An Evening with Catherine Tate

Nan, Donna Noble and the Word of the Year

Catherine Tate spent ten months on the road with the Royal Shakespeare Company before any of the television work landed, playing Smeraldina in a UK, Australian and US tour of The Servant of Two Masters in 2000 and 2001.

The sketch show came after that, and Lauren Cooper's "bovvered" went on to be named a word of the year and very nearly made it into the Oxford English Dictionary. Donna Noble followed, then a season on the US version of The Office, then a return to Doctor Who for the sixtieth-anniversary specials in 2023.

At the Cidermill she sits down with Fiona Lindsay, who has run the talent agency Limelight Celebrity Management since 1989, for an unscripted conversation rather than a performance.

Two hours on how a bit becomes a catchphrase, what survives the move from sketch writing to an American sitcom, and how much of Nan she still can't quite put down.

It's a small stage built for exactly this, close enough that nothing needs to reach the back row.

Sunday 31 January 2027 · Cidermill Theatre, Chipping Campden School, Cidermill Lane, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire GL55 6HU · Doors 5:30pm, starts 6:30pm