About
Experience a stand-up comedy show like no other at Theatre Royal Wakefield, with Dave Spikey – Life in a Northern Town.
This show is all about Dave’s life in… well, a northern town, so no surprise there. From his working-class childhood in the small, terraced houses round the mills in Bolton through passing his 11 plus and going to grammar school with an ambition to be a doctor, which was thwarted just after his “O” levels. Instead, at 16 getting a job in the Pathology department at Bolton General Hospital and working there for 32 years as Chief Biomedical Scientist in Haematology, before throwing caution to the wind and leaving to pursue a career in comedy – as you do!
He will tell how he turned his microscope off for the last time on 13 October 2000, and two weeks later found himself in a car park only half a mile down the road singing Walking on Sunshine in the pouring rain on a makeshift stage dressed as a giant berry, while ten foot-tall… er, privates… slowly but surely inflated behind him. He wondered at that moment if he’d made the right decision.
As it turns out, he had.
Venue opening hours
Monday : 10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Tuesday : 10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Wednesday : 10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Thursday : 10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Friday : 10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Saturday : Closed
Sunday : Closed
Access facilities
- Accessible Car Parking
- Accessible Toilet
- Assistance Dogs Welcome
- Baby Changing Facilities
- Changing Places Facility
- Guide Dogs Welcome
- Hearing Aid Loop
- Step Free Access
- Wheelchair Accessible
Venue Details
Find us at
12 Drury Lane, Wakefield, WF1 2TE
Phone
01924211311
mail@theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk