Comedian Omid Djalili will bring his critically acclaimed new show to Reading this weekend.
Mr Djalili will perform Namaste at Hexagon on Saturday, June 14, starting at 8pm.
The show promises a night of comedy that pulls no punches, as Mr Djalili takes aim at the state of the world with his trademark humour.
Michael Levin of the Huffington Post said: "So hysterically funny and at the same time so poignant and powerful that calling it stand-up barely does it justice."
As he watches a world on fire, with climate change, terrorism, financial instability, and oceanic pollution, Mr Djalili has decided to bow instead to his inner anger.
A firm favourite at the Edinburgh Festival, his stand-up awards include the Time Out Award for Best Stand Up.
He has also been both a Perrier Award nominee and a winner of the Edinburgh Award Panel Prize.
Tickets are priced at £31.50, and the show is for ages 16 and over.
Mr Djalili was awarded a Best Actor award at the Turin Film Festival for his lead performance in The Infidel, and his credits range from Hollywood to television and the West End Stage
He has received critical acclaim for his performances as Fagin in Oliver! and Reb Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof.
Most recently, he starred in the award winning movie Journey To Bethlehem as one of the Wise Men and as Bridget Christie’s husband in the highly acclaimed series The Change on Channel 4.
He also hosted two series of Winning Combination on ITV1.
His current tour has already taken him to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and the USA.
He began the UK leg of his tour in October last year and will finish in Scarborough on November 21.
The first significant success of his stand-up comedy career was at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1995 with 'Short, Fat Kebab Shop Owner's Son', followed by 'The Arab and the Jew' with Jewish comedian Ivor Dembina in 1996.
Mr Djalili has appeared in a number of films, most notably Gladiator, The Mummy, Mean Machine, The World Is Not Enough, Alien Autopsy, Spy Game, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Grow Your Own, Notting Hill, Mr Nice, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Sex and the City 2.
He also provided his voice to animated film Over the Hedge.
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