Ben Moor

I'm performing Pronoun Trouble on Friday 7th June as part of the Exeter Comedy Festival.
It's a lecture about what's really behind Bugs' and Daffy's debates as to whether it's Duck Season or Rabbit Season in the Hunting Trilogy of Merrie Melodies by Chuck Jones. It can't be both (can it be both?).
Meanwhile it twists off into contemplations about whether it should be laundrette or launderette, as well as numerous other topics, before becoming an appreciation of friendship and time.
Joanna Neary is following the lecture with her brilliant show Wasp in a Cardigan, and we are teaming up on Saturday 8th June for a performance of BookTalkBookTalkBook, our daft parody of an author event.
And Jo is also doing a knitting event on the Saturday morning.
There's an amazing array of acts over the weekend - Bec Hill, Josie Long, Mike Wozniak, Spencer Jones, Will Adamsdale - tons more - check it out!
And then we're back in London for a BookTalkBookTalkBook at the Hen & Chickens on Sunday 9th June, with a short informal preview of our current works-in-progress as a second half.
This sold out back in April, and there are few tickets left.
Cool beans!
https://www.exetercomedyfestival.com/
https://www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/booktalkbooktalkbook/

Joanna Neary - Paris Show this Spring 2024 - Reviews from Arthur Smith, Stewart Lee & Johnny Vegas a one minute 20 second video of Joanna Neary in her home, telling you about her show with Ben Moor at Chez George with Karel Beer, on Wednesday 17th April 20...

At 15.00 on Sunday 7th April 2024, the The Hen & Chickens Theatre Bar, Highbury is hosting a VERY SERIOUS literary event where two IMPORTANT authors will read from their novels, discuss their PRESTIGIOUS careers and sign copies of their HIGHLY-REGARDED works.
Either that or it will be a silly one-act performance piece from Joanna Neary and me, combining awkwardness, card tricks and pettiness about how to do the washing up.
The latter, then.
This is a great chance to see BookTalkBookTalkBook before a show in Paris at Shakespeare & Company.
AND BONUS! After a short interval Jo and I are going to do brief previews of NEW MATERIAL - it's the first live outing of a bit of my new show All Things Now New Will One Day Be Ruins...
https://www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/.../booktalkbooktalkbook/

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Hey Friend!
2023 has been a year of contrasts between coronations and conflicts, World Cups and cups of tea, sunshine and rain, and then sometimes both or all at the same time.
Time is an illusion, but it’s one we all have to believe in, so, as it insists on continuing, I’ll keep on keeping on serving up my annual news-dinner.

Superdoops and Hopewards!

Starters: What I’ve Done.

Screenwise, I appeared as a minor vicar on BBC1’s GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
I play a journalist in a few episodes of a new version of a classic Alexandre Dumas novel for the Italian broadcaster RAI, to be broadcast next year.

I did some dramaturg work with the brilliant poet Luke Wright on his fabulous current show Luke Wright's Silver Jubilee.

Lively, I have performed my show WHO HERE'S LOST? at the Hen & Chickens Theatre Bar in London, in the woods at the Latitude Festival, and in Turin.
BOOKTALKBOOKTALKBOOK (with the awesome Joanna Neary) was seen on stage at the Laugharne Weekend, the Machynlleth Comedy Festival, the Hen & Chickens, and the Latitude Festival too, and they were all wonderful shows.
Look out for more dates for both next year, when I’ll also be previewing a longer section (at least 40% of the finished work) of my new piece, now titled ALL THINGS NOW NEW WILL ONE DAY BE RUINS.
Thisbe a bit from a scene during a house-clearance…

Here was a tape of boxing matches where the punching has been edited out and there remains only the clinches. It plays like a pair of ever more injured, desperate and exhausted men looking to hold on to one another, consistently broken up by a cruel referee. Contests end with a ruined loser, unable to hug any longer, distraught or motionless; or a referee holding both men’s hands, then raising one in victory, declared to be the more loving on points. The next tape was a late-night talk show where a sleeping gas was slowly released into the studio and the guests, and presumably the viewers, let go of the threads of the day and drifted gently into slumber.

It’s ever so weird, but funny too, I hope.

Main Course: What I’m Offering.

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Pudding: What I’ve Enjoyed.

