ONE of Poland’s most famous actors is playing a stand up show in Liverpool tonight for his homeland’s community in the city.

Cezary Pazura will perform the show in his native tongue for the expat Polish community at the gig at the Liverpool Lighthouse in Anfield.

The established theatre actor and movie star has been invited to the UK by the Polish internet service Leeds.pl, and stops by in the city as part of a small seven- date tour taking in some of the biggest Polish contingencies in the country.

Organiser Marcin Kwiatkowski said: “There’s a huge ongoing thirst for entertainment among the local Polish community.

“We chose the cities with the biggest Polish communities and the shows have been selling out venues of up to 400 seats. I hope we sell out in Liverpool as well.

“These shows are popular because I think with when the comedians come to England as there is more motivation for Polish people to come – at home they might think they could see them any time.

“The audiences so far have been very happy to see Pazura, who is a very good actor and comedian and very well known.

“I don’t think there’s that big a difference between English humour and Polish humour, Pazura can talk about politics and it’s not too different.”

Birkenhead-based Julita Zubowicz has lived on Merseyside for three years.

She said: “All across the country Polish communities seem to be a lot more organised than it is in Liverpool, running community centres and different events, but this is probably the second such event I remember here.

“It is something we definitely really need to get organised.

“Even though most of us have Polish TV and use the internet to read Polish newspapers, it is completely different when someone makes the effort to come and perform live and hopefully there will be more in future.”

Pazura made his name as the Killer in the Juliusz Machulski’s movie of the same name, and his role as clumsy policeman Czarek in the television show 13 Posterunek.

He is well known to the Polish public from the characters he has played in movies directed by the greatest Polish directors – Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieslowski (Three Colours: White), Maciej Slesicki (Tato), Wladyslaw Pasikowski (Kroll, Psy), and Jacek Bromski (Kariera Nikosia Dyzmy).

Tickets for Cezary Pazura’s shows are available on the wwwLeeds.pl website, ticketweb.co.uk

More information can be found of on www.leeds.pl/cezarypazura.