Canterbury’s Marlowe hosts first Comedy Festival

Published: 29 April 2018
Reporter: Sandra Giorgetti

Omid Djalili in new show Schmuck For A Night

Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre's inaugural week-long Comedy Festival takes place in July. It boasts the likes of Omid Djalili, Adam Buxton and Nish Kumar in the line-up.

The Marlowe Studio will host eight Edinburgh Fringe previews of comedy acts. These include Adam Hess, Chortle award winner Kiri Pritchard-McClean, Ed Gamble and Lauren Pattison. Kieran Hodgson, previously seen at The Marlowe with his show Maestro, returns for the Festival.

Reginald D Hunter, Joe Wilkinson, Zoe Lyons and Andrew Maxwell take the regular Live At The Marlowe slot on the Friday, with headliner Omid Djalili bringing his new show, Schmuck For A Night, to the main stage on Saturday and improvised comedy play Austentatious closing the Festival on Sunday.

The Marlowe Comedy Festival is programmed in partnership with Show And Tell, one of the UK’s leading comedy producers.

The Festival is part of The Marlowe's summer season which includes musicals Doctor Doolittle, Kinky Boots, Rock Of Ages, Avenue Q and The Bodyguard and the National Theatre’s Macbeth.

New project The Return Of The Unknown to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice will look at the place of remembrance in today’s society through, drama, music, dance and digital art with events at Dover Marine Station, where the body of the Unknown Warrior arrived in Britain in 1920.

The Comedy Festival opens on 23 July.

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