Alistair McGowan heads to Bury St Edmunds with new 3 in 1 show
The impressionist, Alistair McGowan, is heading to The Apex in Bury St Edmunds this July for a new show featuring comedy, poetry and beautiful piano music.
Although McGowan is best known for his extraordinary impressions, he’s also a multi-award-winning actor, writer and stand-up comedian, as well as a poet and a skilled pianist. For this latest tour he is using all those talents and performing three great shows in one!
Audiences will enjoy the comedy and impressions for which Alistair is known and loved, poignant and clever poetry, and piano gems by composers such as Debussy, Bryce Scriabin and Amy Beach, to name but a few.
“Alistair McGowan’s impressions are faultless.”
Alistair’s early TV career as an impressionist made him a household name. He provided the voices for eight series of ‘Spitting Image’ and earned a BAFTA for his BBC1 television series, ‘The Big Impression’, with Ronni Ancona and Jan Ravens.
As an actor, he has been a regular on BBC Radio 4 dramas and comedies and taken several lead roles on stage and screen. Alistair is also an acclaimed writer – alongside writing his own stand-up and much of ‘The Big Impression’, Alistair has also written plays and a selection of poetry.
His first collection of poems, ‘Not What We Were Expecting’ – released in 2024 – was 40 years in the making, while his new collection, ‘Like Never Before’ has been written in the last 18 months. Some poems are comic, some poignant, some observational. Nearly all follow the theme of a changing world – linguistically, politically, environmentally – and the changes we all experience as we age.
“The poems are WONDERFUL; Alistair has his own voice and a real gift! ”
At the age of 49, Alistair also went back to the piano (having reached Grade 2 as a nine-year old). He started playing seriously in 2015, and just two years later released ‘The Piano Album’ through Sony Classical, which reached No.1 in the classical charts.
All those creative talents combine for his new show, which offers a unique opportunity to experience: Alistair McGowan 3-in-1.
Expect beautiful music, beautiful words, and a large dose of Alistair’s trademark comedy.
Alistair McGowan 3-in-1 is at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds on 17 July 2026.
FOR SHOW DETAILS AND BOOKING LINK, CLICK HERE