AN acclaimed actor, writer and comedian is coming to Manchester for his first ever solo theatre tour.
Michael Palin will be appearing at the Opera House September to celebrate the publication of volume three of his Diaries, Travelling to Work 1988-1998.
The one man tour will look back at 25 years of exploring the world and nearly 50 years in radio, television, books and film.
Michael said: “The Travelling to Work Diaries cover an extraordinarily busy time of my life. I was trying things I’d never done before, pushing myself beyond the predictable to novels and plays and a whole new careers as a television traveller.
“I like to think that the Travelling to Work tour is in the same spirit of adventures and experiment. It will be my first solo tour and I see it as a chance to meet audiences all over the country and talk about the only consistent thread in my working life – the irresistible urge to do something completely different.”
In the first half of the show Michael will take audiences on a whistle-stop tour of the globe. Highlights and lowlights, adventures and cock-ups, beauties and beats, wonders and wash-outs.
And all will be vividly illustrated with a special selection of photos and footage shot during the eight BBC TV travel series that began with Around the World in 80 Days.
In the second half of the show, Michael takes a free-wheeling look back at the other side of his life – the love of comedy that took him from schoolboy in Sheffield to Python at the O2. He will talk about the joy of writing and acting that has produced two novels and taken him from a dead parrot salesman to the headmaster who fights back in GBH.
Michael’s support for bookshops is well known and on the night of the show Urmston Bookshop will have signed copies of Michael’s new volume of Diaries for sale at the theatre.
Listing Information
Michael Palin: Travelling to Work
Opera House, Manchester
Monday 29 September
Perf Time: 7.30pm
Tickets: £30.50
0844 871 3018*
www.atgtickets.com/manchester*
(Subject to booking/transaction fee)
Groups of 10+: 0844 871 3038 (No booking fee. Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm)
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