Robert Newman live dates

Rob Newman's Total Eclipse of Descartes:

In a world gone crazy, can philosophy help? Rob Newman attempts to piece together a philosophy for our troubled times by sifting through 3000 years of thought: from Pythagoras to Artificial Intelligence by way of Pavlov's dogs, Jane Goodall's chimpanzees and Frankie Howerd's trousers.

10th October The Playhouse, Epsom

11th October City Varieties, Leeds

13th October Theatre Royal, Lincoln

17th October Huntingdon Hall, Worcester

18th October The Playhouse, Norwich *SOLD OUT*

20th October Farnham Maltings

24th October The Berry, Eastleigh

25th October Chorley Little Theatre

26th October Nottingham Playhouse

27th October Barnsley Civic

31st October The Stables, Milton Keynes

1st November The Atkinson, Southport

2nd November The Lyceum, Crewe

3rd November Theatre Royal, Northampton

8th November The Pavilion, Exmouth

9th November Plough Arts Centre, Torrington

16th November Redgrave Theatre, Bristol *SOLD OUT*

17th November Cheese and Grain, Frome

22nd November Epstein Theatre, Liverpool

23rd November Square Chapel, Halifax

24th November Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal

25th November The Stand, Edinburgh

30th November Theatre Royal, Margate

2nd December Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth

8th December The Bloomsbury, London

"Gleefully jaunty and refreshingly intelligent… hugely entertaining." **** The Guardian

"Intellectually charged and adorably ambitious… a delightfully digestible dose of brain food." **** The Times

"Every time Rob Newman comes up with a new live show, it is beholden on all observers of comedy to pay attention. Not merely because of his great track record... but because he sets himself intellectual challenges beyond the grasp of many stand-up comedians, and produces material that genuinely forces audience to approach the world in a whole new way... this time around, in The Brain Show, he's delving into the inner recesses of his cerebellum with a performance that mixes hard fact with dizzying flights of comedic fantasy." The Guardian

"He is one amazing comedian" Time Out

"Has it ever struck you that some of the odd things which neurologists tell us about our brains may be, not just odd, but actually mistaken, pure superstitions, inventions thought up by excited scientists out of outdated philosophy? That is what, after careful digging, Robert Newman has been finding… Read him!" Mary Midgley

"A fantastic book!" Stuart Maconie, 6 Music

His new book Neuropolis - A Brain Science Survival Guide was adapted for Radio 4 this year as the series Rob Newman's Neuropolis, which follows on from Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution, winner of the 2017 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Scripted Comedy.