Interest area: Comedy

Sam Avery: Thunderstorm

Back with a bang, award-winning comedian Sam Avery returns with his electrifying new show, Thunderstorm!

In his trademark punchy style, Sam takes you on a whirlwind journey through the chaos of the modern world – from parenting disasters to culture wars, conspiracy theories to political morons.

With sharp wit and a stormy twist, he’s here to prove that the only way to weather modern life is through laughter!

Expect thunderous punchlines, lightning-fast jokes, and a night of belly laughs you won’t forget.

Suzi Ruffell: The Juggle

It’s hard to be good all the time. A good mother, a good daughter, a good partner, a good friend, a good person. To be ambitious but not ruthless; a success but not a sell-out. A gentle parent but not a pushover. To be smashing life and make it look easy. The juggle. Suzi is exhausted and she hasn’t even started. This is a stand-up show and a support group!

★★★★
“A fabulously funny show from a class act.”
Evening Standard

The Juggle is a brand new tour from confessional multi-award winning comedian Suzi Ruffell.

Suzi has appeared on Live at the Apollo, The Jonathan Ross Show, The Last Leg and QI. Suzi co-hosts smash-hit podcasts Big Kick Energy with Maisie Adam and Like Minded Friends with Tom Allen, as well as having her own podcast, OUT with Suzi Ruffell. She even finds time to host on Virgin Radio. Suzi’s debut book, Am I Having Fun Now? is released in June 2025.

Nana Funk’s Christmas Party

Nana Funk, Liverpool’s favourite all singing, all dancing Nana, will be lighting up Downstairs at the Everyman with some slightly dusty Christmas Sparkle.

Join Nana for an evening of chats, songs and laughter. It’ll be like Wogan… if Wogan was a Nana with a questionable hip and mysterious past. And that’s not all, Nana will have special guests: Eithne Browne & Gillian Hardie.

There’ll be oodles of festive cheer, a drop of swearing and of course, a tasty Turkey Curry Buffet.

Ticket price includes your evening meal.

Menu:
– Funky Turkey Curry buffet served with chutneys, rice and Nana bread.
– Nana’s Yule Log served with cream

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Veggie/Vegan options are available, and they can cater for other dietary and allergen needs as required. Please inform them of any allergies by emailing boxoffice@everymanplayhouse.com making sure to include your order number, no later than 48hrs before the start of the event.

Tough Old Bird at Shakespeare North Pl...

Ageing well doesn’t mean behaving yourself…

Tough Old Bird explores how women are viewed in society as they have the absolute gall to get older. Have you ever noticed those adverts promising to ‘defy the effects of ageing’? Ooooh Nana hates them.

What about when we get old? Where’s the instruction manual? Who deems what is ‘acceptable behaviour’? What happens when your voice isn’t listened to, or you become slowly invisible?

Join Nana as she asks the big questions!

“Nana’s comedic stylings evoke the warm-hearted but deadly-sharp observational style of Victoria Wood.” – North West End

“The moments of poignant clarity were matched with joyous hilarity” – Opening Nights

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Produced by Nana Funk

The Ballad of the Underwater Daughter

Somewhere out there, in the murky no-man’s-land between reality and “are you pulling my leg?” there’s a mechanical island inhabited entirely by dads. Bodged together out of mangled metal and broken dreams, dad island is a flawed coping mechanism that barely manages to hold itself together.

Then one stormy night, a tiny barnacle encrusted bottle floats into the harbour with a crumpled note inside which reads, “remember me?”

The Ballad of the Underwater Daughter is a strange sort of odyssey. A woozy universe of messy minds and monstrously

fishy metaphors. Overloaded with puppets, props and machines, it is unquestionably the latest production from Leeds’ own theOBJECTproject (the company that may or may not have traumatised you with PIXIEMATOSIS).

The show is suitable for adults and people aged 14+. It contains very strong language and exploding dads.

The show will feature an additional 30 mins post show exhibition where they encourage the audience to come onstage and interact with the puppets and automata.

Credits:

Written, designed and constructed by Mr Marc Parrett.
Additional material created by Tash Hudson and Frances Merriman.
Tour produced by Ione Vaughan.

Ruby Wax: I’m Not As Well As I Thoug...

After a complete sell-out first run in 2023, Ruby Wax’s rawest, darkest, funniest and most compelling stage show yet announces brand new dates for 2024, thanks to enormous demand.

“The original idea behind this show was based on the extreme journeys that I wanted to take in order to find an antidote to living a frazzled life. Along the way I wanted to find meaning, peace, happiness – the stuff we’re all chasing. However, after some transcendent experiences, I ended up in a mental institution. Obviously, I didn’t find what I was looking for.”

‘I’m Not As Well As I Thought I Was’ is Ruby’s first tour show in four years following her critically acclaimed, sell-out tour, ‘How To Be Human’.

Winter Comedy Takeover at Liverpool Ir...

Welcome to the Winter Comedy Takeover at Liverpool Irish Centre! Get ready for a night filled with laughter and fun as top comedians take the stage to entertain you for what will be the best stand-up comedy night in Liverpool & North West.

