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Award-winning
comedian heading to Durham
Mark Thomas – The Red
Shed
Durham Gala Theatre
Wednesday
1st March 2017
Comedian
and activist Mark Thomas is coming to Durham’s Gala Theatre to perform
his award-winning show, The Red Shed.
Mark Thomas |
The
show centres on Mark’s political awakening in 1980s Wakefield, where he performed his
first gigs in a 47-foot-long wooden hut that doubled up as a Labour Club.
Amidst
the backdrop of Margaret Thatcher’s prime ministership, Wakefield’s traditional Labour
community awoke a new determination in Mark and changed his life forever.
Three
decades later he returned to The Red Shed to celebrate its 50th birthday, and
in doing so entwined the story of his political coming of age with the tale of
the people who inspired him.
The
Red Shed is the story of strikes, fights, dinner ladies, burgers and burger
slingers. Pickets, placards, friendship, love, history, dreams, and above all:
remembering.
The
show will involve the audience to recreate the shed and its inhabitants: part
theatre, stand up, journalism and activism; it’s the story of the battle for
hope and the survival of a community in a small wooden shed.
The Red Shed follows on from Mark’s multi award-winning
shows Bravo Figaro! and Cuckooed, and last year won him his third Scotsman
Fringe First, alongside The Stage Special Award, when it was performed at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Mark Thomas has also won a Herald Angel award and
the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression award, alongside filming his own Channel 4 series and continuing
his work as an author.
Mark’s political work has seen him give evidence
to Parliamentary Select Committees, investigate inheritance tax avoidance, and
walk the entire length of the Israeli wall in the West Bank.
Read the North East Theatre Guide review of Mark
Thomas “Cuckooed” back in 2015 http://nomorepanicbutton.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/review-mark-thomas-cuckooed-at.html
Tickets:
The
Red Shed will be performed at The Gala Theatre on Wednesday 1st March at 8.00pm.
Tickets
cost £16 (£12 concessions), and can be booked online at www.galadurham.co.uk, by calling the box
office on 03000 266 600, or by visiting the venue in person.
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