Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe: DEAD!!! (Good Fun Time)

7:30pm

 
Yorkshire’s biggest bastard and Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer 2024 is back, after yet another sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival! This time he’s dead… dead good! And also, dead. He’s a dead man. Join the nation’s favourite demonic entertainer, owner of a Working Mens Club in Rotherham what is also a portal to hell, as he dazzles you from beyond the grave. See him now before he is well and truly gone.
 

“Plenty of fun for fans of Johnny Vegas, The Mighty Boosh and Vic and Bob… but Kent-Walters’s mock-old-school-entertainer character has a charisma and a weirdness that is all his own too” The Times

Scott Bennett: Stuff

As heard on Radio 4!

As a society we love stuff, it’s a statement about who we are and who we want to be. But apparently, this message is at odds with the looming environmental crisis. We’re now struggling to balance these worlds, to focus on the things that bring us real connections and nourish the soul. Award-winning Comedian and Award-winning Product Designer, Scott Bennett is desperately trying to cleanse his life of stuff, but is this even possible anymore?

Tour support for Mickey Flanagan, Rob Brydon, Jason Manford, and John Bishop. The star of Live at the ApolloThe News QuizThe Now ShowThe Ultimate Choice and Chortle Best Club Comedian Nominee 2022.

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Judi Love: All About the Love

Judi Love is back with a brand-new show packed with home truths about the hustle of juggling parenting, work and everyday life.

Known for her honesty and humour, Judi offers fresh insights into how a big heart navigates a world full of surprises, struggles and transformations. But let’s be real – adulting? It’s no joke!

Judi has dedicated her life to service; as a friend, parent, in the workplace, on TV, or at home, all with a bit of humour, which has been a life saviour. She has learned one key thing: it’s all about the Love…

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Aisling Bea: Older Than Jesus

BAFTA and British Comedy Award-winning Irish stand-up Aisling Bea is finally hitting the road.

With tales of travel, home, immigration, history, sex, babies, music, lovers and enemies.

She will even answer your big life questions. It’s not about the destination babes, it’s about the journey, but also the destinations are very important, so check out if she is coming to one near YOU.

As seen on TaskmasterQI8 Out of 10 Cats, Last One LaughingLive at the ApolloTravel Man and creator, writer and star of the award-winning Channel 4 and Hulu series This Way Up.

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Ardal O’Hanlon: Not Himself

After an alarming experience at the supermarket, Ardal reflects on who he is as a man and a comedian.

He examines his own ethnic and religious background. And thinks twice about the very core of his identity as a voice of reason. Is everything a big lie? With no major trauma of his own to draw on for material, apart from the drag of getting older, he also turns his gaze outwards at the joys and follies of contemporary life. Towel Animals? A.I.? Chair Yoga? Cauliflower as a main course? Yes. Yes. Yes. And Yes. No current idiocy is left un-examined. With a highly developed sense of the ridiculous, and proper  comedy bones, NOT HIMSELF, is a testament to the healing power of humour. And the joy of jokes.

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Omid Djalili: Namaste

The Persian Comedy Powerhouse performs his critically acclaimed new show Namaste,

Omid peacefully bows to his inner anger and unleashes a torrent of comedic vitriol upon the current state of this dangerously messed up planet.

No government gets a green card. No tyrant avoids a take down. No audience member leaves the theatre with an ounce of laughter left in them.

You have been warned.

Rosie Jones: I Can’t Tell What She’s Saying

Join self-professed prick and star of Taskmaster Rosie Jones as she heads back out on the road with her brand-new stand-up show.

She’s talking about the big stuff: being single, the pressures of representing huge sections of the population, and gravy. Oh, and boobs. The BAFTA-nominated powerhouse returns with her loveable blend of cheek and charm following a nomination for Most Outstanding Show at Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2023. 

As seen on nearly everything, including TaskmasterLive at the ApolloThe Jonathan Ross ShowThe Royal Variety PerformanceQI8 Out of 10 Cats, Cats Does CountdownThe Last LegJoe Lycett’s Got Your Back, Mock the Week, and soon to be on her very own upcoming sitcom. 

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Kerry Godliman: Bandwidth

‘Vigour, charm and plenty good gags.’The Guardian

While parenting teenagers, bogged down with knicker admin and considering dealing HRT on the black market, Kerry​’s lost her mum bag but can’t remember what was in it as she’s outsourced her memory to her phone. The life of a middle aged woman who ​hasn’t got the bandwidth ​for any of this.

Kerry Godliman, comedian, actor, writer, podcaster and broadcaster, returns to the stage with her straight-talking charm and quick wit on a brand new stand-up show. As seen on AfterlifeWhitstable PearlTaskmaster, Trigger PointLive At The Apollo and more. As heard on Radio 4 and Jon Richardson’s Absolute Radio Show.

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IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!

 

Based on a true story of a family caught up in the 90s recession, It’s the Economy, Stupid!by Joe Sellman-Leava with Dylan Howells developed with and directed by Katharina Reinthaller

Date: 6 August 2025Time: 7pmLocation: Arts In Library , Chester Lane Library, Four Acre Lane, WA9 4DETickets: £5-£8

‘Smart, sharp writing…deftly blends the personal with the political’

★★★★ Natasha Tripney, The Stage

WINNER OF BEST ACTOR & BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

DarkChat Edinburgh Awards 2024

EDINBURGH 2024: BEST THEATRE SHOWS TO SEE

Lyn Gardner, The Stage

Based on a true story of a family caught up in the 90s recession, It’s the Economy, Stupid! reveals the heart, humour and humanity behind economics.

Using paper bags, an old board game and a pinch of magic, Joe Sellman-Leava and Dylan Howells calculate how their lives were shaped by the economies they grew up in, uncover how economics wins elections, and ask why the force that dominates people’s lives is so bloody complicated!

‘THIS SHOW ACHIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE’

★★★★ Playbill

It’s the Economy, Stupid! has been praised for making economics accessible and entertaining, while connecting a deeply personal story to the financial realities we all face today: including the housing and cost of living crises. Taking its title from James Carville (who successfully framed the 1992 American Presidential election around the recession), It’s the Economy, Stupid! combines slick staging, innovative projection-mapping and magical storytelling, to reveal the true cost of low financial literacy in money-dominated world.

Developed with and directed by internationally acclaimed Katharina Reinthaller, and produced by Worklight Theatre, It’s the Economy, Stupid! is a bold new play from the Fringe First winning creators of Labels and Fanboy.

Last year it premiered with a sold-out, critically acclaimed run at Edinburgh Fringe, before embarking on a national tour, which continues in 2025, before a transferring to London’s Soho Theatre. Tickets go fast for this one so be sure to book soon!

 

Reviews

 

‘IT MIGHT JUST BE WHAT WE NEED RIGHT NOW…’

The Times

‘AN EFFECTIVE DOUBLE ACT…BOTH BRING INTELLIGENCE AND CHARISMA’

Arifa Akbar, The Guardian

‘very funny, poignant, expertly delivered…catch it while you can!’

★★★★ Broadway Baby

‘THIS SHOW ACHIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE’★★★★ Playbill

‘BRILLIANT AND PASSIONATE’

★★★★★ City Girl Network

‘EXTRAORDINARY’

★★★★★ Adventures In Theatreland

‘PERSONAL, POLISHED AND PROVOCATIVE’

★★★★ The Scotsman on LABELS

‘BRIMMING WITH ENERGY’

★★★★ The Stage on MONSTER

‘A FASCINATING PIECE…FULL OF SURPRISES’★★★★★ Broadway Baby on FANBOY