DIRECT from a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival, Sony Award winner, Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Chortle and Time Out Award winner and star of BBC Radio Four and BBC Two Tom Wrigglesworth will perform in Darwen next year, it has been announced.

The comic will be live at Darwen Library Theatre on March 8.

A venue spokesman said: “Tom takes an emotional journey exploring his profound relationship with his grandad, and comes to fully understand theinfluence he has had on his life. Expect elegant flourishes of language, twisted logic and whimsical storytelling.”

Tickets costing £12 or £10 for students go on sale on Friday.