I love sharing what I love, and I popped a whole smash of good things on my last mailout (it’s online here) and they all remain awesome.
These then highlights are the highs that have lit my year since.
Apologies - my taste remains particular; not everything is for everybody, but something is always for someone.)

Some of my favourite books out of those I've read in the second half of 2023 (not necessarily published this year) have been (in no particular order):

Monica by Daniel Clowes
Lioness by Emily Perkins
Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
The Librarianist by Patrick DeWitt
White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link
Art Is Magic by Jeremy Deller
Dr No by Percival Everett
Airside by Christopher Priest
The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut

Books still give the greatest joys and I’m always delighted to receive a recommendation.
Books.

Some of movies I've seen that have made my boat float have been: Aftersun (directed by Charlotte Wells), Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks), Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson), Sisu (Jalmari Helander), The Creator (Gareth Edwards), and Asteroid City (Wes Anderson).

Top TV has recently included The Change (Channel 4), Poker Face (Sky Atlantic) and Beef (Netflix).

Artwise, I stood silently in the presence of Guernica in Madrid in the summer, which is enough to fill a year. And I’ve told many people about an extraordinary exhibit at the Courtauld I saw in the winter about a connection between the painters Wyndham Lewis and Helen Saunders and a lost Vorticist work; read about it here.

Theatrically, I loved Sarah Thom’s Beak Speaks, Operation Mincemeat in the West End, Will Adamsdale’s Show Of Just Songs, Possession by Sasha Hails at The Arcola, and a wonderful production of Twelfth Night I caught in Turin.
But may I once again recommend the work of Scene and Heard, a remarkable mentoring project which partners children from Somers Town in London with volunteer theatre professionals, and creates not only the weirdest, funniest, most uplifting theatrical shows, but positively impacts the lives of young people and their community. It’s always trying to expand its scope, and I was delighted to help them develop a new project in the autumn.
You can support this wonderful charity by buying a book of quotes from the first twenty years of their awesome plays.

On the musicside, I saw The Pulp at Latitude and they were fab.
Here's a EweToob Playlist of a few of my most enjoyed songs of 2023, only a few of which were first released in 2023. This says much about me.
(Trigger Warning: some of the videos are music only or lyric video clips and they include poor bitrates, the German language, whimsical whistling, sincere folk, ill-advised 1970s sequins, and Powerpoint. Sing wildly, sing strong.)

So that's my annual annual.
I hope the rest of this year flies by in laughter, that you have a very festive season, and that 2024 has many good things in store.
Be excellent to each other.
love and peace!
benMOOR!

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Here is the text of my irregular mailout, sent today to members of my mailing list.
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Hello!
It's always a surprise when spring does its thing as, although it claims to be a single season, we often forget that it seems to consist of numerous mini-seasons.
There's the hopeful days of new flowers, then rapidly a reminder of winter; the wind and sun weekends; another bit of warmth; three wet days in a row; somehow a touch of autumn (what's that doing there?); a March hurricane; ah blossom, no it's actually snow; clear and crisp and buddy tree mornings; the spring of that cold you thought you'd shaken off; grey spring, green spring, blue spring and finally a guess at summer.
Every year we think we know what to expect, but every year it catches us; maybe that's why we say 'spring a surprise'?
Anyways, I thought I'd surprise you, dear Mailing List member, with a mini-bulletin of what I, Ben Moor, have been up to recently and what's to come....

I pop up as a minor Vicar in the BBC's new version of Great Expectations beginning on Sunday 26th March.
I appear in daft sketches and explanatory interludes in the fun and inspiring, Rapid Motion Through Space: An Incomplete History of Speed from the Cosmic Shambles Network.

I am working on a new audio project with Colin Anderson, the producer of Undone, and I should have more to share about this by the time of the next mailout.
Also, a new solo show is beginning to form, marginally and at languor, and, as usual, here's another tiny excerpt:

For the party he’d bought an insane amount of cheese, but not way too much, simply crumbs. This meant he felt sorry for himself, which he excused by thinking at least someone was feeling something for him. The following day he’d bought a scratchcard and won a year’s supply of cardboard, with which his only thought was to make more scratchcards. But he retained his good looks; he was still someone worth looking over a shoulder at.

More to follow as it occurs.

