BAFTA award-winning writer Henry Normal and legendary actor Nigel Planer announce show in Exeter

BAFTA award-winning writer and producer turned poet, Henry Normal, is back on the road touring the UK with a brand new show for 2023, alongside a very special guest - comedy legend Nigel Planer.

Kicking off in September 2023, Henry Normal will return to the stage alongside Nigel Planer, re-uniting this inimitable duo, who toured together in the early 90s. They will be performing at Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre on 12th October.

Henry Normal’s career spans over 40 years and includes writing and producing some of the country’s best loved and critically acclaimed TV programmes and films. His new shows will showcase a wide variety of new material from his latest collections - Collected Poems Volumes 1, 2 and the newly released Vol 3. Henry has 10 previous collections and will also be returning to BBC Radio 4 in December with a brand new show entitled A Normal Journey. This is Henry’s 11th BBC Radio 4 show in this ongoing series.

As ever, and in his own distinctive style, Henry’s show will find fun in the familiar, humour in the everyday and poignancy in the pitfalls of modern life. It is a show about love, life and family that is as moving as it is funny and often both at the same time.

Henry will be sharing the stage with critically-acclaimed British actor, writer, and musician Nigel Planer for 13 unforgettable shows on the Autumn tour. Best known for his roles as Neil in the BBC 1980s comedy The Young Ones and Ralph Filthy in Filthy Rich & Catflap, Nigel will be bringing his lesser-known but just as prolific poetic talent to the stage. His poetry has been published in the Guardian and in numerous anthologies as well as the 1997 collection Unlike the Buddha. Nigel has collected his many years of poetic endeavours into one volume called Making Other Plans.

Nigel is sure to complement Henry’s already warm, funny and unique show, and this is a unique opportunity to see two of the most exciting voices in spoken word, back to back.

TOUR DATES:

21st September Pocklington - Arts Centre

22nd September Morcombe - Poetry Festival w/ Brian Bilston

24th September Sheffield - Leadmill

25th September London - The Pleasance w/ Nigel Planer

3rd October Nottingham - Metronome

4th October Leeds - The Old Woollen

5th October Sale - Waterside Arts

6th October Holmfirth - Civic Theatre

7th October Helmsley - Arts Centre

10th October Chipping Norton - The Theatre w/ Nigel Planer

11th October Clevedon - Community Theatre w/ Nigel Planer