Your perfect gentle overview of the colourful history and heritage of this 1,000-year-old World Heritage Site town.

This 90 minute, predominantly flat walk over approximately 1 mile will take you on a journey through ten centuries, revealing Abbey and Churches, Mineral Mining and the Industrial Revolution, the building of the Canal and Railways and the influence of the Dukes of Bedford, which can be seen almost everywhere you look! Today the town retains much of its built heritage and prides itself on being England’s premier market town.

Tickets available at the Tavistock Visitor Information Centre. Call 01822 612938 or email richard.rundell@tavistockguildhall.org to book your place.

Located in the heart of Tavistock, within the thriving market complex, Butchers’ Hall hosts Tavistock Arts Market, a vibrant monthly market featuring a variety of talented, local artists and makers.

In the mid-19th century, at the height of the mining boom, Tavistock boasted two breweries and some 29 public houses, of which only six are trading in 2020. This very popular 1 mile, 90 minute predominantly flat walk will identify past hostelries and breweries and explore their place in the rich history of Tavistock. The tour will end at one of the town’s late 19th century public house establishments, which will be open for the thirsty and curious.

Tickets available at the Tavistock Visitor Information Centre. Call 01822 612938 or email richard.rundell@tavistockguildhall.org

Located in the heart of Tavistock, within the thriving market complex, Butchers’ Hall hosts Tavistock Arts Market, a vibrant monthly market featuring a variety of talented, local artists and makers.

Your perfect gentle overview of the colourful history and heritage of this 1,000-year-old World Heritage Site town.

This 90 minute, predominantly flat walk over approximately 1 mile will take you on a journey through ten centuries, revealing Abbey and Churches, Mineral Mining and the Industrial Revolution, the building of the Canal and Railways and the influence of the Dukes of Bedford, which can be seen almost everywhere you look! Today the town retains much of its built heritage and prides itself on being England’s premier market town.

Tickets available at the Tavistock Visitor Information Centre. Call 01822 612938 or email richard.rundell@tavistockguildhall.org

Very few towns in Devon can have had quite as many religious establishments as Tavistock! With workers flocking to the town as mineral mining and industry flourished in the 19th century, many new Meeting Houses and Chapels were built alongside the 700-year-old Parish Church of St Eustachius, with its famous William Morris stained glass window. This 90 minute, predominantly flat walk over approximately 1 mile visits the sites of existing and previous religious buildings, spanning over 1,000 years from the building of Tavistock Abbey in 974 to the present day.

Call 01822 612938 or email richard.rundell@tavistockguildhall.org to book

Located in the heart of Tavistock, within the thriving market complex, Butchers’ Hall hosts Tavistock Arts Market, a vibrant monthly market featuring a variety of talented, local artists and makers.

Market traders come from all over the country to sell their wares and provide entertainment. Stalls and side shows are set up in the centre of the Town, and some 200 spaces are let by the Town Council for traders and community groups. A further 70 spaces in Bedford Car Park are let to members of the Showman’s Guild by West Devon Borough Council with the car park being shut for the whole Goose Fair week.

The more traditional side of Goose Fair can still be found at the Tavistock Livestock Centre. They usually hold an open day where you can see cattle, sheep and Dartmoor ponies, and enjoy the auction of live geese and poultry.

Join Simon Dell on one of his much sought-after “Tavistock by Twilight” walks where he ambles around the dark streets and back alleyways the town, hunting out places where things exist only in the shadowy recesses. He walked the beat at night over four decades while being a local policeman and knows what lurks around the next corner. Legends, myths, facts and history intermingle on this twilight stroll – if you have the nerve.

Tickets available from the Tavistock Visitor Information Centre. Call 01822 612938

LAUNCESTON TOWN HALL

Dom Joly’s Holiday Snaps – Travel and Comedy In The Danger Zone

Dom Joly is best known as the creator of Trigger Happy TV. And now the writer and broadcaster is undertaking his first UK tour since 2011, giving fans a rare opportunity to see him live. Dom will be talking about his exploits as a serial globe-trotting and seeker of dangerous travel spots. From North Korea though the Congo and Syria to Chernobyl, he’s visited some of the most unusual places on the planet. Joly famously attended school with Osama Bin Laden and armed with a trusty Powerpoint, fans can expect his holiday snaps to provide comedy and a sense of danger. The best-selling author will meet fans after the show to sign copies of his latest book, The Hezbollah Hiking Club.

