Saturday 28th January 6.45pm, show starts at 7.15pm sharp!
Roll up! Roll up! Mr Fluffypunk's Penny Gaff is back after an extended break, ready to bring you the the great, the odd, and the oddly great at Stroud's off-kilter spoken word cabaret.
Featuring, to kick things off for 2023, Rob Auton- The Crowd Show
For the first time since the pandemic years, our perennial favourite returns like a bearded art-comet with his new full 1 hr show! A big hit, as ever, at the Edinburgh Fringe and currently on his biggest-ever tour.
‘The Crowd Show’ is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show about crowds, people and connection. ‘The Crowd Show’ is a show suitable for anybody who has been in a crowd or wants to be in the crowd for this show.
Rob Auton is an award-winning writer, actor and podcaster, named the ‘Brian Cox of Comedy’ by the Guardian. Rob has written eight hit Edinburgh Fringe shows, which have led to nationwide tours and television/radio appearances. Rob has had four collections of poetry and illustrations published by Burning Eye Books and Harper Collins.
In 2020, Rob started ‘The Rob Auton Daily Podcast’. The podcast went on to amass over two million listens and win a gold award for Best Daily Podcast at the British Podcast Awards.
“In this tender response to the isolation of lockdown, Rob Auton – the king of stand-up profundity – offers a touching paean to the joy of crowds.”
Chortle
“There’s a charming sincerity about Auton and his slightly awkward presence on stage but that is what makes The Crowd Show all the more endearing.”
Voice magazine
“It will not only make you laugh but make you feel better about your place in the world.”
Entertainment Now
Hosted by stand-up poet and lo-fi theatremaker Jonny Fluffypunk
PLUS:
Liv Torc
Hot poet, wordy climate warrior and general wondermentalist...
A Radio 4 Slam winner, a former Bard of Exeter, host of The Rainbow Fish Speakeasy and The Hip Yak Poetry Shack, Liv runs the poetry stage at WOMAD, the COP26 project Hot Poets, Banana Poems and the lockdown haiku and photography project Haiflu – as featured on the Today Programme.
She has recently performed at the UN in Paris, TEDxLondonWomen, the Southbank and was featured on BBCR4’s Poetry Please. In 2022 she supported Hollie McNish and Roger McGough and is currently working with the UNFCCC to bring poetry into the climate change fight. Her books include Show Me Life, Banana Poems and The Human Emergency.
“You don’t get any better than Liv Torc” Roger McGough
“Liv Torc makes the world a better place.” Elvis McGonagall
“In Liv Torc’s witty, inventive and generous hands, poetry opens up new ways of noticing and sharing all that matters most.” Susannah Herbert, Head of Forward Arts Foundation and National Poetry Day (2012–2021)
Tickets
Advance: 1st release £10 / 2nd release £12
Door: £14
6.45pm doors, 7.15pm sharp start