The Everyman Bistro is the venue for Make it Write Production’s play Stand Up.  

It’s a new bitter-sweet black comedy about stand-up comic Mark, whose private life is no laughing matter. We see him spiralling ever downwards with gambling debts as loan sharks begin to bite. While Mark’s ex-wife’s new lover sneers on the side-lines from swanky suburbia. 

Bernie Winston, a Pizza delivery man, who has been writing for most of his life, is now having his first play staged in a location that will give audiences the feeling of entering a comedy club. 

It’s thanks to meeting Sharon Colpman of Make it Write Productions who are staging the play on March 25th and 26th. 

“It really was a life-changing event. With Sharon’s advice and by attending the groups’ courses and workshops I soon found myself up and running. Stand Up was initially written as a short piece but it took on a life of its own”, says Bernie who admits to falling in love with the characters. 

The play stars Mike Sanders as Mark, Mandy Lally as ex-wife Marie, Dan Pendleton as Fraser her lover and Steve Smith as Tony the gangster. 

It is being directed by Kevin Foott and produced by David Sindall and Sharon Colpman. 

Tickets can be bought online at www.biletto.co.uk.