Alan Davies tours NZ with new live show
Following a triumphant season at the prestigious 2012 Edinburgh Festival, Live Nation and Marnie Foulis are delighted to present Alan Davies, the much-loved star of iconic television shows such as Jonathan Creek and QI, in his long-awaited return to New Zealand, in February 2013 for a National tour with his brand new stand-up comedy show ‘Life is Pain’. Tickets to Alan Davies ‘Life is Pain’ shows will go on sale 9.00am Thursday, September 27. With Ticketing agent pre-sale commencing Monday September 24 at 9.00am through to Wednesday September 26 at 5.00pm. Davies completed a hugely successful, five-week tour of Australia in 2011, now following a fifteen year ‘pause’ since his last tour of New Zealand he will be revisiting theatres in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Hamilton with first time appearances in Whangarei and New Plymouth. Alan began his career in stand-up comedy in 1988 and was runner-up in the City Limits New Act of the Year contest 1989. He was named Time Out Best Young Comic in 1991 and made his network television debut on Tonight with Jonathan Ross in 1992. In 1993 two appearances on C4’s Viva Cabaret led to a nomination for a British Comedy Award as Best Newcomer. In 1994 he won an Edinburgh Festival Critics Award for Comedy and a Perrier Award Nomination and the show was released on VHS as Live At The Lyric. The following year, 1995 he appeared at the Montreal, Melbourne and Auckland Comedy Festivals and was nominated for a British Comedy Award as Best Stand-Up Comedian. In 1996 he took the eponymous role of Jonathan Creek, written by David Renwick. The show ran for 14 years and has been seen by audiences worldwide. His 1998 show, Urban Trauma ran at the Duchess Theatre before touring the UK and was recorded for a DVD and shown on BBC1 with a documentary series about the tour, Stand-Up with Alan Davies. In 2001 Alan took the role of Bob in Russel T.Davies’ Bob & Rose for which he was awarded Best Actor in a Drama at the Monte Carlo Television Awards. In 2002, he starred in Auntie and Me by Morris Panych for another sell-out season at Edinburgh before transferring to the Wyndham’s Theatre for a four month West End run. That same year Alan took part in a comedy pilot hosted by Stephen Fry. QI has subsequently run every year since 2003. The lead role in two series of the ITV1 legal drama, The Brief, followed, and then another sell-out Edinburgh season in 2005, as Felix in The Odd Couple. In 2009 Penguin published his first book, My Favourite People 1978-1988 which was adapted into a three part documentary series for Channel 4 called Teenage Revolution (also the title for the paperback). In 2010 he took the lead role of chef Roland White in the BBC2 sitcom Whites and in 2011 Alan co-wrote and starred in a short film for Sky One as part of their Little Crackers Christmas season before returning to Australia for a successful tour of QI Live followed by a sell-out tour of his new stand-up show, Life Is Pain.
