************************* Michael Roberts, who is currently appearing at York Theatre Royal in Broken Glass, is a master actor/impersonator with an encyclopaedic knowledge of movies - especially the bad ones - and of moviedom. In this extraordinary, critically acclaimed performance, Roberts recreates an entire golden age of Hollywood greats including uncanny impersonations of Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas, Groucho Marx, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Laurel & Hardy, James Cagney, Abbott & Costello, John Gielgud, Woody Allen, Jack Lemmon, Marlon Brando, Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Burton. and Gloria Swanson's Mother! Hollywood and all its foibles are mercilessly dissected with intelligence and humour as the funniest moments of cinematic fact and fiction are recreated from screen to stage. Expert insight is offered one moment and anorakish trivia the next, celebrating all the foolish things that people do in the name of entertainment. Roberts was the original Misspent Youth. Growing up in Tottenham, with a movie-mad Dad and access to over twenty local cinemas, (most of them "fleapits"), he spent every free moment in the damp and the dark. As an adolescent, he escaped Acne, but grew mushrooms. His knowledge and love of movies has stood him in good stead, and over the last few years, has been commissioned by Radio 4 to write and present "Groucho and Me", "Laughter from the Fleapits", "Fear at the Flicks" and, last year, was asked to turn his one-man show, "Hollywood Screams", into three programmes. “Wildly camp, hugely cheesy and lovingly researched, this is B movie heaven for all you incurable Hollywood nostalgias." Daily Express "Michael Roberts is the Rory Bremner of celluloid" The Scotsman Tickets for the event are priced at £6.00 with all proceeds going to Martin House Hospice for Children and Young People. Tickets can be obtained by calling the box office on 01904 623568 or by booking online at www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk. Tickets will be available on the night. **************************