Brava Figaro

A thoroughly powerful and inspiring piece of work

Event Date: 
14/11/2012 - 12:15am
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Exeter Phoenix. November 12th – 13th.

Mark Thomas’s dad was a thoroughly unusual character. A bearded, violent brute of a man but also an uneducated working class Methodist with an admirable dedication to hard work, Mr Thomas Sr. was a mass of contradictions. Yet perhaps the strangest thing about him was his undeniable passion for opera.

Even as an adult, the comedian Mark Thomas himself is clearly still unsure what to make of his father and even after the hour long second half, you might well find yourself feeling the same way. Mark incorporates extracts of...