Ropery Hall News

Our regular comedy club returns with a selection of comedians from the national circuit and our Barnstormer’s compere.

Featuring three comedians from the national circuit and our Barnstormers compere.

Our regular comedy club returns with a selection of comedians from the national circuit and our Barnstormer’s compere.

Our regular comedy club returns with a selection of comedians from the national circuit and our Barnstormer’s compere.

Tonight’s comedians are: Fran Garrity – ‘one of the North East’s finest comedic exports of recent years…’; Stephanie Laing – ‘a mix of silliness, filth and unusual observations’ and Canadian surrealist and master story-teller Tony Law.

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre present

Post Office Scandal The Musical 

Their 13th brand new comedy show, all done in the best possible taste. Honest! An hour of songs, sketches, socks and violence, telling the true story of the Post Office Scandal, and much much more.

★★★★ “A distracting tonic for the times” – The Scotsman

★★★★★ “Had every single audience member… laughing until they cried” – Edinburgh Evening News

 ★★★★ “The finest, funniest fringe comedy you will see in Edinburgh” – Everything Theatre

Post Office Scandal is the Socks’ 13th new hour long comedy show, following such Edinburgh Fringe hits as Socks Do Shakespeare, Socks Do Superheroes, Eurovision Sock Contest, Boo Lingerie The Socky Horror Show, and Minging Detectives.

Completing the Trilogy begun with Genius 2.0 and The Work of the Devil, Have We Met? finds Simon standing, like Ulysses in Tennyson’s famous verse, gazing out over the moaning deep and the twinkling rocks and wondering whether to seek a newer world? To smite the sounding furrows? To strive, to seek, and to find? Or whether in fact, to put the kettle on, crack open the Hobnobs and simply yield?

Drawing on Joyce, Proust and the career of Philip Schofield to make sense of his own tangled past and possible future, Evans skilfully weaves comedy, pathos and narrowly averted cancellation into an unforgettable two hours of unique entertainment.

“A typically amazing show… Masterful really. There’s no one quite like him.” Dan Jackson, @Northumbriana.

“An incredibly heartfelt and, of course, bloody funny evening.” Duncan Wainscott, @folkyvale.

“Still ruminating on an incredible night of storytelling/ comedy with Simon Evans last night – real genius in the elegiac tales woven perfectly through the sharp humour.” Mike Rea, @IdeaPharma

“We saw you last night at Tiverton. A 100-mile round trip and worth every foot of it. What an amazing show. Humour and pathos. A rare and beautiful thing. We absolutely loved it…” Chas Newport, @chas_newport

‘ A Masterclass’ ★★★★★ THE SCOTSMAN

‘ Jaw-dropping’      CHORTLE