Mike Venables

My Shows

Entertaining You!

 I like to think I'm a very funny, intriguing story teller. I take the audience on a narrative journey that is full of funny one-liners and hysterical incidents and as I do so, I create a whole range of different characters each having their own distinctive accents and mannerisms and, sometimes, hats


The stories often build to a hilarious farce-like climaxes. Which is always a good thing.


Two of them are fairly overt comedies  Middle Aged Dating, yes, it’s MAD,

and Richard Rogers Gets Principled.


Middle Aged Dating, yes it's MAD features the hapless hero, Richard Rogers, who, finding himself divorced after a looooong marriage, doesn’t quite know how to go about “this dating business.” When he does figure it out he’s in for a right old time of cumulative catastrophes mixed with multiple misunderstandings: “it’s a minefield!”


I Call the Shots is a crazy farce featuring a larger than live central character, a head teacher glorying in the name of Henry Rockwell Higgins a Texan educationist who describes himself as, a "Principal with Principles." He is actually a corrupt bully who comes in direct conflict with the (then) drama teacher, one Philip Fillongley.


New for 2024, What Broke Brum-Leigh!? Set in a fictional city, famous for having more canals than Canalettos,  a scandal erupts that results in the city going bankrupt. Imagine that - a city of one million going broke - you couldn't make it up.


If you'd like to know more about these shows, for performance at your venue, or just to ask about tickets for performances, please give me a call or click here.

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