UPCOMING SHOWS

Sunday 26th March 2023
BOOKTALKBOOKTALKBOOK
THE LAUGHARNE WEEKEND
A weekend of literature, comedy and performance in Carmarthenshire, the home of Dylan Thomas. So many brilliant people on the bill, and it will be a great place for Joanna Neary and me (in our guises as authors Jenny Nibbingley and Burton Mastrick) to perform our parody of a literary festival event.
PHYSICAL TICKETS SOLD OUT, BUT ONLINE STREAMING AVAILABLE
https://www.thelaugharneweekend.com/tickets

Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th April 2023 - 19.30
WHO HERE'S LOST?
THE HEN & CHICKENS THEATRE BAR
109 St Paul’s Road, London N1 2NA
My performance in February of the show I took to the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe was TOTALLY SOLD OUT, so we've added two more dates at the lovely Hen & Chickens pub theatre on Highbury Corner.
Here are some of the reviews from last year.
It's a funny, sweet, sad, dreamlike piece about two oddballs on a roadtrip.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW:
https://www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/ben-moor-who-heres-lost/

Sunday 30th April 2023 - 12.00pm
BOOKTALKBOOKTALKBOOK
MACHYNLLETH COMEDY FESTIVAL
Described by Stewart Lee as "Brilliant... a Russian Doll of a show that kaleidoscopes psychedelically into itself and then evaporates.”
Joanna Neary and I play authors, waiting for our moderator at a talk, but going off on a surreal and daft exploration of authorship and awkwardness.
This weekend is always a wonderful celebration of comedy and creativity.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW:
https://machcomedyfest.co.uk/show/2023/joanna-neary-and-ben-moor-booktalkbooktalkbook/

Tuesday 23rd May 2023 - 19.30
BOOKTALKBOOKTALKBOOK
THE HEN & CHICKENS THEATRE BAR
109 St Paul’s Road, London N1 2NA
Another chance to see the literary event that turns into an absurdist comedy about washing up, AI and card tricks. We SOLD OUT at last year's Edinburgh Fringe, so please book early!
TICKETS ON SALE NOW:
https://www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/booktalkbooktalkbook-joanna-neary-ben-moor/

Friday 2nd - Sunday 4th June 2023
PRONOUN TROUBLE (AND MAYBE WHO HERE'S LOST?)
LOCALLY SOURCED COMEDY WEEKEND
EXETER
The magnificent Will Adamsdale is organising a day or two of fun and weirdness in Exeter. Little is clear at this point, but look out for my "lecture" about cartoons, friendship and good words, and lots more.
TICKETS ON SALE SOON

Friday 23rd June 2023
WHO HERE'S LOST?
TURIN
I'm teaching a couple of classes about solo show creation and collaboration, and also performing Who Here's Lost? (in English, with Italian surtitles).

Saturday 8th July 2023
WORK IN PROGRESS AND SOME OLD THINGS TOO
IDLER FESTIVAL
I'll be reading a few old bits, and some of the things that haven't quite resolved themselves into the full new stage show, at the lovely Idler Festival in Fenton House, Hampstead, on what is always the hottest weekend of the year.
There is always a brilliant bill of speakers and performers (this year features Adam Buxton and Irvine Welsh) and there's always time to idle and enjoy the easiness of life.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
https://www.idler.co.uk/product/idler-festival-early-bird-tickets/

Friday 28th & Saturday 29th July 2023
WHO HERE'S LOST & BOOKTALKBOOKTALKBOOK
EASTBOURNE
As part of the Eastbourne Fringe Festival there's another literary event parody, and on the following evening I'll perform my solo show at the Lamb Inn.
TICKETS ON SALE SOON

If you have a venue you'd like me to bring a show to, please send me an electronic mail and I can send on details. I'd love to keep these shows on the road.

RECOMMENDATIONS

Of course the winter is a time for reading, and since my November mailout I've been plenty bookish.
Here are some of the tomes I've recently read and entirely endorse:

The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
The Sorcerer of Pyongyang by Marcel Theroux
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
Mr Breakfast by Jonathan Carroll
What Happens at Night by Peter Cameron

