Upcoming Dates
OCTOBER
8th - Plymouth The Quad Theatre
9th - Launceston Town Hall
11th - Poole Lighthouse
12th - Newport Riverfront
13th - Bristol Redgrave Theatre
14th - Exeter Corn Exchange
16th - Frome Cheese and Grain
18th - Hereford Courtyard
19th - Doncaster The Cast
20th - Burnley Mechanics
21st - Southport The Atkinson
22nd - Colwyn Bay Theatr Colywn
23rd - Buxton Opera House
25th - York Grand Opera House
26th - Ilkley King’s Hall
27th - Newcastle - Tyne Theatre
28th - Lincoln New Theatre Royal
29th - Cheltenham Town Hall
30th - Richmond Theatre
NOVEMBER
1st - Newbury Corn Exchange
2nd - Southampton MAST Mayflower Studios
3rd - Horsham The Capitol
4th - Leamington Spa Royal Spa Centre
6th - Salford The Lowry
7th - Leeds City Varieties Music Hall
8th - Loughborough Town Hall
10th - Bury St Edmunds The Apex
12th - Ulverston Coronation Hall
13th - Edinburgh The Queen’s Hall
After four years away from the front line, ITV’s Tour de France commentator Ned Boulting returns with a fresh assault on our cycling senses.
The cunningly entitled ‘Retour de Ned’ is an indispensable theatrical road map for anyone aspiring to wear the yellow jersey on the Champs Elysées: a really very rough guide to the tactics (pedal faster) and challenges (not pedalling fast enough) which will need to be deployed to win the biggest bike race in the world.
In Ned’s words it’s:
‘What I Talk About When I Talk About The Tour de France’.
Along the way, there will be time to call to mind the greatest racers of the age, and to do hopelessly bad impressions of them. There will be scope to celebrate all that is French about France, and all that is Tourish about the Tour: Stuff like ignoring 12th century cathedrals, peeing at the side of the road, pushing spectators over, punching demonstrators and generally behaving like a shaven-legged hooligan for a month while riding over entire mountain ranges.
So come along for another ride through the peaks and troughs of the silliest and the grandest month of the year, as Ned hands out his copious, thoroughly unreliable, advice on How To Win The Tour de France. Or if not that, then at least How To Watch It On The Telly.
A PREVIEw…
