AHIR SHAH: DOTS (UK Tour) Nominated for Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in 2017 and 2018, Ahir Shah is on tour again with his new stand-up show DOTS. Featuring Shah's signature blend of philosophical inquiry, personal examination, and real fun jokes, DOTS explores love, politics, culture, depression, and faith in an effort to...
NIGEL NG & CO Featuring TANIA EDWARDS plus compere SALLY-ANNE HAYWARD Nigel Ng grew up in Malaysia, lived in America for five years and moved to the UK in 2015. Having started his comedy career in Chicago, he’s relieved that (most) people in the UK get his jokes too, as evidenced by him winning the...
Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud thought that infant boys sexually desire their mother, inevitably bringing them into conflict with their father. Anthropologists, however, reckon that incest avoidance is the norm within mammals because sheer exposure to family members kills passion. What does scientific research reveal about this issue? Freud may have been too literal, but interesting echoes...
Mary Gauthier is one of the most important and acclaimed songwriters in the world. The author of portfolio of extraordinary confessional songs, deeply personal, profoundly emotional pieces ranging from “I Drink,” a blunt accounting of addiction, to “March 11, 1962,” the day she was born — and relinquished to an orphanage — to “Worthy,” in...
Lilly Hiatt's breakthrough record, Trinity Lane, produced by Michael Trent of Shovels & Rope was described as “Courageous and affecting” by NPR Music, and Rolling Stone said it was “The most cohesive and declarative statement of the young songwriter’s career.” Twelve tracks of confessional reflection on love, loss, addiction, heartbreak and hope, it more than...
STUART GOLDSMITH: END OF (UK Tour) STUART GOLDSMITH is back with a comic odyssey on how it works out in the end, and whether anyone cares. Intelligent stand-up comedy for everybody, but of particular interest to people over thirty who've lost touch with all their old friends and can't eat just the one pain au...
ANDREW LAWRENCE & CO Featuring NAOMI COOPER plus compere CLINT EDWARDS As seen on BBC's Live At The Apollo, misanthropic observational comedian Andrew Lawrence returns to headline with his trademark self-deprecating navel gazing and weary view of the world. Master of dark humour and a political provocateur in recent years, stand-up Andrew Lawrence reminds audiences...
Petra Velzeboer was born in the infamous Children of God Cult, a sexualised, uneducated, nomadic existence that led to a period of depression and suicidal ideation as she struggled to find her place in the world. Working hard to get educated, build her resilience, and become a Psychotherapist and Coach on the outside, on the...
TOM WARD & CO Featuring JOHN LYNN plus compere TOM TOAL Tom Ward is a hugely in-demand comedian and voice-over artist. He has voiced literally thousands of commercials, documentaries, training films etc from excitable salesmen to husky women - he can do them all. As a comedian Tom has won numerous awards which has catapulted...
TOP FLIGHT TIME MACHINE Live Podcast "Like a post-football conversation with two witty friends – you never quite know where it’s going, but it will definitely find the joke." Miranda Sawyer, The Observer Andy Dawson and Sam Delaney’s highly-acclaimed podcast is finally re-imagined as a theatrical experience. This is no ordinary live recording of a...
A multi-talented star, Humble is a YouTuber, MC, rapper, songwriter, a spoken word poet, a published author, and a former elementary school teacher. Kanwer Singh, more commonly known as Humble the Poet, is a powerful influencer who has international reach. Humble is a wordsmith who uses his talents to lift people up and spread life...
THE THINKING DRINKERS: HEROES OF HOOCH (UK Tour) The Thinking Drinkers return with a BRAND-NEW SHOW, a hilarious and intoxicating look at history’s greatest drinkers. Enjoy five free drinks* as the award-winning experts reveal how alcohol has inspired pioneering explorers, politicians and painters in equal measure, from Plato and Picasso, to Nelson, Napoleon and Norm...
