Bound & Gagged Comedy in association with DAA Management proudly presents:
LUCY PORTER
‘Consequences’
Dixon Studio, The Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea
11th November 2016
LUCY PORTER
‘Consequences’
Dixon Studio, The Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea
11th November 2016
Lucy Porter has announced a new UK tour for 2016/2017 titled “Consequences’. It’s a heart-felt and hilarious show that includes personal revelation, political observation and general reflection. This tour follows a month-long run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August. Lucy has performed consistently popular solo shows for 15 years now - her first was in 2001 - although she had a quick break in the middle to pop out two children. The tour takes in 32 dates and starts on 30th September at Tunbridge Wells Trinity Theatre and culminates on 11th February 2017 at Milton Keynes, The Stables. Lucy is a familiar face from TV (QI, Mock The Week, Never Mind The Buzzcocks) and has a voice that you’ll know if you listen to Radio 4 (The Unbelievable Truth, The Now Show, The News Quiz).
“Impeccably punch-lined anecdotes … Genuinely delightful” TELEGRAPH ****
Since the 1990s, Lucy has been caught up in the dazzling world of showbiz, rubbing shoulders with big-name stars from both the UK and Hollywood celebrity circuits. In ‘Consequences’ she ignores all that and shares her searing insights into life as a suburban mother of two, stalwart of the local pub quiz team, married to a giant with a passion for home-brewing.
“A treat from start to finish” THE HERALD *****
“Impeccably punch-lined anecdotes … Genuinely delightful” TELEGRAPH ****
Since the 1990s, Lucy has been caught up in the dazzling world of showbiz, rubbing shoulders with big-name stars from both the UK and Hollywood celebrity circuits. In ‘Consequences’ she ignores all that and shares her searing insights into life as a suburban mother of two, stalwart of the local pub quiz team, married to a giant with a passion for home-brewing.
“A treat from start to finish” THE HERALD *****
This show was inspired by a passage in Jenny Offill’s novel ‘Dept. of Speculation’:
“How has she become one of those people who wears yoga pants all day? She used to make fun of those people. With their happiness maps and their gratitude journals and their bags made out of recycled tire treads. But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.” Lucy had a list of things she thought she would never be: Monogamous. A mother. A cat lover. A slow-walker. A change-counter. A miser. Someone who listens to chart music. A sentimentalist, a nail-biter, a foot-spa owner, a glasses-wearer. Someone who’s been arrested/ dumped/ sacked from their dream job. A meat-eater, a real-ale enthusiast, a caravaner, a luddite, an evangelist, a teacher. One by one, Lucy has crossed each of the imaginary lines she had drawn in the imaginary sand. In this show she works out whether there have been any real consequences. |
The big issues covered in Lucy’s latest hour include: censorship, generational conflict, theological ethics, safe-spaces, transphobia, real-ale vs ginger ale, trivia quizzes (particularly Radio 2’s Pop Master), Britpop of the 1990s, falconry and Gary Wilmot. In fact, the whole hour is pretty much a love letter to Falconry, Gary Wilmot and Pop Master.
For Lucy's website click here
For tickets call the box office on 01702 351135 or go online to southendtheatres.org.uk
For Lucy's website click here
For tickets call the box office on 01702 351135 or go online to southendtheatres.org.uk