NINA CONTI - THE DATING SHOW UK TOUR, OCTOBER 2021 – FEBRUARY 2022
Following a 4 year absence, Nina Conti embarks on a UK tour with her new show, The Dating Show, opening at Bristol Old Vic on 31 October 2021.
‘Put simply, Nina Conti is a genius’ * * * * * Daily Mirror
British Comedy Award winner Nina is pioneering a new dating show. She’ll be like Cilla Black with masks. Derailed. Not so much a Blind Date as a re-voiced one. There is no promise that true love will be found but a firm guarantee that big laughs will be had in the reign of this quick-thinking queen of ventriloquism.
Nina says: “I can only dream of a land where a theatre is at full capacity and everyone is vaccinated and safe and laughing. Apparently, we are on track for this in November so I’ve agreed to book a tour.
Before this Armageddon hit I was developing a dating show where I would connive for audience members to fall in love wearing masks. Post-COVID, I can’t think of anything more fitting. I think we all need to get in a room together and laugh our heads off, and if the subject can be love, so much the better”.
Nina started doing stand-up ventriloquism in 2002 and shot to fame by winning the BBC New Comedy Award that same year. Famed for her foul-mouthed ‘sidekick’ Monkey (Monk), Nina has won numerous comedy awards for her writing, acting and ventriloquism. She has taken numerous shows to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Montreal Comedy Festival. In 2016, her smash-hit solo show ’In Your Face’ (‘a plate-spinning feat, a hoot’ * * * * * The Guardian) enjoyed sell-out seasons in London’s West End and New York’s off-Broadway.
‘You will see nothing like it on stage’ * * * * Evening Standard
Nina has stormed ‘Live at the Apollo’, ‘QI’, ‘Russell Howard’s Good News’ and ‘Sunday Night at the Palladium’ – all without moving her lips. In 2012 she fronted two documentaries for BBC4: ‘Make Me Happy: A Monkey’s Search for Happiness’ saw Nina take Monk on a journey into the world of new age and alternative therapies and ‘A Ventriloquists Story: Her Masters Voice’ (currently availableon Amazon Prime) in which Nina took the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to Vent Haven, which was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award. In 2013 she appeared in Christopher Guest's HBO series ‘Family Tree’ alongside Chris O’Dowd.
‘Gut-Bustingly funny’ * * * * The Telegraph
More recently Nina was a runner-up on ‘The World’s Best’, a US major talent show on NBC; produced an improvised web series, ‘In Therapy’ on YouTube, which has amassed over 1.5 million views since 2018; and joined forces with award-winning Shenoah Allen (The Pajama Men) to make the character comedy podcast, ‘Richard & Greta’, unqualified experts who explain how to get the most, or too much, out of your partner – https://play.acast.com/s/richard-and-greta.
Tickets for The Dating Show go on sale on Friday 29 January 2021.
Sunday 31 October, 8.00pm Bristol Old Vic
Box Office: 0117 907 2682 Tickets: £26
Tuesday 2 November, 7.30pm Alban Arena, St Albans
Box Office: 0172 784 4488 Tickets: £24
Thursday 4 November, 7.30pm Assembly Theatre, Tunbridge Wells
Box Office: 0189 253 0613 Tickets: £26
Saturday 6 November, 7.30pm Tyne Theatre, Newcastle
Box Office: 0844 2491 000 Tickets: £24
Monday 8 November, 7.30pm The Alexandra, Birmingham
Box Office: 0333 009 6690 Tickets: £26
Tuesday 9 November, 7.30pm Swan Theatre, High Wycombe
Box Office: 0149 451 2000 Tickets: £26
Friday 12 November, 7.30pm Grand Opera House, York
Box Office: 0333 009 6690 Tickets: £26
Sunday 14 November, 7.30pm Richmond Theatre
Box Office: 0333 009 6690 Tickets: £26
Wednesday 17 November, 7.30pm Bournemouth Pavilion
Box Office: 0300 500 0595 Tickets: £25
Friday 19 November, 7.30pm De Montfort Hall, Leicester
Box Office: 0116 233 3111 Tickets: £24
Saturday 20 November, 7.30pm Warwick Arts Centre
Box Office: 0247 652 4524 Tickets: £24
Wednesday 24 November, 7.30pm Princess Theatre, Torquay
Box Office: 0333 009 6690 Tickets: £24.50
Friday 26 November, 7.30pm Corn Exchange, Cambridge
Box Office: 0122 335 7851 Tickets: £24
Tuesday 30 November, 7.30pm Brighton Dome
Box Office: 0127 370 9709 Tickets: £27
Saturday 4 December, 7.30pm Globe, Stockton
Box Office: 0843 904 0071 Tickets: £24.50
Sunday 5 December, 7.30pm Palace Theatre, Southend
Box Office: 0170 235 1135 Tickets: £26
Thursday 9 December, 7.30pm White Rock Theatre, Hastings
Box Office: 0142 446 2288 Tickets: £25
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Saturday 8 January, 7.30pm Manchester Opera House
Box Office: 0333 009 6690 Tickets: £24.50
Sunday 16 January, 7.30pm St. David’s Hall, Cardiff
Box Office: 0774 383 9816 Tickets: £24
Sunday 23 January, 7.30pm, New Theatre, Oxford
Box Office: 0333 009 6690 Tickets: £24.50
Sunday 30 January, 7.30pm Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Box Office: 0333 009 6690 Tickets: £24.50
Wednesday 2 & Thursday 3 February, …pm Liverpool Playhouse
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