Colchester – Cultivated

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.

Godot Is A Woman

James Goffin — Wed, 10 May 2023 21:16:47 +0000

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is a play in which famously nothing happens – the same is not true of this Silent Face’s production.

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.

Time and Tide

James Goffin — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 17:42:38 +0000

How life and love can push us forward and hold us back is at the heart of this tragi-comic drama set in a Cromer cafe.

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.

Drive-in cinema plans for sites across East Anglia

Cultivated — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 22:18:13 +0000

Norwich-based Pop Up Pictures are promising to bring drive-in cinema to the region this summer, with big screens in Norwich, Ipswich, and Colchester.

Geoff Norcott

James Goffin — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 16:10:00 +0000

Being the only Brexiteer in the comedy club seems to have become something of a millstone for Geoff Norcott.

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.