Adrian Edmondson is to star in an adjustment of William Leith's on the double lavishly funny, obscurely humorous and weepingly enthusiastic smash hit Bits of Me are Falling Apart. Adjusted by Adrian Edmondson and Soho Theater's Artistic Director Steve Marmion, the play will make its UK debut in Soho Theater, November 2016.
I first ran over the book seven years back, and have been considering making an interpretation of it to the stage from that point onward. When I met Steve Marmion a year ago, I found a teammate who was as charmed as I am. Working at Soho Theater feels somewhat like going home, it feels both encouraging and energizing in the meantime. It's the solace of commonality, yet the energy of accomplishing something left field.
Adrian Edmondson on adjusting Bits of Me are Falling Apart for the stage
The one-man play starts with William, who gets up one morning, moderately aged and grouchy. Only he, mulling over a sleeping pad in his office and going to visit his young youngster before his antagonized accomplice takes him away on vacation for two weeks, an occasion he should be on, however it didn't work out. As he ponders where everything turned out badly and if there is any trust in settling any of it, William dismembers the present condition of economy and private enterprise, the demise of affection, the life cycle of the Cod, anecdotal screw-ups and why our resistant framework is D-Day.
A moderately aged Catcher in the Rye.
Jon Ronson on Bits of Me Are Falling Apart
It's been a bustling year for both, with Ade highlighting in different TV arrangement (War and Peace, One of Us) and a mixed 12 months for Steve, including debuts of new plays, new World War II musical in Wales and Oxford Playhouse's yearly panto. Marmion is savoring teaming up with one of Britain's best adored performers and symbol of alterNative Theater.
This is Soho Theater getting it done: working with set up top journalists and entertainers as Adrian Edmondson and Penny Arcade nearby stage and screen's most energizing new voices Richard Gadd(Edinburgh Comedy Award victor), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (author and star of the honor winning stage and now TV's hit of the late spring, Fleabag) and the Olivier Award Winning Pat Kinevane(Underneath), to finding and working with the people to come, including Phoebe Éclair-Powell (Fury) and Theresa Ikoko (Girls).
In the event that YOU GO:
SOHO Theater PRESENTS
BITS OF ME ARE FALLING APART
By Adrian Edmondson and Steve Marmion.
Adjusted from the book by William Leith.
Performed by Adrian Edmondson.
Coordinated by Steve Marmion.
Creator: Lily Arnold. Lighting Design: Amy Mae. Music and Sound: Tom Mills.
Soho Theater. Length: 75mins.
Wednesday 2 November - Saturday 3 December 2016.
Tickets from £10.
sohotheatre.com/@sohotheatre/#BitsOfMe
Adrian Edmondson is no more abnormal to Soho, having learnt his exchange at the Comedy Store when it was in Meard Street, and at the Comic Strip Club in Raymond's Review Bar, in Walker's Court. He is best known as a humorist in The Young Ones, Bottom and The Comic Strip Presents... He has since showed up in various TV arrangement including Blackadder, Holby City, Jonathan Creek and War and Peace. He made a few ad libbed film with Les Blair for BBC's Screen Two - Honest, Decent and True, and the BAFTA winning Newshounds. He has coordinated pop promos for Squeeze, The Pogues and 10,000 Maniacs among others. He has showed up in the West End in Waiting for Godot, The Rocky Horror Show and Neville's Island. He's composed a novel The Gobbler, has recorded three collections with his society/punk band the Bad Shepherds, and has additionally won Celebrity Masterchef.
Steve Marmion joined Soho Theater as Artistic Director in 2010. He has coordinated two Verity Bargate Award (VBA) winning plays - Vicky Jones' The One and Thomas Eccleshare's Pastoral, alongside First Love is the Revolution, Death of A Comedian (additionally at The Lyric Theater Belfast and Abbey Theater), Only the Brave (Wales Millennium Center), I Kiss Your Heart, the French and English creations of Address Unknown, The Night Before Christmas, Realism (WhatsOnStage Award-assigned), Mongrel Island, Fit and Proper People, Utopia and The Boy Who Fell Into A Book. A year ago, for Oxford Playhouse, he composed and coordinated the enormously fruitful Christmas panto Aladdin and is going to head into practices during the current year's panto, Cinderella. Preceding joining the organization in 2010, Steve coordinated Macbeth for Regent's Park Open Air Theater and Dick Whittington, Jack and the Beanstalk and Aladdin for the Lyric Hammersmith. In 2009 he coordinated the very fruitful generation of Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness for Headlong Theater which got rave audits on visit and at Soho Theater.
William Leith has filled in as an editorialist and highlight author at the Independent on Sunday, the Mail on Sunday, and the Observer. He has expounded on an extensive variety of subjects, from nourishment to big name, restorative surgery, design models, rulers in Africa, pressures in Palestine, mineral water in Fiji, nightlife in Bangkok, Hollywood chiefs, diet masters and the passing of James Dean. He is as of now composing a book about cash.
Soho Theater London's most dynamic venue for new theater, drama and men's club.
As entrepreneurial as it is inventive, in the course of the most recent five years under the joint administration of Soho's Artistic Director Steve Marmion and Executive Director Mark Godfrey, the philanthropy and social undertaking has just about trebled crowds, opened another venue and created more work than any time in recent memory. The vision for 2015-2018 is to eagerly extend past Dean Street with an extra bigger new venue, an advanced and TV nearness, and a national and universal
visiting program. Current UK national visits incorporate Spine and Pajama Men with their widely praised 2 Man 3 Musketeers.
