Stand-up show by Miriam Margolyes based on her new book, with a no-holds-barred Q&A and a live BSL interpreter.
Miriam Margolyes is coming to the Regent Theatre on Saturday 5 December, with Catherine Bohart joining her on stage. It's part of a tour that takes her across the islands, including Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and the Stoke date is one of the stops.
The show comes from her new book, Miriam's Full English, and it's a bit of a shift in focus for her. After spending years exploring the rest of the world through her BBC series, she's turned her documentary-maker's eye back home to ask what actually holds the United Kingdom together. It's not a lecture, though — the evening is part authored conversation, part naughty confession session and part no-holds-barred Q&A, weaving together anecdotes, candid disclosures and sharp political observations alongside the personal and the gloriously inappropriate. There are heroes and villains, belly laughs and lashings of sauce.
That Q&A is a big part of the night, and she takes questions from the audience in a session where no subject is off-limits. At nearly 85, she quips, 'this old dyke can only go on so long.' It's the same outspokenness that's made her a household name, and she's not holding back here. The tour is open to a wide range of audiences, too: every performance includes either a BSL performance or a live BSL interpreter, and the recommended age is 14+.
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It's a one-night-only visit to the Regent, so if you want to see her in person, you'll need to get your tickets sorted in advance. The show starts at 7:30pm and runs for one hour and fifty minutes, including a twenty-minute interval. Tickets range from £14.00 to £118.25.
