Comedy at The Lowry
May – August 2009
The Funny Women Awards, Jan Ravens and Jude Simpson are just part of The Lowry’s new side-splitting season. Lucy Porter returns with her new show The Bare Necessities and Micky Flanagan tells a comic tale of his working class background.
• Paul Sinha & Markus Birdman – On the Road Sun 3 May
• The Funny Women Awards Mon 4 May
• Lucy Porter – The Bare Necessities Sun 10 May
• Jammy Voo Theatre Tue 12 May
• Micky Flanagan – What Chance Change? Sun 17 May
• Flanders and Swann - At The Drop Of A Hippopotamus Sun 17 May
• Jan Ravens A Funny Look at Impressions Fri 3 July
• Comedy 4 Christies Sun 5 July
• Jude Simpson – Making Happy Fri 17 July
Sun 3 May
Paul Sinha & Markus Birdman – On the Road
A sparkling stand-up double bill, somewhere between Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman and the Two Fat Ladies – only with more jokes and less glamour.
Times 8pm
Tickets £12
Mon 4 May
The Funny Women Awards
The freshest female faces in comedy compete to win the national competition. Don’t miss your chance to see the best of the North West!
Visit www.thelowry.com for details on how to enter.
Times 8pm
Tickets £7
Sun 10 May
Lucy Porter – The Bare Necessities
Lucy Porter returns with a bouncy, stripped-down hour of nakedly funny topical stand-up and her most thought-provoking show to date.
Times 8pm
Tickets £14
Tue 12 May
Jammy Voo Theatre
Something Blue
Five female performers use clowning, a cappella singing, puppetry, rapid costume change and physical theatre to explore the highs and lows of falling in love.
Times 8pm
Tickets £12
Sun 17 May
Micky Flanagan – What Chance Change?
Micky tells a comic tale of a working class upbringing, and how in 25 years he’s gone from Sunblest to pannini, and street parties to dinner parties.
Times 8pm
Tickets £12
Wed 3 June
Flanders and Swann
At The Drop Of A Hippopotamus
An evening of unashamed nostalgia as Tim Fitzhigham and Duncan Walsh Atkins celebrate the music and humour of Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.
Times 8pm
Tickets £15
Fri 3 July
Jan Ravens – A Funny Look at Impressions
Best known for impersonating public figures on the BBC’s Dead Ringers, Jan Ravens makes her solo stage debut in this delightfully revelatory show. No celebrity is safe!
Times 8pm
Tickets £14
Sun 5 July
Comedy 4 Christies
Award-winning comedy from Jason Cook, Daliso Chaponda, Gary Morris and Phil Buckley, with a special guest headliner and proceeds going to Christies.
Times 8pm
Tickets £15
Fri 17 July
Jude Simpson – Making Happy
With Jude’s upbeat blend of observational comedy, poetry, rap and song, you’ll be left with the suspicion that maybe, just maybe, everything’s going to be OK…
Times 7.45pm
Tickets £8
Posted on Thursday, 05 March 2009 under Press Theatre Press