POLITICAL activist and comic Mark Thomas will preview his 2013 Edinburgh Fringe show at Selby Town Hall tomorrow, full of trouble-making brio as he continues his prankster progress through 100 Acts Of Minor Dissent in a year.

In a town once synonymous with miner descent at the pits, the BBC Radio 4 and Channel 4 pied piper of protest will give an update on how his dissension is progressing, as his ever-changing show continues its evolution in pursuit of revolution.

“The preview shows started on May 13, and what’s happening is that I’m doing these 100 acts as we go along,” says Mark. “Some of them are planned; some you can work around, thinking ‘That’s interesting; we could try that one out there’. Without giving too much away, there are certain structures you can use for many things.”

Audiences can follow Mark’s “Trail of Destruction” at his shows, and his progress is also being charted on the 100 Acts Twitter account and his own @markthomasinfo account as he catalogues everything from the smallest, silliest gesture to the grandest confrontation.

“Some acts will be things you can join in with and some you can do yourself,” says Mark. “Like when we did a flash mob in the Apple store in Regent Street. We decided that we’d all got our perception wrong on the ‘tax avoidance’ question and that Apple couldn’t possibly be wrong in their conduct! The tax issue could be solved by assuming the Apple store was an Irish territory!”

What happened next? “I was asked to leave,” says Mark. “I wasn’t surprised by that, but what did strike me was that we started with 25 people going in there and then all these Apple store customers joined in, so there were about 70 of us by the end.”

Already up and running is Mark’s website wewilldrivethemtotheairport.co.uk. “Bankers threatening to leave the country if they don’t get their bonuses?” the site asks. “We say, ‘Good ****ing riddance!’ You want to go? We will drive you to the airport.”

Mark mentions this site with glee in his voice. “That’s the really great thing about this show; it’s great fun thinking up these acts of dissent,” he says. “I can walk on each night and say, ‘You’ll never guess what we’ve just done’.

“We’ll get to the point where we’ve done 50-60 acts and there’ll be 90 minutes to two hours of material and I’ll have to drop stuff to get new things in!”

Come the completion of the 100 acts, an art exhibition will be held, both in the north and the south. “But I can’t say where yet,” says Mark, holding his cards close to his chest.

He believes that whoever is in political power, dissembling always will be important. “The whole point of dissembling is we don’t just say ‘Life is crap’ but that ‘we know it’s crap and we want to do something about’. It’s always a powerful tool,” he says. “ Mark stresses that his political pranks, such as his 100 Acts Of Minor Dissent, are "not about tyring to build a movement". "This is me doing my bit so I feel better, and I find I have to do it because if I didn't, I'd get curmudgeonly with myself," he says. "I'm not the voice of anyone but people do come out and support what I do"

He may not consider himself as a movement leader, but Mark nevertheless encourages others to try to make a difference. "When people say 'we can't do someone's fight for them', maybe they can't, but they can write a letter that helps to get that person out of jail," he says. "You can be part of a chain that gets things done.

"In 100 Acts Of Minor Dissent, I’m starting small with offers to drive bankers to the airport. Who knows, by the end of the year, we might bring down the monarchy.”

Mark Thomas, 100 Acts Of Minor Dissent, Selby Town Hall, tomorrow; doors, 7.30pm; start, 8pm. Box office: 01757 708449 or at selbytownhall.co.uk