Mark
Thomas - Cuckooed
On Tour including:
Newcastle Northern Stage
Friday 20th February
2015.
Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award winner - 2014
Scotsman Fringe First winner - 2014
Scotsman Fringe First winner – 2012
Bank of Scotland
Herald Angel winner – 2012
Sony Award for Radio Comedy winner - 2008
Guinness World Record Holder: Most Number of Political Demonstrations
in 24 Hours – 2006 MediActivist Awards (MISTY) – 2005
UN Association Global Human Rights Defender Award - 2004
Kurdish National Congress Medal of Honour – 2002
Time Out Comedy Award
– 1990
Following a total sell-out
Edinburgh Fringe run once again, one of comedy’s elder statesmen and all-round
arty mischief-maker continues his 8th nationwide tour with a comedy
of betrayal. Mark Thomas tells his true story of how Britain’s
biggest arms manufacturer, BAE
Systems, came to spy on a comedian in this five star, multi-ward winning,
critically acclaimed tale of hubris, planes, demos and undercover deceit.
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Mark Thomas - Photo: Steve Ullahtorne
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In 2012,
Mark’s first ever one-man theatre piece, Bravo Figaro, a touching and poignant tale first commissioned by
the Royal Opera House about his opera-loving father which sold out its entire Fringe
run, won Mark a Herald Angel award, a
Scotsman Fringe First, and was
recently broadcast on Radio 4. The show is set to tour Australia
and New Zealand
in 2015. With Cuckooed, his second
theatre piece, Mark was awarded his second Scotsman
Fringe First, as well as the Amnesty
International Freedom of Expression award, an honour for which Mark
declared was “a very inspiring experience and I feel very
humbled”.
Mark’s shows have always been entirely different
from each other; he’s stopped arms deals, created a manifesto and brought the
winning policy to parliament, walked the entire length of the Israeli wall in
the West Bank and most recently completed 100
Acts of Minor Dissent, which included taking the police to court over surveillance
and finding a new definition for the word ‘Farage’.
We all
know that it’s not just his live shows for which Mark creates the trouble he
has become famous for; his Channel 4 series The
Mark Thomas Comedy Product ran for six series, he’s published three books and a manifesto, had various series
commissioned by Radio 4, won a Sony Award for My Life in Serious Organised Crime, been a regular contributor to
political magazine The New Statesman, won
numerous awards, holds a Guinness World Record, investigated everything from
Coca-Cola to inheritance tax
avoidance in various TV documentaries, given evidence to Parliamentary Select
Committees and stopped multinational infrastructure deals. Oh, and of course
he’s been arrested countless times in one day. Fortunately, he has just enough
bastard in him to prevent him from becoming a national treasure.
On The Web:
Press on Cuckooed:
★★★★★ “A brilliantly crafted hour… beautiful and heartfelt” METRO
★★★★★ “A brand of comedy that carries a
far weightier purpose than to simply generate laughs…Cuckooed leaves a lasting
impression” SUNDAY
HERALD
★★★★★ “A masterful piece of storytelling
and an engrossing hour” THE ARTS DESK
★★★★★ “Political
theatre at its very best…takes the breath away… impassioned but lightened with
underlying wit”
BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE
★★★★★ “A very funny show about a
serious, indeed deadly, business. This is vintage Mark Thomas – seriously funny
in all the best senses, and as he so often is, bang on the money” EDINBURGH GUIDE
★★★★★ “Impassioned delivery, emphatic
gesticulations and wry sense of humour… Thomas’ charisma is also inspirational
and sparks a feeling of wanting to follow in his mischievous footsteps” TV BOMB
★★★★ “A clever,
funny and angry show… an
excoriating, heartfelt monologue” THE GUARDIAN
On Tour:
FEBRUARY VENUE BOX OFFICE
Tues 10th-Thurs 12th GLASGOW, Tron 0141 552 4267
Sat 14th TUNBRIDGE WELLS, Trinity 01892 678
678
Weds 18th LEICESTER, Curve 0116 242 3560
Thurs 19th MILTON KEYNES, The Stables 01908 280800
Fri 20th
NEWCASTLE, Northern Stage 0191 230 5151
Online Booking: www.northernstage.co.uk/whats-on/mark-thomas-cuckooed
Sun 22nd IPSWICH, New Wolsey Theatre 01473 295900
Weds 25th SALFORD, The Lowry Quays 0843 208 6000
Thurs 26th SHEFFIELD, Crucible 0114
249 6000
Fri 27th COVENTRY, Warwick Arts Centre 024 7652 4524
Sat 28th HUDDERSFIELD, Lawrence Batley Theatre 01484 430528
MARCH
Thurs 5th BRIGHTON, Corn Exchange 01273 709709
Fri 6th STREET, Strode Theatre 01458
442846
Sat 7th March NORTH
FINCHLEY, London Arts Depot 020
8369 5454
APRIL
Weds
15th-Sat 18th EDINBURGH, Traverse 0131 228 1404
Fri 24th FOLKESTONE,
Quarterhouse 01303
858500
Weds
22nd – Sat 2nd May LONDON, Battersea Arts
Centre 020 7223 2223
BRAVO
FIGARO
Mon 4th-Sat 9th May LONDON, Battersea Arts
Centre 020 7223 2223
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