CAMPAIGNING comic Mark Thomas brings his acclaimed show The Red Shed to Stroud's Subscription Rooms on Friday, March 24.

The Red Shed is the third part of Mark's theatrical trilogy, following the much revered Bravo Figaro and Cuckooed.

Mark returns to the place where it all began - the Red Shed, a labour club in Wakefield - to celebrate the club’s 50th birthday as he continues his tour in 2017 of yet another award-winning, highly acclaimed performance.

The Shed, home to Mark’s first public performances, is also a home to dissent, to organising and to progressive politics, and so it was here that Mark’s true political prowess began.

A south London lad, born to a Thatcherite world of self-employed builders, labourers and tradesman like his father where the individual is key, Wakefield’s alien traditional labour community awoke a new determination in Mark and changed his life forever.

Interviewing old friends and comrades, Mark pieces together the club’s history and works alongside it to campaign with some of the poorest workers in the country.

Part theatre, part stand up, part journalism, part activism, Mark realises his obsession with community and struggle.

  •  See Mark Thomas at Stroud Sub Rooms on Friday, March 24. Box Office 01453 760900. subscriptionrooms.org.uk