Friday Night Comedy at TG

Miles Jupp - On I Bang

Since Miles’ last tour finished at The London Palladium in 2017, he’s been in The Full Monty on Disney Plus, The Durrells and Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? on ITV, as well as a heap of episodes of Frankie Boyle’s New World Order and Have I Got News For You.

He’s made an award-winning radio series, he’s published a novel and he’s played the Emperor of Austria and Europe in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon.

Yet one sunny day in the middle of all this, he suddenly suffered a brain seizure. This led to the discovery of a tumour the size of a cherry tomato, and a rather pressing need to undergo major neurosurgery. Obviously, one doesn’t wish to make a big deal of it, but the experience has left him with a story to tell and a few things that he’d like to share with the room. So that’s exactly what he’s doing in his new show On I Bang – a tale about surprise, fear, luck, love and qualified medical practitioners.

“JOYFUL SHOW ABOUT NEAR-DEATH IS HIS BEST YET”  **** THE TIMES 2024

“ELEGANTLY FUNNY, TERRIBLY ENGLISH ACCOUNT OF A TUMOUR” **** THE GUARDIAN 2024

**** The Telegraph **** Chortle 2024

***** The Arts Desk 2024

Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans while out hunting.

When one of the swans turns into a beautiful woman, Odette, he is enraptured. But she is under a spell that holds her captive, allowing her to regain her human form only at night. Von Rothbart, arbiter of Odette's curse, tricks the Prince into declaring his love for the identical Odile and thus breaking his vow to Odette. Doomed to remain a swan forever, Odette has but one way to break the sorcerer's spell.

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Mae'r Tywysog Siegfried yn siawnsio ar haid o elyrch tra allan yn hela.

Pan fydd un o'r elyrch yn troi'n fenyw hardd, Odette, mae'n cael ei swyno. Ond mae hi dan swyn sy'n ei dal yn gaeth, gan ganiatáu iddi adennill ei ffurf ddynol yn unig yn y nos. Mae Von Rothbart, canolwr melltith Odette, yn twyllo'r Tywysog i ddatgan ei gariad at yr un Odile a thrwy hynny dorri ei adduned i Odette. Wedi'i dynghedu i aros yn alarch am byth, nid oes gan Odette ond un ffordd o dorri swyn y dewin.

Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) and Hugh Skinner (W1A; Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.

While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the country, Jack lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy adopts a similar facade. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate.

Max Webster (Life of Pi) directs this hilarious story of identity, impersonation and romance, filmed live from the National Theatre in London.

Rating 12A - TBC.

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Yn ymuno ag enillydd tair gwobr Olivier, Sharon D Clarke, mae Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Addysg Rhyw) yn yr ailwampiad llawen hwn o gomedi enwocaf Oscar Wilde.

Wrth gymryd rôl gwarcheidwad amheus yn y wlad, mae Jack yn gadael yn rhydd yn y dref o dan hunaniaeth ffug. Yn y cyfamser, mae ei ffrind Algy yn mabwysiadu ffasâd tebyg. Gan obeithio creu argraff ar ddwy fenyw gymwys, mae'r boneddigion yn cael eu dal mewn gwe o gelwyddau y mae'n rhaid iddynt eu llywio'n ofalus.

Max Webster (Life of Pi) sy'n cyfarwyddo'r stori ddoniol hon am hunaniaeth, dynwarediad a rhamant, wedi'i ffilmio'n fyw o'r National Theatre yn Llundain.