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Michael Palin - There and Back
Best-selling author and comedy legend Michael Palin is going back on the road, with a new 13 date UK tour this autumn.
There and Back - The Diary Tour 2024 will bring to life Palin’s upcoming Diary (called There and Back, published by Orion on 26 September) .
10 years since his last published diary, Michael unlocks volume four of his life and times, from 1999 to 2009. As the centuries change and Michael heads into middle age, he’s busier than ever. In this new show, with the help of rarely seen photos and video, Michael brings these momentous times to life as he talks through this latest Diary to take us backstage on this most productive decade of his life, whilst always, in the background, showing us the wider world, one of infinite possibilities and new and unimagined dangers.
He takes on four new travel series, and a wide variety of documentaries from art and artists to the last day of the First World War. He watches his family grow and expand at a time of ominous new threats and dangers. The Twin Towers fall, bombs blast London, banks collapse, whole economies teeter on the brink. Tony Blair offers hope with the Good Friday agreement, then embroils us in Iraq.
Michael enters his 60s, and finds grown-up responsibilities come his way. By the end of this diary, he's in his first year as President of the Royal Geographical Society. His diary reflects his constant struggle against routine and repetition, and his irresistible and often nerve-shredding attraction to new challenges. Some work, some don't, but by the end of this volume he's reached the retirement age of 65. And he's planning a new journey.
Announcing the tour, Michael Palin says: “In There and Back - The Diary Tour 2024, I’ll bring to life the fourth collection of my diaries and the first to be released for 10 years. Lots of fun as I go through the Noughties, and some dark times too.
I constantly surprise myself with the sheer amount I took on"
Courtyard Theatre
£28
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Harry Baker: Wonderful
After a sellout Edinburgh Fringe Run and subsequent 40-date UK Tour, World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker is back with a brand-new show celebrating the wonder that is being alive.
Featuring brand new poems about death, postcodes and his favourite German wheat bear Schöfferhofer, The maths-loving, TED-talking, German-speaking, battle-rapping, happy-crying, self-bio-writing unashamed human brings his signature playfulness and poignancy that has made him a fan favourite and reached millions of people all over the world.
'Harry Baker’s intricate, quick-fire rhymes have always been on the impressive side of mind-blowing' The Scotsman
'Spectacularly Witty' ★★★★★ Whatsonstage
'Blistering wordplay' ★★★★★ Threeweeks
'Not one syllable out of place' ★★★★★ The Wee Review
'The Spell Over The Audience Is Tangible' ★★★★★ Broadway Baby
'Simply put... The greatest performer on earth' ★★★★★ BBC Radio 1
Courtyard Theatre
£15
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- 2 Oct SOLD OUT
The Vinyl Frontier: Your Best... Easy Listening
Hosted by Jeff Lloyd.
Are you a fan of Frank Sinatra, Matt Monro, The Carpenters and other easy listening classic artists? If so, then this event will be just the one for you.
10 champions of soft sounds will play their favourite track for you to decide your favourite.
Studio
£12
Other Vinyl Frontier events this season include:
Sat 7 Sept: Your Best of... ABBA 2
Sat 9 Nov: Vinyl Secret Singalong 2
Sat 14 Dec: Your Favourite vs My Favourite
The Vinyl Frontier: Vinyl Secret Singalong 2
Hosted by Jeff Lloyd.
Another sleeper hit last year makes an early return.
10 tracks chosen by 10 people in the audience but you won't know who chose what until the end of the evening. The winner will be the track that gets the audience singing along the most! Can anything better last year's winner, 'Daydream Believer?'
Studio
£12
Other Vinyl Frontier events this season include:
Sat 7 Sept: Your Best of... ABBA 2
Sat 12 Oct: Your Best...Easy Listening
Sat 14 Dec: Your Favourite vs My Favourite
The Vinyl Frontier: Your Favourite vs My Favourite
Hosted by Jeff Lloyd.
Seven challengers take on Vinyl Frontier host, Jeff, in seven battles of taste in a variety of categories with the audience choosing their favourite. After 3 years the score is currently Jeff 3 The Public 2 (and one draw)!
Studio
£12
Other Vinyl Frontier events this season include:
Sat 7 Sept: Your Best of... ABBA 2
Sat 12 Oct: Your Best...Easy Listening
Sat 9 Nov: Vinyl Secret Singalong 2
Hauntings
Hauntings is a spellbinding evening of three tales of the supernatural during which the award-winning actor, Gerard Logan, will take you to world of invisible, but terrifyingly present, spirits.
Gerard Logan's masterful storytelling of two of the world’s greatest writers of ghost stories, E.F. Benson and M.R. James guarantees a spinetingling evening not to be missed.
From E.F. BENSON comes:
Naboth’s Vineyard - in which just desserts are meted out to an unscrupulous lawyer.
&
The Hanging of Alfred Wadham - in which the forces of the devil test a man of faith to his limits.
From the acknowledged master of the ghost story genre, M.R. JAMES, comes:
Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad - in which a medieval spirit strikes terrorizes an arrogant professor.
'Logan is astounding....He takes a strong script and flies it to the stars' ★★★★★ Edinburgh Festival 2016 Review
'Watching Logan work is like being privy to a wonder of nature and remains with you ... A true masterpiece of solo performance' ★★★★★ The Edinburgh Guide
Hauntings is also underscored by a beautiful, original and specially commissioned score by the award-winning RSC composer, Simon Slater.
Studio
£16 | £14 (Supporters)
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