AN EVENING WITH GERVASE PHINN

2010 Dates

Date	Venue	Box Office Tel
Tue 6 April	Shrewsbury Severn Theatre	01743 281281
Wed 7 April	Northampton Derngate	01604 624811
Fri 9 April	Bradford St Georges Hall	01274 432 000
Sat 10 April	Buxton Opera House	0845 127 2190
Sun 11 April	Rochdale Gracie Fields Theatre	01706 716689
Tue 13 April	Malvern Theatre	01684 892277
Wed 14 April	Scunthorpe Plowright	01724 277733
Thu 15 April	Durham Gala	0191 332 4041
Tue 20 April	Chelmsford Civic Theatre	01245 606505
Wed 21 April	Radlett Centre	01923 859291
Fri 23 April	Douglas Villa Marina	01624 600555
Sun 25 April	Scarborough Spa Theatre	01723 357869
Wed 28 April	New Brighton Floral Pavilion	0151 666 0000
Thu 29 April	Potters Bar Wyllyotts Theatre	01707 645005
Sat 1 May	Taunton Brewhouse Theatre	01823 283244
Tue 4 May	Newark Palace Theatre	01636 655755
Wed 5 May	Coventry Warwick Arts Centre	024 7652 4524
Thu 6 May	Harlow Playhouse	01279 431945
Wed 12 May	Weston Super Mare Playhouse	01934 645 544
Thu 13 May	Tewkesbury Roses Theatre	01684 295 074
Fri 14 May	Christchurch Regent Centre	01202 499199
Sat 15 May	Andover The Lights	01264 368368
Mon 17 May	Frome Memorial Theatre	01373 462795
Tue 18 May	Street Strode Theatre	01458 44 28 46
Wed 19 May	Epsom Playhouse	01372 742555
Thu 20 May	Horsham The Capitol	01403 750220
Fri 21 May	Sturminster Newton Exchange	01258 475137
Sun 23 May	Swindon Wyvern	01793 524 481
Mon 24 May	Birmingham Town Hall	0121 780 3333
Thu 27 May	Derby Assembly Rooms	01332 255800
Sun 30 May	Salford Lowry	0870 787 5780
Wed 2 Jun	Rotherham Civic Theatre	01709 823621
Thu 3 Jun	Milford Haven Torch Theatre	01646 695267
Fri 4 Jun	Newport Riverfront Arts Centre	01633 656757
Sat 5 Jun	Torquay Babbacombe Theatre	01803 328385
Sun 6 Jun	Tavistock The Wharf	01822 611166
Wed 9 Jun	Lincoln Drill Hall	01522 873894
Thu 10 Jun	Spalding South Holland Centre	01775 764777
Fri 11 Jun	Jersey Opera House	01534 511115
Thu 17 Jun	Whitley Bay Playhouse	0844 277 2771
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Below are photos and extracts from and about Gervase Phinn's acclaimed Theatre Tour.

 One of Britain's most popular writers and performers best known for his 4 autobiographical novels Up and Down in the Dales, The Other Side of The Dale, Over Hill and Dale and Head Over Heels In The Dales.

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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photos by Steve Benson

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