For BBC Radio 4 listeners Tony Hawks will need no introduction. His wry observations have made him a hit on Just A Minute and I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, as well as a plethora of other shows.
Now, following Tony’s popular 2010 Random Fun tour, he is back performing another one man show. Called Fridges, Frolics and Films, it combines storytelling, stand up, musical comedy and film clips to create 2 hours of fun.
And you can see him in Tiverton on February 1st.
Tony will recount the amusing and sometimes fraught story of how he went from being ‘Comedian and author’ to ‘Comedian, author and film-maker’. You’ll get some hilarious tales of how he became an independent film maker – producing both Round Ireland With A Fridge and Playing The Moldovans At Tennis.
About the books
The book became a top 10 Sunday Times bestseller in 1998, was serialised on BBC Radio 4, and led to a six month TV advertising campaign for HARP Irish Lager. It has now sold over 500,000 copies worldwide including the US and Australia,and has been translated into several languages; Hebrew, Italian, Dutch and German.
His second book Playing the Moldovans at Tennis has now sold well over 100,000 copies. The book was serialised on BBC R4 over Christmas. The story charts his latest foolhardy attempt to win a bet, which involved tracking down all the members of the national football team of Moldova and beating them at tennis one by one. Tony’s book was shortlisted for both the Samuel Johnson Prize (2000) for non-fiction writing and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize (2000).
Tony has recently produced the film version of both books. RIWAF came out in autumn 2010 and PTMAT is due for release in spring 2012, co-directed by Mikolaj Jaroszewicz who was the cinematographer on the Oscar winning short film Peter and the Wolf.
This is a wonderful chance to spend an evening of laughs and discussion with the man himself.
Tiverton Community Arts Theatre
8pm Saturday February 1st
Tickets on this site or at JT’s Party House in Tiverton.
Phone: 07931 151545
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