Coming-out comedy \u2018Lesbihonest\u2019 brings Laura Piccinin\u2019s story to Surrey<\/p>\n
Published 11:30 am Wednesday, March 25, 2026<\/p>\n
Hyped as \u201ca hilarious autobiography of some gay girl from Toronto,\u201d Lesbihonest is touring B.C. cities this spring including Surrey on Thursday, April 9, in the Studio Theatre at Surrey Arts Centre.<\/p>\n
Laura Piccinin created the solo production in 2021 for the Fringe festival in Toronto, where she lives.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Smithers this will be my 100th show,\u201d said Piccinin, who on tour alternates performances of Lesbihonest with Go, the comedic story of her 336-kilometre hike in coastal Newfoundland.<\/p>\n
She describes Lesbihonest as a narrative-theatre show told in the style of stand-up comedy.<\/p>\n
At an open mic, she recalled about its creation, \u201cI had these kind of funny stories about my family\u2019s reactions to me coming out, and they were all so absurd. There was a theatre producer there who said, \u2018Hey, you know what? That\u2019s really funny. Why don\u2019t you make it into an hour-long Fringe show?\u2019 I was like, \u201cOh, OK.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I went back to my journals where I had all these recollections of everyone\u2019s reactions. I compiled them all together and then built, like, a nice through-line, the meaning of it all, and I\u2019ve been touring it ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n
Piccinin says she loves telling people all sorts of eccentric stories, whether they want to hear them or not, according to a bio on her website.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s worked as a dancer\/aerialist with Tokyo Disney and playwright for new Canadian musicals, among other artistic adventures.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think comedy comes first for me for everything, but I\u2019ve never really been a stand-up comedian,\u201d Piccinin noted. \u201cI don\u2019t do bits and I don\u2019t have, like, sets that I\u2019m working on. I pretty much have this one show that\u2019s stand-up comedy. My other work is still comedy, but not stand-up. I\u2019m no stranger to comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lesbihonest, she says, can be enjoyed by diverse audiences as young as 14 years of age, as long as they\u2019re OK with some foul language.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh yeah, straights are welcome, too,\u201d she deadpanned. \u201cI have found that (the show) resonates with people, whether they know someone who\u2019s queer or not.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think people really resonate with the theme of identity, and mostly people can just sit back and laugh at the ridiculousness of it all, you know? There\u2019s so many different ways to react when someone comes out, and sometimes you can catch yourself being that person saying maybe almost the right thing and then finding out later that that\u2019s really funny.\u201d<\/p>\n