The Escape Plan – Henry Normal

Tuesday 16 November 2021

7:00 pm : Main stage/ Seated

14+

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General: £14.50

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Please note any customers who had booked tickets for this event on 20/11/20 should have received a refund for these tickets. They are not valid for the rescheduled date (16/11/21). If you’d like to attend this event, you’ll need to re-purchase new tickets.

In association with Nottingham Poetry Festival

An evening of pure escape with stories, jokes and poems.

Henry is a writer, poet and TV and Film producer and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. In 2017 he was honoured with a special BAFTA for services to Television. Henry has 9 poetry collections in print and has a regular show on BBC Radio 4.

His new live show ‘The Escape Plan’ is touring in theatres around the country, and draws on over 40 years of work, featuring stories, jokes and poems from his successful BBC Radio 4 series and his seven poetry collections. His latest poetry book of the same name is his eighth published collection featuring over 250 of his favourite and most popular poems.

“Idiosyncratic and effortlessly funny” – Radio Times

“Bittersweet poetry with a sublimely observant wit” – Guardian

 

He was recently given a honorary doctorate of letters by Nottingham Trent University, another by University of Nottingham, and has had a beer and a bus named after him in Nottingham!

Stage times
Doors: 7.00pm
Henry Normal: 8.00pm – 8:45pm
Interval: 8.45pm – 9.05pm
Henry Normal: 9.05pm – 9.50pm

 

Seated gigs offer disabled access within the first three rows inside the venue.
Standing gigs offer accessibility for disabled patrons in our mezzanine. We will always do our best to accommodate individual requirements, and other viewing options may be available at standing gigs following a risk assessment of the event.

Please click here for full accessibility information.

If you have any particular requirements or queries, please email us ahead of the event at [email protected].

 

 

 

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The Escape Plan – Henry Normal

Please note any customers who had booked tickets for this event on 20/11/20 should have received a refund for these tickets. They are not valid for the rescheduled date (16/11/21). If you’d like to attend this event, you’ll need to re-purchase new tickets.

In association with Nottingham Poetry Festival

An evening of pure escape with stories, jokes and poems.

Henry is a writer, poet and TV and Film producer and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. In 2017 he was honoured with a special BAFTA for services to Television. Henry has 9 poetry collections in print and has a regular show on BBC Radio 4.

His new live show ‘The Escape Plan’ is touring in theatres around the country, and draws on over 40 years of work, featuring stories, jokes and poems from his successful BBC Radio 4 series and his seven poetry collections. His latest poetry book of the same name is his eighth published collection featuring over 250 of his favourite and most popular poems.

“Idiosyncratic and effortlessly funny” – Radio Times

“Bittersweet poetry with a sublimely observant wit” – Guardian

 

He was recently given a honorary doctorate of letters by Nottingham Trent University, another by University of Nottingham, and has had a beer and a bus named after him in Nottingham!

Stage times
Doors: 7.00pm
Henry Normal: 8.00pm – 8:45pm
Interval: 8.45pm – 9.05pm
Henry Normal: 9.05pm – 9.50pm

 

Seated gigs offer disabled access within the first three rows inside the venue.
Standing gigs offer accessibility for disabled patrons in our mezzanine. We will always do our best to accommodate individual requirements, and other viewing options may be available at standing gigs following a risk assessment of the event.

Please click here for full accessibility information.

If you have any particular requirements or queries, please email us ahead of the event at [email protected].

 

 

 

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