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15/07/2025

14/05/2025

We're polishing our glitter ball ready to bring Varnish to Blackpool Grand Theatre Studio on 30 May at 7.30. We can't wait!!! 🪩

🎫 Link in bio

23/11/2024

One more show before the greasepaint comes off for a while!!!

It's the last show of our tour tonight at 7.30 at The Corn Exchange in Wallingford. We'd love to see you there!

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20/11/2024

It's the final three nights of our southeast tour this week 😭

🏖️ The Ropetackle in Shoreham tonight
🤩 Norden Farm in Maidenhead tomorrow
🎉 Thai Corn Exchange in Wallingford on Saturday

Come and see the show before you can't!!!!

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18/11/2024

Fellow comedians love Jonathan's stand-up.

Now he's doing something a bit different - still funny, but different. Varnish is a one-man show, based on Jonathan's life as a transracial adoptee and takes a more dramatic look at some of the issues he explores in his stand-up.

Our tour finishes this week, so it's your last chance to come and see the show.

We'll be at the Ropetackle Arts Centre in Shoreham on Wednesday, Norden Farm in Maidenhead on Thursday and The Corn Exchange in Wallingford on Saturday.

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15/11/2024

Here's some audience responses from the first night of our tour in Oxford.

We're still on the road! Come along and see the show for yourselves. We'll be at:

20 Nov - The Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham
21 Nov - Norden Farm, Maidenhead
23 Nov - The Corn Exchange, Wallingford

14/11/2024

Jason Manford isn't wrong! Audiences love his stand-up. And now they can fall in love with him all over again in his one-man show.

Varnish is on tour now...

20 Nov - The Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham
21 Nov - Norden Farm, Maidenhead
23 Nov - The Corn Exchange, Wallingford

Come and see for yourself. Tickets in bio

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07/11/2024

What's that you say? Varnish is on tour? Where, pray tell?

Our tour continues...

8 Nov - Greenwich Theatre
10 Nov - Electric Theatre, Guildford
20 Nov - The Ropetackle, Shoreham-on-Sea
21 Nov - Norden Farm, Maidenhead
23 Nov - The Corn Exchange, Wallingford

04/11/2024

This week, Varnish will be heading to the bright lights of on Wednesday, on Friday and Saturday, then on Sunday. We can't wait!

31/10/2024

The tour continues...

We're at the Ark in Margate on Saturday night, then onwards:

6 Nov - Farnham Maltings
8 & 9 Nov - Greenwich Theatre
10 Nov - Electric Theatre, Guildford
20 Nov - Ropetackle Arts, Shoreham-on-Sea
21 Nov - Norden Farm, Maidenhead
23 Nov - Corn Exchange, Wallingford



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28/10/2024

Jonathan will be performing his moving poem, 'Upon Meeting my Birth Mother for the First Time', from the anthology 'British Icons in Verse' as part of Varnish. Bring your tissues!

Varnish is on tour now!

Link to tickets in bio.

21/10/2024

We asked Janet Taylor, writer of Varnish, about her process.

A dark timeline of the life of Jonathan Mayor, Varnish was described by Binge Fringe as a "dizzying spiral into the narcissistic ramblings of a broken soul" in a world that is "broken but fun, tragic but hysterical, false but true." Come along and see for yourself.

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Photography by .crisafulli amongst others