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

When a rogue U.S General triggers a nuclear attack, a surreal race takes place, seeing the Government and one eccentric scientist scramble to avert global destruction.

This explosively funny satire is led by a world-renowned creative team led including Emmy Award-winner Armando

Lannucci (The Thick of It, Veep) and Olivier Award-winner Sean Foley (The Upstart Crow).

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Pan fydd Byddin yr Unol Daleithiau twyllodrus yn sbarduno ymosodiad niwclear, mae ras swreal yn digwydd, gan weld y Llywodraeth ac un gwyddonydd ecsentrig yn sgrialu i osgoi dinistr byd-eang.

Mae'r dychan ffrwydrol ddoniol hwn yn cael ei arwain gan dîm creadigol byd-enwog dan arweiniad Armando Lannucci sydd wedi ennill Gwobr Emmy, (The Thick of It, Veep) ac enillydd Gwobr Olivier, Sean Foley (The Upstart Crow).

The Capulets and Montagues are sworn enemies. Yet it is love at first sight for Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet when they meet each other at the Capulet ball, into which Romeo has snuck.

The two fall in love and they profess their devotion to each other at Juliet’s balcony. They secretly get married. The stakes are raised for the young couple when Romeo avenges the death of his friend Mercutio who has been killed by Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin. For this, Romeo is exiled from Verona.

Meanwhile, Juliet’s parents are forcing her to marry another suitor. In order to be together, Romeo and Juliet must risk it all.

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Mae'r Capulets a Montagues yn elynion llwg. Ac eto, cariad yw hi ar yr olwg gyntaf i Romeo Montague a Juliet Capulet pan fyddant yn cwrdd â'i gilydd wrth bêl y Capulet, y mae Romeo wedi sncian ynddi.

Mae'r ddau yn cwympo mewn cariad ac maen nhw'n arddel eu hymroddiad i'w gilydd ar falconi Juliet. Maent yn priodi yn gyfrinachol. Codir y polion ar gyfer y cwpl ifanc pan fydd Romeo yn dial am farwolaeth ei ffrind Mercutio sydd wedi cael ei ladd gan Tybalt, cefnder Juliet. Am hyn, alltudir Romeo o Verona.

Yn y cyfamser, mae rhieni Juliet yn ei gorfodi i briodi rhywun arall. Er mwyn bod gyda'i gilydd, rhaid i Romeo a Juliet fentro'r cyfan.