NO two gigs are ever the same when sassy comic, cultural innovator and skilled ventriloquist Nina Conti straps on the masks for In Your Face, her 2015 show that she is reviving on the road after a West End run at the Criterion Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe dates.

On Monday night, Nina, Monkey and her bag of tricks will improvise their way through an adventure of unpredictable witchery at the Grand Opera House in York as part of her biggest ever British tour.

In Your Face throws the script out of the window as the voice-throwing Nina "gets in your face" by using masks to transform audience members into puppets in a wholly improvised, spontaneous, delightfully raucous evening of entertainment, feats of ventriloquism and amusing characters.

Nina began her career as an actress at the Royal Shakespeare Company before the anarchic theatre director Ken Campbell inspired her to become a ventriloquist. She has since won a British Comedy Award, stormed Live At The Apollo, Russell Howard’s Good News and Sunday Night At The Palladium and made a BAFTA nominated film, 2012's Her Master's Voice, all without even moving her lips.

After York and beyond in Britain, Nina will make her New York City debut with 13 performances over 10 days in December at The Barrow Street Theatre.

Tickets for Monday's 7.30pm show cost £21.25 on 0844 871 3024 or at atgtickets.com/york