Simon Friend Entertainment has introduced that Bill Bryson’s smash-hit memoir, Notes From A Small Island, will journey to the stage of the Theatre Royal, Glasgow as a part of a nationwide UK tour starring TV favorite Les Dennis as much-loved author Bill Bryson. The tour arrives in Glasgow from 28 January – 1 February.
This stage adaptation celebrates one of many nation’s most beloved books by one of many nation’s most treasured authors. Notes From A Small Island spent three years in The Sunday Times bestsellers checklist and offered over two million copies. BBC Radio 4 listeners voted it because the guide which finest represents England.
“A comic pleasure! In the Watermill’s adaptation of Bryson’s tribute to this sceptred isle, nostalgia and warmth abound.” The Telegraph
From Calais to the Highlands, Bill travels the size and breadth of Britain, however how can the nation that produced Marmite and Gardeners’ Question Time maintain such a particular place on this American’s coronary heart?
Les Dennis is likely one of the UK’s best-known entertainers with a profession in showbusiness spanning over 50 years.
Born in Liverpool, Les got here to prominence as a comic within the Seventies after honing his act on the northern Working Men’s Club circuit and turning professional after a profitable set on New Faces.
More success in TV comedies adopted within the Eighties when he starred in The Russ Abbot Show and The Les Dennis Laughter Show, and shaped a vastly fashionable double-act with comedy accomplice Dustin Gee, cut-short by Dustin’s premature loss of life.
Les cemented his place as a mainstay of Saturday night time tv because the host of ITV’s Family Fortunes between 1987 and 2002. In 2023 he returned to Saturday night time TV with a fleeting however enjoyable activate BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.
In latest years Les has loved a thriving profession as an actor, starring with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the English National Opera and in quite a few hit performs and musicals within the West End and on tour, in addition to a daily position on Coronation Street. A dad of three, Les lives in Cheshire together with his spouse, his two youngest kids, and their menagerie of pets.
Theatre contains: Twelfth Night (Shakespeare North Playhouse), forty second Street (Sadlers Wells & Tour), Spring & Port Wine (Bolton Octagon), Only Fools & Horses The Musical (Theatre Royal Haymarket), HMS Pinafore (ENO, Coliseum), Hairspray (Coliseum), Venice Preserved and The Provoked Wife (RSC), End of the Pier (Park Theatre), The Miracle of Great Homer Street (Liverpool Royal Court), The Addams Family (Tour), She Loves Me (Menier Chocolate Factory), Down the Dock Road (Liverpool Royal Court), The Perfect Murder (Tour), Spamalot (West End), Hairspray (UK tour), Jigsy (Liverpool Royal Court – Best Actor, LPD Arts), When We Are Married (WYP), Eurobeat (No. 1 tour/West End), Certified Male (Edinburgh Festival), The Servant of Two Masters (Wales Theatre Company), Misery (Oldham Coliseum), Neville’s Island (Birmingham Rep), South Pacific (Birmingham Symphony), Art (UK tour), Cherished Disappointments in Love (Soho), Chicago (Adelphi)
Film contains: Sideshow, Wounded (winner of Best Feature, Marbella Film Festival), Intimate Relations.
Television contains: Death In Paradise, The Madame Blanc Mysteries, Moving On, Birds of a Feather, Coronation Street, Holby City, Midsomer Murders, Hotel Babylon, New Street Law, Extras, The Quest 2, Casualty, Mersey Beat, Doctors, Brookside, Les Dennis and Dustin Gee’s Laughter Show.
Notes From A Small Island reunites the Watermill Theatre’s unique artistic staff and is Adapted by Tim Whitnall, Directed by Paul Hart, Designed by Katie Lias with Lighting Design by Ali Hunter, Sound Design by Ed Lewis and Projection Design by George Reeve.
Further casting to be introduced. Originally produced at The Watermill Theatre.
