Our Etcetera Theatre gigs at the end of the month have now sold out. If you’d still like to see Aeneas Faversham Forever before August, then you can book tickets for either The Brighton Comedy Festival or our first official previews in Greenwich.

BRIGHTON COMEDY FESTIVAL
Saturday 3rd May, 6.45pm, Joogleberry Playhouse
Friday 9th May, 8pm, Joogleberry Playhouse
Friday 23rd May, 8.15pm, Underbelly Cowpat (yes, the “Cowpat”, in reality a luxurious cabaret-style, red-velvet-curtained venue)

GREENWICH
27th & 28th June, 8pm
Greenwich Theatre, London

Tickets available for 3rd May and 9th May at Joogleberry Playhouse from www.brightonfestivalfringe.co.uk

Tickets available for 23rd May at Underbelly Cowpat from here.

Or for any of the Brighton dates, simply call the Brighton Comedy Festival Box Office on 01273 709709.

Tickets available for Greenwich now on: 020 8858 7755

Book now for the WORLD PREMIERE of the Penny Dreadfuls new show, “Aeneas Faversham Forever”

Part of the Magners International Glasgow Comedy Festival, our new show is a dark tale of murky happennings in the Victorian underworld, where three lives are intractably intertwined. Also, it’s funny.

At the fantastic theatre, Gilmorehill G12, 9 University Avenue, G12 8QQ. Click here for a Google Map. Tickets are £9/ £5 students/concessions.

Book your tickets now on 0870 013 5464 (Festival Ticket Hotline) or click here to book online.

Thank you to everyone who came to our one-hour Leicester show on the 16th of February. That marks the last time we will be doing an hour-long sketch show in the nearby future.

Instead, we shall be premiering “Aeneas Faversham Forever”, a comedy play, on Friday 7th March, at the Bedlam Theatre in Edinburgh, the very theatre where The Penny Dreadfuls all began back in late 2005. It is a tale of murder and intrigue in the underworld of Victorian London, where three lives are intractably intertwined.

Tickets are available now:

Friday 7th March, 7.30pm
Bedlam Theatre, 11b Bristo Place, Edinburgh EH1 1EZ
CLICK HERE FOR GOOGLE MAP
Click to book tickets online
Or phone 0131 225 9893

and repeated on

Saturday 8th March, 8pm
As part of the Glasgow Comedy Festival, Gilmorehill G12 Theatre, 9 University Avenue, G12 8QQ
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Click to book tickets online
Ticket Hotline:
0870 013 5464 (Festival Box Office)
0141 330 5522 (Gilmorehill Theatre Box Office)

We will be doing our London premiere of the show on:

Friday 25th & Saturday 26th April
At the Etcetera Theatre, 265 Camden High Street, NW1 7BU
Click to book tickets online
Or phone 020 7482 4857

Leicester Sound FM fans that tuned in yesterday afternoon would have heard Humphrey’s soothing and honeyed timbres broadcast in an interview with Damien St. John & Naomi Kent. On Saturday morning tune in for an interview with all three Dreadfuls are special guests on BBC Radio Leicester on Charles Bagnall’s morning show (9am - 12pm).

Remember folks, this Saturday, 8.30pm, at the Sparkenhoe Ark Theatre marks the first hour-long show for the Dreadfuls in 2008, and it’s only an hour and a half on the train from London. Do come along!

So we’re coming back to Leicester for the comedy festival and instead of a tiny wooden step in the corner of a deserted trendy bar with a large reflective television screen on the back wall of the “stage”, we’re doing a show in the fantastic Ark Theatre. Which is a proper real-life theatre.

If you live in Leicester or anywhere else, please come along, it is on Saturday 16th February, 8.30pm. Tickets are but a fiver, available online here, or call 0116 261 6812.

If you live in Leicester or the surrounding area, please come along and bring down some coach loads of East Midlander friends and lovers to come see.

Tickets are now available for both our Glasgow Comedy Festival show at the GilmoreHill G12 theatre and the Edinburgh show at the Bedlam Theatre.

Book tickets for the Edinburgh show (Friday 7th March, 7.30pm) online here or, if you are a Bedlam Theatre member, please purchase your ticket in person with your members card for an exclusive discount.

Book tickets for the Glasgow show (Saturday 8th March, 8.30pm) online here or call 0870 013 5464.

Thank you to the 300 + folk who came to Sketchatron last Friday. We shared a fantastic bill with Idiots of Ants, The Sunday Defensive and Pappy’s Fun Club and we managed to be Critics Choice in Time Out, The London Paper and even The Islington Gazette, which isn’t bad going. It was a very very packed out show and it was plenty fun. Some of us managed to sneak off near the bar and huddle over a tiny digital radio to listen to the third episode of The Brothers Faversham which was broadcast just after the show on BBC7. All in all a very pleasant evening.

Miles Jupp, narrator extraordinaire on The Brothers Faversham, is in real-life Miles Jupp, award-winning veteran comedian and tremendous gentlemanly stand-up entertainer.

A nearby rumourmill hints he will be returning to the Edinburgh Festival this year with a new stand up show. You may be interested to hear that his first show in 2008 is at one of our favourite venues, the Etcetera Theatre in the next couple of weeks. Click on the picture on the left for more info.

We will all be going along, do come and join us. Click here to book tickets.

We are opening at Sketchatron this Friday at the Pleasance Theatre, and most pleased to find that the night is number one in Time Out’s Critics Choice this week.

“An amazing night of sketch comedy from four of the strongest and most innovative groups around including the slick and accomplished Idiots of Ants, terrific duo Sunday Defensive, dark and divine Victorian trio the Penny Dreadfuls and the superb silly sausages Pappy’s Fun Club.”

Do come along.

Wireless listeners across the world! Thank you for eschewing other more social pursuits in favour of tuning in at the ungodly hour of 11.30pm to our very first episode of our own very first radio show, The Penny Dreadfuls present: The Brothers Faversham. As well as all you loyal Brits, we have at least one confirmed listener in the Upper West Side of New York who listened to the pursuits of Horatius Faversham, Victorian Britain’s greatest war hero.

There are four episodes in total and we can confirm that development for the second series is already underway.

If you missed the first episode, click here to go to BBC’s excellent Listen Again service and scroll down to 11.30pm, or listen via iPlayer.

The next episode follows the life of Horatio’s brother Theseus, Victorian Britain’s greatest detective, which will air on Friday 18th of January at 11.30pm.