Preview: The Week Ahead – Sept 29 - Oct 6

Lucy Beaumont

You could say that Lucy Beaumont is having a good year. She recently got engaged to Jon Richardson and she picked up a Foster’s Award Best Newcomer nomination for her full-length Edinburgh Fringe debut, We Can Twerk It Out. Funnily Jon Richardson was sitting next to me when I saw the show back in August. Maybe he was there every day. And the funnier thing is that part of the show is about Beaumont’s hunt for her perfect man, when all along he was sitting three rows back in a tin hut in Scotland. Beaumont brings her deceptively punchy brand of Hull-inspired whimsy to the Soho Theatre for four nights from Wednesday.

Also on Wednesday Stephen Fry will be plugging his new book with a show at the Royal Festival Hall. Tickets are sold out but you can also see him live in cinemas where it is being streamed. Details here. The book should  be interesting – it covers what you could loosely call Fry’s cocaine years. Unless you've been living under a stone recently you’ll have heard that when he was a user he snorted some marching powder in Buckingham Palace.

Alan Davies is also in London this week, at Indigo2 on Thursday with his Little Victories tour. Davies’ return to stand-up in recent years has reminded us just how good he was before telly distracted him. He’s a natural storyteller onstage and this autobiographical set brings things up to date with pithy reflections on middle age as well as some comic memories of his schooldays. It is not all a barrel of laughs though – he also talks movingly about his father’s Alzheimer’s Disease. This is Davies in more poignant mode, going a bit deeper into his feelings, and the show is all the better for it.

 

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