Popular comedian Rob Newman, famed for his part in cult early 90s BBC2 sketch show The Mary Whitehouse Experience and his subsequent short-loved act with fellow MWE alumni David Baddiel, is appearing at Swindon Arts Centre in September. His current critically-acclamied show 'Apocalypso Now or From P45 to AK47, How to Grow the Economy with the Use of War' is as thought-provoking as it is hilarious. In the show, Newman leads from Wordsworth, Coleridge and the War on Terror in Somerset in 1997, and takes us via Salvador Dali and the Euro theory of the second Gulf War, to your Hostage Survival Guide and the current vogue for saturation bombing, as he explores the economic reasons for war. Of the show, The Sunday Time said: He is the funniest comedian I have ever seen. This is what watching Lenny Bruce must have been like... A passionate, chaotically brilliant comedian who can voice our fears and raise the ante...." And The Scotsman Newspaper remarked: "Breathtakingly, heartbreakingly, goosepimplingly brilliant." If those plaudits intrigue you then get along to the show when it hits Swindon Arts Centre in Devizes Road on Thursday 15th September. Tickets are priced at £12.00 and can be obtained via the box office on (01793) 614837. Be warned however, this show contains a ukelele. | 
