Tom Allen at Shrewsbury ahead of Machynlleth Comedy Festival

Fresh from a string of dates at London’s Soho Theatre and following a total sell out and highly acclaimed run at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, where Tom was rated as one of the best reviewed shows there by the British Comedy Guide, Tom is midway through his current UK tour.

Soaked in Tom’s signature waspish snobbery and self-aggrandising wit, ‘Absolutely’ addresses the elephant in the room that Tom is still living at home with his parents - because he can’t afford not to – in Bromley, Kent – heart of leave voters and Theresa May’s Brexit Britain.

He’s always at home in Alan Bennett and Mike Leigh territory as he shares with us his up close and personal experiences of suburbia, especially since the Referendum, and Tom addresses the ‘difficult times’ we live in but were things better ‘back in the day’, when he was kid and you could fit 15 kids in one car?

Allen’s unique style of sharp, acerbic wit and camp, riotous storytelling has seen him perform all over the UK, Europe, Canada, America, Australia and New Zealand.

The last year has been incredibly busy for Tom with him starring in BBC1’s ‘Wedding Day Winners’, BBC2’s ‘Mock The Week’, ‘Live At The Apollo’, ‘Extra Slice’, ‘Strictly – It Takes Two’, ITV’s ‘Royal Variety Performance’, Channel 4’s ‘8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown’, ‘Comedy Central Roast Battle’, ‘8 Out Of 10 Cats’ and Radio 4’s ‘Loose Ends’ and ‘Just a Minute’.

As an actor he has also starred in Radio 4’s Sony Award winning ‘Bleak Expectations’, Comedy Central’s ‘Threesome’, BBC’s ‘Sensitive Skin’ with Joanna Lumley and ‘Fear of Fanny’ with Mark Gatiss and Julia Davis. Films include ‘Colour Me Kubrick’ with John Malkovich, ‘Starter for Ten’ with James McEvoy and the Stephen Frears film, ‘Tamara Drewe’.

Tickets for the Shrewsbury show can be had on 01743 281281; and for the Machynlleth Festival via www.machcomedyfest.co.uk