After a hugely successful five-star-rated run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018 and a sell-out 2019 UK tour, Gyles Brandreth has rescheduled his one-man show, Break A Leg!, back on the road and to a whole host of new venues across the UK from September until June 2022.
Actor, author, ex-MP, broadcaster, and now acclaimed stand-up comedian, Brandreth’s show is a riotous celebration of all things theatrical. This is Brandreth unleashed on the stars he’s known and the theatre stories that have made him laugh– and occasionally cry. Without hesitation or repetition (but just a touch of deviation), in Break A Leg! joyful Just A Minute regular Gyles delivers a dazzling two hours of wit, wisdom, high drama, low comedy and hilarious name dropping.
They say that all political careers end in tears, but in the case of Gyles Brandreth, it’s tears of laughter as his glittering career simply goes from strength to strength.
He won the Most Popular Show At The Fringe Award when he first took a show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and received a record number of five star reviews every time he’s appeared at the Pleasance, with even more Sold Out signs appearing outside venues during the first leg of his UK tour earlier this year. So, book now for these dates before he sells out again!
Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster, actor, former MP and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, now Chancellor of the University of Chester and one of Britain’s most sought-after award ceremony hosts and after-dinner speakers. A star of Celebrity Gogglebox, a veteran of QI and Have I Got News For You, a reporter on The One Show and a regular on Just a Minute, on stage he has appeared in pantomime, in Shakespeare, as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest and in his own musical revue in London’s West End. His many books include seven Victorian murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle as his detectives, and two recent best-sellers: The 7 Secrets of Happiness and his celebration of good English, punctuation, spelling and grammar, Have You Eaten Grandma? His latest book, coming out in September 2019, is about the power, pleasure and importance of learning poetry by heart: Dancing by the Light of the Moon.
Website: www.gylesbrandreth.net/ | Twitter: @GylesB1 | Instagram: @GylesBrandreth
TOUR DATES
12th September 2021 Worcester, Huntingdon Hall
www.worcesterlive.co.uk / 01905 611 427
17th September 2021 London, The Cadogan Hall
www.cadoganhall.com / 020 7730 4500
18th September 2021 Crewe, The Lyceum Theatre
www.crewelyceum.co.uk / 01270 368242
27th September 2021 Camberley, The Camberley Theatre
www.cammberleytheatre.co.uk / 0176 707600
3rd October 2021 Walsall, The Forest Arts Centre
www.walsallarena.com / 0300 555 2898
21st March 2022 Bracknell, The South Hill Park Arts
www.southhillpark.org.uk / 01344 484 123
1st April 2022 London, Leicester Square
www.leicestersquaretheatre.com / 020 7734 2222
2nd April 2022 London, Leicester Square
www.leicestersquaretheatre.com / 020 7734 2222
3rd April 2022 Wellingborough, The Castle Theatre
www.parkwoodtheatres.co.uk/castle-theatre / 01933 270007
9th April 2022 Harrogate, The Harrogate Theatre
www.harrogatetheatre.co.uk / 01423 502116
10th April 2022 High Wycombe, The Swan Theatre
www.wycombeswan.co.uk / 01494 512000
14th April 2022 Southport, Atkinson Arts Centre
www.theatkinson.co.uk / 01704 533333
16th April 2022 Buxton, The Opera House
www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk / 01298 72190
17th April 2022 Bury St. Edmunds, The Apex
www.theapex.co.uk / 01284 758000
22nd April 2022 Chelmsford, The Civic Theatre
www.chelmsford.gov.uk / 01245 605 505
23rd April 2022 Exeter, The Corn Exchange
www.exetercornexchange.co.uk / 01392 665938
24th April 2022 Torquay, Babbacombe Theatre
www.babbacombe-theatre.com / 01803 328 385
1st May 2022 Wimborne, The Tivoli Theatre
www.tivoliwimborne.co.uk / 01202 849103
6th May 2022 Taunton, Taunton Brewhouse
www.thebrewhouse.net / 01823 283 244
7th May 2022 Reading, The Hexagon
www.readingarts.com/hexagon/ 0118 960 6060
8th May 2022 Portsmouth, The New Theatre Royal
www.newtheatreroyal.com / 023 9264 9000
14th May 2022 Dorking, The Dorking Halls
www.dorkinghalls.co.uk / 01306 881717
21st May 2022 Launceston, Launceston Town Hall
www.launceston-tc.gov.uk/whats-on-in-launceston-town-hall / 01566 773693
22nd May 2022 Plymouth, The Red House Theatre
www.plymouthschoolofcreativearts.co.uk/the-red-house/ / 01752 221927
27th May 2022 Nottingham, The Nottingham Playhouse
www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk / 0115 3419419
28th May 2022 Durham, The Gala Theatre
www.galadurham.co.uk / 03000 266 600
29th May 2022 Leeds, City Varieties Music Halls
www.cityvarieties.co.uk / 0113 243 0808
30th May 2022 Broxbourne, The Spotlight
www.broxbourne.gov.uk/thespotlight / 01992 441946
5th June 2022 Yeovil, The Octagon Theatre
www.octagon-theatre.co.uk / 01935 422884
6th June 2022 Richmond, Richmond Theatre
https://www.atgtickets.com / 0333 009 6690
12th June 2022 St Albans, Alban Arena
https://www.alban-arena.co.uk / 01727 844488