AFTER two hugely successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and a world tour, critically acclaimed actor and comedian Beth Vyse takes her funny and poignant show As Funny As Cancer on a UK tour and will be at Swindon Arts Centre on Tuesday, October 11.

Coinciding with Breast Cancer Awareness month, Funny As Cancer is a bodacious and ballsy look at Beth's battle with breast cancer.

The audience will get to hear the tale of her Stoke-on-Trent family (The Waltons on alcohol), her time with Nelson Mandela, acting and thieving at the Royal Shakespeare Company, settling down with Michael Jackson and finding cancer.

Beth Vyse is a critically acclaimed actor, writer, performer and also director from Stoke-On-Trent.

After treading the boards across the globe for two seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company, working at numerous national theatres, on TV show such as Spooks, A Touch Of Frost, Holby City and radio, Beth’s career suddenly had to stop, aged 28, when she discovered she had breast cancer.

It was then she decided to move into comedy, an area she’d always wanted to work in. She created a surreal, sublime and completely ridiculous take on the world, underpinned with a unique acting style.

  •  Beth Vyse: As Funny As Cancer will be at Swindon Arts Centre on Tuesday, October 11. Tickets priced at £12.50.
  • Book your tickets now at swindontheatres.co.uk or by calling the Wyvern Ticket Office on 01793 524481