Can’t wait for the Edinburgh Fringe to start? Then warm up with some comedy at Jacksons Lane in north London…
Mark Thomas’ Red Shed (Work in progress)
Mark Thomas’ Red Shed.
When: 28th – 29th June 2016, at 8pm
Where: Jacksons Lane, 269a Archway Road, London N6 5AA
£: Tickets cost £10
What is it?
Red Shed is the third part in a trilogy that started with the multi award-winning shows Bravo Figaro and Cuckooed.
Mark Thomas returns to the place where he first started to perform in public, a red wooden shed in Wakefield, the Labour Club, to celebrate the club’s 50th birthday. Interviewing old friends and comrades Thomas pieces together the club’s history and works with the club to campaign with some of the poorest workers in the country for their rights.
It is the story of the battle for hope and the survival of a community in a small wooden shed. It is part theatre, part stand up, part journalism, part activism, and returns to Thomas’ obsessions of community and struggle.
The show will involve the audience (in a nice way) to help recreate the shed and its inhabitants.
More info: www.jacksonslane.org.uk/whats-on/event/2016/mark-thomas-red-shed-work-in-progress
Robert Newman’s The Brain Show
Rob Newman in The Brain Show.
When: 5th – 6th July 2016, at 8pm
Where: Jacksons Lane, 269a Archway Road, London N6 5AA
£: Tickets cost £14.95/£12.95
What is it?
After volunteering for a brain-imaging experiment meant to locate the part of the brain that lights up when you’re in love, Rob Newman emerges with more questions than answers.
Can brain scans read our minds? Are we our brains? How can you map the mind?
The Brain Show includes a specially constructed MRI-hat that will record Newman’s real-time brain activity in the show.
More info: www.jacksonslane.org.uk/whats-on/event/2016/robert-newman-the-brain-show