After a hugely successful five-star-rated run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018, with every show totally sold out, Gyles Brandreth is bringing his hit one-man show, Break A Leg!, to Milton Keynes as part of a UK tour.
Actor, author, ex-MP, broadcaster, and now acclaimed stand-up comedian, Break a Leg! is Gyles Brandreth’s riotous celebration of all things theatrical.
This is Brandreth unleashed on the stars he’s known and the theatre stories that have made him laugh – and occasionally cry.
Without hesitation or repetition (but just a touch of deviation), Just A Minute regular Gyles delivers a dazzling evening of wit, wisdom, high drama, low comedy and hilarious name dropping.
They say that all political careers end in tears, but in the case of Gyles Brandreth it seems it’s tears of laughter. He’s won the Most Popular Show At The Fringe Award and a record number of five star reviews.
A former Oxford Scholar, President of the Oxford Union and MP for the City of Chester, Gyles Brandreth’s career has ranged from being a Whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Major’s government to starring in his own award-winning musical revue in London’s West End.
A prolific broadcaster, he has appeared on QI (BBC2), Have I Got News For You (BBC1), Room 101 (BBC1), Just A Minute (BBC Radio 4), and is a reporter and presenter for The One Show (BBC 1), as well as Dictionary Corner’s most frequent resident on Countdown (Channel 4). On stage he has appeared most recently in Hamlet and The Importance of Being Earnest.
He is the Chancellor of the University of Chester, a columnist for The Oldie and the author of seven Victorian murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde as his detective now published in 22 countries around the world. His Sunday Times best-sellers include a biography of The Queen, Word Play, The 7 Secrets of Happiness, and, most recently, Have You Eaten Grandma?
Break a Leg! A Dictionary of Theatrical Quotations (Notting Hill Editions), compiled by his wife Michele Brown and introduced by Gyles, is published to coincide with the new show – and there is a ‘meet and greet’ with Gyles and his wife after every performance on the tour.
Gyles will play The Stables at Wavendon on April 27.
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