Stand-up Comedian’s Lifelong Dream

THAME Players are soon to be hosting another of their popular stand-up comedy show. In My Dog’s Got No Nose, being performed at the Players Theatre on Friday, June 1, Giles Shenton (‘Old Herbaceous’) returns with a ‘thought-provoking’ and ‘wonderful piece of theatre’ about a man preparing to fulfill his lifelong ambition to be a stand-up comedian.

In a funny and bittersweet story, Giles takes us on a journey through the events surrounding a stand-up comedian’s first-ever performance. His debut is the fulfilment of a lifelong dream which features stand-up comedy, unrequited love, animal lovers, facts of life, sibling rivalries and mercy killing as just some of the elements. We discover that both man and performance are not quite what they seem.

The play, which ‘…puts one in mind of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads’, was written by Ron Aldridge, is directed by Simon Downing and produced by Kick in the Head.

Tickets for My dog’s Got No Nose are £12 (no concessions) and are available from Spear Travels, Greyhound Walk, Thame, telephone 01844 217228 or online from www.thameplayers.co.uk

Press comment

‘Giles Shenton held his audience’s attention for nearly two hours; their interest or curiosity in the first half and then to have them fully engrossed in the second before a shocked silence when you could hear a pin drop in the auditorium.’ Alton Herald

‘Being billed as a comedy … understates a wonderful piece of theatre…..This one-man performance, brilliantly put over by Giles Shenton, is so much more than that as it all evolves…..The audience was privileged to be entertained, and have its emotions thoroughly massaged by such a thought-provoking and high quality production.’ Beccles & Bungay Journal

‘Giles Shenton gifts us with another tour de force…catch it while you can!’ Surrey Advertiser