Science comedy phenomenon Festival of the Spoken Nerd will return to the West End stage for one night only at London’s Cambridge Theatre this November. Featuring stand-up mathematician Matt Parker, experiments maestro Steve Mould, geek songstress Helen Arney plus a range of special guests, to be announced shortly.
Festival of the Spoken Nerd is the UK science comedy phenomenon, spanning not just live performance, but radio, TV, YouTube channels, podcasts and books. Since their first smash hit tour Full Frontal Nerdity (2015), the Nerds have filmed three shows for DVD and download, created the first truly “experimental” comedy show for BBC Radio 4, featured on three episodes of BBC Two’s QI and racked up hundreds of millions of views on YouTube.
The Nerds have performed all over the world, with shows in Las Vegas and New York, at Shakespeare’s Globe, London’s Science Museum, Hammersmith Apollo with Robin Ince and Professor Brian Cox, The Royal Albert Hall with astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield, Assembly at the Edinburgh Fringe, Soho Theatre, The British Library, Latitude and Underbelly Festivals and all the major UK science festivals.
In 2018 they headlined ThinkerCon, the first international meeting of science and education content creators at the US Space and Rocket Center in Hunstville, Alabama. Since touring across the UK to over 50,000 nerds and non-nerds, they have created two more live shows, Just For Graphs and You Can’t Polish A Nerd, and recorded them for DVD and download. During the global pandemic, they launched a new podcast based on their monthly nerdy new material night, and A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail reached No. 15 in the iTunes comedy podcast charts in the first week.
They published their first book The Element In The Room in 2017, and you can hear all three Nerds in the audiobook version of Domestic Science, the BBC Radio 4 show where listeners get their hands on bite-size experiments that explore the science all around us.
Helen Arney says “I’m so excited to be “putting the band back together” for this, our biggest ever show, on London’s glittering West End. I’ve got new songs to perform live on stage AND new spreadsheets to fill in behind the scenes! I’m already in heaven.”
Matt Parker added “I worked long and hard to firmly attach myself to Helen and Steve’s coattails for the last decade, so it’s about time we got back on stage together and they remember that without me they have to do all the maths themselves.”
Steve Mould concludes “It’s been too long! I’ve missed you guys! I’m talking about the audience of course. I mean, it’ll be nice to see Matt and Helen as well, I guess.”
Venue: Cambridge Theatre, Earlham St, London WC2H 9HU
Dates: 20 November 2023
Times: 7pm
Tickets: £23.70 - £40.20
Duration: 3hrs (inc interval)
Recommended age: 14+
https://lwtheatres.co.uk/whats-on/an-evening-of-unnecessary-detail/