So, join them on Sat Nov 23 2024 at 19:00 at the very welcoming Liverpool Irish Centre for a hilarious evening you won’t want to miss. Gather your friends and family for a night of comedy that will have you laughing all night long. See you there!

Scotland’s Amazing Mark Nelson is headlining on the back of successful Edinburgh Fringe & Blackfriars sell out show.

The brilliant Hatty Preston opens the night – one of top female comics in the UK, a firm favourite of Hotwater Comedy Club (best club on the planet) & regular host & guest of the Have A Word Podcast with Adam Rowe & Dan Nighingale .

Supported by the hilarious Amit Mistry, Rach Fitz and Daniel Wild.

Your Comedy Takeover resident host is the very funny Mark Devine.

The bar is wallet friendly with one of the cheapest pints of great Guinness in Liverpool on a Saturday night at only £4!

Late bar closing at midnight with your chance to enjoy the craic listening to music late after the show.

Free parking and the Irish Shop will be open for your chance to stock up on goodies from Ireland.

Having a laugh with the Comedy Trust &...

Are you 16-24, know you need to build useful skills but not sure what you want to do next? Don’t worry – just have a laugh with the Comedy Trust!

A practitioner from the Comedy Trust will be leading a six week workshop to help young people feel more confident and positive by ‘having a laugh’.

The workshops will focus on mindfulness and wellbeing. They will be different each week and will include comedy, creative writing, fun games, performances and a whole lot more.

No experience is needed, workshops are open to all young people aged 16-24 years old.

There’ll be an opportunity to produce work from the sessions for a touring exhibition at the end of the 6 weeks of workshops. The exhibition will develop your curatorial skills including organisational, management, communication, research, writing, decision-making and negotiation skills.

You will also gain team work skills and will gain career knowledge from exposure to heritage, cultural, public and healthcare, raising awareness of new employment avenues.

Workshops are free but places are limited so please book a ticket in advance.

Dates are Sundays 6, 13 and 20 October and Sunday 3, 10, 17 November.

It would be really good if you could attend all six sessions but if you can’t, it’s OK – feel free to book on to the ones that you’re available for.

If you have any questions, please email youngpeople@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk

David Walliams’ Awful Auntie

This story by David Walliams has been adapted for the stage by The Birmingham Stage Company. Two of their previous two shows, Gangsta Granny and Billionaire Boy, received Olivier Award nominations!

The company also toured Demon Dentist in 2022-23 and another version of Awful Auntie in 2017-18. This brand new production of Awful Auntie has different actors and a brand new set.

When Stella sets off to visit London with her parents, she has no idea her life is in danger! When Stella wakes up three months later, only her Aunt Alberta can tell her what has happened. But not everything Alberta tells her turns out to be true and Stella quickly discovers she’s in for the fight of her life against her very own awful Auntie!

This is an exciting adventure story with a strong female heroine in Stella who, along with her friend Soot the ghost, must take on Aunt Alberta to prevent her wicked plan coming to fruition. The story also contains many moments of humour, as you would expect from David Walliams

Awful Auntie was published as novel for children by HarperCollins in 2014. Unlike many of David’s other books, this has not been adapted for TV as yet so most of the audience won’t have seen these characters being performed by actors before.

“Awful Auntie Live on Stage is a triumphant adaption of David Walliams’ much loved book. It has been cleverly adapted and directed and is great entertainment!” – What’s Good To Do

“This knockabout country-house horror-detective fun has been adapted by the team behind the hit take on Gangsta Granny. My boys loved it!” – Sunday Times

“Awful Auntie is a thrilling mash-up of comedy, horror, and detective story. I hope the partnership with Birmingham Stage Company continues with David Walliams: his books are ready fodder for the stage and become, in BSC’s experienced hands, note-perfect productions.” – Childrens Theatre Reviews

Mark Thomas: Gaffa Tapes

Following a recent step towards theatre in his last few shows, Mark Thomas is back to his finest stand-up form and anti-Tory sentiment in Gaffa Tapes as takes his tour to Liverpool!

Mark’s now famous mix of standup, theatre, journalism and the odd bout of performance art has made him one of our oldest surviving alternative comics. Often referred to as the ‘godfather of political comedy’ (amidst many other things), Mark has been performing comedy for nearly 40 years.

If you don’t know what Mark does, ask your parents. In his time, he has won 8 awards for performing, 3 for human rights work… and 1 he invented for himself. He has made 6 series of the Mark Thomas Comedy Product and 3 Dispatches for Channel 4, made 5 series of the Manifesto for Radio 4, written 5 books and 4 playscripts, curated and authored 2 art exhibitions with artist Tracey Moberly and was commissioned to write a show for the Royal Opera House.

He has forced a politician to resign, changed laws on tax and protest, become the Guinness Book of Records world-record holder for number of protests in 24 hours, taken the police to court three times and won (the fourth is in the pipeline), walked the length of the Israeli Wall in the West Bank (that’s 724km), and generally mucked about trying to have fun and upset (shall we say) the right people.