in conversation with Gyles Brandreth
Actor, director, writer and producer Mark Gatiss will be sharing insights into his incredible career in this special event with Gyles Brandreth.
Mark is best known as a member of The League of Gentlemen and as the co-creator and executive producer of the multi award-winning BBC series Sherlock, in which he played Mycroft Holmes. He both wrote for and appeared in the modern revival of Doctor Who, and was the writer and executive producer of An Adventure in Space and Time for its 50th anniversary celebrations.
As an actor, recent screen work includes Mission Impossible 7, Operation Mincemeat, The Favourite, Wolf Hall, Coalition and Game of Thrones; and on stage, Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse), The Boys in the Band (Park/Vaudeville Theatres) and Three Days in the Country (National Theatre: Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role).
He recently directed Steven Moffat’s debut play The Unfriend for Chichester Theatre, which transferred to the Criterion Theatre in the West End in 2023 and won an Olivier Award for his performance in Jack Thorne’s The Motive and the Cue, and was recently honoured with a UK Theatre Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre.
We receive no Arts Council funding at the Orange Tree. Proceeds from the event will support our award-winning productions, work with the local community, as well as introducing primary school children to Shakespeare. We are hugely grateful to everyone who supports us through attending our events, and are especially grateful to Mark and Gyles for giving up their time to support us in this wonderful way.
Tickets £50 – 75 with a glass of fizz on arrival. If you can, please round your ticket up and ‘pay-it-forward’ and allow a young person to attend this special event.
As an independent theatre producing all its own work and operating without Arts Council funding, we need to raise at least £650,000 each year through fundraising.
Every ticket sold to this event supports our wide-ranging programme, including our work with 10,000 young people each year.