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Dylan Moran

Brimming with bloodlust, full to bursting with ox-tail soup; Dylan Moran, the largest nine-year-old girl in the British Isles, returns at last to the stage. This long awaited UK tour, since his last sell out tour with Ready, Steady....Cough in 2000; "Monster" kicks off on 12th December at the Colchester Arts Centre and continues throughout December, January and February, culminating on 27th February at The Octagon in Bolton.

Here he comes now arrowing down the gangway wreathed in jonquils and saliva to electrify parishioners of every tint and poundage. Who could mistake that zesty grin or twinkling quiff? What garlands of wisdom does he clutch within his dainty forearms? What searing epithets are loaded in the million silos of his infinitely honeycombed brain? Subtle as the fluxing of a galaxy, calm as a Jaguar ordering lunch yet winsome as a pregnant wren choosing twigs ….. Can he be human? No one will ever know.

Dylan is quite a remarkable comedian, somewhat like a jazz musician playing with language, experience and the absurdity of life. His comedy credits include winning the Perrier Award in 1996 at The Edinburgh Festival as well as winning Channel 4 sponsored newcomers comedy competition So You Think You're Funny, in 1993. He is a seasoned performer at comedy festivals, and his numerous appearances include The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Just For Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival and The Kilkenny Comedy Festival. Dylan is also the creative force behind Channel 4's sitcom hit Black Books, in which he appears as Bernard Black, the foul tempered, eccentric and drink-fuelled proprietor of a grubby book shop, who would really rather not have customers if he could help it. Black Books won a BAFTA for Best Sitcom in 2001 as well as a Bronze Rose at The Montreux Festival in the same year.

"So funny, it's painful" The Observer

"Master of irrelevant nonsense....bloody hilarious" Loaded

"Dylan Moran is simply superb … clever, eccentric, funny and articulate." The Radio Times

"absurd; touching; utterly daft and wonderfully funny." The Times

Dylan Moran "Monster" UK Tour Dates 2002-2003

DECEMBER
Thursday 12th Colchester Arts Centre 01206 500 900
Friday 13th Manchester Dance House 0161 237 9753
Saturday 14th Manchester Dance House 0161 237 9753
Sunday 15th Bristol Hen & Chicken 0117 922 3683
Monday 16th Bristol Hen & Chicken 0117 922 3683

JANUARY
Thursday 16th High Wycombe Town Hall 01494 512 000
Friday 17th Telford Oakengates Theatre 01952 619 020
Saturday18th Oxford Play House 01865 305 305
Sunday 19th Swindon Wyvern Theatre 01793 524 481
Monday 20th Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 02392 863 911
Friday 24th Kings Lynn Arts Centre 01553 764 864
Saturday 25th Norwich PlayHouse 01603 598 598
Sunday 26th Brighton Gardner Arts Centre 01273 685 861
Thursday 30th Newcastle Opera House 0191 232 0899
Friday 31st Camberley Arts Link Theatre 01276 707 600

FEBRUARY
Saturday 1st Inverness Eden Court Theatre 01463 234 234
Sunday 2nd Glasgow The Tron 0141 552 4267
Monday 3rd Aberdeen Arts Centre 01224 635 208
Wednesday 5th Edinburgh The Queens Hall 0131 668 2019
Saturday 8th Stirling Tolbooth 01786 274 000
Sunday 9th Dunfermline Carnegie Hall 01383 314 000
Thursday 13th Leeds City Varieties 0113 243 0808
Friday14th Liverpool Everyman Theatre 0151 709 4776
Saturday 15th Liverpool Everyman Theatre 0151 709 4776
Sunday 16th Coventry Warwick Arts Centre 02476 524 524
Monday 17th IRELAND TBC
Tuesday 18th IRELAND TBC
Wednesday 19th IRELAND TBC
Thursday 20th IRELAND TBC
Friday 21st IRELAND TBC
Saturday 22nd IRELAND TBC
Sunday 23rd Exeter Northcott Theatre 01392 493 493
Monday 24th Hereford The Courtyard 01432 359 252
Thursday 27th Bolton Octagon Theatre 01204 520 661