I first ran over the book seven years back, and have been considering making an interpretation of it to the stage from that point onward. When I met Steve Marmion a year ago, I found a teammate who was as charmed as I am. Working at Soho Theater feels somewhat like going home, it feels both encouraging and energizing in the meantime. It's the solace of commonality, yet the energy of accomplishing something left field.
Adrian Edmondson on adjusting Bits of Me are Falling Apart for the stage
The one-man play starts with William, who gets up one morning, moderately aged and grouchy. Only he, mulling over a sleeping pad in his office and going to visit his young youngster before his antagonized accomplice takes him away on vacation for two weeks, an occasion he should be on, however it didn't work out. As he ponders where everything turned out badly and if there is any trust in settling any of it, William dismembers the present condition of economy and private enterprise, the demise of affection, the life cycle of the Cod, anecdotal screw-ups and why our resistant framework is D-Day.
A moderately aged Catcher in the Rye.
Jon Ronson on Bits of Me Are Falling Apart
It's been a bustling year for both, with Ade highlighting in different TV arrangement (War and Peace, One of Us) and a mixed 12 months for Steve, including debuts of new plays, new World War II musical in Wales and Oxford Playhouse's yearly panto. Marmion is savoring teaming up with one of Britain's best adored performers and symbol of alterNative Theater.
This is Soho Theater getting it done: working with set up top journalists and entertainers as Adrian Edmondson and Penny Arcade nearby stage and screen's most energizing new voices Richard Gadd(Edinburgh Comedy Award victor), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (author and star of the honor winning stage and now TV's hit of the late spring, Fleabag) and the Olivier Award Winning Pat Kinevane(Underneath), to finding and working with the people to come, including Phoebe Éclair-Powell (Fury) and Theresa Ikoko (Girls).
In the event that YOU GO:
SOHO Theater PRESENTS
BITS OF ME ARE FALLING APART
By Adrian Edmondson and Steve Marmion.
Adjusted from the book by William Leith.
Performed by Adrian Edmondson.
Coordinated by Steve Marmion.
Creator: Lily Arnold. Lighting Design: Amy Mae. Music and Sound: Tom Mills.
Soho Theater. Length: 75mins.
Wednesday 2 November - Saturday 3 December 2016.
Tickets from £10.
sohotheatre.com/@sohotheatre/#BitsOfMe
Adrian Edmondson is no more abnormal to Soho, having learnt his exchange at the Comedy Store when it was in Meard Street, and at the Comic Strip Club in Raymond's Review Bar, in Walker's Court. He is best known as a humorist in The Young Ones, Bottom and The Comic Strip Presents... He has since showed up in various TV arrangement including Blackadder, Holby City, Jonathan Creek and War and Peace. He made a few ad libbed film with Les Blair for BBC's Screen Two - Honest, Decent and True, and the BAFTA winning Newshounds. He has coordinated pop promos for Squeeze, The Pogues and 10,000 Maniacs among others. He has showed up in the West End in Waiting for Godot, The Rocky Horror Show and Neville's Island. He's composed a novel The Gobbler, has recorded three collections with his society/punk band the Bad Shepherds, and has additionally won Celebrity Masterchef.
Steve Marmion joined Soho Theater as Artistic Director in 2010. He has coordinated two Verity Bargate Award (VBA) winning plays - Vicky Jones' The One and Thomas Eccleshare's Pastoral, alongside First Love is the Revolution, Death of A Comedian (additionally at The Lyric Theater Belfast and Abbey Theater), Only the Brave (Wales Millennium Center), I Kiss Your Heart, the French and English creations of Address Unknown, The Night Before Christmas, Realism (WhatsOnStage Award-assigned), Mongrel Island, Fit and Proper People, Utopia and The Boy Who Fell Into A Book. A year ago, for Oxford Playhouse, he composed and coordinated the enormously fruitful Christmas panto Aladdin and is going to head into practices during the current year's panto, Cinderella. Preceding joining the organization in 2010, Steve coordinated Macbeth for Regent's Park Open Air Theater and Dick Whittington, Jack and the Beanstalk and Aladdin for the Lyric Hammersmith. In 2009 he coordinated the very fruitful generation of Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness for Headlong Theater which got rave audits on visit and at Soho Theater.
William Leith has filled in as an editorialist and highlight author at the Independent on Sunday, the Mail on Sunday, and the Observer. He has expounded on an extensive variety of subjects, from nourishment to big name, restorative surgery, design models, rulers in Africa, pressures in Palestine, mineral water in Fiji, nightlife in Bangkok, Hollywood chiefs, diet masters and the passing of James Dean. He is as of now composing a book about cash.
Soho Theater London's most dynamic venue for new theater, drama and men's club.
As entrepreneurial as it is inventive, in the course of the most recent five years under the joint administration of Soho's Artistic Director Steve Marmion and Executive Director Mark Godfrey, the philanthropy and social undertaking has just about trebled crowds, opened another venue and created more work than any time in recent memory. The vision for 2015-2018 is to eagerly extend past Dean Street with an extra bigger new venue, an advanced and TV nearness, and a national and universal
visiting program. Current UK national visits incorporate Spine and Pajama Men with their widely praised 2 Man 3 Musketeers.
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