Interviews – Cultivated

Kerry’s Bandwidth tour finds space for Norwich

Cultivated — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:02:24 +0000

Kerry Godliman is going back on the road with new show Bandwidth, including a stop at Norwich Playhouse on 3 April.

Making magic moments

James Goffin — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 15:58:44 +0000

Mime dance company Theatre Re is bringing its newest show Moments to Norwich this month. Cultivated caught up with artistic director and performer Guillaume Pigé.

Trio of ballet shows starts 2025

Cultivated — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:46:59 +0000

Dance company Varna International Ballet is starting 2025 with a national tour across the UK, including dates in Ipswich and Norwich.

Miles bangs on and on

Bruce Dessau — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:44:50 +0000

A lot has happened to Miles Jupp since his last tour finished at The London Palladium in 2017. He has acted in series including The Full Monty, Trigger Point, The Durrells and Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? In comedy mode the former host of The News Quiz has appeared on shows including on Frankie Boyle’s New World Order and Have I Got News For You.

From Norfolk to the National Youth Theatre

James Goffin — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:04:27 +0000

Cathy Sole, who grew up in and around Norfolk, is starring in the National Youth Theatre REP company’s production of The War of the Worlds at Wilton’s Music Hall in London.

New developing musical exploring hoarding heads to Norwich

Cultivated — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 17:16:54 +0000

A new show about hoarding, memories, and music is coming to Norwich as part of a four-theatre partnership to develop new productions by bringing them to the public in their early stages.

A labour of love for a city of stories

James Goffin — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 18:00:42 +0000

Writer, theatre-maker and storyteller John Osborne has created a brand-new show in celebration of his adopted home city. Norwich: A Love Story which also features paintings by local artist Pinch and music from singer-songwriter Jess Morgan, is at Norwich Playhouse on April 11.

Andy is still trying to find optimism in a confusing world

Cultivated — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:54:05 +0000

Andy Parsons is touring this year with his brand new show, Bafflingly Optimistic. Despite everything that the UK has had to face in recent years, Parsons has managed to find something to be optimistic about. And, of course, lots to be funny about. Parsons, 55, is best known as one of the early lynchpins of Mock The Week. He has also written for Spitting Image, appeared on Live at the Apollo and fronted his own Radio 2 series, as well as the podcast, Slacktivist Action Group.

Success has been a while coming for Chris

Cultivated — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 15:08:38 +0000

Chris McCausland is one of the UK’s most in-demand comedians. The 46-year-old Liverpudlian has appeared on shows including the Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News for You, Would I Lie to You? and QI. He has also fronted his own TV series, Wonders Of The World I Can’t See, and hosted his own radio show, You Heard It Here First.

Dinosaurs coming to Diss

Cultivated — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 20:50:33 +0000

Norfolk-born academic, conservationist, broadcaster and author Ben Garrod is bringing a show about dinosaurs to Diss as part of a nationwide tour. Here he tells us about what audiences can expect.

Chris is playing a speaky blinder

Bruce Dessau — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 21:28:06 +0000

Chris McCausland is going places. And not just because he has just filmed a travel series for Channel 4. The Liverpudlian stand-up star is back on the road with an extended leg of his Speaky Blinder tour which will see him perform over 130 dates nationwide.

Maisie buzzes into town

Bruce Dessau — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 21:31:00 +0000

Maisie Adam has called her debut tour Buzzed because she has lots to be buzzed about. Her relationship with her fiancé, her excitement at England’s victory in the Women’s Euros and lastly but by absolutely no means least, the way her comedy career has taken off.

Geoff is blaming the parents

Cultivated — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 12:44:24 +0000

Ahead of his Norwich and Ipswich tour dates, Cultivated got down to basics with comedian Geoff Norcott.

Mark my words: everything’s gonna be alright

Veronica Lee — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 08:16:00 +0000

When comic Mark Steel toured his highly successful Every Little Thing’s Gonna Be Alright show in 2018, his outlook was wonderfully hopeful despite the show describing when Donald Trump won the White House, the Labour Party seemed a busted flush, Britain voted to leave the EU, and his wife decided to leave him.

Paul’s comedy is on the money

Bruce Dessau — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 17:26:35 +0000

Paul McCaffrey can still remember the first successful comedy routine he wrote, even though it was over a decade ago: “It was about cash machines and how frustrating it was when you were queuing to use one.”

Old devil Simon’s comic epiphany

Brian Donaldson — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:59:43 +0000

After twenty years of watching one of the country’s most erudite comedians, Simon Evans’s fans could be excused for thinking they know what he’s about: dry, teasingly non-PC and openly baffled by much of modern life.

Bish bang BOSH: Kerry’s straight-forward approach to comedy

Veronica Lee — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:48 +0000

Kerry Godliman is a woman who gets things done, as anybody who saw her series-winning performances on TV show Taskmaster knows.

Finding her audience is happiness for Suzi

Brian Donaldson — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 13:39:38 +0000

Fresh from a sold-out and critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Suzi Ruffell is hitting the road with new show Dance Like Everyone’s Watching.

Sharp songsmith Kitty Perrin has a love for lyrics

Nic Rigby — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 00:22:05 +0000

Singer songwriter Kitty Perrin has been making a name for herself on the Norwich music scene with her sharp, funny and sometimes caustic lyrics and her gentle guitar work.

Is Stephen a man for all seasons?

Brian Donaldson — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:40:07 +0000

For his latest tour Stephen K Amos says he wants to cut across social and political differences and be a comedian for the Everyman.