Writer Henry Normal and comedy legend Nigel Planer on tour

BAFTA award-winning writer and producer turned poet, Henry Normal and comedy legend Nigel Planer are heading back on the road for a national autumn tour.

They are performing at The Forum in Northallerton on 27th October and The Witham in Barnard Castle on 28th October.

Henry and Nigel first toured together in the early 90s and reunited in 2023 when they teamed up their latest spoken word shows to create an evening of poetry and comedy that has been winning over audiences across the country ever since.

This autumn tour is the first time the pair have taken on a full national tour together bringing poetry to the people and showcasing their newest work as well as more classic material from their impressive back catalogue.

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.

(Image: Siobhan Hanley)

He has toured with his ever-evolving poetry show constantly since retiring from TV and Film production.

In his own distinctive style, Henry’s show finds 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 deeply moving as it is funny and often both at the same time.

Henry has 15 poetry books in print including the latest collection “A Moonless Night’.

Nigel Planer is a critically-acclaimed British actor, writer, and musician. 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.

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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 and Henry will compliment one another’s warm, funny, and unique words for an unforgettable double bill that will bring poetry to the people and plenty of laughter too.

Tickets are on sale now.

TOUR DATES:

11th September Corsham - Pound Arts Centre

12th September Cornwall - Minack Theatre

13th September Seaton - Gateway Theatre

20th September Morecambe Poetry Festival W/Mike Harding

3rd October Belfast - Crescent Arts Centre

5th October Bellaghy -Seamus Heaney

8th October Norwich - Arts Centre

9th October Liverpool - Philharmonic Music room

10th October Bury - The Met

11th October Nottingham - Lakeside