The Red Shed is the third part in a trilogy of multi award winning shows (Bravo Figaro and Cuckooed)
A story of strikes, dinner ladies and commies. Crap beer, great beer, burgers and burger slingers. Pickets, placards, friendship, love, history, dreams and above all remembering.
Mark returns to where he first performed, a red wooden shed in Wakefield, the labour club, to celebrate its 50th birthday. Part theatre, stand up, journalism, activism, it's the story of the battle for hope and the survival of a community.
Trespass carries on from where Mark's previous show100 Acts of Minor Dissent left off. It is his usual odd mix of theatre, stand up, a dash of journalism, activism and a dollop of mayhem. Mark asks the question: If the ramblers of the 1930's were here now what would they do to open up the cities? How do we turn the skyscrapers and corporate squares into our playgrounds? He sets out to try and carve a small space in the urban world where mischief and random chance can lurk. No one knows where this show is going to end up so join him on the journey.
A comedy of betrayal. Following his award winning show Bravo Figaro, Mark Thomas tells his true story of how Britain’s biggest arms manufacturer (BAE Systems) came to spy on a comedian. A tale of hubris, planes, demos and undercover deceit told by an award winning performer.
Ten years ago an activist and close friend of Mark’s was exposed as a spy for BAE Systems infiltrating the movement. Now Mark wants to find him and has some questions to ask. This is a true story. The show picks up from where the award winning Bravo Figaro left off in style using interviews from friends,...
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...
