• I Wish to Register a Complaint, Headgate Theatre, Chapel Street North, Colchester, Sunday, 7.30pm. Sold Out. For returns call 01206 366000.

A COMEDY night from local stand-ups and performers re-creating some of television's most celebrated comic sketches all in aid of the Mayor's Charities.

There's Monty Python, Not The Nine O'Clock News, and even some Peter Cook and Dudley Moore as well as a few musical surprises.

  • Gee Vaucher – An Introspective, Firstsite, High Street, Colchester, until Sunday, 10am. Free. 01206 713700.

IT'S your final chance to catch this socially and politically charged exhibition of work, some of which are as relevant and punchy today as they were when Essex-based artist Gee Vaucher created them back in the Sixties and Seventies.

The retrospective also includes more modern pieces demonstrating an artist who has been at the top of her game for more than 50 years.

  • William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (Abridged), Mercury Theatre Colchester, Balkerne Gate, Colchester, today, 7.30pm. £21 to £12. 01206 573948.

THOSE acclaimed masters of abridgement, the Reduced Shakespeare Company return with another irreverent and hilarious celebration of the Bard as seen through the eyes of three Americans wearing trainers.

This ‘new’ play has all of Shakespeare's greatest characters and plots in one single work of dramatic genius.

  • Matt Forde: It's My Political Party (And I'll Cry If I Want To), Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street, Colchester, Tuesday, doors 7.30pm. £15, £13 concessions. 01206 500900.

THE guy who watches Question Time like it's Match of the Day, Matt is perhaps the best comedian to poke fun at the political establishment because he used to be a part of it himself.

With interviews from the likes of Tony Blair, Alistair Campbell and Boris Johnson, you'll cry so much at the state we're in, there's no other option but to laugh.

  • Schools Rock Prom 2017, Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street, Colchester, Thursday, doors open 6.30pm. £5. 01206 500900.

CHECK out the next big things on the Colchester music scene now with this annual showcase of musical talent from local schools and colleges.