This mailout is being sent during the annual Tournament of Books - I highly recommend this, and I spoke about it when I popped up on the Backlisted podcast last year.
Visually I loved the Helen Saunders show at The Courtauld Gallery.
Moviewise, I've been delighted by a great run of Irene Dunne, Jean Arthur and Carole Lombard screwball comedies from the 1930s and '40s - The Awful Truth is absolutely amazing (and after you've seen it, do look up the Wikipedia entry about its production). Also great and more current have been Decision To Leave (directed by Chan-wook Park) and Flux Gourmet (Peter Strickland).
Teeveely, I've been loving Taskmaster Australia (watchable on the EweToobs), Fleishman Is In Trouble, The White Lotus and all the versions of The Traitors.
Lively, I saw and loved Stewart Lee's Basic Lee and "Weird Al" Yankovic's show at the Palladium.
And Scene and Heard, the extraordinary mentoring charity that uses playwriting as a self-esteem boosting experience for the children of Somers Town, has shows this week and later in the summer.

I hope all is well with you and that whatever surprises this spring still has for us, we get through them with a smile.
Thank you for reading my nonsense and have just the best day today.
love and peace!
benMOOR!

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It's the week of Previews for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at the Hen and Chickens Theatre Bar in Highbury Corner (1 minute from Highbury and Islington Tube).

19.30 12/7 and 13/7
Pronoun Trouble
A lecture that explains why Daffy wants it to be Rabbit Season, why Bugs wants it to be Duck Season, the nature of time, and a theory as to why friendship means jointly maintaining a reservoir of mercy.

19.30 14/7
Who Here's Lost?
A surreal and wistful, but funny and poetic, roadtrip with two misfits going over past ground and seeking out new meaning in life. It's full of odd one-liners, but the main takeaway is life is always better when there's ice cream.

19.30 15/7
Comedy Double Bill - Who Here's Lost? and Wasp in a Cardigan
The same show, playing after Joanna Neary's excellent array of characters, song and dance, partly based on her brilliant podcast Wife on Earth.

18.30 16/7 (NOTE EARLY START)
BookTalkBookTalkBook
Joanna and I play two novelists trapped in an absurd loop, reading to, about, because of, over and around each other.
If you've ever been to an awkward author talk, basically (fingers) you'll get where we're at.

Tickets for each, any and all of the shows can be found here:
https://www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/?s=ben+moor

Herebe some lovely treasures from my previous Edinburgh Fringes with music by Suns of the Tundra from Coelacanth (2005).
Posters, scripts, flyers, badges, the occasional review etc.

I'll do a few year-by-year posts too (we were all so young!) including memories of shows with lovely folk like Richard Herring, Emma Kennedy, Al Murray, Janice Phayre, Erica Whyman, and lots of others.

Mostly from shows - look out for posters etc for this year's shows coming soon.

https://vimeo.com/718656745

Old Edinburgh Fringes Treasures from my previous Edinburgh Festival Fringes, going back to 1988. Music by Suns of the Tundra. Look out for information about this year's shows, coming…

Lots of forthcoming dates in beautiful places for Who Here's Lost? my dreamlike weirdly comic roadtrip of the soul.

The first image is by Jules Scheele based on a photo by Andy Lane - the final poster and flyer will be designed by Stephany Ungless.

29/4: Machynlleth Comedy Festival - Machynlleth, Wales
29/5: - Discovia Festival, France
9/7: Idler Festival, Fenton house, London
3/8-29/8: The Pleasance Attic, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 - Edinburgh, Scotland

More dates TBA.
All TixLinx are on my Linktree via my bio.
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Here's my 2021 annual mailout I sent to my Mailing List this week.
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Yup.
There's been this thing.
It's still a thing and the thing isn't a nice thing, but we've all learned to take care of ourselves and others during the thing, and many of us are injected against the thing and are getting through the thing and looking on ahead.
But this is a time of year to look back too, and so, having noted the thing, allow me to round up the last orbit, suggest some culture tips and offer a discount on some books.

But first, just checking you know why you're getting this:
I write to my mailing list nowish, as the year runs of out dates, and if ever there's some big news, but if you'd prefer not to receive these very occasional messages, just reply to this electronic mail with the subject line changed to 'UNSUBSCRIBE' and more from me you will not hear.
I have a Data and Privacy Notice on my website which I thoroughly invite you to read.

Superdoops and Hopewards!

