ROB GARDINER, MICHEAL MCELHEMNEY, MALINDA MAKUNA
ROB GARDINER, MICHEAL MCELHEMNEY, MALINDA MAKUNA
Friday
21
June
2024
19:00
19:30
21:30
Breakneck Comedy Club
28 King Street, Aberdeen, AB24 5AX
From The Palladium to Pakistan, a highly experienced, versatile & award winning comedian, Markus is one of stand-up’s most well travelled comedians, much in demand in the UK and all over the world, and one of the very first British Comics to have his own Netflix Special - Live in Amsterdam.
He has written and performed twelve Edinburgh Festival Solo shows, and toured Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Scandinavia and throughout Europe, The Middle East and Far East. He has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows both in the UK and abroad.
Co-Writer on Jayde Adams’s 2020 Amazon Prime Stand Up Special, ‘Serious Black Jumper’
He often incorporates visual artwork & animations in his comedy performances. He has created numerous 24 hour murals as part of the comedian Mark Watson’s 24 hr Comedy shows, raising thousands of pounds for Comic Relief.
Just recently, Markus collaborated with the Norwegian musician, Ole Maa, to produce animations for Ole’s live show, En Psychotic Handbok, which premiered in Oslo in 2020 and toured Norway in 2021 and 2022.
After attending several Art Schools, and even managing to graduate from one, Markus became a Graffiti Artist, Muralist, Performance Poet and Glastonbury Festival Poetry Slam Champion. He can’t remember which year, he was fairly out of it. But it made him think being funny on stage might just work out! This path would eventually lead him to becoming an award winning Stand-Up Comedian and total Don.
Sylas Szabolcs, Transylvanian actor trained and based in the UK. Welcome!
I'm madly in love with stories and what we can achieve through them. I always found myself the centre of attention, probably because I was always trying to be the centre of attention, so I have decided to turn that into something meaningful.
In eight years acting has gone from a secret extra curricular activity that I pursued in tiny Transylvania to a budding profession in the UK market. Having finished Acting Coach Scotland's Intensive One Year course in the winter of 2017, I was finally ready to step into the business. However, life throws curveballs at us every now and again, so I decided to take some time off to deal with personal issues. But I returned in 2019 with a new ferocity that ended up securing my first TV role with the BBC. Since then the career has been going from strength to strength. I have had another role with the BBC, performed in London commissioned by the Liszt Institute, started doing stand-up, just finishing a play and have been creating weekly vlogs on Youtube as well as interviews with immigrant artists living in the UK. So yeah, life has been glorious. I'm proud of all the effort I've been putting in and humbly grateful for the opportunities coming my way.
Let's hustle.
Martin Bearne: Mixed Ability Actor
Laurence Olivier, Marlon Brando, Dame Judy Dench, Martin Bearne has heard of all of these. This show is what happens when a comedian gets successful and starts taking themselves too seriously, but minus the success.
Master of dark comedy and stalwart of the Scottish comedy scene Martin Bearne would like to be taken seriously as a serious actor doing serious acting. Sick of delivering one liners to disinterested pub-goers, Martin Bearne has broken free of the shackles of conventional comedy and is once again soaring on the wings of his first true love: actoring.
Can he make it through a whole hour without abandoning his thespian dreams? Will he crack and start telling dick (and crack) jokes? Can you, a mere audience member, even begin to comprehend his depth as a performer and a human man? Join him on a voyage of discovery both of self and truths universal as he acts right in your face violently and without warning.
As seen on Britain’s Got Talent and BBC Scotland’s The Comedy Underground and heard on BBC Radio Scotland’s The Good, The Bad and The Unexpected with Mark Nelson. Winner of Jason Manford's and Comedy Store gong shows.
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