Tickets £18 plus booking fee

https://www.comicalentertainment.com/book-tickets

QUAD THEATRE, MARJON, PLYMOUTH

SINDHU VEE: ALPHABET

A brand-new show about the hair we want, the friends we have, and living the vast difference between virus and viral.

Expect “outspoken, frank and funny stand-up” (Evening Standard) from this Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer nominee.

As seen on:  Live At The Apollo, QI, Have I Got News For You and Sex Education, and heard on Radio 4’s Things My Mother Never Told Me (…About Lockdown), and The Guilty Feminist podcast.

“Acerbic perspective and unapologetic delivery” The List

Tickets £16.50 plus booking fee

https://www.comicalentertainment.com/book-tickets

QUAD THEATRE, MARJON, PLYMOUTH

BORIS JOHNSON replaces Theresa May as PM. Show REWRITTEN.

The 2019 GENERAL ELECTION happens. Show REWRITTEN again.

COVID-19 arrives – show REWRITTEN for the third time.

So the 2019/2020 HEALING THE NATION TOUR has become the 2019/2020/2021 HEALING THE NATION TOUR, and as the tour has gone on, there’s been less and less healing and more and more of the opposite. Admittedly,  I could have changed the title but it still seemed strangely appropriate – and some of the gigs have been rescheduled so it would prove confusing to existing ticketholders if the ticket said “HEALING THE NATION” but the show was now called “MY LIFE IN BALLET”.

So, we have the serially rewritten HEALING THE NATION TOUR 2019/2020 now EXTENDED INTO 2021, not so much due to POPULAR DEMAND but more lack of OPEN VENUES. And with NEGATIVE POWERS OF HEALING. Yet this latest, very new version of the show is my FAVOURITE so far.

Tickets £15 pus booking fee

https://www.comicalentertainment.com/book-tickets

Located in the heart of Tavistock, within the thriving market complex, Butchers’ Hall hosts Tavistock Arts Market, a vibrant monthly market featuring a variety of talented, local artists and makers.

A wide range of products from food and drink, art, textiles, glass etc. An ideal place to find a unique Christmas gift.

Free Entry

9am to 4pm each day

LAUNCESTON TOWN HALL

CLIVE ANDERSON: ME, MACBETH & I

The host of Whose Line Is It Anyway, Loose Ends and Talks Back takes to the road with his much-anticipated first ever solo tour, in a one-man show guaranteed to be funnier than Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy. 

‘A complete delight’ ****

The Telegraph

‘An assured and entertaining show’ ****

The Times

Tickets £19 plus booking fee

 https://www.comicalentertainment.com/book-tickets

QUAD THEATRE, MARJON, PLYMOUTH

CLIVE ANDERSON: ME, MACBETH & I

The host of Whose Line Is It Anyway, Loose Ends and Talks Back takes to the road with his much-anticipated first ever solo tour, in a one-man show guaranteed to be funnier than Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy. 

‘A complete delight’ ****

The Telegraph

‘An assured and entertaining show’ ****

The Times

Tickets £19 plus booking fee

https://www.comicalentertainment.com/book-tickets 

QUAD THEATRE, MARJON, PLYMOUTH

Kerry’s back on tour after what she thought would be a little ‘she’ time. No chance. Her bosh-like nature will never let her rest.  Well, that and a needy cat, a constantly disappointing camper van, ever-raging feelings of mum guilt and bewilderment at the phasing out of thimbles.  All will be explained.

As seen on Mock The Week, Live At The Apollo, Taskmaster, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, Cats Does Countdown, After Life, Save Me and Call The Midwife and heard on The News Quiz, The Now Show and I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue.

