NIGEL McIntyre PRESENTS

AN EVENING WITH GERVASE PHINN

Tickets will be on sale in the New Year (2008)

June
Monday 16th	Southsea King's Theatre	02392 828282
Wednesday 18th	Lowestoft Marina Theatre	01502 533200
Saturday 21st	Torquay Princes Theatre	08702 414120
Friday 27th	Tewkesbury Roses Theatre	01684 295074
Sunday 29th	Canterbury Marlowe Theatre	01227 787787
July
Friday 18th	Oxford Playhouse n.b. show begins at 5pm and consists of one 90 minute set	01865 305305
August
Saturday 2nd	Clacton Princes Theatre	01255 686633
A CHRISTMAS EVENING WITH GERVASE PHINN Stories, poems, anecdotes, readings and reminiscence around the theme of Christmas December (scroll down to see all dates)
Monday 1st	Dunstable The Grove Theatre	01582 60 20 80
Wednesday 3rd	Southport Theatre	0844 8472380
Saturday 6th	Runcorn The Brindley	0151 907 8360
Sunday 7th	Leeds Grand Theatre	0870 121 4901
Wednesday 10th	Dorking Halls	01306 881717
Friday 12th	Wellingborough The Castle	01933 270 007
Sunday14th	Cannock Prince of Wales Theatre	01543 578 762
Monday15th	Worthing Assembly Halls	01903 206206
Tuesday 16th	Bracknell Southhill Park Arts Centre	01344 484123
Wednesday 17th	Hayes  Beck Theatre	020 8561 8371
Thursday 18th	Harrogate Royal Hall	0845 130 8840
Friday 19th	Telford Oakengates Theatre	01952 382 382

Gervase Phinn shares his hilarious tales of life as a school inspector in the Yorkshire Dales which will have you in stitches. Dubbed 'The James Herriot of schools' this best selling author, Radio and TV personality is not to be missed.

"A natural storyteller, he combines the timing of the professional comedian with palpable warmth and the ability to deliver a message that is just more than a series of jokes" - The Times

“I owe, as I’ve always said in life, any success I’ve had to people. It started with my parents. My mother used to read to me, my father used to tell stories – White Fang and Moonfleet – and he’d take me to the library in Rotherham, he’d go to the market and pick up old paperbacks. So, as a child, I used to read avidly anywhere - behind the garden shed, in summer on the lawn, up a tree, in bed at night under the covers with my torch. I couldn’t get my nose out of a book and the more you practise something, the better you become at it. If you read and read, you know a lot about language and on the back of reading is writing.

“My university tutor at Leeds, Dr Cowell, said ‘if you want to be a writer, you’ve got to do two things – read, read and read and you’ve got to keep a notebook and write things down, which was great advice. One of the best bits of advice to give is ‘keep a diary of events and things that happen’.

Words of wisdom:
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
- Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you’ll win some false friends and true enemies.
- Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you.
- Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight.
- Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.
- Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow.
- Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough.
- Give it anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it’s between you and God.
- It was never between you and them anyway.
Mother Theresa

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