British Comedy Guide

Tarot to tour sketch show Shuffle

Monday 3rd June 2024, 9:43am

Image shows left to right: Adam Drake, Kath Hughes, Edward Easton, Tarot. Credit: Matt Stronge
  • Sketch show Tarot: Shuffle will tour in October and November 2024, following a run at the Edinburgh Festival
  • They'll visit: Aberystwyth, London, Guildford, Brighton, Bath, York, Bristol, Reading, Exeter, Bangor, Salford, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham

Sketch group Tarot are to tour their new show Tarot: Shuffle this autumn, following a run at the Edinburgh Festival.

Their third hour, this show - which stars Adam Drake, Kath Hughes and Ed Easton - will play in the Pleasance Courtyard from the 31st July until 25th August at 9:30pm, before the gang take the show on tour across the UK in the autumn.

The blurb explains: "Tarot: Shuffle is a 'startlingly live' (Guardian) show that asks the audience to become the latest member of Tarot, as the super-group casts off their reputation as the royalty of 'dark comedy'. Together the three nighty-clad sketch-zealots shuffle on stage and weave an absurd and wildly inventive show full of hair-raising characters and rug-pulling punchlines; a surprisingly joyful and silly hour, where the relationship between audience and performer is blurred, Tarot: Shuffle is a show so off the cuff, live, and 'in the room' you'll wonder if they're making it all up on the spot."

Tarot say: "We would call it improv but we've got some self-respect: this is sketch in nighties. Come watch a new show of big, daft and, above all, live comedy being conjured up in front of your very eyes."

2024 dates

Saturday 5th October: Aberystwyth, Arad Goch Theatre
21st-26th October: London, Soho Theatre (Upstairs)
Wednesday 6 November: Guildford, Bellerby Studio, G Live
Thursday 7 November: Brighton, The Old Market
Friday 8 November: Bath, Burdall's Yard
Saturday 9 November: York, Theatre@41
Friday 15 November: Bristol, The Wardrobe Theatre
Saturday 16 November: Reading, South Street Arts Centre
Tuesday 19 November: Exeter, Phoenix
Friday 22 November: Bangor, Pontio
Saturday 23 November: Salford, New Adelphi Theatre
Tuesday 26 November: Newcastle, The Stand
Wednesday 27 November: Edinburgh, The Stand
Thursday 28 November: Glasgow, The Stand
Friday 29 November: Birmingham, Midlands Arts Centre

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