Laura Solon won the top gong at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2005 and was a sell-out success at the annual comedy convention last year with her latest invention 'Rabbit Faced Story Soup'.

The show tells the tale of publisher Diana Lewis who is tasked with saving her company from going under by finding a writer to finish a book in time for deadline.

But her mission isn't easy and along the way Diana is both helped and hindered in equal measures by an American super agent, a lightly tanned boss, a call centre worker, a diversity officer, The French and a dead rabbit called Ian.

And slipping into the guises of all these different characters, bar the latter, is a challenge that Laura thoroughly enjoys.

She commented: "I think it's important to have some variety in a show, not just for the audience, but for yourself as well.

"I think most people see comedy as either stand up or a sketch show but I like to do something a bit different.

"The show that got me my Perrier Award in Edinburgh was lots of little sketches that weren't linked together and I thought this time round I'd make it a bit more interesting by having characters that were all involved in the same plot.

"Having to remember so many different lines, the potential is definitely there to over-think things but I don't have a 9-5 job; this is my job so I have a lot of time to prepare," she added.

Laura's only co-star in 'Rabbit Faced Story Show' has the honour of being in the show's title, although Laura said after some 'humming and hahing', she decided on a stuffed rabbit rather than a real thing or someone dressed up as one.

She continued: "When you put a title in for a show at Edinburgh Fringe it's often before you've even finishing writing it and that was the case with 'Rabbit Faced Story Soup'.

"At the time of thinking of a title I knew I wanted a real mix of characters that were all blended together, hence 'story soup'. I also wanted to have a big fluffy bunny in it somewhere and for about five seconds I considered using a real one. But then I thought that audiences would spend the entire show going 'aww' at the rabbit.

"I also deliberated having someone dressed up as a rabbit - but I thought it would be pretty pointless as they don't have any lines, so I settled on a stuffed one."

Laura started her spring tour of 'Rabbit Faced Story Soup' in Cambridge on Friday but has also just returned from taking the show much further afield - to the USA to be precise.

And although, like English audiences, Americans see plenty of comics bite the dust before making it big, Laura said she approached her Stateside jaunt full of optimism rather than full of nerves.

"Things actually went really well over there for me. Although excited about the tour, I was slightly worried that American audiences maybe wouldn't get certain things as even though we speak the language we have a different culture and different reference points. But thankfully they seemed to really enjoy it.

"And I think the fact that they didn't know who I was actually helped as I could just go and do my own thing. I had an amazing time and I'm hoping to line up some more meetings and go back in the near future.

Another ambition Laura has is to do some more TV work. You may have seen her on the small screen alongside Paul Whitehouse in 'Harry and Paul' and Al Murray in his 'Multiple Personality Disorder', and she is hoping to one day have her own hit show.

But for now she has her sights firmly set on tickling Berwick's funnybone and added: "if people like a bit of taxidermy with their comedy then this is the show for them!

"It's also a great story of triumph over adversity, which everyone loves."

Berwick came out in force last week to see Jimmy McGhie and Fergus Craig kick off The Maltings' new comedy season and if you'd like to keep the laughter going with Laura, tickets are priced £10/£8 concessions (stalls), £12 circle and £14 boxes.