COMEDIAN Mark Thomas will be making a welcome return to Sherman Cymru with his new award-winning comedy show, Bravo Figaro, in November.

After walking the wall in the West Bank, becoming Guinness World Record holder for political protests, and chasing arms dealers around the country, one of Britain’s most acclaimed comics and influential activists, Mark Thomas, turns his attention to matters closer to home with a show about his father.

First commissioned by London’s prestigious Royal Opera House, Bravo Figaro is the true tale of Mark’s father, a self-employed builder with a passion for opera, his degenerative illness (progressive supranuclear palsy), and Mark’s attempt to put an opera on in a bungalow in Bournemouth.

It is about love, death, fathers and sons, and the search for peace in an imperfect world, with a few gags thrown in for luck.

Mark Thomas has a long legacy and reputation, including having six comedy series on Channel 4, numerous awards, several television documentaries, three books, a Guinness World Record, sell-out tours, a published manifesto, a series on Radio 4, writing for various publications, producing charity benefits, a Medal of Honour, secretly filming torturers, stinging arms dealers, battling multinational corporations, exposing abuses of civil liberties and corporate skulduggery, and succeeding in changing some laws.

Mark Thomas also has a close connection to Sherman Cymru and is looking forward to performing at the venue, which re-opened earlier this year. Not only has he adopted a seat to support the redevelopment, but he also did a feature on BBC 2’s Culture Show about Sherman Cymru’s production Deep Cut when it was at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2009.

Sherman Cymru on November 14 and 15, 7.30pm. Tickets are £20/£15. Contact Sherman Cymru on 029 2064 6900 or visit shermancymru.co.uk