My 2021 activities:

In January I filmed scenes as a Tudor doctor in the upcoming drama series BECOMING ELIZABETH.
I then played an entirely different doctor in the film SILENT TWINS.
And then, if that wasn't enough doctors, I was in an episode of the BBC1 continuing drama DOCTORS, this time playing not a doctor, but a shy man who turns into the March Hare in Wonderland (you kind of have to watch it).
I've also shot a small scene in the upcoming series 2 of THE CAPTURE, playing a translator.
I did a spot of voice work as George Washington for the brilliant Matt Parker's Stand Up Math's channel.

Livewise, I performed spooky stories at The ALSO Festival and at Elf Lyons' House of Horrors at 2Northdown in July.
My planned and postponed show for the 2020 Edinburgh Fringe is now up and running and I'm hoping to present it at the 2022 Fringe.
WHO HERE'S LOST? (in Double Bills with the wonderful Joanna Neary and her brilliantly funny solo show Wife on Earth) was performed at the Hen & Chickens Theatre Bar in London, at the Kings Arms in Salford (where it was shortlisted for the Best Spoken Word Performance at the 2021 Greater Manchester Fringe Festival), The Constitutional in Farsley, and Theatre @ 41 Monkgate in York.
I also revived my lecture about cartoons and friendship, PRONOUN TROUBLE, and the author event parody BOOKTALKBOOKTALKBOOK (performed with Joanna Neary) went on the road: to York, London and Manchester (where it was shortlisted for Best Comedy at the GMFF).

And upcomingly, Who Here's Lost? is at Brighton's Latest Music Bar on Wednesday December 15th, and in a Comedy Double Bill with Joanna Neary's Wife on Earth at The West End Centre in Aldershot on Thursday 16th December.
I'm also contributing a small bit about observing the weirdness around us to Robin Ince's Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People at Kings Place in London on Friday 17th December.

Hopefully I'll be staging more shows next year.
I'll do a mailout if and when dates are confirmed, and information will always be posted on my Linktree.

As ever, I'm working on some new writing. Here's a tiny excerpt:

He had a face that looked like someone's attempt to draw a face with their wrong hand, but he had a surprising and sometimes disturbing warmth, like a kitchen bin. On our walks, as he talked, he kept his hands in his pockets - he called them his glove compartments. These were tricky times for me, he knew; he observed that "every day is designed to make you feel grateful but awkward, embarrassed and pleased, all at the same time - that's why it's called the present." Another thing he said: "Big Paul is the name of the dome, not the clock."

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Should you have some spare book tokens, why not pop along to somewhere like Bookseller Crow or Word on the Water or use Bookshop (indeed other local bookshops may well be available more locally to your locality) and treat yourself, or someone with equally brilliant taste as you, with something excellent.
Shop safely.

A few of my favourite books out of those I've read this year (not necessarily published this year) have been (in no particular order):

Your Friend Forever by Zena Barrie
Sour Grapes by Dan Rhodes
Last O**y Of The Divine Hermit by Mark Leyner
Laughing Torso by Nina Hamnett
When We Cease To Understand The World by Benjamin Labatut
Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Chess
Piranesi by Susannah Clarke
Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Books maintain their three thousand-year streak of being just the best, and I am always delighted to receive any tip in return.
Books.

Some of my most enjoyed films out of those I saw in 2021 were The French Dispatch (directed by Wes Anderson), About Endlessness (Roy Andersson), Saint Maud (Rose Glass), Cruella (Craig Gillespie), Phoenix and Barbara (both Christian Petzold), Greener Grass (Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe) and Charade (Stanley Donen).

TV topness included Can't Get You Out Of My Head, Only Murders In The Building, Evil, The White Lotus, Taskmaster New Zealand, and I Think You Should Leave.

Some of the art shows I adored were by Kate Bland, Eleanor Crow, Ron Mueck, Nina Hamnett and Ithell Colquhon.

I only saw a few things in the theatre, but I enjoyed Rare Earth Mettle, Paul Currie and Joanna Neary's delightful puppet show for youngsters, Stinky McFish And The World's Worst Wish.
But may I once again recommend the remarkable mentoring project Scene and Heard, which partners children from Somers Town in London with volunteer theatre professionals, and creates inspirational moments that change the lives of young people and produces some of the funniest, most wonderful shows you'll see.
This year the charity has grown and developed and you can support the amazing work they do by zipping to their website and acquiring a book of quotes from two decades of brilliant plays written by children and performed by professional actors.
You will laugh.

