Solihull Arts Complex

This show was cancelled due to Covid-19 regulations but we’re delighted to have rescheduled to this new date.  If you can attend that’s great simply write the new date on your tickets (same seats as previously) and write it in your diary!  If you bought online/phone and don’t have your tickets, they’re still with us and can be collected any time after we re-open including just prior to the (new) show.

If you can’t attend, you’re entitled to a refund.  All ticketholders will receive a letter from us, outlining refund options, so please wait for your letter as we have a lot of shows to refund.

Please bear with us at this difficult time and we look forward to welcoming you back to The Core Theatre next season.

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Comedian Omid Djalili returns to one of his earliest stage creations, an enthralling and hilarious storytelling piece recounting mystical experiences, astonishing claims, adventures and tragedies set against the backdrop of tumultuous expectation for a Promised One in Persia, 1844. Omid portrays a rich diversity of tragic and comic characters in this revival to mark the bicentenary of the birth of the Prophet Founder of the Baha’i Faith.

A Strange Bit of History was first performed at the 1993 Edinburgh Festival, where it won the Spirit of the Fringe Award. Over the next four years it was performed 109 times in 10 different countries. 

Omid Djalili is an actor and stand-up comedian. Theatre includes Fiddler On The Roof (Chichester) The Shawshank Redemption (Edinburgh), What the Butler Saw (Vaudeville Theatre) and Fagin in Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane). Television includes Going Forward, Lucky Man, Dickensian and two seasons of The Omid Djalili Show and on US network television. Films include Gladiator, the Shaun the Sheep Movie, The Mummy, Sex and the City 2, The Infidel, Mr Nice, Grow Your Own, and Spygame.