Friday 2 May - Sunday 4 May 2025

Saturday 30th April, 2016

3:30 pm

£ 7

Y Plas – Colin Wilde Room

All ages

Archived show

This show is from a previous year's festival

Thoughtful wastrel Ahir Shah returns to Machynlleth with a work-in-progress show about modernity, technology, democracy, capitalism, radical Islam, and his grandma.

Shah’s last hour of stand-up, Distant, was performed to critical acclaim at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and subsequently toured around the UK, Paris and Australia. Basically if you like jokes and opinions you’ll probably dig this, it’ll be fun and good, promise.

Previous praise:

“Very funny” ★★★★ The Guardian

“Powerfully funny” ★★★★ The List

“Feels closer to a TED talk than a stand-up gig” Evening Standard

“Stampede of laughter” ★★★★ The Skinny

60 mins

14+

Friday

6:00pm

Friday

7:30pm

Friday

9:00pm

Friday

10:30pm

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10:45am

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11:00am

Saturday

12:00pm

Saturday

12:30pm

Saturday

1:00pm

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2:00pm

Saturday

2:30pm

Saturday

3:15pm

Saturday

3:30pm

Saturday

5:00pm

Saturday

6:30pm

Saturday

8:00pm

Saturday

9:30pm

Saturday

11:00pm

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10:00am

Sunday

10:30am

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12:00pm

Sunday

12:30pm

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2:00pm

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3:30pm

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5:00pm

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6:30pm

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7:00pm

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8:00pm

Sunday

9:30pm

Sunday

10:00pm