Musicwise, here's a EweToob Playlist of a few of my most enjoyed songs of 2021, not all of which were first released in 2021.
(Trigger Warning: some of the videos are music only or lyric video clips. One includes colourful roller skaters, another contains a flustered Judy Garland. There are X-Files parodies and lovely flowers. There is soul, jazz, country and rock. These all make life better.)

So that's about it from me this year.
I do hope this one's not been overly awful for you, and let's hope now we're on the easy slide to awesome.
Please accept my early compliments for the season, and allow me to wish you an absolutely exceptional 2022.
Be excellent to each other.
love and peace!
benMOOR!

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This is such a great image - and it's promoting a lovely evening!

On Saturday 11th September 2021 The Constitutional, Farsley, West Yorkshire, is hosting an offbeat Comedy Double Bill consisting of me and my dreamlike roadtrip tale Who Here's Lost? (featuring a gorgeous score by Suns of the Tundra) & Joanna Neary performing her brilliant buffet of characters, Wife on Earth.

So near yet so Farsley!

Tickets: https://theconstitutional.co.uk/event/4330245/565456031/comedy-theatre-double-bill-wife-on-earth-who-here-s-lost

Observe a short trailer for Who Here's Lost? my comedy about a surreal roadtrip of the soul taken by an uninspired artist and a quiet architect.
Autumnly it's on tour as a Double Bill with Wife on Earth by Joanna Neary and we're going to The Constitutional in Farsley (2021.09.11); The Kings Arms in Salford as part of The Greater Manchester Fringe Festival (2021.09.24); and Theatre @ 41 Monkgate in York (2021.10.22). More dates TBA.
https://vimeo.com/591169563

Who Here's Lost? Trailer Trailer for upcoming performances of Who Here's Lost?

Thank you to The Hen & Chickens and the lovely audiences this week for giving Joanna Neary and me such a great response to our nonsense.
It was such a delight to be back on stage, and finally bringing my brand new show to the world, a year later than planned.
If you missed a line here and there (or didn't pick up the programme with the out take scenes) the book of the show is available at my online shop:
https://www.spesh.com/ben/benmoorshop.html
And the good news is Joanna and I are back at The Hen & Chickens on Sunday 26th September for an afternoon matinee of our silly author event parody show BookTalkBookTalkBook.
If you've ever been to a literary event and thought somehow it needed to be even more awkward, hoped for confusing card tricks and/or wondered why the writers aren't obsessed with washing up, this basically might just be the show for you.
https://www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/ben-moor-joanna-neary%e2%80%a8-booktalkbooktalkbook/

So, all being well, Joanna Neary and I are doubling up our current shows for a few performances.

Joanna's show is called Wife on Earth and it involves a gang of wives and non-wives on tour, to raise funds to re-lead the church roof with lead-free lead. New faces (wigs) plus old favourites such as Bjork, Kate Bush on sexy housework and Celia, hosting and dancing.

My piece is called Who Here's Lost? and is the story of a roadtrip of the soul taken by a mute architect and a melancholy artist. It features bubble-wrap, museums, ants and ice cream and is cryptic, surreal, heartful and funny.
Here's the date deets:

7.30pm TUESDAY 27th JULY &
7.30pm WEDNESDAY 28th JULY 2021
HEN & CHICKENS THEATRE BAR
109 ST PAUL'S ROAD, LONDON N1 2NA
https://www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/double-bill-of-wife-on-earth-and-who-heres-lost/

7.00pm SATURDAY 11th SEPTEMBER 2021
THE CONSTITUTIONAL
51 TOWN STREET, FARSLEY, LEEDS LS28 5HX
https://theconstitutional.co.uk/event/4330245/565456031/comedy-theatre-double-bill-wife-on-earth-who-here-s-lost

7.00pm FRIDAY 24th SEPTEMBER 2021
THE KINGS ARMS
11 BLOOM STREET, SALFORD, GREATER MANCHESTER M3 6AN
As part of the 2021 Greater Manchester Fringe Festival
https://manchester.ssboxoffice.com/events/comedy-double-bill-who-heres-lost-wife-on-earth/

7.30pm FRIDAY 22nd OCTOBER 2021
THEATRE@41 MONKGATE
41 MONKGATE, YORK, YO31 7PB
https://tickets.41monkgate.co.uk/events/14e811a3-dd16-45a3-b2d5-a7ebfe5e3208/interest