... Any thoughts?

Do it, I go to gigs etc by myself all the time, no one likes the bands I like in my circle and no way am I missing out.

I always make new friends.

Do it
Care diem

I’ve been to plays and musicals on my own, usually when we couldn’t get childcare. It was fine, I was in the minority but I don’t think anyone else there cared! I enjoyed it, only having myself to think about and not sharing the interval chocolate was fab!! Go for it.

Do it. I went to see a band I love from my youth and no one would go with me. I got a third row ticket and the people next to me asked if I was a reporter! Plenty of singles in the front row seats.

Cheers you are stiffening my resolve

Maybe I shall take a few notes to look professional!

I bet plenty of reviewers go to show tapings.

Do it! You can't chat through the recordings anyway, so it doesn't matter if you're on your own. The most boring bit is hanging around before hand (if it's in Broadcasting House, get there early-ish) - last time I went I had an hour to kill before DH got there, I sat with a glass of wine and my book in the bar area. No-one will notice when you're sitting down anyway, and it's a scrum to get out again so you'd only lose the person you're with!

I've been to comedy gigs alone before! I was planning on going with a friend but when we went to book there was only one seat left for 2/3 of the ones we wanted to see.
So I saw 1 with her and went alone to the other two, I was a bit embarrassed and nervous the first time but fine the second time, and it's given me a big confidence boost and I feel proud of myself for doing it now

Thank you folks, I will go solo. It's on the South bank so plenty of lone mooching opportunities along there, and the Lumiere triangle things to gawp at, it will be fine. Cheers 🙂

I'm envious OP! You'll have a great time no doubt, let us know how it goes

Do it!

Could also try advertising your spare ticket on Facebook? You might find an old/distant mate to go with that you wouldn't necessarily have thought to ask.

I went to the theater, alone, for the first time in November. It was part of a City break.

No-one knows that you are alone (if that bothers you) because the people who you traveled with could be sitting elsewhere.

I know lots of people who won't go anywhere on their own, so they miss out, which when you think about it, is just stupid.

I'm planning on going away alone in March. it's brilliant just being able to exactly what you want, when you want, without having to figure in someone else wanting a drink/toilet etc, or sidetrack the itinerary.

In the Southbank you'll be fine. There are lots of lone tourists and people. It's in London that I've found being alone the least strange.

Going to the cinema, Everyman in London, by myself, has been a revelation. Lots of people go by themselves. It's fine.

Definitely go! I go to loads of things by myself as I figure it's better than missing out!

Of course go! I go to gigs on my own all the time, including travelling 200 miles, hostel alone etc. you're an adult, it's fine! It'd be silly to miss out.

Yanbu. Do it. You don't need to do everything with another person.

An early evening stroll along the South Bank and episode of a comedy show sounds absolutely brilliant. So glad you've decided to go, OP, and I hope you have a brilliant time.

It's lovely to go to things on your own sometimes. Go. You can really concentrate on why you're there and enjoy it on your own terms.

I used to go every where on my own; holidays, restaurants, cinema, theatre, theme parks.

No one will notice.

Go as early as possible as despite having tickets, they're usually still first come first served as the over-issue the tickets to avoid an empty audience (like airlines). I went to see Two Pints. We drove down from North Yorkshire and if we'd been two spaces behind we wouldn't have got in!

I absolutely love going to stuff by myself. Go for it and enjoy .

Yes, go! I had some last minute tickets for a comedian once which meant my friend and I were sat nowhere near eachother. I still enjoyed it just as much!

Well I was all set to go. But I just slipped in the ducking shower like the clumsy arse i am, now my head and knee hurts and I can't go I feel too shaken up.

I fall over all the time and I am getting too old for this bollocks.

So I shall probably be on the sofa up with dd2, nursing a tea and some paracetamol, watching Harry Potter and the cup of something or other... She is going through all the film's at the moment.

What an embarrassment.

Are you actually hurt?

If not take the paracetamol and get out and enjoy yourself. Laughing at the show will do you good.

I have twisted my knee and it hurts quite a bit as I will need to walk a lot and hi need to set off in next 20mins and travel for over an hour, and as I have given my head quite a bash I really am not up for it. Too soon. If I could wait another hour and be sure I haven't seriously damaged myself but it literally just happened.