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RBM presents

SUE PERKINS NATIONAL TOUR
Feb - May 2006

In the autumn of 1988, Sue Perkins got onto a stage to perform her first ever stand up routine. She was interrupted, mid flow, by a strange and hunched figure, dressed in a cerise New Romantic boiler suit. This person turned out to be a girl called Mel. For the next seventeen years the pair were best known as Mel & Sue.

Now in her first one woman show, Sue will finally finish what she started that night. Except with different jokes. Obviously .

Sue invites you to take a tour round Britain's first online Romany community, see the prototype of the Pentagon's Gay Bomb and find out why wearing spectacles is simply not enough in the fight to become Spectacle Wearer of the Year. Plus, why you should always keep a badger in the fridge, in her first solo stand up show.

"That rare thing, truly observational comedy, in a brilliant stand-up debut from one half of Mel and Sue" The Sunday Telegraph

As Mel and Sue, the duo were short listed for the Daily Express Best Newcomers Award at the Edinburgh festival in 1993 and soon started writing for French and Saunders, before being picked up to front their own daytime show, Light Lunch for Channel 4. This was nominated for two RTS awards, and ran for two years. Subsequently, they have appeared in Room 101, Celebrity Weakest Link, Stars in Their Eyes to name but a few.

"It's wry, witty inventive and highly entertaining. You'd imagine she's been at it since the dawn of time" Time Out

Sue has appeared, solo, in Have I Got News, Good Evening Rockall (2 series for BBC3), Movie Babylon (2 series for SkyTV); has written additional material for Ab Fab, and appears regularly on radio shows such as It's Been A Bad Week (Radio2) and Just A Minute (R4). She also presents the 99p Challenge, which has just received a Silver Sony Award for Comedy.

"This show is an out-and-out success. laugh out loud funny" **** ScotsGay

SUE PERKINS TOUR 2006

Thurs 2 February - BIRMINGHAM, MAC 0121 440 4221
Sat 11 February - HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, Old Town Hall 01442 228095
Sat 18 February - LOUGHBOROUGH, Town Hall 01509 231914
Sat 4 March - CAMBERLEY, Camberley Theatre 01276 707600
Sun 12 March - EDMONTON, Millfield Theatre 020 8807 6680
Wed 29 March - LEEDS, City Varieties 0113 391 7777
Sat 1 April - NOTTINGHAM, Lakeside Arts Centre 0115 846 7777
Fri 7 April - CARDIFF, Wales Millennium Centre 08700 40 2000
Sat 8 April - TUNBRIDGE WELLS, Trinity Theatre 01892 678678
Tue 11 April - HULL, Hull Truck Theatre 01482 323638
Sun 16 April - BRIGHTON, Komedia 01273 647100
Sat 22 April - COLCHESTER, Mercury Theatre 01206 573 948
Sat 29 April - WINCHESTER, Theatre Royal 01962 840440
Sun 7 May - MAIDSTONE, The Hazlitt Theatre 01622 758611
Fri 12 May - SALFORD, The Lowry 0870 787 5780
Sat 20 May - DARLINGTON, Darlington Arts Centre 01325 486555
Sat 26 May - SWINDON, Swindon Arts Centre 01793 614837
Wed 31 May - EPSOM, Playhouse 01372 742555