If comedy is the best medicine, a double dose comes to The Merlin this weekend.
On Friday 18th November at 7.45pm, multi-award winner Mark Thomas returns to where he first started to perform: a red wooden shed in Wakefield, the labour club, to celebrate its 50th birthday.
The show will involve the audience (in a nice way) to recreate the shed and its inhabitants. Part theatre, stand up, journalism, activism it’s the story of the battle for hope and the survival of a community in a small wooden shed.
Mark Thomas – The Red Shed: recommended age 16+, tickets £17 and £12.50, running time 100 minutes plus interval.
On the following night, Saturday 19th November, also at 7.45pm, award-winning stand-up comedian Jo Caulfield takes a humorous look at life’s potential traps, what can go wrong and how to deal with them (and, in some cases, how to make everyone else suffer with you). This is a 90-minute laugh-out-loud show, full of razor-sharp observations; sharp, witty and insightful, Jo will make you think as much as she makes you laugh.
Jo Caulfield: The Customer is Always Wrong: recommended age 16+, tickets £15 and £12.50, 90 minutes plus interval.
Book shows at www.merlintheatre.co.uk or phone 01373 465949.
There is the option of a pre-show supper on both nights; please contact Keren Hayden at kerenhayden@gmail.com or 07968 753632 to book supper.
