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BAFTA Award Winner and star of Live at The Apollo Michael Odewale presents his highly anticipated debut tour: Thoughts on Shuffle.
In this show, Michael muses on how he's become a terrible role model, ended up running from girlfriends dads, and questions why he has developed stop and search envy.

Michael’s critically acclaimed debut show #BlackBearsMatter won Best Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, earning him a nomination for Best Newcomer in the Dave Edinburgh Comedy Awards.

As seen on: Live at The Apollo (BBC), Ben Elton’s Friday Night Live (C4), Michael Odewale:
Live at Soho Theatre (Amazon), The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV), Rob Beckett’s Undeniable
(Comedy Central), BBC Presents: Stand Up For Live Comedy (BBC One/ Three), Mock The
Week (BBC Two), Chris Ramsey’s Stand Up Central (Comedy Central), Comedians Solve
World Problems (Comedy Central), Comedians In Quarantine (Comedy Central) and the
Jonathan Ross Comedy Club (ITV).

Dates

  • Friday, November 1, 2024

The Hat Factory

The Hat Factory is Luton's leading arts and entertainment venue featuring live music, club nights, theatre, dance, films, children's activities, workshops, classes and gallery exhibitions.

It's a centre of artistic excellence set within a vibrant urban environment. It offers the young and the young at heart the chance to engage with the arts, to be inspired by the UK’s leading arts practitioners, and to develop artistic skills and confidence.

The Hat Factory is a combined arts venue in the centre of Luton. It opened in 2003 and since then has been the area’s main provider of contemporary theatre, dance and music. We work with both emerging and proven producers and artists, through programming, engagement programmes and our Associate Artist scheme. Their music programming is vibrant, offering an eclectic portfolio of high quality artists from the worlds of jazz, blues, folk, world music, indie and hip hop. Complementing their own programming, they welcome local/regional promoters to the venue, broadening their music offer and at the same time supporting young promoters and their businesses. They programme contemporary theatre and dance with a focus on fresh, new and relevant stories from both established and emerging touring companies who are making high quality work in the UK. They’ve programmed companies like Earthfall, Chickenshed, New International Encounter (NIE), Trestle, Menagerie, Eastern Angles, Atma, State of Emergency, 30 Bird, Tavaziva, Analogue and Jean Abreu Dance to name but a few.

Venue Hire

The Hat Factory has flexible spaces of various sizes to suit every need. See Venue Hire for more information.

Programming

To become part of The Hat Factory's programme, please contact our Head of Arts & Cultural Programmes, Fahim Qureshi at Fahim.Qureshi@LutonCulture.com

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