Rory Bremner is playing at Clonter Opera on Friday, 30th January, in a major fund-raising opportunity to support the work of Macclesfield Ukrainian Aid.
Organiser Nicola Regan said. “I am so excited that that such an outstanding and well-known performer has agreed to help us in our unrelenting work to help ease the pain and suffering of the civilian population of Ukraine.
“This is a one-off opportunity for local people to hear and enjoy an evening with such a great entertainer and, at the same time, make a very real difference to the lives of a suffering nation in Ukraine.”
Clonter Opera has offered the use of its theatre for this one-night only performance by Bremner. Tickets for the performance (priced £37.94 inc booking fee) can be booked online through the first page of the website (ukrainianaid.org.uk) or direct from Ticket Source (ticketsource.co.uk).
Doors open at 6.30pm and the performance will start at 7.30pm.
Born in Edinburgh in 1961, Bremner was educated at Wellington College and King’s College London, where he gained a BA in French, German and imitating lecturers. He speaks French adequately, German inadequately, and enough Russian to impress for 90 seconds (unless you’re Russian).
By the time he’d graduated in 1984, he was already performing on the London stand-up circuit and at his native Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and got his first television series with the BBC in 1986.
In a television career of over 30 years, he has won numerous awards, including three Baftas for his long-running Channel 4 satire series “Bremner Bird and Fortune”, featuring Rory and the two Johns.
In addition, he’s written and starred in satirical specials covering four elections, the Blair Government, (“From Blair to Here”, “My Government and I”) the Iraq War (“Between Iraq and a Hard Place”, “Beyond Iraq and a Hard Place”), the financial crisis of 2008 (“Silly Money”) and – back at the BBC – the Scottish Referendum (“Rory Goes to Hollyrood”, (2014)) and the coalition Government (“Rory Bremner’s Coalition Report”, “Rory Bremner’s Election Report” (2015)).
He retraced his family history for “Who Do You Think You Are”, and travelled all over Britain for the ITV daytime series “Rory Bremner’s Great British Views” (2012).
Meanwhile, he’s guested on many other comedy shows and was a regular guest with both Wogan and Parkinson and has frequently appeared on Radio 4’s “Newsquiz” and “The Now Show”.
In 2013 he made his acting debut alongside Patricia Hodge and Caroline Quentin in Noel Coward’s “Relative Values”, directed by Trevor Nunn.
In his spare time (as if) he translates operas and plays from French (“Carmen”, Spier Festival) and “Orpheus in the Underworld” (Scottish Opera)) and German (Kurt Weill’s “The Silver Lake”, Broomhill Opera).