“Her new show, finds her on exquisitely crowd-pleasing form.  Some sublime culture clash material.  ****
Evening Standard

“Godliman, nicely foul-mouthed when she wants to be, is caustic when required”  ****
ARTS DESK

Tickets £16 plus booking fee

https://www.comicalentertainment.com/book-tickets

LAUNCESTON TOWN HALL

Kerry’s back on tour after what she thought would be a little ‘she’ time. No chance. Her bosh-like nature will never let her rest.  Well, that and a needy cat, a constantly disappointing camper van, ever-raging feelings of mum guilt and bewilderment at the phasing out of thimbles.  All will be explained.

As seen on Mock The Week, Live At The Apollo, Taskmaster, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, Cats Does Countdown, After Life, Save Me and Call The Midwife and heard on The News Quiz, The Now Show and I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue.

“Her new show, finds her on exquisitely crowd-pleasing form.  Some sublime culture clash material.  ****
Evening Standard

“Godliman, nicely foul-mouthed when she wants to be, is caustic when required”

 ****
ARTS DESK

Tickets £16 plus booking fee

https://www.comicalentertainment.com/book-tickets

LAUNCESTON TOWN HALL

 They say all political careers end in tears. In Brandreth’s case it’s tears of laughter as the actor, author, ex-MP, One Show reporter and QI, Have I Got News For You and Countdown star is back on tour with his new show celebrating all things theatrical.   Without hesitation or repetition (and just a touch of deviation), Just a Minute regular Gyles delivers a dazzling evening of wit, wisdom, high drama, low comedy, and hilarious name-dropping.

*****‘A master raconteur’ Telegraph.

***** ’Total joy’ Scotsman

Age 11

Tickets £20 plus booking fee

https://www.comicalentertainment.com/book-tickets

QUAD THEATRE, MARJON, PLYMOUTH

 They say all political careers end in tears. In Brandreth’s case it’s tears of laughter as the actor, author, ex-MP, One Show reporter and QI, Have I Got News For You and Countdown star is back on tour with his new show celebrating all things theatrical.   Without hesitation or repetition (and just a touch of deviation), Just a Minute regular Gyles delivers a dazzling evening of wit, wisdom, high drama, low comedy, and hilarious name-dropping.

*****‘A master raconteur’ Telegraph.

***** ’Total joy’ Scotsman

Age 11

Tickets £20 booking fee

https://www.comicalentertainment.com/book-tickets

LAUNCESTON TOWN HALL

 Rich Hall’s comedy/music locomotive keeps on rollin’.  Ever-evolving, ever-changing, Rich’s combination of keen acerbic stand-up combined with spit and sawdust alt-country lyricism is a
“win-win” (GUARDIAN), as sold out crowds across the UK have attested. Fans keep returning because this show goes where other comedians wouldn’t dare: Barrow-in-Furness for example.

Rich’s acclaimed BBC4 documentaries (most recently Rich Hall’s Red Menace) and his Radio 4 series Election Breakdown have established a whole new legion of followers. He’s also a stalwart of QI and Have I Got News For You. But  seeing the Hoedown is a whole different experience. Gut-busting, rib-tickling, toe-tapping, and shit-kicking, Rich Hall’s Hoedown Deluxe covers the full anatomical spectrum.

“Vital and incredulously angry. Hilarious.” (THE SCOTSMAN)

Tickets £17 plus booking fee

https://www.comicalentertainment.com/book-tickets

QUAD THEATRE, MARJON, PLYMOUTH

Rich Hall’s comedy/music locomotive keeps on rollin’. Ever-evolving, ever-changing, Rich’s combination of keen acerbic stand-up combined with spit and sawdust alt-country lyricism is a “win-win” (GUARDIAN), as sold out crowds across the UK have attested. Fans keep returning because this show goes where other comedians wouldn’t dare: Barrow-in-Furness for example.

Rich’s acclaimed BBC4 documentaries (most recently Rich Hall’s Red Menace) and his Radio 4 series Election Breakdown have established a whole new legion of followers. He’s also a stalwart of QI and Have I Got News For You. But seeing the Hoedown is a whole different experience. Gut-busting, rib-tickling, toe-tapping, and shit-kicking, Rich Hall’s Hoedown Deluxe covers the full anatomical spectrum.

“Vital and incredulously angry. Hilarious.” (THE SCOTSMAN)

Tickets £17 plus booking fee

https://www.comicalentertainment.com/book-tickets