After a sold-out run in 2023 and enormous demand, Ruby Wax and Impatient Productions have announced 2024 dates for her most raw and funny stage show yet, ‘I’m Not As Well As I Thought I Was’, with over 30 new dates added and more to be announced.
Laced with humour and based on her bestselling book of the same name, in the I’m Not As Well As I Thought I Was stage show Ruby reflects back on a series of life-changing journeys she undertook in search of meaning – swimming with humpback whales; embarking on a 30-day silent retreat in California; joining a Christian monastery – that ended up taking her in a very different direction. After ten years, Ruby’s depression resurfaced, and at the start of 2022 she was admitted to a mental health clinic.
“The original idea behind this show was based on the extreme journeys that I wanted to take in order to find an antidote to living a frazzled life. Along the way I wanted to find meaning, peace, happiness – the stuff we’re all chasing. However, after some transcendent experiences, I ended up in a mental institution. Obviously, I didn’t find what I was looking for.”
Directed by Alison Summers, the show sees Ruby subvert our stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding mental health and happiness in her most honest, compelling and vulnerable performance yet.
Ruby Wax is a successful comedian, TV writer and performer of over 25 years. Ruby additionally holds a Masters’ degree in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy from Oxford University and was awarded an OBE in 2015 for her services to mental health. To date, Ruby has sold over one million copies of her books worldwide. She is the author of books Sane New World and A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled and has toured all over the world with the accompanying one-woman shows. Both books have reached the number one spot on the Sunday Times bestsellers list, along with a third book, How to Be Human: The Manual. In March 2017 she launched Frazzled café in partnership with Marks & Spencer and held daily sessions online at Frazzled.org during the coronavirus lockdown.
More information and to book tickets visit: rubywax.net, impatientproductionsuk.com
Nationwide tour dates:
1 May 2024 – Anvil, Basingstoke
2 May 2024 - Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury
3 May 2024 – Courtyard, Hereford
4 May 2024 – Old Vic, Bristol
22 May 2024 – Dorking Halls, Dorking
23 May 2024 – Sub Rooms, Stroud
28 May 2024 – Royal & Derngate, Northampton
29 May 2024 – Playhouse, Nottingham
30 May 2024 – Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
5 June 2024 – Pavilion, Bournemouth
6 June 2024 – Playhouse, Salisbury
7 June 2024 – Ashcroft Playhouse, Croydon
11 June 2024 – Gardyne, Dundee
12 June 2024 – Pavilion, Glasgow
13 June 2024 – Tivoli, Aberdeen
20 June 2024 – Civic, Chelmsford
21 June 2024 – Regent Theatre, Ipswich
28 June 2024 – artsdepot, Finchley London
29 June 2024 – Warwick Arts, Coventry
30 June 2024 – Lowry Quays, Salford
1 July 2024 – City Varieties, Leeds
4 September 2024 – Palace Theatre, Southend
5 September 2024 – Pavilion, Worthing
12 September 2024 – Derby Theatre, Derby
13 September 2024 – New Theatre, Cardiff
14 September 2024 – Lyric, Carmarthen
19 September 2024 – Swan, High Wycombe
20 September 2024 – Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
28 September 2024 – Royal Spa (festival), Leamington Spa 24 October 2024 – Theatre Royal, Winchester
26 October 2024 – Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells
2 November 2024 – Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham
Picture credit: Charlie Clift
